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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Will you please let me know my chances to the following schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford EA, Duke, Northwestern, UChicago, Brigham Young, and Indiana? Thanks!</p>

<p>Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Intended Major: Physics (or Biology)
GPA: 3.97 unweighted, 4.369 weighted
rank: 3rd of 364
SAT: 1490, 770 verbal, 720 math
SAT II: 750 Math IIC, 720 Spanish, and 680 Writing
ACT: 34
AP: AB Calculus (4), Physics, Statistics, English, and Microeconomics (Our school offers 10 but several were just added this year and I couldn't take them due to scheduling conflicts. Should this be mentioned in the school report?)</p>

<p>ECs: Varsity Gymnastics (4 yrs., been in my whole life, lettered each year), Varsity Cheerleading (3 yrs., lettered each year, NCA All-American, Motions Award, Sportsmanship Award), Class Officer (Treasurere, Secretary, VP, VP), Key Club (2 yrs., read to elementary school kids), Church Youth Group (4 yrs., President 1 yr.), Band (4 yrs., Marched 1 yr., band letter, alto saxophone).</p>

<p>Work Experience: Gymastics Instructor for about 7 months. Babysit for various family members.</p>

<p>Awards/Honors: National Merit Commended Student, Marion County Principal's Award (3 yrs., given to top 1, 2, and 3 percent of class respectively), , scored in 90th percentile on American Chemical Society end of year exam, National Honor Society, Straight-A Honor roll each semester, various honor ribbons for the highest percentage in individual classes.</p>

<p>Miscellaneous: I attend a seminary class (scripture study class) before school each morning for about an hour. I attended the Richard Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow's Leaders and Mayor's Teen Summit (both 1 day events).</p>

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<p>bump....Please respond :)</p>

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<p>Ivies and Duke only if you get recruited for gymnastics, good shot at rest.</p>

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<p>Thanks! Anybody else have any opinion?</p>

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<p>I'd say you have one hell of a chance. You have the GPA, rank, and test scores. Plus, your ECs are awesome. I heard that if the ivy can make a nickname for you (such as Gymnastic physics major) then you have a really good chance of acceptance. There really isn't any reason why you shouldn't be picked.</p>

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<p>I really appreciate your comments! I was so excited today when I got my scores. I probably would've flipped if I had a 1500 or over though! Anyone else?</p>

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<p>bump.........</p>

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<p>Please respond :(</p>

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<p>bump.........</p>

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<p>If you get recruited for gymnastics, you have a decent chance at your top choices : )</p>

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<p>very good chances.</p>

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<p>i read from somewhere that harvard uses a 1-5 scale (where 1 is the highest) to rate personal, academic, and extracurricular factors while princeton uses i think the 1-6 scale (or it may be 1-9), where 1 is also the highest. </p>

<p>an academic rating of one (which is rarely awarded) describes an applicant who achieved a 1500 or greater on the SAT, who is ranked #1 or 2 in the class, who has taken the most rigorous courseload, and who achieved scores of 800 on three SAT IIs, and scores of 5 on 5 or more AP exams (and/or, if applicable, the highest scores on at least 3 IB HL level exams). an extracurricular rating of one requires national recognition in something such as siemens, intel and the like. a personal rating of one is based on the student's contributions to the community and on the teacher recommendations (whether it says "best in teaching career" or best in so so years). if you care to average the academic, extracurricular and personal ratings, most admitted students will land a 2...in borderline cases even a 3. note that membership to many different clubs will get an applicant only a 4 but state or local recognition (depending on how prestigious it is), will get him/her a 2 or 3. being school president is a 3, which is the equivalent to being president of three clubs.</p>

<p>your ratings for harvard:
academic rating: 3
extracurricular rating: 3
personal rating: no basis for judgment</p>

<p>i really do wish you the best of luck.</p>

<p>what ratings would you assign yourself, since you know yourself better than anyone does?</p>

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<p>just curious, what is a "band letter"?
and you have presidents for youth group? how interesting.</p>

<p>anyway, i think your stats are fine. are you planning on continuing sports in college? if so, that should give you an edge. hopefully you have good teacher recs and essays to show off your personality.</p>

<p>good luck!</p>

<p>and angryschnauzer, would you care to evaluate my chances for harvard as well, since you seem to know a lot about how adcoms actually rate students? thanks a bunch!</p>

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<p>Thanks everyone! You get a band letter for accumulating so many points in band. It's similar to an athletic letter except for band. Yes, we have youth group presidents. Whoever it is, along with their first and second counselors, are in charge of planning group activities and calling all of the people and letting them know what's going on and encouraging them to attend. It's pretty fun! Anyway, thanks again for your responses!</p>

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<p>hey angryschnauzer </p>

<p>could you look over my chances? also i'm taking the hardest "type" of courses but it's no where near AP or IB which my school does not offer so let me know what you think on that. Our lowest level would be workplace courses, then college, college/universitiy then universitiy.</p>

<p>I'm not sure if I had bad advice but my counsellor told me to like take my APs tests in my senior year when I asked about it in an earlier grade.
I plan on taking a AP exam on microeconomics, macro and possibly calclus ab if i learn Riemann sums, integrals, anti derivatives and trig functions by myself in time. (that's all i believe ab has extra right comapred ot normal courses?) maybe i'll take physics too. I guess I'd be doing it just for fun right? (which I don't mind) since i'll be too late for consideration into the application process?</p>

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<p>angryschnauzer you seem to be high in demand, want to check my post out too? its "stanford EA" I know original... you really do give helpful advice. thank you so much!</p>

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<p>Jeez. I dunno about any of ur schools. I guess u have tons of stuff to write for your essays. Try using that academic index calculator that was on the CollConfidential homepage for more info. Just dont apply to a public college, we dnt need ppl like u using Berkeley as a safety.</p>