Eh, why not.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm not one to care much about the chance threads, but the urge is irresistible. Some outside opinions never hurt. Chances are for (in order of preference) Cornell CoE, Princeton, UT Austin, MIT, Duke (Pratt), and Vanderbilt.</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>State: TX
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Hispanic
GPA: 4.0 UW 4.6 W
Rank: 34/900 (top 4%)
School type: Moderately competitive public school</p>

<p>Test Scores:</p>

<p>SAT: 2320 (800 M, 790 R, 730 W)
PSAT: 205 (commended)
SATII: yet to be taken
APs:
~Statistics (5)
~APUSH (4)
~English Language (5)
~Calc BC (next year)
~Physics C (next year)
~Macroeconomics (next year)
~Gov't (next year)</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>ECs:
~Mu Alpha Theta (9)
~Varsity (lol) Choir (10-12)
~NHS (11-12)
~Cross Country and Track* (9-12)</p>

<p>*Our cross country team wrecks. State champs 4 years in a row, top 5 nationally 3 years in a row. So it's not your run-of-the-mill varsity sport.</p>

<p>Awards:
~District and Regional awards for choir
~Some insignificant team awards for JV cross and track
~National Merit Commended
~National Hispanic Recognition Program</p>

<p>Work and Volunteering:
~Reconstruction of a school in Honduras (~10 hours)
~About 100 hours working at a track camp over the summer
~Summer job '09, 30 hours a week for about two months</p>

<p>Essays: Better than yours.
Recs: I had simultaneous and passionate affairs with my English and Physics teachers, so they will be glowing.
Hooks: URM, recruited athlete (MIT only)</p>

<p>Do your worst. Let me know if I'm missing anything. Inb4 "Ivies are reaches for everybody".</p>

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<p>This post is not intended to bump this thread from the second page back to the first page so more people will see it.</p>

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<p>And neither is this one.</p>

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<p>I’m gonna try this one more time, then I quit.</p>

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<p>grade inflation much?</p>

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<p>No, 5+ GPA system. Valedictorian has a ~5.1 GPA.</p>

<p>Thanks for necroing my thread :/</p>

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<p>what how do you have a 5.0+ system? I’d just like to know haha :D</p>

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<p>Level courses are worth 4.0, honors/Pre-AP courses are worth 5.0, AP/Dual Credit classes are worth 6.0. </p>

<p>With the exception of AP World History and in rare cases AP Statistics, no APs are offered until junior year, and the majority of them have prerequisite courses. A lot of our graduation requirements (fine arts, P.E., foreign language, technology, health, communications) are unweighted 4.0 classes.</p>

<p>For whatever it’s worth, we won state this year :D.</p>