<p>I am applying Early Decision</p>
<p>97.90 Weighted GPA on 100 system- 38th in class of 434
SAT- 790 Math, 710 Verbal, 680 Writing- 2180
SATII- 760 Chem, 760 Physics, 760 American History, 740 Math IIC</p>
<p>AP/IB/Honors taken</p>
<p>9th
9H Math</p>
<p>10th
10H/Pre-IB Math
AP World History - 5</p>
<p>11th
AP Chem- 5
AP American History- 4
Honors Physics
11H-IB/SL Math- 6 on IB Test</p>
<p>12th
AP US Politics
AP Statistics
BC Calculus
AP Physics B (C not offered)
Project Advance English (AP English Language Comp Test)
AP European History test, not class</p>
<p>Grades on upward trend every year- 103.71 weighted average junior year, including 100 unweighted in AP chem and 98 in honors physics</p>
<p>Extracurriculars
4 years Varsity Bowling- All County junior year, captain this year
2 years JV Golf, 1 year Varsity, and this year Varsity Lacrosse
2 years Honor Society- over 30 hours community service
DECA- 10th and 12th grade- regional winner in 2004
Academy of Finance- 3 year program in business that includes summer internship- President senior year
Quiz Bowl- 4 years, 3 years starting
Mathletes- 4 years</p>
<p>Probably majoring in chem, possibly doubling with physics</p>
<p>What does everyone think</p>
<p>I'd say it's a very slight reach. GPA is a bit low depending on the weighting. Good luck though, everything but your GPA looks stellar, makes me want to say match or easy match.</p>
<p>Can you reply to my thread if you have time?</p>
<p>I think you'll be differred, sorry. You are in the target range but I think you will need to boost the SAT given your rank. If I were you I'd aim for WUSTL, Northwestern, or Cornell ED, I think you'd get into those. But if you really want Duke, then go for it, you never know!</p>
<p>The rank is the only thing that really makes me worried about this. My grade is very closely packed together in ranking and also my school is an IB school and i am not doing IB because of the AOF program. Ex. my friend is ranked 22nd with a 98.96, so there are 16 people within 1 point.</p>
<p>I am applying regular decision to- Cornell, JHU, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Wake Forest, Wash U St Louis, Boston U, Penn State (safety) and SUNY Stony Brook (safety)</p>
<p>by the way I am a NY resident</p>
<p>I also have a 120 hour summer internship doing accounts receivable as part of the academy of finance (2005) and I was a people to people sports ambassador for bowling during the summer of 2003, went to england for 10 days, 40 hrs community service with special olympics while there</p>
<p>i have competed in four national bowling tournaments, made the cut in one of them, finishing 18th out of 110.</p>
<p>ive also taken the AMC the last 3 years, but havent qualified for AIME</p>
<p>bump once again, can anyone else reply?</p>
<p>How do other students fare when applying to colleges?</p>
<p>My school has had as many as 15-20 ivy league kids in one class, i believe in '04. Last year the top 2 kids went to harvard, one with 1360 SAT and one with 1420 (both were IB). </p>
<p>what does everyone think my chances are at those other schools I am applying to?</p>
<p>bump
can anyone else reply?</p>
<p>honestly, i dont think that you could get into Duke...your rank is too low, for duke it should be in the top 5% atleast...and you SAT score is not high enough to compensate. I think that yyou would have a real good chane of getting into northwestern, cornell, JHU, wake forest, u would def. get into BU</p>
<p>i am going to attempt to retake the sat saturday as a standby, if I get 2250 or 2300 would that make any difference?</p>
<p>I don't think that your grades or SATs are a problem for Duke necessarily, especially considering your upward trend. The rank is low, but not too low, in my opinion. A 2250 or 2300 would help, but not an incredible amount. I would say the essays and recommendations are very important in your case. You have a pretty decent chance, especially early decision. If I had to be specific and use completely arbitrary numbers, chances are that you'll be either accepted (30%, which is just about the early admit rate, since you seem to be a pretty typical early applicant for Duke) or deferred (60%), though there is that very slim chance (10%) that you'd just be randomly outright rejected early. I'm assuming you can write really convincing essays. Spend a lot of time on them, they do matter.</p>
<p>Ckmets13: "My school has had as many as 15-20 ivy league kids in one class, i believe in '04. Last year the top 2 kids went to harvard, one with 1360 SAT and one with 1420 (both were IB)."</p>
<p>Did those two kids apply EA to Harvard? or regular?
Were they on some kind of athletic recruitment program?</p>
<p>don't be silly and say your rank has to be at least X, you're screwed.</p>
<p>the kid has competitive numbers at a pretty solid HS. </p>
<p>I think he'll be reviewed as a serious candidate and Duke admissions will pay more attention to what he's going to bring to the school through his recc's / essays / extra crap</p>
<p>one applied EA, one regular, neither were athletes</p>
<p>i think your rank is fine; you're in the top 10 percent.
however, it's your wgpa that worries me...</p>