Holy nerferters, Batman!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>...Yet another "what are my chances?" post. I'm new to the forum, would like to say first of all how impressed I am with everything here. I had no idea about CC and found it the other day and have just been reading thread after thread and taking everything in.</p>

<p>Okay, here goes...</p>

<p>STATS/AWARDS</p>

<ul>
<li>just completed my junior year</li>
<li>ranked #1 (out of a class of 475) </li>
<li>ACT: 34 (retaking)</li>
<li>waiting for SAT results</li>
<li>National Merit commendation (awaiting if I'll be an actual "scholar)</li>
<li>4.0 unweighted GPA, 4.7 (approx) weighted GPA</li>
<li>I'm an under-represented minority (half black, half white)</li>
<li>AP Scholar (Physics B: 5, Calculus BC: 5, Language/Composition: 5), waiting to hear scores on AP US History, Lit/Comp, and Psychology</li>
<li>next year will take AP Biology, AP Art History, AP Comp. Sci., possibly AP Euro. History</li>
<li>Independent study classes: Honors Spanish (‘05), Playwriting (‘06-’07), self-designed Honors English with concentrations in philosophy and film studies (‘06-’07)</li>
<li>2005 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for Short Story, Poetry (also American Voices Award for Poetry)</li>
<li>High School Academic Awards: Math (3), Science (2), English (1), PE (1), high honors (3)</li>
<li>Sue Roser Science Department Outstanding Freshman</li>
<li>State Senate of the Colorado Legislature commendation (‘05-’06)</li>
<li>Univ. of Rochester Frederick Douglass/Susan B. Anthony Award in Humanities in the Social Sciences</li>
<li>“Most Creative” and “Best Drama” awards in Creative Writing (‘05-’06)</li>
</ul>

<p>EC's
- International Thespian Society; 10, 11, 12; President (12), Treasurer (11)
- I'll have been in 17 theatre productions at my school and involved in 21 upon graduation
- writing my own one-act to direct this upcoming year
- Advanced Acting; 11, 12 (highly selective, auditioned ensemble)
- Drama club; 10, 11, 12
- Jazz Choir; 12 (highly selective, auditioned ensemble)
- Cecilian Singers; 11, 12 (auditioned mixed choir)
- Choralaires; 10; female choir
- National Honor Society; 11, 12; Vice-President of Service (‘05-’06)
- Varsity track & field; 9, 10; state qualifier (long jump)
- Swing varsity/junior varsity basketball; 9; team captain
- Link Crew (community service); 10, 11, 12
- founded self-published, quarterly newspaper, distributed at school
- involved in a local theatre company for teens from 2003 through all high school; involved in over 10 productions in professional, community venues
- founded a production company to produce electronic music emphasizing the importance of social commentary about society
- Piano lessons for several years during HS</p>

<p>WORK EXPERIENCE
- worked at Barnes & Noble Booksellers part-time; 2005 to present; intend to keep job through next year
- worked at State Farm Insurance; irregularly from 1999-2005; cleaning, filing, logging data</p>

<p>OTHER COMMUNITY SERVICE
- Tutoring whenever I can in: algebra (i-ii), trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus (i-iii), English, physics
- Judging World Championship Cup Stacking for comm. service</p>

<p>I'm interested in the following as possible majors: theatre, English, film math (minor), philosophy</p>

<p>Interested in the following schools:</p>

<p>Yale
Northwestern
Emerson
Sarah Lawrence
Cornell
Brown
Columbia
Stanford
UMASS - Amherst</p>

<p>Opinions? Criticism? Suggestions?</p>

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<p>URM-status + outstanding academics + solid EC's = very good to sure shot at all the schools you listed.</p>

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<p>Thanks. Good confidence builder. The Yale admissions stats this year in particular are quite the stressor.</p>

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<p>...Ugh I didn't want to be one of the people who do this, but...oh well!</p>

<p>Bump.</p>

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<p>I just want to say I envy you for going to a school with what looks like a really strong drama program.</p>

<p>Haha, all-boys schools suck. :P</p>

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<p>I adore my high school for the theatre that it produces, especially considering that it's the smallest and supposedly most "ghetto" school in the pretty prestigious Cherry Creek School District here in CO. </p>

<p>Too bad you weren't around to be in one of my out-of-school theatre activites...we were ALWAYS short on guys...I'm seriously an expert at playing male roles because we averaged like three guys in a class of 15 or so every single year.</p>

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<p>Good God...you have all those schools on your list...UMass sticks out like a sore thumb!</p>

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<p>Haha. I didn't actually mean UMass, I meant Amherst College. Dunno what I was thinking at the time...Probably distracted by some inane MTV show or something haha.</p>

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<p>Yeah, big difference!</p>

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<p>hahahahahha. world championship cup stacking.</p>

<p>hahahaha</p>

<p>at least it's unique??</p>

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<p>Yeah I know...weird stuff. But they hold the world championship at the convention center in Denver and it's an awesome way to score community service and it's a really interesting world to see in action...Seriously. These kids are an interesting bunch, although you have to give them props for practicing stacking cups for hours every day. Mmm...cups...</p>

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<p>Provided you are able to write relatively good essays, you are likely to gain acceptance to any college (including Harvard, Princeton, Caltech etc). If I were you, I would include a safety or two and then apply to the absolute top schools.</p>