<p>Stats-
Junior, Black, middle class, competetive public Texas highschool
SAT Math:680 CR:740 Writing:780 (12 on essay) total 2200</p>
<p>GPA-4.5 out of 5
class rank 14 out of 385 top 5%
National Honor Society Member 2 yrs
Varsity Golf 3 years
Multicultural Club treasurer
Class Vice President for both Junior and Senior Year
UIL Current Events All District
Regional Qualifier and top 10 finisher out of 150 individually(golf)
STUCO member 3 yrs
BPA and HOSA member
100 plus community service hours at local hospital
Debate Club
Boys State nominee and attendee
Boys Nation
HSTE student of the year
cofounder and coauthor of student body constitution
Excellent writer (I'll do well on the essay portion of the application)</p>
<p>Senior Class Schedule
-AP Stat
-AP Gov. and Economics
-AP English IV
-AP Biology
-AP Psychology
-Mentors
-Debate </p>
<p>Interests and Hobbies:
-Political Science
-Debate
-Law
-Golf
-writing
-psychology/sociology</p>
<p>This is the girth of my academic record.
One important question-(Does Boys Nation qualify as a hook into awesome schools)</p>
<p>Schools I'm considering in order of preference-</p>
<p>Harvard(%?) Is it even worth applying?
Yale(%?)
Washington University(%?)
University of Chicago(%?)
UVA (%?)
Duke (%?) </p>
<p>If you guys could please give me some honest feedback I would really appreciate it, Tha</p>
<p>Yes, you have good chances at a lot of schools--the Ivies, Georgetown, NYU, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Northwestern--apply at the ones you are interested in--I agree with the other poster that you will be accepted at quite a few.</p>
<p>this is absurd obviously your chances are better if you list yourself under African American....kinda sad you feel the need to waste peoples time like this</p>
<p>and if the OP REALLY wants to solidify his chances, i suggest taking out the math books and practice like crazy, and retake his SATs. Math is the EASIEST portion to improve, and someone like you should get 800 no problem. assuming the other two components stay the same, 2320 will definitely get you in many of those schools considering your URM</p>
<p>yes i'm not black but the feedback is interesting, thanks, sry for the false claim but as a few of you have pointed out it is really amazing what affirmative action does.</p>
<p>Weird that you would feel the need to consider your chances as a "black man" at the Ivies, but not your own chances as a white guy at those schools.</p>
<p>People already said you had good chances at Virginia and WUSL--schools rated #23 and #11 on USNW's list. The University of Chicago (on your list above) is ranked #15.</p>
<p>I don't understand what your question proved? Did you really think that if we told you that you had a chance at the #11 school as a white man that you would have no chance at the #15 school as a black man?</p>
<p>indeed a good point by calcuzer, it was not for any concrete reason just a personal "experiment" that I thought was interesting. Not meant to offend anyone.</p>
<p>Well, I don't take any offense--but I'm a white guy--so why should I? </p>
<p>I figure I'm on the site anyway so if you want to know what the odds are for different people (and not just yourself), that's fine with me. After all, I presume you have friends of all different ethnic backgrounds--for all I know, you have a friend with similar stats to your own.</p>