Guru Will Chance You for Top Tier Schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Stanford(SCEA), Princeton, UPenn, Duke, Cornell, Dartmouth
Math/Operations Research Major, Journalism/Communications Minor</p>

<p>Standardized Tests:
ACT: 35 Composite (35 English, 36 Math, 32 Reading, 35 Science, 10 Writing)
SATIIs: 780 Math II, 770 US History
AP: 5 US History, 4 Biology</p>

<p>School:
Tippy-top private school in Atlanta, GA
4.3 weighted GPA with sharp upward trend
Senior Courses: AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C, AP Computer Science AB, AP English Literature, AP Statistics, Yearbook</p>

<p>Math:
Princeton’s Summer Workshop In Mathematics (for women)
UPenn’s Management & Technology Summer Institute
Varsity Math Team
Peer Tutor
Mu Alpha Theta Honors Society
Nominated for GA Gov Honors Program</p>

<p>Journalism:
Yearbook- Editor-in-Chief, Copy Editor
Intern at an online news network
Intern/Editor at a magazine last summer and wrote several articles
Contributing poet to three literary journals
Editor for school’s literary magazine
Young Democrats Club- founding Member
Model UN</p>

<p>Other:
Varsity Swimming- 2 letters, most improved
Executive Service Leader of school
Service Leader of Project
Sustainability Committee- Founding Member
Student Tour Guide</p>

<p>And looking to do research at GA Tech/Emory in the fall.</p>

<p>Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>melissa,</p>

<p>things to do: get some more legit community service, try and get a little bit more leadership stuff ie swim captain or math team captain</p>

<p>otherwise courses scores and ec range are solid, especially the academic internships </p>

<p>I’d give you 40-60% chances at duke cornell and upenn
40-50% at dartmouth
im assuming that upwards trend means a bad frosh year which Pton will overlook so 20-30%
and because you’re OOS, stanford will be 20-30% as well</p>

<p>but who knows, mathy girls are hard to come by, i think you will be pleasantly surprised</p>

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<p>Since Stanford is a private school, does it really matter whether I’m in-state or not?</p>

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<p>37% of the people at Stanford are from California, hence it helps a lot</p>

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<p>I. Basic Information

  • White Male from New York
  • Rising Senior
  • Will be applying for Fin Aid w/ income over $150000</p>

<p>II. GPA/Test Score Information

  • 94 UW GPA / 97 W GPA [not sure out of 4.0, but only have one B+ on transcript]
  • 34 on the ACT [35 Science, 34 English, 33 Math, 33 Reading]
  • 710 on Math II
  • 710 on United States History</p>

<p>III. In School Extracurriculars
Future Educators of America: Executive Board Member [11,12]
Spanish Club
Mock Trial: Vice President [10]
European Challenge: President [10]
Environmental Club: Treasurer [11] and Vice President [12]
Teen Animal Protectors: Treasurer [10], Vice President [11] and President [12]
Key Club
Philosophy Club: Publicist [11]
Junior Varsity Tennis: Captain [10] and Sportsmanship Winner [10]
Varsity Tennis </p>

<p>IV. Community Service
Animal Groomer (100 hrs/year)
Homework Helper (60 hours/year)
Youth Educator (50 hours/year)
Youth Games Coordinator (50 hours/year)
Road Cleanup Manager (50 hours/year)
School Recycling Cofounder (80 hours/year)
Think Acupuncture Volunteer (5 hours/week)
Mendelsohn Neurology Volunteer (5 hours/week)
Inspire Physical Therapy Volunteer (5 hours/week)</p>

<p>V. Awards/Honors:
National Merit Commended Scholar (11)
National Honor Society (11,12)
National Spanish Exam Bronze Medalist (9)
Half Hollow Hills High Honor Roll (9,10,11,12)
National Spanish Honor Society (10,11,12)
AP Scholar with Honor (11)
European Challenge Participant (10)
AP United States Student of the Month (February) (11)</p>

<p>VI. Colleges Being Considered: [I’ll give you only five of them] :

  • Princeton
  • Brown
  • Dartmouth
  • Brandeis
  • Middlebury
  • University of Rochester
  • SUNY @ Geneseo</p>
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<p>My GPA is 4.0/4.3
Class Rank 14/366
I take AP Lang and Comp, AP Calc AB, AP Physics, and AP Euro. I’m thinking I have fives on all except Euro. As a senior I’m taking AP Lit and Comp, AP Spanish, AP US History, AP Stat, AP Bio, AP Chem, and self-study AP Calc BC.
SAT superscore is W-800, CR-750, M-790
Got a 33/36 on ACT, retaking in fall
Taking SAT II Physics and Math II, what third one should I take?
My transcript is A’s, few A-'s, some A+'s in physics.</p>

<p>So far my extracurriculars are</p>

<p>Science Olympiad team (nationally ranked)
Managing editor of school newspaper
President of school’s Interact/Eco Club
Member of Literary Magazine
President of National Honor Society
Vice President of Mu Alpha Theta</p>

<p>I’ve done some volunteering, around 100 hours, at the hospital.</p>

<p>I took part in the UPENN PSSI last summer.
This summer I’m doing a Drexel Engineering mentorship</p>

<p>The problem is, I think there are many people out there with stats like these. I was thinking of safe schools like Penn State, Drexel, and University of Michigan, middle schools like Johns Hopkins and Northwestern, and reach schools like Stanford, Princeton, and UPENN, considering ED at UPENN. How does it look?</p>

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<p>team frangela:

  • try and get your act to 35-36 so you can at least be top 25% at any of those schools
  • take one more subject test that you can get 750+ and retake math 2, most people applying to those schools will have 800s on math 2</p>

<p>with that, you should be in at rochester, suny, and brandeis, and then progressively more reaching from midd to dartmouth to brown to princeton</p>

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<p>Gender: Male
Background: Japanese (Asian lol)
Location: Texas
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Good Public
High School Type: very competitive
Income : had hard time w/ this one… Around 120,000 annually, dont want to come around/sound arrogant but im not too sure which “class” this would be in to be honest</p>

<p>Academics:GPA - Weighted: 104 (My school does it weird…)
Class Rank: 10/560</p>

<p>Senior Class Schedule:
Calculus BC AP
US Gov’t AP
Economics AP
English Lit AP
Statistics AP
Spainish 4 honors</p>

<p>Scores:SAT: 2040SAT I
Math: 720 SAT I
Critical Reading: 620
SAT I Writing: 700</p>

<p>SAT II U.S. History:710
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 700
SAT II Japanese: 800</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:-
key club (9,10,11,12)
-School Soccer (9,10,11,12)
-Cross Country (10,11,12)
-UNHS/NHS (9,10,11,12)
-Spainish Honor Society (10)</p>

<p>Leadership:
-Sophomore Class Officer</p>

<p>Community Service
Basically none</p>

<p>Awards-All Academic Team for soccer
-Geography nav.</p>

<p>Hooks:- Ive been going to Korea every summer since the 3rd grade and have been enrolling in schools over there as a “foreign exchange student” while going to a elementary, middle, and high school in a diff. Country every summer.</p>

<p>Internship/Work Experience

  • Did internship at IBM concerning international rights and uses.
  • Did internship at yahoo concerning advertisement.
  • Have worked as a soccer referee for 3 years.</p>

<p>Recs:
-One from my Spanish teacher, that should be really good
-One from my History teacher that should also be good because I was able to right a pretty convincing letter of why i choose her to do mine.
-Counselor recommendation should also be very good as our family are very close and get together often outside of school.</p>

<p>Cons: Been to the principle’s office mutliple times in high school (around 7 times from various things such as fights/ordering 100 boxes of pizza to the school and such but max punishment was detention for 2 days)… I know my test scores aren’t great, but hopefully other areas of my application will make up for it.</p>

<p>Colleges planning to apply</p>

<p>University of Texas
Rice
UPenn
Dartmouth (legacy, not sure if that helps)
Texas A&M (legacy, parent is former faculty)
Yale (legacy also…My dad is a teacher so he needed a PHD, hence all the colleges)
Stanford
Berkley
Brown
Northwestern</p>

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<p>biggie:

  • for your third sat 2, i would recommend lit (as youve taken lang, its basically the AP test but with more poetry and no essays), or spanish language with listening
  • i would go for some inspired and well written academic essays, rather than an experienced based one
    -penn, drexel and umich should all be ins
  • JHU is just on the cusp of being a reach for you, but i think you can get in
    -upenn i think you could get in ED, but the real question is are you willing to gamble with the possibility of no financial aid
  • stanford and princeton probably wont happen, id give them >10%</p>
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<p>ok i just finished my junior year </p>

<p>i take aps and honors
i have a 101 weighted gpa prolly top 20 out of 730 students
involved in 2 sports for past 3 years going to continue in them senior year big on sports
band 2 years
really good activities and clubs basically alot key club etc all that
myb going to volunteer at a hospital to see what i like</p>

<p>my sat was </p>

<p>math 700
reading 520 bad i know
writing 540 bad … but who cares about writing</p>

<p>homestate new jersey</p>

<p>i want to major with something to do with math or health</p>

<p>schools</p>

<p>university of pittsburg
university of maryland
rutgers
villanova
UNC chapel hill (??? some1 here said got in with 1750 out of state) ill prolly apply to nursing being a male hopefully it will give me a chance
Providence
Wake Forest
Boston university maybe will apply</p>

<p>i heard some schools you dont have to submit sat scores whats this?? (such as wake and providence) if so should i submit them anyway because it looks sketchy
chances??? </p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>quequeque:

  • as long as you don’t have a criminal record, the fights were a long time ago, and everything else was pranks, the punitive stuff shouldnt be too big of a deal
  • retake the sats, judging by your subject tests youre good at test taking, i think with one more go you could get over 2100 which will help a lot
  • community service isnt really optional, find a club, soup kitche, or other program that suits you
  • go for captain in one of your sports and president/vp of at least one of your clubs</p>

<p>University of Texas - IN
Rice - Match/low reach
UPenn - Reach
Dartmouth (legacy, not sure if that helps) - Low Reach/Reach
Texas A&M (legacy, parent is former faculty)- Match/IN
Yale - Reach
Stanford- High Reach
Berkley- Low Reach
Brown- High Reach
Northwestern- Reach</p>

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<p>king:

  • unless you get them higher, don’t submit the SATs if you don’t have to
  • for now, throw all your weight behind getting your scores above 2000, and youll have really good chances at just about all of the schools on that list
  • write kickass essays about what inspires you to want to be a nurse, maybe discuss stereotypes
  • it sounds like you’re set for gpa/ecs/ everything else</p>

<p>IF you can get your SATs above 2000, which I think you can, I’d say all of them are matches, save UNC and BU as low reaches</p>

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<p>GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.3ish weighted
SAT Reading: 740 Math: 680 Writing: 710
SAT II: Chemistry: 740 Literature: 760
APs: Chem, Psych, and Lang in Junior year. idk what I got on the tests yet but I’ve gotten As all year in all so I honestly expect 5s… and next year I’m taking Music Theory and Calculus</p>

<p>ECs:

  1. Playing guitar for 5 years, composing, recording, producing music
  2. Over 200 hrs volunteering at Hospital (ER and transportation) sophomore and junior year
  3. National Honors Society (I’m gonna try and be an Officer but I’m not yet) Senior year
  4. Chemistry Honors Society Junior year
  5. Jazz Band senior year
  6. Marching Band senior year
  7. Black belt in Chito-Ryu</p>

<p>I’m white, middle class, and from public school. I was a semi-finalist in National Merit I think. I’m gonna submit a performance and composition of music for Duke’s Artistic Supplement, I’m applying Early Decision for Duke, gonna try to raise my math score (I only have one more shot-the Oct 09 SAT, you think that’ll definitely help?), and my grandfather went to Duke but never graduated because he was in the service and they had to send him away. Does that make me a legacy, or at least help at all lol?
Anyway, please chance me for Duke, Boston University, and University of Florida! :)</p>

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<p>@Moxess - Awesome, I’ve been doing nearly the same thing for guitar too.</p>

<p>@everyone - Would it be a good idea for me (and Moxess) to put playing/composing/recording guitar on the EC list for applications, if we’re really passionate about it?</p>

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<p>I’m definitely putting it because if you’ve done it for long enough and can really show what you’ve done with it (a la duke’s artistic supplement), then it becomes a big enough deal because it shows your commitment and passion.</p>

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<p>Artistic supplement? Nice. I don’t plan on submitting one, but I think I will end up putting it on my EC list.</p>

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<p>yeah its just like piano but no recitals or any crap like that. ifyou guys are confident enough then try a recording</p>

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<p>moxxes:

  • i think legacy/first generation and stuff like that are based on graduation, so if your grandpa did not return to duke then i dont think you count as legacy, at least not any more than a transfer student would be at their old school
  • if you do find yourself inspired by your grandfather/his service and feel like writing your essay about him, that would be your opportunity to milk any advantage from his tenure at duke
  • you need a few leadership positions so when club elections start up next year sign yourself up</p>

<p>IF/WHEN you get your SAT above 2200, i would give you 40% chance at duke, and in at BU and UFlorida</p>

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<p>Well, two problems: my type of music isn’t very appealing to most people, and the recordings aren’t very good anyway. I think I would be better off just writing about it.</p>

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<p>Thank you!</p>