I'll bite ... HYP Swarthmore Chicago JHU Pomona Reed Georgetown Stanford

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Stats. Hurrah.</p>

<p>Male honkey from NYC. Parents are well-educated but I'm not a legacy at these schools. </p>

<p>94.something average at the</a> best public high school in the nation. That probably makes me like 200 out of 800 w/r/t class standings, but, praise Allah, my school doesn't rank. Higher average in core subjects, lower in BS like drafting and music appreciation.</p>

<p>Extremely competive courseload, even by the standards of my school. Borderline masochistic at times.
Giving special classes only:</p>

<p>Soph
AP US
AP Calc BC
AP CS AB
European Literature </p>

<p>Junior:
AP Gov (Comparative, but also took US Gov test)
AP Eng Language
AP Physics B
Dynamics
Multivariate Calculus
Linear Algebra
Systems-level-programming (post AP)
Computer graphics (post AP)
Independently studied for AP Euro, Physics C E/M</p>

<p>Senior:
Existentialism
Great Books (probably toughest eng. class at school)
Statics
Organic Chemistry
AP Micro/Macroeconomics
AP Latin Vergil
Number Theory @ NYU
Differential Equations (maybe)</p>

<p>Scores: 5's on sophomore APs.
SAT: 2400
SATII: 800 Chemistry, Math IIC, US History, World History; 760 Bio (which is the easy one, right?)
Took Lit and Physics; scores tomorrow</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Debate Team, Extemp and Model Congress, 10th-12th. Possibly "Congress Captain" senior year.
Acting, many shows, 10th-12th grade. Also tech crew once or twice.
Newspaper Copy Chief, 11th + 12th grades
AMC/AIME (do these count as extracurics)?
JETS (engineering competition)
Quiz bowl: 12th grade
Into sailing, biking and hiking.
Intern at Morgan Stanley.
Am doing a CS/Linguistics Intel project, though I doubt I'll be a semifinalist.
Summer courses at Columbia: Last year Creative Writing, this year Nanotechnology. </p>

<p>Volunteered at sailing program in Maine last summer.
Occasional tutoring.</p>

<p>Other:
I have no idea what I want to major in.
I can write darn good. Essay shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Those over 30 seem to be enamoured with me, so interviews should go well.
I am really quite lazy.</p>

<p>My estimation:
HYP reach
Stanford, Swarthmore match-reach
Chicago, JHU, Georgetown match
Pomona, Reed safety</p>

<p>Advice?</p>

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<p>You shouldn't be asking, really. I would say that you will get into ONE of HYP, almost for sure. 94+avg/2400/800x4 FROM STUY</p>

<p>They send 30%+ of graduates to Ivys.</p>

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<p>Amazing scores, but lacking in the ECs. Any volunteering?</p>

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<p>I did some work in Maine w/ Landmark Volunteers, and a bit of political work last election cycle. I might volunteer to teach a class to show the kids on my paper how to actually write.</p>

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<p>Gosh. Great STATS. Especial those 2400/800 but get some EC's.</p>

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<p>Um, I don't think you're lacking in ECs. You are involved in many things and if you do more it might seem like you're simply trying to please admissions. Which would be true.</p>

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<p>His ECs aren't spectacular, but they're not lacking. You realize most of the people going to Ivy don't have a ton of ECs, but rather show focus in one or two areas. Adcoms like that more.</p>

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<p>Um... this isn't really on topic, but are you being serious when you call Stuyvesant the "best public high school" in the country? It's a great school, but I'm not sure that it's quite at the level of, say, TJHST in Virginia or Montgomery Blair in Maryland</p>

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<p>no it is... stuyvesant is at or above tjhst, u have to keep in mind the area that they're in... tjhst is in a much better residential area hence better schooling through 8th grade, not saying that stuy isn't...</p>

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<p>Stuyvesant = TJHST (they are among the best)</p>

<p>never heard of montgomery</p>

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<p>Well, I am showing school pride of course, but I think Stuy is at least equal to TJ. We send more students to Ivies than any other school, though of course we are pretty big (800 per grade). The number and level of the courses offered vary from school to school but Stuy at the least holds it's own. Considering that Stuy takes absolutely any New York student who does well enough on the admissions test, I think that's pretty impressive. </p>

<p>Unless I'm looking totally at the wrong school, Blair isn't remotely in the same league. Stuy's average composite (old) SAT is 1427, TJ's is 1478 and Blair's a paltry 1148.</p>

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<p>YAY my school owns Blair!!</p>

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<p>You will get into at least two of HYPS.</p>

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<p>Yea, my public school owns blair by a good 125 points.</p>

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<p>Whoa...I always thought that Montgomery Blair was as good as the other two NY pubs...Bronx Sci and Brooklyn Tech....guess I don't know anything...</p>

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<p>I assume that you found your data here:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This figure includes the entire Montgomery Blair High School - a school which, I'll try to euphemistically say, has a rather unfavorable socioeconomic mix for SAT score purposes. The truly "prestigious" HS is a school within a school - the Blair Science Magnet.</p>

<p>Maybe you should look here:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e8-usamo/e8-1-usamoarchive/2005-ua/05usamoqualstate.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e8-usamo/e8-1-usamoarchive/2005-ua/05usamoqualstate.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Let's see... Thomas Jefferson had 11 USAMO qualifiers, Montgomery Blair had 7, and Stuyvesant had, ahem, 3. Now, 3 would be a spectacular number for any other school, but Stuyvesant might not be quite as special as you think. I'm not saying that the number of USAMO qualifiers is some kind of magical measure of a school's strength, but it's certainly just as good as superficially examining SAT averages.</p>

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<p>well, i think I owe the Blair Science Magnet people an apology. Your school is damn good.</p>

<p>That said, what do y'all think of my chances? Any further thoughts?</p>

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<p>people like this person makes me wanna kill myself</p>

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<p>not that it really changes anything but I got a 790 on SAT Literature (should have studied) and 800 Physics</p>

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<p>You're fine. Just don't come off as a cocky kid in your essays--no offense, you're definitely good, but that's kinda the vibe I'm getting--from what I've seen, your choice schools hate that.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>