God, how I hate chance threads. Like you know. However, *chance me* I'd appreciate it

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>harvard, tufts, brown, yale, columbia, swarthmore, nyu, georgetown (buisiness or sfs), cooper union, UVA, princeton? etc.</p>

<p>maybe stanford, dartmouth, northwestern</p>

<p>Major: environmental engineering / economics</p>

<p>ethnicity: caucasian (sigh)
Rank 1/280 (****, I hope this doesn't drop)
5 aps taken (5,5,5,5,4) 5+ more this year
35 act (33 writing) took 1 time
2320 sat (740m 780v 800w) took 1 time
222 psat</p>

<p>SAT 2s (not my favorite)
670 bio (8th grade)
710 chem (10th grade, i know, i suck)
760 world history (the only one I was happy about)
750 physics (i know, i suck)
770 math IIc (yeah, i really suck)</p>

<p>E.C.s
Everything, which works against me. I have no hook. Accomplished saxaphonist (jazz band, all county, etc). Varsity Athlete (but no captain). Co-Founded a now defunct club (but they don't have to know that)
Member of like every club in my school (I know, I am an idiot) and the best I do? Public relations officer in environmental club & key club.</p>

<p>Spent last summer taking whale biology course (A) at local college + volunteering with whale society thing (plus for environment?)</p>

<p>Spent this summer at National Lab in a research program and doing research at home (intel might be a stretch, though) but its environment related (plus?)</p>

<p>Did extensive political grassroots campaigning last fall. (the guy, who lost, was class prez at columbia + attended harvard... plus if rec aquired?)</p>

<p>But, still, it all feels like a reach because I have nooo hook or anything. But, whatever, chance me. Thanks!</p>

<p>oh, and should i retake sat 2s (i could up the math, maybe retake a science or something)</p>

<p>oh, and i think my teachers like me so good recs and a good essay (2nd place national lab science essay competition to add on)</p>

<p>this feels kind of trivial, putting my entire academic career on the internet for everybody to look over and chastise.</p>

<p>but what the hell.</p>

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<p>you rule, man.</p>

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<p>oh, and if you tell me to retake sat2s i probably wont because i really really dont like taking important tests that you study for. too stressful.</p>

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<p>dude. ur way too cool to chance.</p>

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<p>So how about you just go ahead and apply?</p>

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<p>Whale biology?</p>

<p>I like how you seem gloomy yet satisfied.
Great chances. I'd say rejected at 6, accepted at 7, waitlisted at 2. What's to complain?</p>

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<p>yeah, i will just apply and do my best, however, i kind of had to do this for whatever reason (obsessive compulsive?)</p>

<p>p.s. i like tetris too. blame it for my low sat2 scores ;)</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>am i too stereotypical (white valedic from suburban ny) to get into hyps?</p>

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<p>
[quote]
am i too stereotypical (white valedic from suburban ny)

[/quote]

yay same here lol</p>

<p>good chances, retake your II's :p</p>

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<p>you scare me. seriously.</p>

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<p>oh, and i'm a big James Brown / Thriller (but not MJ's other stuff or his personal life) fan. will my love of african american hip hop help me display my breadth of cultural knowledge?</p>

<p>i also like kanye. Kanye > fitty any day</p>

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<p>i am going to keep BUMPING this until somebody tells me i am a shoe-in at all of these places, and that i'd might as well apply for a rhodes scholarship now.</p>

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<p>does bumping my own thread even work?</p>

<p>bump</p>

<p>lol, i just learned what bumping is and i am abusing its power (if there is one)</p>

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<p>I don't mean what I said earlier. You're a shoe-in at all of them.</p>

<p>But expect a few possible rejections, cuz that's just how they are.</p>

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<p>Just one thing- that phrase is "shoo-in", not shoe-in.</p>

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<p>it doesn't matter how you spell it. thanks. now i'll stop bumping it or whatever.</p>

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<p>Sorry. I have failed you. I will now jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and regret I jumped off. Good bye.</p>

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<p>I was pretty smart to have jumped with a parachute. Anyways, I'm back and, yes, I guess I'm helping you bump this. Thank me.</p>

<p>Now you can also judge me at <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=386538%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=386538&lt;/a>. Thanks for making me look very very bad.</p>

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<p>Just for a little results thing, even though this thread is way dead... maybe people like to see results, i dont know...</p>

<p>accepted:
Columbia (likely letter, honors program)
Dartmouth
UVA
Cornell
Brown
Cooper Union
Tufts
MIT
Princeton (probably will matriculate here)</p>

<p>W/L:
Harvard</p>

<p>Rejected:
Yale</p>

<p>pretty good... :-D</p>

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<p>god. your stats are competitive but you can never know without essays and recs, so really we are not qualified to tell you if you can get in or not.</p>