Chances With Debate

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a junior and im the captain of the debate team at our high school (LD, we dont have a policy team). I've been involved in debate for 3 years already and ive already been gauranteed the president spot of our speech and debate team next year. When I started debate at our school, our team only had 3 people and we competed at like 2 local tournaments the entire year, without anyone placing. Our team is very small and unlike many other schools, we do not have a debate coach. Our advisors have not even been very consistent throughout the years due budget cuts at our school. This year however, we've attended 6 national circuit tournaments already and I have been doing fairly well at them. I essentially built the team up and I am responsible for teaching our novices. Now our novices have broken (placed) at stanford, SCU, ect.</p>

<p>My Accomplishments this year (I was the only debater on my team to place at any of these tournaments):
-Quarterfinalist at Harker Invitational
-Semifinalist at Santa Clara Fall Invitational
-Double Octofinalist at Logan Invitational (TOC tournament)
-Triple Octofinalist at Berkeley Invitational (TOC tournament)</p>

<p>This summer I will be attending VBI and I hope to compete at many more tournaments my senior year and do much better. (hopefully before november, haha). I'd say my academics/SAT scores will be fairly high, but I really don't have many other extra curriculars. I've heard from some people that dedication and success in a particular area is enough to get into a good school, and also like many people pointed out, debate is a very highly respected extra curricular by colleges. I guess what I'd like to know is my chances at the following colleges.</p>

<p>UPenn (early app)
Cornell
Columbia
Duke
UC Berk (instate)
UCLA (instate)</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Born in Beijing China</p>

<p>GPA
3.98 UW 4.3 W (Our School has very few AP classes and I'm basically taking all I can)
Basically straight A's except one B in a freshmen class second semester
Predicting 4-5 on AP tests
New SAT I 2100-2300</p>

<p>Other ECs (Pretty weak other than aforementioned debate)</p>

<p>-Active JSA member 2 years, since it started at our school (attended camp interacting w/ politicians in the California Capital)
-SPAL Club (Socio-Political Activist League) 3 years
-Go Club (Chinese board game) 3 years
-Football 1 year JV
-key club 1 year
-CSF 1 year</p>

<p>Majoring in Bus. Admin or Poli Science. Do you guys think there's a decent chance I'll get into one of those schools at least?</p>

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<p>youre stats are pretty legit. berk and LA are 95%, but you're likelier to get drive by'd (100%). consider University of Chicago, (even worse hood, as in holes against the school walls from stray bullets during shootouts) I've been on 61st street, and im lucky to still be alive! i heard a kid got shot on campus during school!</p>

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<p>bumpppppppp</p>

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<p>haha can i get some more feedback</p>

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<p>bump? someone?</p>

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<p>if your the prez, you have a 60% chance of getting in, unlike being on a sports team, which is 2 % and being the capitan raises it 6%. how cool is that/</p>

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<p>haha seriously? where u get those stats?</p>

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<p>break, stop commenting yourself to bring this thread back to life</p>

<p>sat in 3 days.</p>

<p>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>im in speech and debate and we are the highest ranked team in our league. we get all of those special emails to the teacher and its awesome cause we know what were going into. i cant remember the people that sent it to us, but its all legit.</p>