chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Stats</p>

<p>Race: White
School: Competitive, high ranked, public
Schedule: toughest available</p>

<p>APs:
5 - Euro, World History (self study), US, Chem, Physics, English Language
(euro and world as sophomore, other four as a junior)</p>

<p>APs this year:
Micro and macro
physics c
calc ab/bc (haven't decided which class i'm taking yet)
english lit</p>

<p>SAT:
march: 720 CR, 690 M, 790 W (11 essay) -- 2200
june: 800 CR, 720 M, 690 W (8 essay) -- 2210
best total: 2310</p>

<p>SAT II:
freshman: biology (M) - 790
sophomore: math 1C - 710, world history - 800</p>

<p>gpa: around 93, school calculates on 100 point scale, doesn't rank or weight (very strong in social studies, a few Bs for quarters, but very weak in spanish)</p>

<p>ECs:
Debate: 9-11
state qualifier in ld debate: 9 and 11
pf qualifier: 11
extemp qualifier: 9 and 10</p>

<p>positions: treasurer: 10, jv captain: 11
(team is royally screwed, the continutation of the team next year is questionable and we were only able to attend a few non-local tournaments this year, unable to attend state championship or national qualifiers)</p>

<p>Newspaper: 9-11
Opinions section editor: 11 and 12</p>

<p>Science Olympiads: 9-11
on competing team all four years (we only fielded one team until this year, so people were always cut, and this year i was on main team) team made states last year, and one spot away from states this year</p>

<p>Research: 9-11
won merit at local fair this year</p>

<p>a few other random awards and clubs i kind of participate in</p>

<p>Summers:
freshman: 6 week emersion program in madrid
sophomore: volunteer at local nursing home
junior: research internship (preparing to do an intel) (also may count towards volunteering, total i should have like 200+)</p>

<p>Music:
Piano - NYSMMA lvl 6 when i was in 9th grade
Violin - NYSMMA lvl 4, orchaestra 9-11 (no room for it next year)
(just as part of package, not really going anywhere w/ it)</p>

<p>don't really have a good idea where i wanna go (thus the post) but i guess ivies and schools of that calibur</p>

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<p>Okay, a few things you need to know. </p>

<p>First, the Ivies go by rank, not GPA or 93/100 possible scores. So we need your rank to give you a really good estimate of chances.</p>

<p>Second, the Ivies are really different from each other. Take Columbia and Cornell for example. Columbia is in the heart of NYC, and Cornell is in a farmland area. Columbia is focused on humanities, engineering, politics, law, and medicine. Cornell is focused on agriculture, business, architecture, and the sciences.</p>

<p>It's important that you decide where YOU want to go. Give us a clue about your interests and that will help. Otherwise, we'll just send you where we prefer--but you might be very unhappy there later on.</p>

<p>Third, same comments as above apply to a major. If we know you are interested in architecture, for example, we can suggest Cornell. But if we suggest Univ of Chicago, for example, and it turns out that you want to major in engineering, you might be a bit unhappy when you get there and find out that Chicago has no engineering school at the undergraduate level.</p>

<p>Lastly, go read the thread in this section entitled "Stop asking for Ivies". It was posted about two weeks ago. This will explain why no one responded to your thread so far.</p>

<p>P.S. Great test scores--congratulations.</p>

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<p>A 93 is around a 3.8, but my school presents its gpa on a 100 point scale and doesn't rank (other than naming valedictorian and salutatorian after first semester senior year), so i'm just presenting what colleges will see.</p>

<p>The problem for me in choosing schools is that I have a real interest in both sciences and humanities, so a good way to resolve them would be nice (economics springs to mind, but I don't know that much about it). In the ivies I would mostly be looking at Yale (my brother went there if that means anything), and Columbia. I'm also interested in Northwestern, UChicago?, and perhaps some of the smaller liberal arts schools like Amherst, though I'm a little concerned about the seclusion at such schools.</p>

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