Do i have a shot?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Notre Dame
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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?
Theater- 2 years in 3 different performances,
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.
received school awards for Honors physics, spanish, and honors english as well.</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 Host at famous Daves Barbecue for a year.</p>

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

<p>I understand it's a reach and I know that if I bump up my ACT to a 33, etc. i will have a better shot, but my question is what are my chances right now with these stats? high match, low reach, far reach? what? 50/50 shot? 20% shot?</p>

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<p>Very impressive, just need that 33 or 34 to almost guarantee it. Make good use of your summer with jobs/service/activities and prep for the ACT!! As is, I would guess 30-40% chance.</p>

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<p>Well I spent 6 weeks of this summer at my 2 camps so I guess i got that right! I honestly don’t know if I could raise my ACT. One thing i’ll never understand is how the average can be a 32, yet if you don’t have a 33,34,35,36 then you don’t have a good shot. I mean if a 32 is the average, doesn’t the middle 50% of the student body have about that, 25% a little higher, 25% a little lower. I have just never understood why that doesn’t seem to be the case.</p>

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<p>Only 25% of the current sophomores-to-be scored 32 or lower. Many of those students have “hooks” you don’t have.</p>

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<p>okay I see your point. I mean I guess to have a shot I gotta do better on the ACT, i just dunno if i can :&lt;/p>

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<p>Why don’t you give the SAT a try. You may do better on that.</p>

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<p>And Notre Dame’s average SAT is a little bit lower than their average ACT (one of the highest in the country), since they’re located in the Midwest, where the ACT is the norm.</p>

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<p>I beg to differ. I found that many more people took the SAT in the midwest. Moving to the south, I only know 2 people who took the SAT. And I did take it, but did very very poorly on it. I’m definitely way better on the ACT.</p>

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Several Midwestern states require that students take the ACT, whereas the SAT is the norm in the Northeast and down south, from my experience. But if you’re better on the ACT, just focus on that.</p>