Chances at Duke

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<p>Hey everyone,
I'll be a senior next year, at a highly competitive high school.</p>

<p>ACT
34 Composite (1 more point in any section and my score would be a 35)
34 English
35 Math
35 Reading
33 Science</p>

<p>SAT (Prepping this summer, I hope to do much better in October)
760 Math
690 CR
660 Writing</p>

<p>SAT II
800 Chem
800 Math II</p>

<p>AP's
5 Government
5 Chemistry
5 Lang
Calc BC (Next Year)
Biology (Next Year)
US History (Next Year)</p>

<p>GPA 4.39 Weighted 3.95 UW
Our school does not rank.</p>

<p>Course Load next Year (Slash indicates 1st and 2nd semester courses)
AP Calc BC
Essay Writing / Humanities
Anatomy Physiology / Applications in Chemistry
AP Biology
AP US History
Spanish 4</p>

<p>EC's
4 Years Cross Country, 2 Years Varsity, Captain for Senior Year.
4 Years Track, most probably captain.
Literacy Center Tutor, Help other students with schoolwork during lunch and supervised study periods. 250+ Hours
Character Education Leader, teach class once per month about character education (3 Years)
National Honors Society (2 Years)
Children's Museum (100+ Hours), Worked with marketing department to remake parts of museum website.
Hospital Volunteer (100+ Hours)
Marketing for a local youth orchestra, website and other promotional materials.</p>

<p>Shadowing
Shadowed the director of the Critical Care Department at Northwestern. I observed both surgeries and emergency room situations. Amazing letter of recommendation.</p>

<p>Other College's I'm Looking Into
Accelerated Programs: Northwestern's HPME (Dream), Case Western PPSP, USC BA/MD, Rice/Baylor, UMKC, SLU, UIC GPPA</p>

<p>Regular Undergrad: Wash U, John Hopkins, Cornell, Dartmouth</p>

<p>Feel free to suggest other universities and programs.</p>

<p>Thank You</p>

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<p>bump......</p>

3

<p>Don't worry about it. Just apply, you have a good shot. (can't say you are a shoe in though because no one is a shoe in, no such thing)</p>

4

<p>yeah, try your level best, you've a shot, u never know.....just make sure u give 100% while applying. ;)</p>

5

<p>Thanks for the replies.</p>

6

<p>Anxious for decision on Tuesday, so chance me until then.</p>

<p>ACT
34 Composite (1 more point in any section and my score would be a 35)
34 English
35 Math
35 Reading
33 Science</p>

<p>SAT
800 Math
690 CR
690 Writing</p>

<p>SAT II
800 Chem
800 Math II</p>

<p>AP's
5 Government
5 Chemistry
5 Lang
Calc BC (Next Year)
Biology (Next Year)
US History (Next Year)</p>

<p>GPA 4.45 Weighted 3.98 UW
Our school does not rank.</p>

<p>Course Load next Year (Slash indicates 1st and 2nd semester courses)
AP Calc BC
Essay Writing / Humanities
Anatomy Physiology / Applications in Chemistry
AP Biology
AP US History
Spanish 4</p>

<p>EC's
4 Years Cross Country, 2 Years Varsity, Captain for Senior Year.
4 Years Track, most probably captain.
Literacy Center Tutor, Help other students with schoolwork during lunch and supervised study periods. 250+ Hours
Character Education Leader, teach class once per month about character education (3 Years)
National Honors Society (2 Years)
Children's Museum (100+ Hours), Worked with marketing department to remake parts of museum website.
Hospital Volunteer (100+ Hours)
Marketing for a local youth orchestra, website and other promotional materials.</p>

<p>Shadowing
Shadowed the director of the Critical Care Department at Northwestern. I observed both surgeries and emergency room situations. Amazing letter of recommendation.</p>

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<p>Good luck this Tuesday.
Duke will be a reach but your chances aren't bad.</p>

8

<p>thanks, anyone else?</p>

9

<p>I'd say...you should enjoy the weekend, engage in as many stress-free activities as you can over the next two days to reduce your tension level, and know that whatever happens on Tuesday you have done well in high school, are clearly a person engaged with academics and athletics, and the vagaries of the admissions process will do nothing to validate or contradict those things. It's just not worth getting an ulcer over for the next two days, I promise!</p>

<p>(I also promise this is not a shifty way of making a statement about your chances - I try to stay entirely out of those conversations because of the aforementioned vagaries)</p>

10

<p>Will do. I'm just exaggerating my anxiety.</p>

11

<p>Great chances!</p>

<p>Good luck. :)</p>