Chances at Cornell, Middlebury, UChicago

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a lower class white male.</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0UW/4.78W
Rank: 1/~250
SAT (old): 720M/750V = 1510
SAT (new): 760M/750CR/720W = 2230
SATII: Writing 710, Japanese 440
I'll take the US History and Math IIC tests in June.
Courses at UVA: Calc 1, 2, 3, 1st and 2cnd half of US History
Courses at highschool: Hardest courseload, skipped 8th grade, AP Euro - 4, Spanish I-IV (skipped II), Japanese I - III, distance learning, Honors Bio, Chem, Physics
Next year's schedule: AP Govt, AP Physics, AP English, AP Spanish, Differential Eq's at UVA</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
National Honor Society (11- )
Math Honor Society (11- )
Ultimate Frisbee (9- )
I go to the gym a lot
I'll play Varsity Football next year
I've started working (painting houses), and will be employed from now on, though maybe at a different job</p>

<p>Other stuff: I'll probably have my guidance counselor put this in her rec instead of mine: I had a series of family tragedies: dad died, then mom lost all her money, then she got cancer, and now she and I live in a real bad apartment complex living off 24 grand a year, and a year ago I broke my knee and had a $20,000 surgery. The people at the complex play their music all the time and so loudly that I can't work at home, so I ride my bicycle to UVA's libraries to do work, about 3 times a week, sometimes riding home at 2 in the morning.</p>

<p>I'm looking at Cornell (top choice), Middlebury, U Chicago, UVA (instate), Georgetown, Earlham, and my mom's making me apply to Princeton because I can get a rec from an alum.</p>

<p>I thought I wanted to major in Japanese, but my distance learning course sucks, and now it's just like a chore, so maybe I'll do math instead.</p>

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<p>For Christ's sake, you're a valedictorian with a 4.0 UW and a 1500+ SAT...what do you think?</p>

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<p>sure about that math score on the old SAT???
I'm pretty sure that a 720 and a 750 dont add up to a 1510 (try 1470)</p>

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<p>Haha, whoops. I meant to put a 790 for Verbal; I accidentally put my new verbal score there.</p>

<p>And for jpps1, I know I can compete with anyone there academically, but my e/c's are severely lacking.</p>

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<p>Not everyone is in your tough situation, so you actually have a valid excuse as to why you're EC's are lacking. </p>

<p>Congrats for pulling through. It must have been tough, it'll pay off BIG at the end. keep it up!</p>

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<p>make your personal essay OWN. make it personal and tell the real story about yourself. </p>

<p>don't exaggerate, but tell the facts how they are.</p>

<p>and why is your Japanese SAT Ii so low?</p>

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<p>My Japanese SATII is so low because I don't learn much through the distance learning course; it's not well designed and to be honest now all I do is teach myself through the textbook, instead of watching the classes.</p>

<p>And the thing is, my situation sounds really hard, but it's not that bad. I mean, my father's death was a long drawn out process, so it was expected, and my mom's had cancer for like 3 years now, and I don't see her dying anytime soon. The only real bad thing about it is that my apartment complex is like 85% hispanic, and that's fine except for their music; every song has the same beat and it's driving me insane, hearing it 24/7 for 4 years now. Though I guess in an essay I could turn that from being "my situation isn't so bad" to "my situation is tough, but I've overcome it" or something. Oh yeah, so should I include that all in my essay or have my guidance counselor put it in her reccomendation?</p>

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<p>I wouldnt even try to get the Jap score up. Take Math 1C also, it counts and you might get an 800.</p>

<p>Cornell (top choice): Match
Middlebury: Safe Match
Chicago: Match
Earlham: Big Safety
UVA: Safety
Princeton: Reach</p>

<p>If you like Middlebury, Princeton, and Cornell you will love Dartmouth and maybe Duke also. You might not like Chicago very much, its nothing like the other schools on your list.</p>

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<p>Wait, so colleges will accept both Math SATII's as two tests?</p>

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<p>Bump. And should I put all that info in my other essay, or in my GC's rec?</p>

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<p>Write it in your essay. Your EC's are a bit lacking but you have a good excuse for that so...I'd say your chance at Cornell is around 80%</p>

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<p>You have strong chances everywhere, and even at Princeton I think you will be an applicant that gets looked over a bit extra considering how academically succesful you are despite the crazy circumstances. Try to take some more SATIIs if you can, and best of luck in college and life.</p>

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<p>if it's for real, that the stories you told are real, my heart goes out to you. but if this is meant to be as a fake post, shame on you, get a life, this is very cruel</p>

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<p>SATII scores are in:
USH - 800
Math IIc - 740</p>

<p>I'll retake the Math. Does anybody have any ideas as to what my third SATII should be? I suppose I could self study Biology or Chem, but it's been so long since I took those courses that it'd be like starting from scratch. We learned pretty much nothing in physics this year, so I can't take that SATII yet. I'm taking AP Physics or AP Chem this year, whichever one they offer, but I don't know if I'd have learned enough by January to take the SATII for that subject...</p>

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<p>why isn't writing your 3rd SAT II?</p>

<p>you can definitely be very competitive at any of those schools.</p>

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<p>I don't think colleges will accept writing as a third SATII, will they? Besides, I don't think a 700 is high enough anyway.</p>

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<p>Bump. 10 Characters.</p>