Chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Notre Dame
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<p>Unweighted GPA 3.82
Weighted GPA 4.5</p>

<p>Sat - CR 690 M 720 (1410)
Sophomore Year - AP NSL
Junior Year - AP Calc AB, Psychology, and Physics C (Mechanics)
Senior Year - AP Human Geo, Macro&micro Econ, Stat</p>

<p>Almost all other classes are honors. My school does offer a ton of AP classes though so I'm not sure if this is classified as "most rigorous"</p>

<p>Extracurricular's
Founding member of my schools sports management club sophomore year, VP junior year, president senior year
Worked on my school newspapers business staff junior year and was chosen to be the executive director senior year. As executive director I'll be in charge of assigning daily tasks to 13 people and grading them on their performance. This team of people needs to bring in about $14,000 a year to sustain our paper.
NHS member junior year, Director of public relations senior year
Public relations/marketing internship
About 250 volunteer hours, read to youth who don't speak English at home, taught swim lessons, etc
Captain of JV Basketball freshman year
Captain of Varsity Basketball senior year
Captain of JV field hockey sophomore year
Possibly captain of Varsity field hockey senior year</p>

<p>Chances or advice?</p>

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<p>Hey man. Over all, your application looks great. You stand a pretty strong chance, so all I can really recommend is working on your sat scores, and churning out the best essays you can. Your sat scores are a little low for Notre Dame’s average, but if you pick up a copy of Princeton review, sign up for 1-2 tests, and study a bit every day, you should be fine. Don’t add on any extracurriculars, keep what you have. If it’s feasible, try and visit campus, or go to a talk that you admissions councilor puts on. Do you have any subject tests? If you took physics C and calc AB, math II and physics should be a breeze, and you could reasonably get 800’s on both. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks so much. I’m retaking my SATs in October but maybe I’ll take the SAT Subject tests after that. I should probably apply regular decision, right? From what I’ve read it seems like my chances would be better that way. </p>

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<p>Yeah. Also, one of the advantages of regular decision is it gives you a little more time to improve your scores. You’ll be much less stressed come test day if you know you’ve got a second chance.</p>