Chances for Top Schools (Duke, Gtown)- Will chance back!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, could someone please chance me.
My Top Schools are (in no order): Duke(trinity) RD, Emory RD (nominated for Goizueta Scholars) , Georgetown(MSB) EA, UVA (CAS) EA, Vanderbilt (interested in Peabody(HOD) and CAS) RD,
I can dream, right?
Dartmouth RD
Princeton RD</p>

<p>I am applying to UGA (Honors) and GA Tech as backups. </p>

<p>I will most likely study some combination of Business, Ethics/Philosophy, and Political Science with intention of being Pre-Law</p>

<p>Rising Senior
Class Rank 21/790 excellent, competitive public school in Georgia (sends 15+ to ivies/mit/chicago/stanford/duke each year, like 30 a year to ga tech)
GPA (only AP classes add 10 points at my school) 4.24 W, 3.933 UW
{Only classes with (natural B's) APWH 1 sem., APUSH 1 sem., CALC BC 2 sem.}
Everything Else throughout all of school K-11 are A's. </p>

<p>SAT Superscore 720 M, 690 CR, 780 W (11 E)
SAT II: World History 730, Physics 700, US History 760
ACT: First Try: 32 (34 R, 32 M, 32 E, 31 S) 9 E
ACT October: 33 (33 R, 32 M, 34 E, 31 S) 9 E
Ap Exam 5- APWH, 5-USH, 5-Psych, 5-CALC BC, 5- Physics B</p>

<p>Junior Year (completed): APUSH, AP PHYS B, AP Calc BC, AP Psych, Gifted Spanish III, Gifted American Lit. </p>

<p>Senior Schedule: AP GOV, AP MACRO ECON, AP STAT, AP LANG, AP Euro, AP Chem, Gifted Spanish IV.......</p>

<p>Freshman and Sophomore year: Gifted classes for every subject except band and music tech</p>

<p>EC's :
NHS (70+ hours per year) Senior President, Beta Club, Nat Span Honor Society, Nat Science Hon Society officer, Mu Alpha Theta, Student Government (leadership position- I teach leadership lessons to the 300 member club), Science Olympiad (Regional,and State medals, went to nationals at UW madison, expect to return next year) , Academic Team (Fresh and Soph years) , Leader of School Leadership Team, on Senior Advisory Council</p>

<p>Member of County Student Leadership Team- It is a big deal in the state, pretty prestigious the director of the program literally gets calls from school officials across the nation asking her to come and help start up a similar program in their county school system.. We meet with the superintendents, prominent businessmen, professional speakers, government officials etc. Because of the success of previous graduates, adcomms at several universities are aware of the program and hold it in high regard.</p>

<p>Three Summers of Leadership Training with Student Leadership University- Have been to Orlando, Washington D.C., London, Paris, Normandy, Oxford for training. Had the opportunity to hear lectures from prominent senators, congressmen, civil activists, members from the house of lords.. VERY AWESOME experiences with this organization!!</p>

<p>Attended Foundation for Teaching Economics - Economics for Leaders Summer at Emory
- Incredible experience. loved the combo of two of my major interests</p>

<p>I really have a passion for leadership, and by that I do not mean taking positions to throw on my app, I mean learning about leadership (through lectures, stories, team building), learning about leaders, and teaching/sharing leadership skills to others.</p>

<p>As leader of a leadership team I teach leadership lessons to 300 student SGA meetings, 50 student leadership team members (monthly). Also I am planning a community wide leadership summit to be hosted at my school. I personally started the Leadership Council at my school to bring together presidents of service/leadership clubs for a forum of discussion/ training. I am a student director for a fundraising effort that gives money to hurting families during the christmas season. </p>

<p>Thanks for the help, any advice is greatly appreciated!
I will chance back if you provide link to your post!! thanks</p>

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<p>Solid Stats, (Show a lot of leadership!) could be slightly better academically but it’s prolly fine. good chances across the board.</p>

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<p>I don’t see any reason why you would have to worry… your scores.are amazing as well as your e.c I think you’ll get into everyone of those schools.</p>

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<p>Send both SAT and ACT to all schools and hype up your stats in your essays (if you haven’t already). </p>

<p>Should be into 1/2 your major reaches, the rest are 90% guaranteed.</p>

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<p>thanks for the responses. bump!</p>

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<p>Everybody is being unrealistically generous. All these schools are very difficult to be admitted. Maybe 50% chance at the lowest on the list. Princeton I’d say would be the hardest, at maybe 15%…
You have a strong profile, but none of these are safety type schools, so don’t be surprised if you are greeted with multiple rejection letters.</p>

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<p>Duke - low reach
Georgetown - low reach
Emory - match
UVA - match
Vanderbuilt - match
Dartmouth - reach
Princeton - reach</p>

<p>You’re in at both your safeties</p>

<p>Your ECs are very good, lot’s of strong leadership. SAT/ACT are good, though a bit low for Dartmouth/Princeton. I think you have a shot at all of these schools, but make sure to have safeties you’re happy with.</p>

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<p>Thanks, am I correct in the sense that these are the types of schools I should be “reaching” for as I choose colleges to apply to. I have tech and uga as back ups so I figured it is appropriate to apply to some of these schools. Most likely I will not apply to either princeton or dartmouth; however I am planning on applying to the rest. What types of schools should I be looking at if these are not necessarily appropriate?</p>

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<p>Duke - reach
Georgetown - low reach
Emory - match
UVA - match
Vanderbuilt - high match
Dartmouth - reach
Princeton - reach</p>

<p>You have solid stats and clearly show your interests and I can see you getting into any of these, so good luck!
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<p>Honestly, if you are choosing a life long career involving leadership/managment/buisness or even leadership roles in the political side, you’d be a great match for those colleges. Your scores for AP are excellent. Yours SAT’s scores are definitely above the average. Your subject tests are also above average. The only problem for your dream schools is that there are tons of prodigious people like you. My solution for this is to write an awesome, standing out essay that will make the admissions say “This kid’s got spunk! I like this person!” :)</p>

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<p>Might look at some New England LAC’s like Bowdoin and Holy Cross(don’t need to be religious). Holy Cross has very nice campus 1 hour from Boston, highly successful alumni body-CNBC payscale salary study ranked Holy Cross 12th among all schools. Roll Call political magazine ranked HC 1 with most Congressman per capita. Holy Cross also has 3 Supreme Court Justice connections-including 1 alum.</p>

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<p>Thanks… bump!</p>

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<p>Duke - low reach
Georgetown - low reach
Emory - match
UVA - In state?
Vanderbuilt - low reach/match
Dartmouth - high reach
Princeton - high reach</p>

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<p>thanks. bump</p>

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<p>Your stats are good, but when looking at the schools you’re applying to, they aren’t going to help you stand out (SAT IIs, SAT CReading are average for these schools, to be honest). Your ECs seem great, however. If you want to go into economics/business, then as mikynhoj said, the leadership roles you have will help immensely. </p>

<p>Please take the time to chance my thread, and good luck with applications.
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<p>thanks, bump!</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>I’d say Princeton, Dartmouth, and Duke are probably your only reaches, but I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t get into the rest if your recs and essays are solid. Good luck!</p>

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<p>thanks bump!</p>