Do i have a chance?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White male. Tennessee private catholic school. top 10% of class. UWGPA 3.85 WGPA 4.15. ACT: Composite 31, math 30, English 32, reading 31, science 31. Almost completely straight A's with only 3 B's or so. AP's include AP Chemistry (5 on exam), AP Biology(not taken yet), and AP US History(4 on exam). Dual Enrollment English, and pre calc. All other classes are honors.</p>

<p>Varsity Crew rower.(3 years)
Symphony member, (Have been a cellist for 9 years).
Eagle Scout - I heard colleges look very favorably at this?
In the national honor society, as well as Mu Alpha Theta- the math honor society.
100+ hours of community service.
Member of student government (Committee Chairman)
Member of student enhancement committee- a fund raising committee.
Was just elected "senior captain". We operate on a 4 house system, with students from each grade broken into them. I am in charge of mine. So essentially 1 of 4 co-presidents of the entire school.
received American citizenship award- for students with exceptional leadership and academics.</p>

<p>Can get great letters of recommendation from science teachers.</p>

<p>I also spent 5 weeks at the Tennessee Governor's School for Humanities- was very competitive for admissions. Spent 5 weeks at a university of tennessee campus taking college courses, completely paid for by the state. I got A's in both my classes. The chancellor of the university is going to use my 2 professor's ratings of me to write me a really good letter of recommendation.</p>

<p>I also attended the American Legion's Boys State school for a free 1 week camp this summer. It focused on leadership, citizenship, and the government. It's the number one boys state program in the nation.</p>

<p>work experience as a buser at Chilis for a year.</p>

<p>Interested in Chemical Engineering.
I am also considering army ROTC. Would this influence my admissions chances anywhere?</p>

<p>Chance my reaches and honors colleges?</p>

<p>Reaches:
Vanderbilt
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Carnegie Mellon</p>

<p>What are my honors college chances at:
Virginia Tech
Alabama (tusc.)
Tennessee (knox.)</p>

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<p>and rose hulman?</p>

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<p>You can probably consider Rose Hulman a low match. I’m not familiar with the others.</p>

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<p>I value your input, and I don’t want to seem rude, but I asked for what kind of chances I have with my current stats. Just telling me to get a certain act score wasn’t my question. But like I said, thanks for any advice.</p>

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<p>…Bump?</p>

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<p>the colleges that you said are reaches are reaches, especially vanderbilt & notre dame. a 31 is pretty solid, you should retake it & maybe take the SAT as well to give you options. i’m not really familiar w/ Alabama & Tennessee but you should be able to get into an honors program at VA tech.
chance me?
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<p>Dude, incognito is saying that right now, with your current stats, you are not a very competitive applicant at your reach schools. He’s saying that in order to have a really good chance you need to raise the ACT score. Right now you have an ok-ish chance to your reaches.
I’d say 40% at Vandy and ND, 30-35% at NW and CMU. Don’t know much about the others. I’m also not an expert, it’s just what I think. I agree with incognito, get the score up and you’ll be better off.</p>