<p>Hi! All my apps are in already but I have a month until the schools I'm excited about release decisions so I thought I'd post this here thread.</p>
<p>Stats:
SATI: 1410 (740V 670M)
ACT: 32 (36 in Reading)
SATIIs: Lit, 700; Writing, 750; Math IC 580
GPA: 3.69 weighted
Rank: 115 / 850 at a huge public LAUSD school (13.something percentile)
Classes: 8 total APs, 4 in 11th grade (passed all of them with 5s on English Language and Envi. Science). The rest of my classes have been pretty hard; I'm in 3 APs this year and took Intro. to Electronic Music at the local community college.
ECs: 10 years of Tae Kwon Do training culminating with a First Degree Black belt. A lot of community service, including mentoring little kids (i learned them 2 read gud) and working by myself at the local community garden for a whole summer. 7th place statewide as part of the 2004 Envirothon team. I work 20 hours/week currently at a music distribution center. I run my own website, am teaching myself to make electronic music on my computer, and a few other smaller things.</p>
<p>My recommendations were very good (11th grade English teacher and Environmental Science teacher / Envirothon coach), my essays were--if I do say so myself-- very good, and my two interviews (U. Chicago and Tufts) were very good as well, especially the Tufts one. I told the interviewer that it was my first choice (which it is) so that should do a little about the 'Tufts Syndrome,' hopefully.</p>
<p>My schools are:
Tufts
U. Chicago
Sarah Lawrence
Bard
Haverford
Macalester
UCSD
UCSC (admitted already)
Goucher
Skidmore</p>
<p>Thanks a lot, everybody. I appreciate any feedback.</p>
<p>Ha! You're exactly like my twin brother! That's so weird... such similar scores, similar GPA, very similar schools...</p>
<p>I think you have a good shot at most of them, but here are my opinions:</p>
<p>Tufts- reach (but reasonable)
U. Chicago- harder reach
Sarah Lawrence- match (very probable)
Bard- match (very probable)
Haverford- very good match
Macalester- match (very probable)
UCSD- good match (probable)
Goucher- in, I guess... never heard of it really
Skidmore- in</p>
<p>B to the U to the M to the P
rhymes so sweet you'll get a cavity
on the mic like a fiend threepwood with the scheme
answer my thread, son, don't crush my dream</p>
<p>hmm, your scores and gpa would fit most of the schools you listed such as Goucher and Tufts. The only iffy imo is U of Chicago. i didn't see many clubs or sports but you do run your own website so that should count.</p>
<p>tufts is probably a match, especially if your essays and interview went well. and the dedication to tae kwan do must have given you SOME sort of recognition in their eyes. U Chicago is probably a bit more of a reach, just because you'd be towards the bottom of the middle of the pack with GPA, SAT's, etc. Sarah Lawrence (in my backyard, btw lol) is probably a match, and Bronxville is cool, very cool. Bard is a match, as was said before, and I know people that LOVE the liberal atmosphere, the great views of Annandale-on-Hudson. Haverford- also somewhat of a safety/match, as is Macalester, UCSD, Goucher is a safety (they also send way too much mail, you know they must be desperate for good people) and skidmore is also a safety.
good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies, guys. I personally think I'm going to get into Chicago because I wrote this essay: "In a book entitled The Minds I, by Douglas Hofstadter, philosopher Daniel C. Dennett posed the following problem: Suppose you are an astronaut stranded on Mars whose spaceship has broken down beyond repair. In your disabled craft there is a Teleclone Mark IV teleporter that can swiftly and painlessly dismantle your body, producing a molecule-by-molecule blueprint to be beamed to Earth. There, a Teleclone receiver stocked with the requisite atoms will produce, from the beamed instructions, youcomplete with all your memories, thoughts, feelings, and opinions. If you activate the Teleclone Mark IV, which astronaut are youthe one dismantled on Mars or the one produced from a blueprint on Earth? Suppose further that an improved Teleclone Mark V is developed that can obtain its blueprint without destroying the original. Are you then two astronauts at once? If not, which one are you?</p>
<p>To celebrate twenty years of uncommon essay questions, we brought back this favorite from 1984. "</p>
<p>And it was absolutely amazing. I submitted a four-page paper on the ethical and social ramifications of widespread transporter proliferation in a futuristic society. </p>
<p>And as for Tufts it's reassuring to know that I'm not an immediate rejection candidate. Phew!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>rejected from all of them...i think ucsc will reverse your acceptance too because i am sure they made a mistake at the admissions office. you're lucky cali has a good community college system; maybe you'll be able to transfer to riverside after two years.</p>
<p>tomiodotcomio: where do you live? i'm in scarsdale</p>
<p>Sadly the people who were supposed to make your decisions were too dead to; since you filled the envelopes with enough anthrax to whipe out a small city.</p>
<p>I hope this is a joke because your command of the English language is absolutely horrible and that's pretty ironic on a site designed around, you know, going to college and learning things.</p>
<p>I think you have a very good chance at Sarah Lawrnece. Based on your ECs and community activism, I have a hunch you would fit in well there. I'm assuming you're a guy? There are enough girls there to provide you pants for your 4 years.</p>
<p>Just watch out for one thing though. There are a lot of druggies at SLC. If one of them ODs you'll end up banishing yourself from the campus; with all your stuff still in the dorms and unable to go to the dean to discuss a transfer.</p>
<p>My schools are:
Tufts- a possible reach
U. Chicago- reach
Sarah Lawrence- foundation
Bard- foundation to a 50/50
Haverford- reach
Macalester- a possible foundation
Goucher- foundation
Skidmore- foundation</p>