For Ivies and other top schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Yep, another chance thread.</p>

<p>I'm specifically interested in the big three, Columbia, UChicago, Georgetown, UPenn, UVirginia, and Emory. Feel Free to recommend any other schools you feel are strong in PoliSci/Government. </p>

<p>White Male
Kansas</p>

<p>Stats</p>

<p>GPA 4.68 Weighted (where "honors" classes get 5.0)
3.9 Unweighted
All A's except first semester freshman English, and fall semester of Calculus BC.
(I did precalc during the summer before my freshman year so i could skip ahead into BC. I received A's for that course from the University of Missouri: Columbia.)
I took Latin I extracurricularly (is that a word?) my sophomore year because it wouldn't fit into my schedule.
Given my blocks being filled with Band and debate all four years, I have otherwise maxed out all possible departments from my school with the exception of a couple science IIs. (Bio and physics)</p>

<p>Rank: 12 out of ~450
but that should go up after this last semester of all A's. There is no way for me to check over the summer.</p>

<p>ACT: 35
SAT: 2180, 770m, 740cr, 680w
i plan on retaking the SAT, and i still need to take SAT IIs (gah i'm behind on that!)
PSAT 219 (hopefully NMF)</p>

<p>Extra Curricular:</p>

<p>Band 4 years - Marching Band drum major for 2 years. Top Jazz band senior year. Lettered for last two years.
Debate/forensics - Competed on the Varsity level for sophomore and junior year. 8th at state.
Went to NFL nationals in student Congress.
Member of National Honor society
Founding President of Kansas Young Democrats.
Participated in Boys' State of Kansas. Qualified to be one of 98 to meet at Boys' Nation in D.C. later this summer. Bill Clinton went to Boys' Nation and met (then) President Kennedy. fun stuff
Started an elementary Debate club program.
Will be active volunteering for campaigns this fall.
200+ volunteer hours working at a hospital. received Presidential Service Award.
No sports, unless you count debate.
I am working at a law firm for a paid internship this summer for a few weeks. Besides that, no work experience.</p>

<p>"Hook":</p>

<p>I love politics. Most of my time is spent reading news/books. Because of this, i can expect excellent rec letters from government and history teachers. I want to major in Poli Sci. </p>

<p>Also, I am fairly liberal, Kansas is not. I plan on doing some pretty cool event type things early this fall for the election. A friend and I are also considering starting an Atheist organization. However, we feel this could compromise our rec letters from some teachers. Thoughts on this?</p>

<p>I feel like my interview will be very good. Thanks to debate (yay pretty speaking!), and my passion for what i want to study.</p>

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<p>wow you did better on your PSATs than your SATs</p>

<p>what happened?</p>

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<p>how did you do on your APs and how many did you take?</p>

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<p>haha. I was taking that one as a baseline score. I happened to not have any testing dates available for the rest of the spring. I want to retake the SAT and ACT (with writing this time) this fall, along with SAT IIs (Math of some sort and US history.)</p>

<p>Euro History - 4
US History - 5
Calc BC - 5</p>

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<p>your act is solid!</p>

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<p>bumpity bump</p>

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<p>Honestly, the only thing that any college can hold against you is your class rank and possibly the competitiveness of your high-school. But taking your EC's and ACT score into consideration, you seem like an outstanding candidate.</p>

<p>HPY--reach but a better shot than the average applicant (40-50%)
Columbia--slight reach
All the others seem to be matches</p>

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<p>check out the senate youth program.
you'll have to apply NOW.</p>

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<p>his class rank? His class rank is perfect. </p>

<p>You're application is ideal, in terms of nearly everything (under-represented state, ecs, academics)</p>

<p>Strongest possible chances @ all schools. Congrats on kicking butt in life.</p>

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<p>Yeah I agree. You're a really strong applicant for every school in the country.</p>

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<p>Can you tell me a little bit about the Senate Youth Program? After a google search i have failed to find an application or web page, but I'm sure i'll find it in a bit.</p>

<p>And thanks for the input.</p>

<p>EDIT:</p>

<p>The Senate Youth program requires that I be in an elected or appointed position in my school or another educational organization. I do not meet that requirement. So.. that sucks.</p>