Chance Vandy ED, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Princeton?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi to all,</p>

<p>Background: I'm a junior at a top Illinois public school. I skipped the second and third grades but went back a grade for athletics when I transferred to a public middle school. My ADHD really affected my freshman and sophomore years as it went untreated, but with medication I've really been able to buckle down and get some really good work done.</p>

<p>Ethnicity: My mother's a second-generation Puerto Rican/Spaniard and my father's a complete mutt--Eastern European/Russian/Ashkenazi Jew, etc.</p>

<p>GPA: (W, since classes were all honors/AP)
Freshman--3.80/5.00 (My freshman year was completely mediocre--see above--with a 3.80/5.00 while in all honors classes. I think that was mostly due to the ADHD, an elongated acclimation period and my immaturity compared to my peers.)
Sophomore--4.05/5.00
Junior--4.90/5.00</p>

<p>Class Rank: 32/630</p>

<p>AP's: Junior--AP English Lang/Comp (5 on test), APUSH (5 on test)
Senior--AP English Lit, AP US Gov't, AP Comp Gov't, AP Psych, AP Physics C, AP Stats</p>

<p>EC's:
-three year class council member
-baseball soph/jun (being recruited to play D1)
-club baseball every summer
-swimming frosh
-1st chair alto sax in wind symphony frosh/soph
-1st chair alto sax in jazz band frosh/soph/jun
-writer on school newspaper frosh/soph, production editor jun, will be co-ed-in-chief this year
-writer for the teen newspaper of the Chicago Tribune (very, very selective)
-member of Tri-M music honors society
-Project Lead the Way pre-engineering courses frosh/soph/jun
-captain of/leading scorer for scholastic bowl frosh/soph/jun
-volunteered for Habitat for last two summers
-internship at major engineering firm next summer
-eucharistic minister and minister of care for Archdiocese of Chicago
-summer courses at Northwestern University</p>

<p>Standardized Tests:
AP Comp--36
SAT--2380 (800 CR, 800 W, 780 M)
PSAT--236 (National Merit Semi-Finalist)
Will take US History, Math II, and Physics SAT II's</p>

<p>Recommendations:
-Editor for my teen newspaper
-School psychologist/counselor
-Former swim coach</p>

<p>Special: Almost all of my family has attended ND. An uncle's name adorns one of the athletic buildings, and they're all huge boosters. I think that might help, but I'm not completely sure. My parents attended UIllinois (legacy).</p>

<p>Schools, in order of preference: Vanderbilt (ED), Northwestern, UIllinois, UChicago, Notre Dame, Dartmouth, Princeton, UT-Austin, UCSD, UCLA, UFlorida, NYU, Wisconsin, Indiana</p>

<p>Thanks, everybody!</p>

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<p>I don’t think it’s necessary for your to ED to Vanderbilt; you will most likely get accepted as a regular candidate. Your application is extremely well-rounded, so I think you should be looking more into schools at the level of Princeton.</p>

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<p>The only thing Princeton here is the score. I would stick with the ED at Vandy.</p>

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<p>@billabongboy some of the ivies have sent me stuff for baseball, idk. a few have seen me play, so i think that’d help a lot in admissions if they were to offer me a spot.</p>

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<p>bump?
10char</p>

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<p>I think you should ED at Vandy for the sole reason that your GPA is low for the Ivies. Be safe, ED at Vandy, and you won’t have to stress out about colleges for 4 months :)</p>