<p>Greetings Everyone! </p>
<p>I found this forum a few days ago and have been reading everyone's threads and thought it would be interesting what people thought my chances would be at Duke, Rice, Vandy, and Wash U. </p>
<p>Here are my credentials:</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
School: Independent College Preparatory School (I am a boarding student)
Class Rank: top 10%</p>
<p>Major: Physics</p>
<p>My school has a very strange GPA system, so I will just describe my grades as I do not know what my weighted or unweighted GPAs are according to the 5 and 4 point system. I have only gotten A's my entire high school career taking many honors and AP classes, the only B I have every gotten was last year in AP Computer Science. </p>
<p>Freshman year: Biology, Algebra II, Geometry, P.E., English I (Composition class), Spanish II, Geography</p>
<p>Sophomore: Honors Functions, Stats, & Trig (Equivalent to Honors Pre-Calc), Honors Chem, Spanish III, Programming I & II, Game Programming, Ceramics, Honors World History, English II (Lit & Comp class)</p>
<p>Junior: AP AB Calc (5), English III, AP Computer Science (4), Honors Physics, U.S. History</p>
<p>Senior: AP Physics, AP Chemistry, AP Calc BC, English IV, Art, Student Newspaper (Senior Column Editor)(We have an entire class period dedicated to writing and researching our articles. It is essentially a cross between Journalism and Composition.)</p>
<p>ACT Composite: 32
English: 35
Math: 34
Science: 30
Reading: 30
Writing sub-score: 31</p>
<p>SAT: 2100 (760 Math, 620 Reading, 720 Writing)
<strong>Note: I will most likely only be sending my ACT score</strong></p>
<p>EC's:</p>
<p>-Student Council (11,12)
Junior Year: Dorm and Junior Rep
Senior Year: Senior Rep and Vice President of the student body</p>
<p>-Honor Council (11,12)
Our school has an Honor Code (I will not lie, cheat, steal, nor tolerate) and the HC is designed to punish those who break the Honor Code. There is an extensive selection process including applications, recommendations, and interviews. </p>
<p>-Dorm Prefect/Resident Advisor (11,12)
For you Harry Potter buffs, I am essentially Percy Weasley. You should all know what RA's are and what they do. There was an extensive applications process for this position as well.</p>
<p>-Tier 1/AAA Hockey (9,10,11) (35 hours a week for 42 weeks a year approx)
This is perhaps my biggest commitment. I have been playing hockey for 11 years and have played at the highest level (AAA). My team won the state championship my freshman year, 2nd in state and 2nd in the district sophomore year, and we won the south, got second in the Eastern U.S., attended that National Championship, and finished the season ranked 7th in the nation among 19 year old teams (we were 16) my junior year. I have been captain of 3 of the 4 AAA teams I've played on, won the best student-athlete award, and been player of the month 2 times (10). In addition, I have been on several all-state select teams and won MVPs of 2 international tournaments.</p>
<p>-Varsity Crew (11,12)
Member of the Varsity 8 and Varsity Lightweight 4</p>
<p>-Advanced Programming Club (President and Founder)</p>
<p>-Other EC's include Varsity Mock Trial Team and I am the captain of the Calculus team in the Mu Alpha Theta Club</p>
<p>Work: Information Services Intern. 35 hours a week over summer. (10 & 11)</p>
<p>Other Info: Due to my commitment to hockey, I often moved to a new town to play on the highest level team the week before school started. For this reason, I was not able to get into the honors and AP classes I wanted to because they were either full or I didn't have the proper prerequisites according to the school. I have attended the same school my junior and senior year, but had 2 different ones my freshman and sophomore years. For the reason above, I was not able to continue spanish past the third level because my current school didn't think the courses paralleled between the two schools. </p>
<p>Please let me know if you all would like any more info.</p>
<p>Also, please let me know if you think I should look at any other schools other than the ones I listed.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input!</p>
<p>EDIT: Just thought of something. My recs are VERY strong in my opinion. One is written by my physics teacher and he and I have daily conversations about recent news in the science world. I would go as far as saying we are close friends. He recognizes my drive and interest and told me he focused on that (we are not allowed to see recs). The other is from my history teacher from my junior year. I don't have as close of a connection with her, but she was a dorm mother and we interacted on a regular basis both in and out of school.</p>