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

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 / 750 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>Any other information I should give? Essays were good, recommendations were good I'd assume, as was counselor's statement. Any help appreciated muchly, thanks.</p>

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<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>

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<p>Oh, and I am located in Charlottesville, Virginia, where UVA is, and about 3 hours from William and Mary</p>

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<p>Go take classes (1-2) at a community college
take SAT II in January (deadline for reg is 20th)</p>

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<p>800+750 does not =1580.. one of the 2 is a typo but regardless, either is a great score.</p>

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<p>Responses:</p>

<p>13351 - What sort of thing do you recommend in terms of classes if any? Also, which SAT IIs should I take?</p>

<p>mhawk177 - Sorry, its a 780 V. 1580 total. Took it once before, had 800 M 720 V. Two 800 mathes, although you wouldnt know it by my counting up there would ya haha?</p>

<p>Also, anyone else have suggetions, or better yet comments? Thanks</p>

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<p>I also am a master at minesweeper, and have never lost a game of tic-tac-toe (very good at connect four too).</p>

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<p>i think your GPA is too low for schools such as Harvard and Stanfard....but then again appying there is a game of luck!</p>

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<p>well that is true, but our school doesnt inflate like so many others. might be true though. just as an example, the highest gpa at our school is like a 4.2 or something, and thats weighted.</p>

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<p>don't listen to the ******** about GPA... it matters a lot less than people on here make it out to be: as long as your other activities are fine a GPA over 3.5 will not make a dramatic impact</p>

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<p>your GPA is your only disadvantage. Ooooh... and you play squash! The Ivies love squash players.</p>

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<p>you got deferred?.....damn that's unexpected...these places are such jokes</p>

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<p>You got a 1580. I am impressed.</p>

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<p>Your GPA is too low; its relationship to your test scores tends to lead admission to believe that your smart but don't apply yourself. This belief is somewhat confirmed by your class rank. The upward trend in your gpa will help, but speaking from my experience with UVa they don't like it if your not in the top 10%. I'm assuming your at STAB now, that probably will hurt your chances at UVa because a lot of people from your class will apply. I'm sure you'll get into some of those school from your list though probably not Harvard and Stanford.</p>

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<p>well again the class is crazy competitive, but yah it is a tough school. thanks for input.</p>

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<p>I think Duke is your best bet (legacy).</p>

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<p>does medical school legacy count as much as regular?</p>

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<p>Also, does anyone know if taking the Math IC over would be advisable? 740 could probably go up 30+ points, but not sure if it would matter.</p>

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<p>Do you live in VA or do you just go to a boarding school there? If you're in-state, I think UVA will accept you. I've got a cousin who goes there, and she graduated from high school with a 3.7 GPA and a 1230 on her SATs. Her ECs weren't nearly as good as yours. Funny things do happen, though, and getting into UVA from out of state could be painful.</p>

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<p>To the person that said that a low GPA is a disadvantage due to the impression that you don't apply yourself: that's pretty much BS if you got a halfway competetive school and take mostly AP/IB classes. They would rather see a 3.7 like that than a 4.0 with only 3-4 AP's per semester.</p>

<p>Oh and just so people don't think I'm talking out of my butt, I got into one of the schools above with a 3.5</p>