<p>I'm pretty nervous about my chances, especially at a school like Duke, and I would really appreciate if you guys would chance me. Please be as critical and honest as you see fit!</p>
<p>Trinity College of Arts & Sciences</p>
<p>Northern Virginia, Male, White </p>
<p>SAT: Math 800 Writing 720 Reading 740
SAT II: Spanish 760 Math I 740 Math II 720</p>
<p>GPA: 3.976 weighted before senior year- grades have steadily improved each year-I got straight A's last year with IB Diploma classes</p>
<p>School doesn't rank!</p>
<p>Senior Schedule:
IB Biology SL
IB English HL II
IB Social Anthropology
IB Spanish HL II
Global Marketing
IB Math SL II
IB Topics HL</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Spanish Honor Society- President Senior Year, VP Junior Year
Treasurer of Key Club (Community Service Club)
DECA-marketing organization, placed 7th at International Competition last year with green marketing project, which we presented this year to several Congressmen on Capitol Hill
Project Director of my school's 2009 DECA community service project- we are helping soldiers with mental health issues
Member of the Board of Trustees at my church
IB Student Advisory Board Junior Year
Event Coordinator of Young Democrats
Math, English, Spanish, National Honor Societies</p>
<p>Recommendations:
IB English Teacher who is also IB Coordinator at my school
IB Spanish Teacher who recommended me for state Governor's School for Spanish
My counselor loves me :)</p>
<p>I said I would like to major in Spanish/Linguistics on my application</p>
<p>Interview went pretty well but I am not sure if the interviewer liked me? Haha</p>
<p>Let me know if there is anything else you would like to know that I left out- I'd really appreciate this-thanks so much!</p>
<p>Thanks so much TheFutureIsHere! Unfortunately my friend at school who applied early decision got rejected, and he is basically a genius, which definitely made me more nervous about my own chances. </p>
<p>Any other opinions would still be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>While I know Duke and any other college would deny it, I would be surprised if they were not using advanced mathematical formulae/game theory or likemodels in part to determine the percentages of the top students and the profile of the ones that they anticipate enrolling. For a very flawed example, the top .5 percentage of SAT exams comes in at 5-7,000.00 students. Any top tier school wanting the top students. Duke as a top tier school gets a lot of overlap with top kids from the Ivies and Stanford, U Chicago etc., so out of 20,000 apps there is an overlap of just 2-3,000.00. That group of ultra compettititve kids Likely all has decent EC and grades. You see the problem- if they go just by SAT then Duke and other top schools run the risk of not dfilling their admit quotas. I know that admissions say this is never done and that each application is consiered on its own merits which is true. But when mathematical and statistical probabilities evaluations for which group of top students is likely to attend makes sense too. I don't have any other explanation as to why some kids who on paper are obviously top ids don't get into some top tier schools. The schools themselves can say "Fit" or essays, but something else is likely also going on in the admissions process as it pertains to the strongest students. If for example a HS has a strong relationship with Harvard or Princeton and the student applies- I would suspect that they woudl be likely to go elsewhere unless they showed a strong preferene to Duke.</p>
<p>I wouldn't be shocked if you didn't get in but I think your chances are really good. (>50%)
If you had a 1600 instead of a 1540, your chances would have been 100%.</p>
<p>Nothing's 100%, Mondo. I know a lot of people who had 1600s on their SATs and were rejected. SAT scores make up only a fraction of the admissions decision. GPA and a rigorous courseload are more heavily weighted, at least at Duke (it's on their website).
I think you have a great chance of acceptance, but it's not a done deal for any of us till we get that fat envelope :)
PS- what does your school weight gpas out of? My school is a 5.5...</p>
<p>Thanks for all the input! (no need to apologize, gangsturr haha). Flipngymnast, my school's GPA is out of 4.0, and IB classes only receive a 0.5 weight. Ps summerismylover that was a hilarious comment!</p>
<p>Also, if it makes you feel better, my older sister goes to Duke. She got in with slightly lower SATs but very similar grades. Also in the IB Program. Once again, good luck dearie.</p>
<p>Just curious, are your stats better than the person that got rejected ED...i'd be shocked to see someone like you get rejected ED...i'd also be suprised to see you get rejected in the RD round as you seem very qualified...i personally say your in</p>
<p>that's so kind of you srsx3! schoolsearching, where can i find this thread? it would definitely be interesting to compare. good luck to everyone!</p>