Columbia, Brown, Northwestern, UMich

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Please chance!</p>

<p>Rank: 5/736
GPA: UW 3.9733 (1 B+, might become 2)
GPA: W 5.0179</p>

<p>SAT: 2330-730CR, 800M, 800W
ACT: 34 (Writing 12)
SAT Math II: 800
SAT US History: 730
SAT Physics: 800
SAT Chem: will take</p>

<p>ECS:
Senior Patrol Leader-Boy Scouts of America Troop 168
Midwest Young Artists Symphony Orchestra-Assistant Principal Clarinet
Wind Quintet
Marching Band (Section Leader)
Intern-Alexian Brothers Medical Center
Math Team
Varsity Swim Team
Band/Orchestra (Section Leader)
National Honor Society
Tri-M Honor Society</p>

<p>Awards:
IMEA Honors All State Band 8th Chair
Exploravision Science Competition-Honorable Mention (PeTS Photosynthetic Ethanol Synthete)
D211 Honors Band-Principal Clarinet
D211 Honors Orchestra-Principal Clarinet
North Suburban Math League-All Conference Honorable Mention
National Merit (expected, received 235)
State Math-Jr/Sr 2 Person 4th place
Eagle Scout (pending review)</p>

<p>Summer:
Student Teaching Trigonometry+ AP Calculus A in summer school
National Student Leadership Council-Medicine and Healthcare
Brown Pre-College Course</p>

<p>Individual Projects:
Developed program that scans sheet music, interprets it, and plays back in an audio MIDI file using Mathematica
Developed Hypothetical Enzyme PeTS Photosynthetic Ethanol Synthete</p>

<p>Classes:
9-Honors Geometry, Honors English, Honors Biology, Symphonic Band, World History, Critical Thinking, Spanish 2
10-Honors Algebra 2, Honors English, Honors Chemistry, Critical Thinking, Wind Symphony, AP US History, Spanish 3
11-AP American Gov/Pol, AP Macroeconomics, Wind Symphony, AP Calculus BC, Spanish 4, AP Lang Comp, AP Physics B
12 (expected)-AP Psychology, Wind Symphony, Multivariable Calculus, AP Spanish, AP Lit, AP Biology, AP Chemistry</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1159533-yale-ea-chance.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1159533-yale-ea-chance.html&lt;/a&gt;
chance back!
pretty epic scores you got there, so no issue there</p>

<p>those indy projects you did… do they have any real world applications or anything, because if so that should be conveyed</p>

<p>your ECs are kind of, well, boring, nothing is standing out to be quite honest, so that’s a problem for the biggies</p>

<p>columbia - low to mid reach, write some good essays and you’ll have a good shot
brown - same as columbia
NW - high match, low reach ish?
U of M - match/you’re in</p>

<p>Apply ED to Columbia and you’re looking at a really low reach</p>

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<p>columbia/brown - mid reach
NW - low reach
UM-Safety</p>

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<p>L. O. L. @ Being the SPL of your troop… When you earn your eagle, put that on there, I used to be SPL, it’s meaningless, someone’ll know that and it won’t give a good impresion of you…</p>

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<p>bumpbump~~~</p>

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<p>YOU ARE DEFINATLEY IN with a. the amazing test scores b. the amazing extracirrculars and c. the leadership!
You seriously are so qualified! </p>

<p>Chance me back…</p>

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<p>Eli: In my troop, it’s a pretty big deal. Why do you think so?</p>

<p>I guess I can add that I founded and am President of the chamber music program for winds at my school.
I am also a student conductor (not that it matter much…)</p>

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<p>Responsibility-wise it might be a big deal, but I just don’t think it belongs on a college application…</p>

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<p>Columbia- Low reach
Brown- Low reach
Northwestern-Low reach
UMich-match/safety</p>

<p>You have to remember Columbia and Brown cares about demonstrated interest. why you want to go that college etc and NW is getting pretty unpredictable these days as well so all the best!</p>

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<p>What do you mean by “unpredictable”?</p>

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<p>sa0209, I might have a bit of information on that. Statistically speaking, with no outstanding activities, no jobs, no volunteer, and a rather low GPA (3.7 unweighted), I shouldn’t have gotten in. Heck, I wasn’t expected to get into any of the top UC’s (Berk, UCLA, UCSD). But I got into Northwestern. And NU rejected our rank 2, who got every single Ivy + Duke, etc.</p>