Chances for Top Tier Colleges

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello, I am a senior from Wake County and I've applied to:
Penn
Chicago
Harvard
Stanford
Princeton
Duke</p>

<p>My grades and such are as follow:
Unweighted GPA: 3.958/4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.93
Rank: 12/535
SAT: 800 Math 740 Reading 740 Writing
SAT II: 800 Math II 780 Chemistry 770 US History
AP Exams: All 5s on:
AP Calc BC (and AB subscore)
AP Chemistry
AP English III
AP Government and Politics
AP Us History
AP Environmental</p>

<p>My one blemish is a B in AP English III Junior year
I've taken 7 AP courses in my first three years, and have 6 more this year
Senior year grades: All As first semester</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (average, if that)
Varsity Tennis three years
Club Soccer
Club Volleyball
Key Club
Debate Club Advisor
National Honor Society
Volunteering (Food bank, tutoring, etc)
Employment (part time at local tutoring center)</p>

<p>Unfortunately, I do not have many leadership positions among these endeavors. </p>

<p>Recommendations were good, essays were satisfactory I'll say</p>

<p>I applied to Harvard, Princeton and Stanford more as "why not" schools, do not expect to get in. </p>

<p>However, on seeing past admissions, I believe at the very least my grades and scores are enough for Penn/Chicago/Duke so I was just wondering about these three mainly. </p>

<p>Note: I am applying to Duke in-state and have just been accepted to Chapel Hill</p>

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<p>Protip: add names of “top tier” colleges to your thread title. Everyone clicks on an Ivy League chance thread (they want to measure up the competition, I guess).</p>

<p>I believe you have solid chances at Penn and Duke (going less off published stats and more on what I’ve seen from my school’s track record at these schools). How strong is your high school? I’m guessing fairly strong if you were able to take advantage of 13+ AP classes.</p>

<p>I’m unfamiliar with Chicago, but I hope you had fun with those essays. =)</p>

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<p>Those essays were definitely quite fun. I think I had more fun with the Chapel Hill essay though, they let us choose so I got to write a humorous one based off their previous year’s topic.</p>

<p>Also, Wake County in general is pretty competitive and my high school is one of the best public schools here, so yes it is quite competitive</p>