Chances for Rice, Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, Berkeley?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I know Stanford's definitely a reach but...</p>

<p>I'm currently a junior...
Background: Asian Female, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
SAT (not so great...): 800 Math, 650 Reading, 710 Writing, 10 Essay
SAT II: Chemistry 790, Math II 800
Rank: 1 or 2/430 or so (public school in good district)
GPA: unweighted: 4.0, weighted: 5.05 </p>

<p>Freshman year: lots of honors classes but no AP's</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
AP Chemistry (5)
Honors Chem Lab
AP Statistics (5)
Advanced Precalculus
Honors English 2
Honors Spanish
Honors Civics and Economics
Honors Earth Science</p>

<p>Junior Year (projected):
AP Biology (5)
Honors Biology Lab
AP Calculus BC (5)
AP Spanish Language (5)
Honors English 3
Honors US History Arts Focused</p>

<p>Senior Year:
AP Physics C
AP Spanish Literature
Honors English 4
Honors Calculus Topics
Health/Ceramics</p>

<p>EC's:
-4 year varsity volleyball, probably captain senior year.
-President and Founder of Save the Music Club 2 years: a volunteer club of 5 experienced piano players who teach underprivileged elementary school children piano for free, every weekday afternoon. I have around 60 service hours from this.
-Science Olympiad 2 years
-Asian Student Assocation 4 years
-Summer Assistant Camp Counselor for Morehead Science Summer Camps for children (50 service hours)
-Collected gifts to send to soldiers in Afghanistan (20 hours)
-Summer Camp Counselor for a one-week volleyball camp for young girls (10 services hours)
-Volunteer with Parks&Rec (16 hours)
-Spanish Honors Society Officer
-Photography Club
-NC Governor's School Natural Sciences for summer 2011 (hopefully... got nominated but we'll see)
-If not Governor's School, then probably some more volunteering.</p>

<p>Awards:
-(hopefully) Scholar athlete for volleyball
- Silver Award for National Spanish Exam (freshman year)
- Gold Award for National Spanish Exam (sophomore year), 3rd place in NC
- (projected) Gold Award for NSE (junior year)
- Hopefully National Merit Finalist or something, scored 239 on the PSAT. And hopefully National Honors Society too but not sure.</p>

<p>Essays:
I think my essays will be good, since I've got a lot of experience with underprivileged children I can write about. My recs will probably be decent as well.</p>

<p>Do you think I should apply ED to Rice (probably my second choice). My first choice is the Morehead Scholarship from UNC Chapel Hill but that's probably a reach too.</p>

<p>Thanks so much for chancing.
If I get the time, I will try to chance back if you link me to your stats and whatnot.</p>

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<p>I think you have a chance at all, especially if you can get your SAT up a hundred points or so (it’s still pretty good, though!) </p>

<p>Also, others will probably echo this, but I wouldn’t do ED if you’re not 100% “Igottagothere” totally in LOVE with Rice. If you end up getting in, you may have serious doubts and always wonder what could have been.</p>

<p>Chance me back? :slight_smile: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1058128-chance-nebraskan.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1058128-chance-nebraskan.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>you have a great chance at all them your best bets would be rice and berkeley. But im sure you will get into at least one of the others. Goodluck can you please chance me back</p>

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<p>I think you have a great shot at Rice, Berkeley, and Northwestern. Duke can go either way. Stanford is a reach for anybody. I think Rice is a great school (I attended for a year before transferring to Duke for my environmental science major). I wouldn’t apply to Rice ED unless you know for sure you want to go there. If you haven’t already, VISIT Rice during the school year (easy to get flights to Houston from RDU… both Southwest and Continental fly into Houston), stay overnight w/a student (Admissions Office can arrange this), and take advantage of lunch hosting (I was a lunch host last year for Rice). Call Rice’s Admission Office in order to arrange all this; they will be more than happy to help you out. Also, do some research into Rice’s residential college system because Rice’s social life is run by this, which in my opinion is more inclusive than Greek life. You can PM with any specific questions about Rice and Duke.</p>