Chances for a North Dakota Farm Boy

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello, I am wondering what my chances are at a few schools I plan on applying too.</p>

<p>White Male, Rural North Dakota,Farmer</p>

<p>GPA 4.0 (Unweighted)
ACT 29
Science 34
Reading 31
Math 25
English 26</p>

<p>Took the SAT (I think it went well)
Ranked #1 in class</p>

<p>EC's
Junior Engineering Technical Society JETS Team-
Division 1 National Champions 2003, State Champions 2004, 4th in Nation 2005</p>

<p>Varsity Football 9-12, Captain 2005
All-Region 2003,2004,and 2005</p>

<p>Student Council
NHS (3yrs)
Elected to the position of State NHS Representative (1 of 4 in state) at the State convention</p>

<p>Selected to 2005 North Dakota Boys State
Elected Governor of 2005 North Dakota Boys State
Selected to attend 2005 American Legion Boys Nation</p>

<p>Work Experience
Worked for my family farm for the past 6 years.</p>

<p>My projected major is Political Science/Government</p>

<p>I am looking at a bunch of schools Any input would be great.
Dartmouth, This is my first pick.
Middlebury (going to interview and visit)
Carleton (Had a hour and a half interview with the Dean of Admissions that went well)
Bowdoin
Williams
St.Olaf (Had a interview there)
Brown
Maybe Cornell
University of North Dakota (I know I am automatic here)
And a couple more that I know that I only have a 8% chance at.
Any any other suggestions would be great too.</p>

<p>Thanks again, This is a really helpful board for me because no one at my school knows anything about other colleges except local schools that are 50 miles away.</p>

<p>Thanks for the help.</p>

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<p>Most schools need students from ND. You'll be a good fit. Im a farm boy from cincinnati (not rural, but I work on a farm outside the burbs).</p>

<p>Your ACTs are a little low, but you'll be ok.</p>

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<p>I think you will do well at most of those schools. Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth are reaches but possible and I feel you have a strong chance at many of the other schools. On another note I highly reccomend Carleton. I am a freshman there right now and love it. If you ever want any info on the school feel free to ask me over pm or aim. Oh and I also had an hour and a half interview with the dean of admissions last year... I think it helped a lot.</p>

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<p>Hey, I'm from North Dakota, too!</p>

<p>(Just thought I'd say hi, there aren't many of us around.)</p>

<p>Good luck in your college search!</p>

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<p>Might look at Holy Cross-very good small school 1 hour from Boston. HC has very good sports program and nice campus.</p>

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<p>Will visiting Middlebury (and Interview at Midd),Dartmouth,Brown and Harvard (I know Harvard does not matter) give me a small edge perhaps, if I talk to some people from admissions? Because I am leaving to visit there with a friend from Vermont. Thanks again for all the input, it has been helpful.</p>

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<p>Visiting won;t really help. Honestly you need to raise the ACT for the top ones (Dart, Harvard, Brown, Williams, Cornell). Have you considered the SAT? My friend got a 30 ACT but decided to take the SAT and got a 1500. He went to Princeton.</p>

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<p>I personally like Williams and Dartmouth. Their campuses are beautiful and rural.
The main problem is the ACT score.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I really would say take the SAT. Worst case, you do horribly and you never have to send it to them, best case they forget your ACT score One issue though is that if you got a 25 in math, I don't know how you'd do on the SAT math. ACT math is more difficult, right?</p>

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<p>I took the SAT last saturday, and I felt really good about it. I think that I did quite well on the verbal and math portions of it. The new CR is a whole different story. I felt like I missed 4 or 5 math problems at the most. I do not know what I will get due to the fact that no one has even took the SAT at my school in a billion years, So I will just have to see.</p>

<p>So with my scores now, things are really not going for me as much as they could be?</p>

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<p>I did not mean CR sorry I ment the writing/grammar section. (That is the section that did not go well) Sorry about that.</p>