Chances at Wake?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Wake Forest University
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<p>Could you guys please chance me? I'd really like to go to Wake!</p>

<p>Non-academic, non-extracurricular:
Race: White
Gender: Male
State of residence: Michigan </p>

<p>Academic:</p>

<p>UW GPA: 3.767
W GPA: ~3.98</p>

<p>Unweighted rank: 27% (I'm not sure if this will increase at all)
Weighted rank: 22% (Will increase by time of application)</p>

<p>1 honors class sophomore year
3 AP Classes this year
2 AP classes and 1 honors class Senior year</p>

<p>28 (I am retaking. Most likely in June, September, and October and I will be prepping between those dates)
English- 34
Math- 29
Reading- 24
Science- 25
Writing- 8
Also, I may not submit based on if I can get a better score.</p>

<p>Extracurricular:</p>

<p>Robotics team: 2 years. Will be 3 after senior year, 2 of which will be as head of finance.
Varsity hockey: 1 year. Had to stop after knee injury
Have volunteered for my local library and gotten a job each summer.
Founded a group for my library for Magic: The Gathering. I was leader of it for a year (it closed after that due to loss of interest of former participants)
Also, is there a way on the common app/in essays to reference your "hidden" extracurriculars? Because I like to spend a lot of my time reading books about the history of finance and financial collapse and I have a bit of an obsession with investment.</p>

<p>Awards/recognition:
Lettered in academics my Freshman year
Recently qualified to go to States in the "Econ Challenge" for our AP Economics class
I haven't received it yet, but I know I'll graduate Cum Laude. I don't know if colleges care.</p>

<p>What would you recommend doing to increase my chances?</p>

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<p>I can’t address your chances, but I think writing about your interest in the history of finance would certainly make you stand out. Out of curiosity (I’m a total history wonk), what historical financial collapse has recently peaked your interest?</p>

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<p>Thanks for the reply. I haven’t studied a lot of them I just got interested in them after I had learned a bit about the 1929 market crash. I’ve only studied the 2008 crisis in depth. Next I’m going to read about the House of Medici, which isn’t exactly financial collapse, but it’s certainly about the collapse of a family and its reputation. Any other ones you think I should study? </p>

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<p>Well you can of course read “Collapse:How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” by Jared Diamond. But before you do that, you might want to read his more famous book “Guns, Germs, and Steel”. It won the Pulitzer and it is a really compelling read.</p>

<p>I don’t know much about financial history, but I always think it is interesting to look at tulipmania as an example of financial bubbles and crashes. I noticed that Amazon has a couple of books on the topic.</p>