Duke chances class of 2019

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Senior year taking ACT once more in October to hopefully get my score up. Please chance me. </p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): n/a
ACT: C:31 M:32 S:32 R:32 E:29
SAT II: n/a
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98 UW 4.8846 W
Rank 1/394 top 10%
AP : AP Calc AB AP Psych AP US History AP Lang AP World History (Scored 5s) AP Statistics AP Environmental AP Human Geography (Scored 4s)</p>

<p>Major Awards: NHD county fair winnner 1st place NHD state fair finalist, 1st Place FBLA Banking and Financial Systems District 12 competition, 5th Place FBLA Banking and Financial Systems state competition, Society of creative anachronism award (for NHD project), Jabil Technology Award(for NHD project)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: JV football (2 years) Captain, Varsity Football on the #1 Team in the state (2 years), Future Stars Peer Mentor (assigned to a kid in lower classes that is in the top 10% of their class to mentor 2 years), Journalism 11th and 12th (News Editor 11th and Editor-in-chief 12th) Investment Club (11th and 12th) FBLA (11th and 12th chapter president and district treasurer) Mu Alpha Theta (11th and 12th) Rho Kappa (11th and 12th) NEHS (11th and 12th Parliamentarian)
Job/Work Experience: Started a shaved ice business after visiting Hawaii with my family, worked in a car audio warehouse over the summer
Volunteer/Community service: 100+ hours as a mentor at the local Boys&Girls club</p>

<p>State (if domestic applicant): FL
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M</p>

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<p>As a fellow applicant, I definitely feel like you have a shot, probably a better shot than my own. Im very bad at chancing, so I cant say for sure, but I can say you definetely have enough to make you stand out in my opinion. </p>

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<p>@aPandaa I appreciate the response. I feel like I’m qualified, but I’m very concerned about my weak test score :(</p>

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<p>You are more likely not to make it, so apply to a lot of top tier schools(because thats all that people care about) to improve your chances of getting into one good college</p>

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<p>Bump</p>

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<p>what did you get a B in?</p>

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<p>1st semester of my sophomore year I got a B in AP Statistics @mikenan</p>

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<p>Chance me please</p>

<p>ACT 35 m35 e36 s33 r36
SAT 2 Bio 740 (9th grade out of honors) Math2 770
GPA 98.8 ( do not use 4.0 scale on transcript)
Class Rank: unranked
Senior Courses: AP Phys C , AP Calc AB, AP Micro, AP Lit, AP US Gov , Latin (3) Spanish (5).
Applying EARLY DECISION , first semester grades submitted A+ in all subjects
also 5 other AP classes 9-11 ( all 4 & 5’s) </p>

<p>Awards & EC’s:
National HS, National Latin HS (officer ) National Spanish HS, National Merit Commended Scholar, National Achievement Semi-Finalist
DECA (4 years ) states top 10 in event , (Officer) VP 12th grade
Investment club, (4 years) FLA (4 years-community service) additional community service with underprivileged kids in South America during summer of 10th grade
Attended business program during summer break @ top ranked university
Co-Founder, President Business/Marketing club in high school
Founder of my own start up company , production , manufacture & sales
Travel & Varsity HS hockey (4 years) </p>

<p>Rec’s
Very Good Recommendations ( 2 teachers & guidance)
Very good personal Statement ( I hope) Why Duke ( limited words hopefully it came across well)</p>

<p>Gender :Male
Ethnicity: URM
School: Public </p>

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duke is a low reach for Twojesney and a mid reach for OP

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@soccerboy10‌ - thanks, Admitted ED Class of 2019

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@Twojesnny‌ haha I didn’t even pay attention to the date :joy: will you chance back?

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@soccerboy10‌ sure!

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Lol I’d kill to go to Duke being from Cali cause I want to move out of this state. It’s great and all but I want a new culture and a unique college experience, especially considering I’m probably going to work in Sacramento, LA, or SF after I graduate so I can b
GPA: 3.8/4.28
ACT: 34
SAT II’s: 710 Chem 720 Lit
Rank: 19/500
AP: Comp (5), WH (5), APUSH (4), Bio (4), Chem (4), Psych (4)
Senior year: AP Gov, French 3, AP Lit, APES, Ap Calc Bc, AP Econ

EC’s: Award-winning attorney in mock trial, nationally ranked soccer team, PR Director and captain of strategy for FIRST robotics, state medalist in science olympiad

Volunteering: 150 at children’s hospital, 100 with Key Club-service coordinator for 500 students, 75 with special ed department
Work: Referee for four years, promoted every year
Cleaned sweat off of gym equipment over the Summer so I could use the gym after closing hours so I could train to make the aforementioned nationally ranked soccer team.
Recs: 10/10, kinda generic but had a nice paragraph at the end so 7/10, didn’t read, didn’t read, 9/10 might be a little biased lol
Essays: 9/10 and 10/10 but who can really evaluate their own writing.

No hooks except dual-citizen maybe?
Income: 40k
School: Large fairly competitive public
California

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@soccerboy10‌

I’d say that Duke is a medium reach. Your numbers (gpa, act, etc.) are probably about on par with the applicant pool, but don’t necessarily stand out. You seem to have a relatively strong presence in each of the activities that you participate in, which is good, but, again, I don’t think they make you stand out much above the applicant pool. I think the most intriguing part of what you’ve mentioned is the amount of time you spent doing community service and working hard to create opportunities for yourself when they may not have been easily presented to you. If you expanded on this type of idea in your essays, I think that should help bolster your application. It’s difficult to completely rate you because of the fact that I haven’t personally read your essays and I think there may be more to your application that you have left out. I think you are probably strong enough to give yourself a fair chance in the pool, but you always have to keep in mind how selective of an institution Duke is and how many great applicants they turn away. Also remember that Duke has already accepted about half of their 2019 class through the early decision pool. That being said, good luck tomorrow.

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@Twojesnny Late as always but, mind chancing me?

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2370 (CR: 800 M: 770 WR: 7800)
SAT II: Chemistry: 750. Math II: 800, Bio M 750.
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Junior year: 3.97. Senior Year. 3.91
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): JR: 8/892 SR: 15/892
AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (4), English Lang (4), AP Chem (5), AP Euro (4), AP Bio (5), AP Spanish (4), APES (4) Self Study, AP Psychology (5) Self Study
Senior Year Course Load: Advanced Music Honors (Chamber Choir), Chorus II (Concert Choir, required double enrollment), AP Lit, AP Physics C, AP Gov/Econ, AP Calc BC
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar w/ Distinction, National AP Scholar. Ranked Internationally/Nationally in Karate(lol)
Coursework Other Than A-G:
Summer chemistry after freshman year in order to take AP Chemistry as sophomore
Courseload: Most rigorous possible with my schedule with the exception of Choir, which was taken all four years.

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):

(Key Club) District Bulletin Editor and Newsletter. 2 Year
Volunteer at local hospital 4 hrs/week. (Train and mentor new volunteers coming into program) 2 Year
(Teach karate classes at Boys and Girls Club and local dojo 6 Hrs/week.) 3 Years
National honor Society (Secretary) 2 Year
Senate (Basically helps student government) 2 Year
Track and field 1 year.
(Make a Difference) Activities Commisioner and Treasurer. 3 years.
(Choir board) 2 years. Librarian and Historian
Choir, Chamber Choir 1 year
Assistant in Middle School Singers/Choir Program
Nationally ranked athlete in Karate
USNCO Exam, did not qualify for top 150. Selected as one of top 2 AP Chemistry students in the school to take the test.
Received Mathematics Coronet Award in nominee as a Junior. (Top 30 students in given subject in school)

Essays/Recs
Felt my common app essay was strong. Wrote about Karate and it’s impact on my character. Counselor had no suggestions and said it was one of the best she had seen. Also used for one UC prompt.
School report/Counselor Rec: Absolutely no idea. Did not talk to her until senior year and she writes for all seniors.
Teacher Rec English 9/10. Strong relationship with teacher
Teacher Rec Biology. 8/10 Similar to English, but not as strong

Other

State (if domestic applicant): California
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type: Large, Public. 4000 Students
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: <$25,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

Weak points are probably scattered and sub-par extracirriculars, along with downward trend in GPA during senior year.