Harvard

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a junior now so some of the following grades and what not are projected.</p>

<p>English:
Pre-AP English I
Pre-AP English II
AP Language
AP Literature</p>

<p>Math:
Algebra I Honors
Geometry Honors
Algebra II Honors
Precalculus
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC</p>

<p>Science:
Biology Honors
Chemistry Honors
Physics Honors
AP Chemistry
AP Biology</p>

<p>Social Studies:
World History Honors
AP U.S. History
AP U.S. Government
AP Psychology
AP Macroeconomics</p>

<p>Foreign Language:
Latin I
Latin II
Spanish I
Spanish II
Spanish III
Spanish IV
AP Spanish Language
AP Spanish Literature</p>

<p>*12 APs in all, the rest are all honors</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 unweighted (I don't know what my weighted is, and yes, I know there's a formula.)</p>

<p>PSAT: 207 (hopefully commended scholar or semifinalist)</p>

<p>SAT: 2210 (800 Reading, 650 Math, 760 Writing)
I'm taking it again though, and I'm aiming for 2300.</p>

<p>SAT II:
U.S. History 800
I'm taking chemistry, math II, and Spanish in June (aiming for 700s or above)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
9 nines of violin, some viola
all 4 years in school orchestra
concertmaster in school orchestra
All County for all 4 years
One year of youth orchestra
Perfect score on Latin I National Latin Exam
Missed one on Latin II National Latin Exam (painful...)
First place in grammar for the FL virtual school Latin forum
Spanish Club all 4 years
Perfect score at the Florida State Spanish Conference (I'm white btw, and I live in Florida.)
NHS
Student Government (I'll be running for an office, not sure which one though)</p>

<p>Volunteer/Work Experience:
Spent a year volunteering in my school library
Hospital volunteering over this summer
paid tutor at an actual company</p>

<p>Special notes:
My school doesn't allow students to take AP as freshmen, only one as a sophomore
I'm you're typical WASP male...no minority advantage there</p>

<p>Okay thank you so much! Any chances for any or all of the following schools would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>Brown
Columbia
Dartmouth
Duke
Princeton
University of Pennsylvania
Yale</p>

<p>Thanks again! Oh, and in case you're wondering, I titled this Harvard to get your attention muahaha.</p>

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<p>SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE? Most of the other chances have at least one comment. Le sigh.</p>

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<p>Harvard is at a 6% acceptance rate.
Yale, Brown and Princeton are slightly less selective at like 8-9% acceptance.
Columbia is at a 10% acceptance rate.
Dartmouth and U of P have a 12% acceptance.
& Duke has a 14% acceptance. </p>

<p>You have amazing grades, ECs, and test scores. I think you’ll be accepted at at least 1 of them (except Harvard, I think that’s a reach). But you should apply to a safety school or two because those schools are the hardest to get into. Thousands of kids with 4.0s apply to those schools, and most get rejected. </p>

<p>Where do you live? Needing financial aid + being out of state might reduce your chances for some of them. </p>

<p>This is all just from research. I hope I helped!</p>

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<p>Your grades and workload are outstanding in my opinion. Try to work on your e.c’s a little in the concentration of what you would like to study. That will go very far. Harvard might be a little bit of a stretch but I definitely think you will get into a few of the schools. Best of luck!</p>

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<p>I don’t see a hook. You’re probably in the top 25% of the applicant pool (assuming you can get a 2250+SAT) The problem lies in that there’s still 10K applications just as good as yours. Anyway find the hook. Maybe it’s your language awards (Although it’s hard to get excited about a dead language)</p>

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<p>Thank you three! You all were very helpful and gave me excellent advice that I will most definitely employ. Also, I just titled it Harvard to try to get people’s attention; I don’t actually want to go there^^</p>

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<p>please chance me?!? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1482055-chances-hyp.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1482055-chances-hyp.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>you have a great gpa and scores! and you have very varied ECs</p>

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<p>Just chanced you, diddly123!</p>

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<p>haha good idea changing it to Harvard. Please chance me back as well…</p>

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<p>erosemorin, your data is inaccurate. </p>

<p>Harvard’s acceptance rate is 5.7%
Yale is at 6.72%
Princeton is 7.29%
Columbia is 6.9%
Brown is 9.2%
Dartmouth is 10%
Duke is 11.48%
Penn is 12.3%</p>

<p>Please verify your data before you post in the future. Inaccurate data can be very misleading.</p>