Chances for an Indiana Girl?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Caucasian Female from Southern Indiana
GPA: 3.925 UW (no rank), highly competitive charter school (100% go to 4-year college), will have taken 10 AP's by graduation, so far 4 5's and a 4.
ACT: 33 (probably won't send)
SAT: 720 M, 770 W, 800 CR (2290)
SAT II: 760 M Bio, will take Math IIC and Chemistry (or other) this fall
EC's: Competitive swimming 20 hours a week year-round (state championship qualifier)
tutoring inner-city youth and peer tutoring
Varsity Cross-country 9th and 10th grade
Friendship to Internationals Ministry at my Church
NHS Treasurer
6-week immunology research internship at BU</p>

<p>Awards:
Should be National Merit Finalist
AMC 10 school winner
Won school mathematics award, offered 10,000/year scholarship from a local university</p>

<p>Here is my list of Schools
Notre Dame (EA)
Stanford
Princeton
Duke
Rice
Johns Hopkins
Davidson
Emory
Vanderbilt
IU
Purdue
Also, do you think I should use my EA on Notre Dame? In other words, do you think I would still get in RD? Should I use the EA on Stanford or Princeton?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>ONLY USE BINDING EA/ED FOR YOUR ABSOLUTE FAVORITE COLLEGE-THE ONE THAT YOU WOULD GO TO OVER ANY OTHER SCHOOL.
The cross country doesn't mean anything if you didn't follow through with it. I think you have a really good chance at Notre Dame, Purdue, Emory, Davidson, Vanderbilt, and IU (super-safety). The rest-JHU, STanford, Princeton, Duke, Rice...are always difficult to predict.</p>

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<p>My thought is that IU and Purdue are rolling admission and provided you apply early you will be admitted to both. Notre Dame is a much harder school to predict and you are from IN which doesn't help you. How successful are kids from your school at gaining admission to ND? I am wondering whether you know that Stanford is SCEA and very strict about enforcing their policy?</p>

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<p>My school just opened when I was a freshman. Only one person has applied to ND, and he was admitted. We've sent kids to Northwestern, Yale, Wash-U, Cornell, U-Chicago, Vanderbilt, and MIT in just 3 years so far. I know Stanford is SCEA. It is non-binding, though, and is tied with ND as my top choice.</p>

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<p>I read somewhere that ND's early acceptance rate was something like 40%, so if she applies EA I think she has a great shot.</p>

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<p>I think she has a great shot no matter where or when she applies. I take it you're going into science? All these places are excellent choices.</p>

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<p>Yes, I'll be premed. Is there anything else I can do at this point, other than working hard on my essays?</p>