Chances at elites

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>SAT I: 2300
SAT II's: 740, 760, 750 </p>

<p>GPA/Class Rank: 4.12 top 5%</p>

<p>Essays: Very Good
Recommendations: Great</p>

<p>EC's:
-Co-Founder and Co-President of Red Cross Club - 3 years
-DECA - 4 years - Leadership role - planning commity in 10th, Secretary 11th, President 12th - Top 10 at Four Times - 2 times went to nationals
-Varsity Tennis - 2 Years - JV in 10th
-Speech - Inagural member - Most Improved as Freshman - State - Competitor - Got To 6/Trophy quite a few times
-Karate - Black Belt - 4 Years - Couple Trophies - I am a sensei (karate teacher)at karate school
-Piano - Took Lessons last four years - nothing special
-NHS Three Years
- School Newspaper
-Spanish Club</p>

<p>a few others but nothing special. (math team, science team, community service things)</p>

<p>Interest - Business - Intern with CEO of company (aka Uncle, but he is actually a CEO) - DECA (business club) - nationals - won some marketing things at school and took classes in business</p>

<p>SEnior Classes
AP Calculus BC
AP English and Spanish
Physics Honors - Took AP Bio Junior Year
GYM - Business Classes
Java</p>

<p>Awards
Have some from extracirriculars
Academic Achivement Awards - Sounds cool not hard to do - 1/3 of grade gets it probably a more more like 1/2
Other Academic Awards - AP Scholar Thing</p>

<p>Appreciate any feedback</p>

<p>thanks.</p>

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<p>looks pretty good. maybe make your ec's stand out a bit more...</p>

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<p>How do I make my ec's stand out more?? - I have leadership roles in almost all and am president of two - I also have over 300 service hours - mostly through red cross club - thanks for the feedback tho jjjj</p>

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<p>is your gpa unweighted or weighted?</p>

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<p>What colleges are you applying to?</p>

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<p>its weighted but our gpa scale is brutal - in a non-honors/AP clas 98-100 = 4.0 93-97 = 3.7 and 90 - 92 = 3.5 - A 4.1 is one of the top GPA's in my grade</p>

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<p>HYPS , Cornell, Duke, Brown, NYU, UPENN, BU, BC, Berkley, others like that</p>

<p>I live in Mass.</p>

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<p>koolkid:</p>

<p>UCB: Match (out of state)</p>

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<p>they are just bogus, cliche clubs - spanish club- boring
red cross club - i havent even heard of that, do you go to sudan or something?
seems like everyone's in deca.</p>

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<p>I have also have the Red Cross Club at my school. It's just another community service thing.</p>

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<p>jjjj - what do you suggest to improve my ecs</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>yeah, when i read this, i thought your EC's were definitely your weak point. jjjjj's right, none of these is particularly unique EXCEPT the karate thing. there really isn't anything you can now except take comfort that your grades and scores are good enough to get into at least some of those schools.</p>

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<p>I think your extracurriculars are pretty good. You started and are president of a club. You have done a bunch with Karate and are on varsity tennis. And you have some business stuff that looks good. They don't really stick out but I don't think they will hurt you. I'd say you have a great chance at top schools. You're in BU, BC, and NYU. Berkeley, Duke, and Cornell are matches. The rest are reaches.</p>

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<p>would putting I played football in 10th and 12th helped?</p>

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<p>anybody ?</p>

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<p>chocoluvr:
Duke's become harder to get into than Brown, at least statistically, but admissions is far more random (or at least unpredictable) than we give it credit for (ie, most/plenty of people get accepted to hyp and turned down by a couple of other elite schools). By the way, Harvard is not out of the question; all schools some preference to local kids.</p>

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<p>ok thanx all</p>

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<p>anybody else?</p>

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<p>I think you have a solid chance everywhere, but HYPS are reaches.</p>