Duke RD- Worth a shot?

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<p>Schools applied to:
Early Decision/Action Schools: None **
*Regular Decision Schools:
UCLA
UC Berkeley (Social Work)
Amherst
Cornell (CAS)
Columbia (CC)
Northwestern (Weinberg)
Harvard
University of Chicago
UPenn (CAS)
Yale
Princeton
Duke (Trinity)
Dartmouth
Johns Hopkins University
Washington University at St. Louis
Williams
*
**Rolling Schools:
Michigan at Ann Arbor
Demographics:
[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): International
[<em>] School Type: Admissions-based prep school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Yellow
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Did you apply for financial aid? No
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None, really[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Academic Profile:</p>

<p>Standardized Tests
[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (Please List Breakdown) 2390
[</em>] ACT (Please List Breakdown)
[<em>] SAT II: 790 790
[</em>] AP Scores: 5544
[/ul]</p>

<p>Courseload and Transcript
[ul]
[<em>] Weighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86/4.0+ (school only does W GPA)
[</em>] Briefly describe any upward/downward trends: None
[<em>] Freshman year courses (only list honors/AP) 11 courses (No APs allowed)
[</em>] Sophomore year courses (only list honors/AP) 12 courses (No APs allowed)
[<em>] Junior year courses (only list honors/AP) 5
[</em>] Senior year courses (only list honors/AP) 8
[li] Rank: Top 5% (School does not give exact rank. On Common App, as top 10%)[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Awards and honors
[ul]
[<em>] Major Awards: Won an international economics award
[</em>] School Awards: Various Leadership Awards
[li] Other Awards: Math Olympiad, National Honor Society Induction[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Calculate your academic index:
Academic</a> Index3 - College Confidential</p>

<p>Your Academic Index: 224
AI Rank * : 7 out of 9 </p>

<p>Subjective factors:
*Extracurricular Pursuits:<a href="also%20list:%20number%20of%20years/%20leadership%20positions/%20achievements">/i</a>
[ul]
[<em>]1. Student Body President
[</em>]2. School Ambassador
[<em>]3. FBLA President
[</em>]4. Student-teacher of an AP class
[<em>]5. Founder of a humanitarian organization and president
[</em>]6. School Model United Nations Director+ President of the General Assembly+ Secretary General+ Founder of a Conference
[/ul]
*Job/Work Experience:<a href="also%20list:%20number%20of%20years%20and%20achievements">/i</a>
[ul]
[<em>]1. Tutoring
[</em>]2.
[li]3.[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>*Volunteer/Community service:<a href="also%20list:%20number%20of%20years%20and%20achievements">/i</a>
[ul]
[<em>]1. Regular volunteer at a welfare center
[</em>]2. Founder of a humanitarian organization
[li]3. Founder of a non-profit global volunteer movement[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Essays:
[ul]
[<em>]1. Common Application Essay Topic: Wrote about social welfare and my interest in the major
[</em>]2. Supplementary Essay Topic 1: Liberal Arts education
[li]3. Supplementary Essay Topic 2: Humorous essay, an interview with myself[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Recommendation Letters:
[ul]
I did not see them, but they gave me brief descriptions.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendations: One teacher called me a genius and my other teacher explained my work ethic.
[</em>] Counselor Recommendation: Counselor mentioned the difficulty of our school and how I have the single most challenging course load of the entire school community.
[li] Additional Recommendations: My principal mentioned the various leadership awards and called me a 'once-in-a-career' applicant.[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Interviews
I had a bunch. They all went well.</p>

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<p>Anyone that applies to over 10 schools (in your case 17) obviously did not do enough research on the schools they applied to. If you did your research, you would be able to weed out at least 7-8 of those schools</p>

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<p>Aside from that, i think you have a shot at duke. Your scores are above duke’s range, but your extra curriculars are lacking, and you unfortunately happen to be an ORM (yellow). We’ll see what happens when decisions come out, good luck.</p>

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<p>I completely disagree about ECs being “lacking”, and I’m wondering if Ballinallday read the same post I did.</p>

<p>GPA seems low (is 3.86 weighted?!?); only other stuff that could hold you back is the subjective (essays/recs) and being an ORM.</p>

<p>You probably have a great shot.</p>

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<p>^ He’s an ORM and an international student. While he (or she) does have a strong application, there is nothing dazzling about it. While a 3.86 GPA is pretty good for applying to top colleges, a class rank of 5% is not too spectacular. However, I must concur about his (or her) extracurricular. To me, they same scattered, and there is too much depth but enough breadth. I don’t really see any clear focus on a couple of specific activities. </p>

<p>Having said that, I think you stand a pretty good chance at Duke.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>@luther</p>

<p>From the original post, I can see nothing on what the applicant has done in their extracurricular pursuits, I only see title names. Albeit the titles are impressive, but there is definitely not enough information here about the extracurriculars to give an accurate assessment.</p>

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<p>I can’t say much about your chances (don’t know too much about international), but from your list I doubt you have much vested interest in Duke…</p>

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<p>Yeah, that is because I did not post my full stats.
Chance me again.</p>

<p>I will post my accomplishments.</p>

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<p>

I agree with you, but in reality, my ECs are extremely deep.
I haven’t posted full stats.</p>

<p>

True that. I can update, but I want to keep my private life and CC mutually exclusive.</p>

<p>

Thank you, but I LOVE DUKE.
I JUST LOVE IT.</p>