Chances at top schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Info:
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian; Jewish
Location: northern NJ
Rank: 1/316
Grades: 4.0 unweighted, 4.836 weighted (2nd highest ever in my school?)
SAT II's: 790/790/790, chem, math IIC, bio
SAT I: 800 Math/740 Writing/660 Reading=2200
SAT I: 660 Math/800 Writing/770 Reading= 2230
ACT: 35</p>

<p>Senior classes: I've taken almost all the AP classes that my school offers that fit into my schedule. 1 soph year (Bio- 5), 5 Junior year (Spanish- did not take AP, Chem- 5, AP Calc AB- 5, AP English language- 4, AP US- 5)</p>

<p>EC: </p>

<p>Pathways for Exceptional Children (I've been in this for like 6 years; president of lead mentors [11th], treasurer of lead mentors [12th]): a local organization that helps kids with special needs and their families. We have spoken at state-wide conferences, changed our community, and are working on a social change project to spread our small-ish organization throughout NJ and hopefully even further. We're talking to the governor and stuff like that too. I'm a lead mentor, which means in charge of all the mentors throughout NJ. I have also put in approximately 50-60 hours of community service per year through this.</p>

<p>Forensics Speech/Debate (9th-12th): 2nd in JV Lincoln Douglas @ states, attended CFL nationals in extemporaneous speaking. Treasurer 11th, president 12th. lots of local wins at tournaments. Degree of Superior Distinction (highest on my team) with 885 pts. (as of 6/07; it will be much higher later this year). Academic All-American award. </p>

<p>Student Activities Council/class council (10th-12th): class treasurer (10th), SAC VP (11th), SAC president (12th). SAC president does morning announcements, plans our school's traditional activities, and represents the school at two board of education meetings a month.</p>

<p>Orchestra (9th-12th): Violin (9th; I sucked), Contrabass (10th-12th). Advanced orchestra in 10th. played contrabass in school musical. currently taking an independent study to learn even more. but i've played piano for 12 years, so it's more learning techniques than theory.</p>

<p>FBLA (9th-12th): treasurer (11th+12th). various state awards. A lot of time put in to do treasurer stuff. </p>

<p>Science club (9th-12th): Science league (9th-12th)- top 10% in the state in Earth Science. Participated in bio II, chem, etc. Science olympiad- various awards at regionals/states.</p>

<p>international concerns club (10th-12th): sending letters to countries to beg them to show amnesty to people. no leadership, i've just been in it for a few years.</p>

<p>Peers as Listeners (11th-12th): an organization that spends a couple hours a week for seniors only that helps freshmen adjust to the school. Various workshops, etc. a lot of trips, a lot of leadership stuff learned.</p>

<p>Awards:
academic all-american (forensics)
an essay contest
Nat'l merit semifinalist (so far...)
AP Scholar w/ distinction
principal's UPenn book award</p>

<p>Summers:</p>

<p>'06: program in molecular biology at Columbia for 3 weeks</p>

<p>'07: worked two jobs, 15 hour days. camp counselor, busboy at a local restaurant.</p>

<p>Applied/applying to:
Yale SCEA
Harvard
Princeton
Columbia
Brown
UPenn
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Northwestern
Duke
Washington U (St. Louis)
Rochester U
Rutgers</p>

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<p>Hey, Jonny boi!</p>

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<p>haha. yeah i learned about this site due to abel, in multimedia. figured i'd give it a try.</p>

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<p>Yale SCEA: good shot
Harvard: good shot
Princeton: good shot
Columbia: very good shot
Brown: very good shot
UPenn: very good shot
Cornell: you'll get in
Johns Hopkins: in
Tufts: in
Northwestern: in
Duke: in
Washington U (St. Louis): in/but they waitlist everyone so...
Rochester U: in
Rutgers: in</p>

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<p>Rutgers - Rejected
Because they'll know you'll go elsewhere :)</p>

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<p>yeah, I've heard about WashU and the waitlisting.</p>

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<p>Well probably as good a shot as most (excepting the crazy people who get IMO Gold for 4 years or something :P) at all of these schools (including HYP). Now it depends on your luck =).</p>

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<p>yeah, so much is luck these days.</p>

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<p>I think my interview went pretty well.</p>

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<p>(Yale interview)</p>

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<p>those are some pretty wacky SAT scores. why are math and verbal so disparate?</p>

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<p>The first time I took it in an un-airconditioned high school and the teacher left the room for twenty minutes at a time (and it was early June, happened to be 95 degrees that day). Plus the desks were really tiny, which annoys me personally. So I had less concentration, and since the reading passages really require concentration (whereas the math problems are only one-part problems, so you do one then move on to a completely different one), I did well on math but not on verbal. </p>

<p>The second time I knew math did not matter too much (because I had the 800 already), so I saved up for the reading sections by not really checking my work, therefore having more time between math and verbal sections to let my mind air out. </p>

<p>But in the end, all my colleges see 2370 (I checked), so it's all good.</p>

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<p>i think, in theory, your resume is definitely good enough to get you into all of those schools, but you know how colleges are...the way they accept/deny is soo random, esp at HYPS</p>