Chances at Top Colleges (Stanford, Harvard, Princeton)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a white male and a junior in high school. I go to a middle ranked high school in Idaho. Really interested in going to Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Duke, or Berkeley.</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 4.00
Top 2% of class (350ish students)</p>

<p>Freshman Classes:
-Hon. English
-Hon. Earth Science
-Hon. Algebra 2
-German I
-Dig. Photo/Global Persp.
-Band (alto saxophone)
-P.E.</p>

<p>Sophomore Classes:
-AP Bio
-Hon. Bio
-Hon. English
-Hon. US History
-Hon. Pre-Calc
-German II
-French I
-Int. Apps/Speech</p>

<p>Junior Classes:
-AP Chemistry
-Hon. Chemistry
-AP Calc
-AP English
-AP US History
-German III
-Health Occ.
-Pers. Finance/Zoology</p>

<p>Senior Classes: (expected)
-AP Calc 2
-AP Physics
-AP Environment Science
-AP English
-AP Stats
-AP Government
-AP Micro/Macro Econ.
-German IV</p>

<p>SAT I (definitely plan on retaking these! I had taken a few practice tests before and had scored around the 2150 to 2200 range)
Critical Reading: 630
Math: 720
Writing: 700
Total - 2050</p>

<p>SAT II's
Biology M - 760
I plan on taking Chemistry, Math II, and US History this coming spring.</p>

<p>AP Scores (Plan on taking tests in all my AP subjects listed above)
Biology - 5</p>

<p>Clubs: (including expected clubs for senior year)
-Key Club (11, 12)
-National Honor Society (11, 12, hopefully will have a position on the board senior year)
-International Club (10, 11, 12)
-Quiz Bowl (11, 12. Captain both years)
-Teen Leaders Club at YMCA (11, 12)</p>

<p>Community Service:
-Teach a Jump Rope Clinic for Elementary Kids after schools for an hour every Wednesday for around 7 months (25 hours x 5 years = 125 hours)
-Tutor Kids in Biology for 30 minutes once a week during the school year (20 hours x 2 years = 40 hours)
-Multiple Service projects of NHS (30 hours x 2 years = 60 hours)
-Community Service Projects for Teen Leaders (30 hours x 2 years = 60 hours)
-Food Bank (10 hours x 2 years = 20 hours)
Total Hours = 305 hours</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
My main extra curricular is being on a jump rope team and competing in multiple competitions. I'm kind of hoping this will help set me apart.
-Jumping for 11 years
-Captain of Team (last 3 years)
-Have probably over 100 gold medals
-7 trophies (best in event of all ages)
-Hold 4 different USAJR records
-Been to nationals/regionals all 11 years
-Ranked 1st in the nation, ages 14 and under (2007)
-Ranked 2nd in the nation, all ages (2009, 2010)
-Ranked 6th in the world, all ages, and got a gold and bronze medal at worlds (2010)</p>

<p>-Performed in various events for jump rope:
-David Letterman Show
-ESPN
-Fox Sports
-JUMP! Documentary
-Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
-Utah Jazz Basketball Games
-Various Basketball/Football Games in Boise
-Recently Broke the Guinness World Record for Consecutive Double Dutch Jumps (2010)</p>

<p>I have also been playing piano from 4th grade and expecting to go to 12th grade (9 years)
-Earned 5 (highest score) at piano festival (2007, 2008, 2009)
-Have 2 trophies from this competition</p>

<p>Thank you for taking your time to read this! Please leave me comments and feel free to point out if I need to do better in a certain area, or anything that could help my chances!</p>

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<p>You are so cool!!! :)</p>

<p>Stanford - mid-high reach (Out of state)
Harvard - hard-to-tell-reach (I want to say low because of how unique you are. But if you get that SAT score up to at least a 2200, I would definitely say low-mid reach)
Princeton - (same as Harvard)
Duke - low-reach
Berkeley - match</p>

<p>Good Luck!!</p>

<p>Chance me back!
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<p>Well, your SATs are the only thing keeping you out of there, and if you’re going to retake those, you should have a good chance. You’re in world competitions, and you were featured on TV shows, so that gives you a great chance. Harvard is unpredictable, though.</p>

<p>Wait a minute. Were you in that “KingsFirecrackers” video on Youtube? I just looked it up. That’s cool!</p>

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<p>I would work a little more on your community service and SAT’s, but dude, you’re awesome! I would say that the majority of the schools are low reaches for you, but if you get your scores up, I would say Duke and Berkley would be more matches than reaches. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I was assuming that my SAT scores were a little low. Hopefully I can bring them up or maybe take the ACT instead and see if I can score better on that. What score would you guys say I need on the ACT for these colleges? (obviously a 36 would be nice, but doubtful that would happen). </p>

<p>And no, I’m not in the King Firecracker. Although I have seen the video and it’s extremely cool! Glad to know jump rope is finally starting to become more well known!</p>

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<p>Ohh, and what would be my chances for University of Washington? That’s one of my other choices.</p>

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<p>Even though you’re out of state, I’d say you’d have a guaranteed in at UW.</p>

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<p>Bump bump bump</p>

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<p>Your jump-roping thing is awesome. I can see these schools really wanting you.</p>

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<p>Thank you :). It’s just too bad that no schools offer scholarships for jump rope.</p>

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<p>That’s so cool! I’ve never heard of anybody being so amazing at jump rope before! That’s definitely unique, I think you have a great chance at all those schools! :slight_smile: I agree with everybody else though, just get your SAT score up and I think you’re definitely in!</p>