Harvard, Amherst, Penn, Stanford, Duke, Dartmouth, William and Mary, UVA

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Got deferred early from Harvard, friend told me about this site and I figure why not ask around. Thanks for any ideas on what I should send in, my chances, etc</p>

<p>SAT: 1580 (800 M / 780 V)</p>

<p>SAT2: 740 MIC, 710 MIIC, 740 Writing, 690 US Hist, 690 English</p>

<p>AP: 5 Statistics, 5 US Hist, 4 English</p>

<p>Current Classes: Honors Humanities, AP Modern Euro, Spanish 4, AP BC Calc, AP Bio, International Relations; taking hardest classes available. </p>

<p>GPA: 3.558 for soph/jr year combined, 3.783 for first quarter of senior year. </p>

<p>School: Our school leaves them weighted, and it is on a 4=A, .5 extra for
AP/Honors. So highest possible is 4.5 if you had all As in all APs. I am about 8-15 range out of 70 students in my grade, in a very competitive school. People have gotten into Dartmouth, JHU, Williams, Yale, Stanford, Duke, UVA, William and Mary, etc. </p>

<p>Extra Curricular: Dorm council (student council for boarders, elected by 40 other boarders), Varsity Squash 3 years, Basketball (AAU + School), Academic "A" Team for 3 years (One of the top teams in the nation, have won numerous scholarships and $), Science A Team 3 years, Model Organizations general committees, School Play.</p>

<p>Other activities: Stand up comedy (performed at club), Worked at Ben and Jerrys for 2 and 1/2 years, worked for rivals100.com for two years. Both paid well </p>

<p>Dad went to Harvard/Duke Med. Mom went to Brown/Harvard SOPH. I spent summer between soph/jr years at Amherst taking classes. Summer between jr/sr years at Harvard taking classes, which I got 8 credits for (received B+ in both classes). </p>

<p>Submitted extra materials from Academic team tournament (Scholarship info (have won close to $2000 or so for my school with team) and program from the night I did the standup comedy set. Essays were good, as were recs, although I didnt see them. Just assuming, I mean not like the teacher is gonna bash me. </p>

<p>Oh right, received a couple honors:
-Honor roll after sophomore year, high honors after junior year
-National Merit Commendation
-AP Scholar
-Ben Carson Nominee (8th grade so not that big deal)
-Academic team has won a crapload of stuff. </p>

<p>Located in Virginia, in same town as UVA.</p>

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<p>Your counseling office would have the best info as to where you stand for these schools, particularly UVA and W&M. If it is a private school, it should have college data for the last 4 years as to where people with your stats could get in. That is really the most relevant factor for the highly selective schools. Many only consider the top 3 in a class, unless the school is a known factor in which case there would be a track record of kids in the first quintile being accepted. Not that it is alway a rule; my son was accepted with a grades that did not make his transcript look promising for an ivy acceptance even from a known prep school. But your SAT is right where his is, rank --he is lower, and you have a heavier senior academic schedule but he has more overall APs but some 3s in there.</p>

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<p>I think you are pretty much guaranteed admission into UVA/WM.. I know other students with credentials far less than yours that have gotten in like it's nothing. But that's only from expierence with the people I know that go to those schools - I would still say very safe bet on UVA/WM though.</p>

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<p>yah, that is what the conselor said for the two. what do yal figure the chancse on the other ones are. btw, first semester gpa for senior year is about 3.7 id say, high maybe 3.9, low maybe 3.6 all weighted (only option)</p>

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<p>Also, when do those schools send out notices?</p>

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<p>April. Your SATs are very good obviously. Your SAT IIs and GPA are not so good, which is going to give these schools pause. William and Mary is a sure thing, UVA is if you are a Virginia resident, but the rest are reaches.</p>

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<p>well to respond, sat 2 scores by percentile</p>

<p>math 1 95%
math 2 61%
writing 87%
chem 73% (took after soph year, and only 1 year of reg chem)
us history 73% (AP US History class didnt teach after 1970, screwed me over!)</p>

<p>and gpa isnt great, but school is very selective, over a dozen people this year already into ivy league/top tier schools. but yah, that is the weakness. also our school doesnt inflate gpa, so my 3.78 for example first quarter this year is bascally the same thing as an A- in a regular class, or a B+ in an AP/Honors class</p>

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<p>more feedback would be appreciate, thanks if possible</p>

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<p>How is it possible you don't know when these schools send decisions. Every kid in America applying to college knows this. Is this a joke?</p>

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<p>haha, no, i just want to hear chances if possible</p>

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<p>I think the GPA for UVA is a little low... coming from nova it was basically a straight cut, 3.75+ in, lower and you're not in. They might take lower GPAs from the rest of the state though, especially if they know your school well (have people with your gpa gotten in previous years? If they have, I'd say you're in).</p>

<p>W&M should care about the extras more than UVA, I'd say you're definitely in there.</p>

<p>don't really know about the rest, heh.</p>

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<p>Well I am in charlottesville, where UVA is. And people with my gpa have gotten into uva. also my school really underinflates gpa. basically highest possible is 4.5, an A in an AP class. Highest in school is 4.2 or so i think, and our class is smartest in a while. I am 8-15 range out of 72 or so, and some seniors have already gotten into Yale, Dartmouth, Stanford, Penn, Colombia, JHU, Duke, WM, Uva, Williams, etc</p>

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<p>So anyone have ideas on chances now? Thanks</p>