chances??? thanks very much!!!

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<p>hey guys, it's early summer, but i might as well start. btw, im currently a junior...thanks a lot!</p>

<p>GPA-</p>

<p>3.75 Unweighte/4.7352 Weighted (This is after my junior year and Im pretty sure I'll increase it to around 4.79 by the time october comes around and I apply ED to yale) Right now: top 10%, october: top 5% if everything goes alright</p>

<p>SAT-</p>

<p>2280 (770 Verbal, 750 Math, 760Writing)
SAT II- World History (770), Spanish (800), Biology (760)
COURSES-</p>

<p>I'm going to be a senior and so far I've taken all honors courses as well as 5 AP's and will be taking 4 more senior year. I've gotten A's in all of them except one semester in english.</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS-</p>

<p>Varsity Golf Captain (12 grade, next year)</p>

<h1>1 player for two years in a row</h1>

<p>Top 50 Players in state
3 year varsity letterman
My current job is teaching golf to kids at my local country club (I've gotten a lot of positive references through this)</p>

<p>President of Spanish Club (Two years, 11 + 12)
4 year letterman
One of the largest clubs at my school (130+members)
3 time participant of State Spanish Symposium
Tutor spanish twice a week after school and I went on a mission trip to Mexico and was one of three translators on the trip</p>

<p>President of World Affairs Council
Most monetarily backed club with the best public relations in our school (This year we arranged to have Colin Powell, two senators, and the ambassador to Iraq to speak at our school)
3 year letterman
Director of Community Service (only sophomore to ever hold leadership position in club)</p>

<p>Anchor Club
Two-year letterman
Board of Directors
Designed t-shirt for next year
Over 100+hours of community service through this</p>

<p>Amnesty International Club
I founded this club along with 5 other people my sophomore year and we've grown a lot in 1 and 1/2 years
3 year letterman
Club Secretary</p>

<p>Volunteering
I've volunteered with foreign service organizations, interfaith, homeless shelter, red cross, and I was accepted into a prestigious volunteer program at a hospital nearby. I have about 200+ hours as a whole
-Second job is as a youth volunteering coordinator at the Y which I have been doing for about a month and will continue to do through my senior year.
- I'm leaving in two weeks to go on a mission trip to ecuador in my church and ill spend about a week volunteering to raise english awareness and teach the language there.</p>

<p>AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS
-National Merit Finalist
-AP Scholar with Distinction
-National Honors Society (Director)
-National English Honors Society
-Professional member of World Affairs Council in my city
-National Society for High School Scholars
-Twice named Junior Volunteer of the month at my hospital
-2x finalists at national essay contests (I've won $2000 so far)
-Nominated to and attended National Youth Leadership Forum
-I got accepted at TASP Cornell I and I'll be studying foreign policy for a week
-I want to be an international lawyer so I'm going to try to get an internship at a law firm in my city and I have two very good connections so I'm 80% sure I'll get it the summer after senior year (should I put this into my apps?
- Golf Team MVP</p>

<p>RESIDENCY
-I'm hispanic and I'm from Argentina
-I live in New Mexico
-I've lived in 6 different countries
-I can speak four languages fluently</p>

<p>OTHER
- I'm thinking about re-taking the SAT's for a 2300+ hopefully </p>

<p>Thanks for any opinions! please be honest!</p>

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<p>I think you have a fair shot, if I were the admish officer and truly believed what you wrote (CC ppl here tend to bloat up, add .5 to their gpa and flat out lie regarding their stats) based on your app in my hand, I'd want to accept you.</p>

<p>But then again, I'm a CC person, so I have a unweighted 5.999 gpa, 2500 SAT, one continuous, nocturnal-insomniac year of round the clock volunteer work (8000+ hours), I'm a professor of philosophy, built the engine for a Maybach 62, and can speak all 57 dialects of the Zulu and Africana territories. By the way, I have direct lineage to John Harvard, Cotton and Increase Mather, and have quadruple legacy on both sides (ancestral, Harvard swims in my veins). Would it help to add that I, like His Airness Michael Jordan, eat Ballpark franks and like big butts and I cannot lie?</p>

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<p>Haha.</p>

<p>Question.. Is it even possible to fit all of those activities/awards on an application? There's only so much space, and it says refrain from submitting attachments, so there's only so much supplemental material that you should send...</p>

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<p>haha funny. yea this ****es me off a lot too. and then when someone actually says the truth and they have true decent stats they're like "nope, sorry, community college for you..."</p>

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<p>If you got all As except 1 semester English, shouldn't your unweighted GPA be higher than 3.75?</p>

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<p>with the GPA, I have all A's in AP's only. yes, i've gotten several B's in honors classes (like 5 or 6) because i didn't try at all my sophomore and freshman years. i really really really regret it and i improved this year (all A's in all classes including 4 AP's) but im still scared that it will bring me down.</p>

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<p>How are you fluent in four languages?</p>

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<p>english, spanish, french, italian</p>