Chances for Pitt, Emory, UMich, Boston U, Brown, and NYU

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m a junior in high school.

ACT composite:34 (32 R, 34 M, 34 E, 35 S, 11 writing)

Sports: 5 years varsity tennis, captain 2 years (have taken tennis lessons for 12 years). Have played and won local and national tennis tournaments for 7yrs (could compete at D2 or D3 level). Played in state championship for tennis. Play squash on a travel team and have won local tournaments (3yrs)

GPA:3.96 unweighted

Courses taken: Freshman yr-honors bio, honors spanish, honors algebra 2. Sophomore yr- AP world (5 on exam), AP physics B (5 on exam), honors precalc, honors spanish. Junior yr-AP english lang, APUSH, AP bio, AP calc bc, honors spanish. Senior yr (expected)-AP lit, AP stat, AP spanish, AP chem, AP Gov pol, AP psych, SUPA econ (syracuse university credits)

Awards: American Chemical Society award, NYSPHSAA scholar athlete award 4yrs in a row, named to all-city tennis team. Named to all-league and all-county tennis teams 4yrs in a row.

Extracurriculars and volunteering:
3 years precollege programs at Rochester
Organize collections of tennis equipment in my city to be donated to inner city kids (5yrs)
Over 200hrs teaching tennis at local club for 3yrs
Over 200hrs interning/doing research at URMC and evaluating clinical trials (3yrs)
Shadowed physical therapists for over 60 hours
Coauthored 2 articles that were published in national medical journals
Member of welcoming committee, women’s awareness club, and Friends of Rachel

I know my ECs are somewhat lacking and intend on trying to improve in this area. I intend on majoring in biology or neuroscience on a pre-med track. Will chance back!

2

High match for UMich LSA.

3

Hmm ok. What is your opinion on the other schools? I realize Brown is probably out of reach since I don’t have legacy or anything there.

4

Just providing an update. So far I’ve gotten into SUNY Buffalo, Stony Brook, Binghamton, Pitt, Tulane, University of Rochester, UMich LSA, and Vanderbilt!!

5

You can probably get in to all of those but it’s hard to say because a place like Brown is a reach for even the best.

6

“Brown is probably out of reach”

I don’t think that is the case. What is your tennisrecruiting rating like? Could you compete for D1-Ivy? If you have competed and won at national tournaments why wouldn’t you be a candidate for tennis at Brown?

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Also publications are highly unusual at the high school level. I can’t imagine you would not be accepted to each of the schools.

8

Congratulations and good luck with the rest of the schools!

9

If the OP is to use the tennis to help gain admissions to a college he/she needs to get the interest of the tennis coach. Ideally the coach should see the OP play in a tournament at the national level.