<p>Well instead of posting on a bunch of individual forums for each University and nagging them about my chances (I already did at Emory) I decided it would be better if I could just get a collective opinion on my chances at these colleges, thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Applied/Applying (all regular decision)
- Penn
- Columbia
- Rice
- Emory (Im printing out some rec's in a few minutes)
- NYU
- UTAustin
- TCU (forced to apply here b/c its local, but I got accepted with a $40,000 scholarship)</p>
<p>Quick background on me:</p>
<p>3.75 uw GPA
55/501 (just outside top 10%, Emory seems tougher than Ivys when it comes to class rank, only 10% of those accepts aren't in the Top 10%)
1550 old SAT - 2200 new SAT
740 Math1 SATII and 740 US History SATII</p>
<p>WEAK EC's the first two years of High School, JV Tennis and some volunteer work, nothing much more.</p>
<p>Junior/Senior: Joined debate and plenty of success, now I'm the Varsity Captain of a nationally recognized debate team. (I have a chance to attend an Emory Invitational Tournament this Spring).</p>
<p>Junior/Senior EC's and Awards:
-NHS
-Interact
-Habitat for Humanity
-Attended an invitational Scholar's Lab for two weeks of debate training
Received some school awards and regional debate success, including the "Distrinction" Merit from the National Forensic's League in just one year of debate, personally ran an entire division of the 'Grapevine Classic', a Tournament of Champions Qualifier <em>national recognition</em>
-National Honor Society
-National Merit Commended Student
-Vice-President and Co-Founder of a new Amnesty International Chapter
-AP Scholar with Distinction, World History-4, Psychology-4, CompSciAB-4,US History-5, English Literature-4, Currently enrolled in 7 more AP classes.
-I also worked for my father at his small business, and even had to help run and manage it while training new employees after my father became seriously ill.
-And some other misc. volunteer work.</p>
<p>Lastly, while I occasionally produce a decent essay... the most typical remark towards my application essays are that they are "flat"... I find this to be the trend with most of my essays so for the sake of giving me my chances, just assume that I'll write a flat essays that won't advance or hurt my cause.</p>