<p>Hello fellow college hopefuls. I was deferred from the early decision round at Penn and was wondering what my chances were on being admitted during the regular phase at my second top choice--DUKE and would LOVE to go here. I really wanted to apply ED but was swayed by my parents and my GC to Penn b/c of the prestige, ivy league, and etc... I go to an extremely competitive school on Long Island (you can imagine), which has tons of ivy caliberg applicants every year. In my grade, 2 ppl scored a perfect 1600 and I think that like 20 kids were above 1450.
My stats:
96 GPA (UNWEIGHTED), we do not weight averages and we use a 100 point scale. For example, we are given averages out of 100 and then they are all averaged at the end of the year. A 90-100, B 80-89, etc
9 Honors courses taken, 10 AP courses (4 junior year courses) </p>
<p>Mid Year Senior Grades
We have 2 semesters (each semester has 2 quarters), and colleges will see my first 2 quarters of my senior year</p>
<p>Senior year courses
AP Physics A B
AP Calculus BC A A
AP Eng Language A A
AP Economics A A
AP Spanish Language A A
AP Psychology A A</p>
<p>Good Extracurriculars which i will not list at this time b/c when i tried to copy and paste my resume, the format got all messed up but I am apart of many clubs and president of one organization that I started at my school (community service organizion) and Captain of the Tennis team
-staff writer for the school newspaper
-have won many tennis tournaments
-have done a lot of community service--peer tutoring
-have done research outside of school, entered my project into Intel and Siemens Westinghouse
-have played in outside orchestras
-apart of Model UN and Math Team, have won some awards</p>
<p>I mean you definitely have a shot but I don't think anyone can predict your chances with any accuracy. Duke accepts lots of people with your qualifications and also rejects hundreds/thousands of them at the same time. It's kind of a crapshoot. It's funny that you applied early to Penn instead of Duke for those listed reasons because among cross-admits to Duke and Penn, Duke wins handily--around 65% Duke/35% Penn. Anyway, best of luck at Duke, you are definitely in the running...and if you do get into both definitely come to Duke (I turned down Penn and couldn't be happier...lol granted I'm a little biased).</p>
<p>cantwaittogotocollege, honestly, are you stalking me or do you have absolutely no life and go to each school's thread and track down who is writing what and on what threat?? Seriosuly, I would ponder those questions and strongly recommend you find something that occupies your time instead of stalking people. I mean seriously you must have too much free time. I have a right to post on multiple school posts and I do in fact have an interest in all of them. I am not a dimwit who applies to random schools and has no intention of intending. As you probably know b/c you have stalked all of my posts, I am very interested in going to Northwestern, Penn, Duke, Cornell, or Hopkins. Now will you please stop stalking me. Much appreciated, Thanks, Steve</p>
<p>pennhopeful, I have no intention to stalk you. what happened was I saw this thread on Cornell board and then when I went to Northwestern thread, I also saw the exact same thread, with the title, "I love Northwestern" I think it was. Then, yeah, I did find all the posts by you to see how many people you are trying to deceive. People are trying to evaluate your chances because it is your SECOND choice. Tell them it's your 5th choice. Do you think they will still put effort to even read your stats? Why can't you just say you are interested instead of saying it is your second choice? I mean I don't know why but that just makes me mad.</p>
<p>I believe that Duke has both better advising and medical school acceptance rates than Vanderbilt, but you could get into great medical schools with hard work at either.</p>