chances for ed?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi to all,</p>

<p>Background: I'm a junior at a top Illinois public school. I skipped the second and third grades but went back a grade for athletics when I transferred to a public middle school. My ADHD really affected my freshman and sophomore years as it went untreated, but with medication I've really been able to buckle down and get some really good work done.</p>

<p>Ethnicity: My mother's a second-generation Puerto Rican/Spaniard and my father's a complete mutt--Eastern European/Russian/Ashkenazi Jew, etc.</p>

<p>GPA: (W, since classes were all honors/AP)
Freshman--3.80/5.00 (My freshman year was completely mediocre--see above--with a 3.80/5.00 while in all honors classes. I think that was mostly due to the ADHD, an elongated acclimation period and my immaturity compared to my peers.)
Sophomore--4.05/5.00
Junior--4.90/5.00</p>

<p>Class Rank: 32/630</p>

<p>AP's: Junior--AP English Lang/Comp (5 on test), APUSH (5 on test)
Senior--AP English Lit, AP US Gov't, AP Comp Gov't, AP Psych, AP Physics C, AP Stats</p>

<p>EC's:
-three year class council member
-baseball soph/jun (being recruited to play D1)
-club baseball every summer
-swimming frosh
-1st chair alto sax in wind symphony frosh/soph
-1st chair alto sax in jazz band frosh/soph/jun
-writer on school newspaper frosh/soph, production editor jun, will be co-ed-in-chief this year
-writer for the teen newspaper of the Chicago Tribune (very, very selective)
-member of Tri-M music honors society
-Project Lead the Way pre-engineering courses frosh/soph/jun
-captain of/leading scorer for scholastic bowl frosh/soph/jun
-volunteered for Habitat for last two summers
-internship at major engineering firm next summer
-eucharistic minister and minister of care for Archdiocese of Chicago
-summer courses at Northwestern University</p>

<p>Standardized Tests:
AP Comp--36
SAT--2380 (800 CR, 800 W, 780 M)
PSAT--236 (National Merit Semi-Finalist)
Will take US History, Math II, and Physics SAT II's</p>

<p>Recommendations:
-Editor for my teen newspaper
-School psychologist/counselor
-Former swim coach</p>

<p>Special: Almost all of my family has attended ND. An uncle's name adorns one of the athletic buildings, and they're all huge boosters. I think that might help, but I'm not completely sure. My parents attended UIllinois (legacy).</p>

<p>Schools: Vanderbilt (ED), Northwestern, UIllinois, Dartmouth, Princeton, UT-Austin, UCSD, UCLA, UFlorida, NYU, Wisconsin, Indiana</p>

<p>Thanks, everybody!</p>

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<p>You’re in at UT Austin.</p>

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<p>Your apparently low GPA is not really going to hurt you that much since you are in the top 5% of your class. </p>

<p>Besides, with those test scores and ECs, I would actually argue that EDing to Vanderbilt would be a waste; you are almost guaranteed to get in with a regular decision. You will be a great applicant at the Ivies and other Tier 1 schools, so expand your college list in the direction of Dartmouth and Princeton.</p>

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<p>Agreed with ^. Why would you apply ED to Vanderbilt when you have that record?</p>

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<p>well, idk, my freshman and soph grades made me a bit insecure. mostly b’s sophomore year and you still think i’m in rd at vandy?</p>

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