<p>Hey guys im new to CC and would appreciate your comments (good or bad)</p>
<p>African-American Male at Competitive Public H.S.
GPA: 3.9w 3.65uw
rank: top 10% as of midyear reports
SAT: 690v 670m 1360
SAT II: 680IIC/670writing/670IC
Decent letters of Rec - one great from principal</p>
<p>E.C.:
Class President 11/12 - Varsity Basketball (captain) 9/10/11/12 Varsity Football captain 9/10/11/12 Varsity Chorus 9/10/11/12 Peer Development Program/ Principals Advisory Commitee / Student Government Association (Executive Board)</p>
<p>Awards:
National Honor Society
National Achievement Commended
AP Scholar
Outstanding Achievemnt Awards in Piano
All Academic First Team
Ventures Scholar</p>
<p>Community Service;
Harvest For The Hungry - Raised over 2000 lbs of food for our class this yr
Special Olympics Chaperone
Relay For Life</p>
<p>The schools I applied to are:
harvard/stanford/duke/georgetown and some safeties id really appreciate any feedback thanx!</p>
<p>Harvard and Standford are huge reaches because your SAT scores and GPA to them are only medicore (to other schools, they are pretty good). Georgetown you might have a better chance but is still a tough school to get into. URM might help as well as your leadership in many of your ec activities. I believe that you should be able to get into GT. Anyways, goodluck</p>
<p>I would guess you'd get into Duke or Georgetown. You fall into their middle 50% in terms of SAT scores, and you're in the top 10% of your class. You also have strong involvement in sports, student government, etc. I suspect this is typical for a URM admit into those two schools.</p>
<p>Harvard or Stanford ... well, maybe if they were having a bad year in terms of attracting URM's. But I wouldn't bet on it, because I think they'd at least expect a 1400+, and 700+ SAT II averages, especially because you're from a competitive public high school. If you were disadvantaged, and you did all that stuff, I would say you had really great chances. But you're not, and there doesn't seem to be a real distinguishing excellence in your application. </p>
<p>Being a URM will allow you to do one of two things. If you have the scores and the grades that would make any applicant a "good match", you will probably be admitted, since finding a URM with stats that are comparable to normal academic admits is not that easy for highly selective colleges. Second, if you have below average stats for admits, and if you have another "distinguishing excellence", your URM status will probably allow the distinguishing excellence to carry through for you despite lower stats. I say H and S are difficult because of the lack of the true distinguishing excellence.</p>
<p>Because you are in the URM category, you will be "pooled" with other URM candidates and it really depends who is in there with what stats and ECs, as to what your outcome will be. Are you applying as an athlete (contacted the coaches) to any of those schools? You may want to consider adding some LACs, D-3 schools if you are at the calibre to compete there. Your leadership positions are excellent which will be a huge plus for you and your numbers are certainly in the ballpark. I tend to agree with Thekidd as H and S have such low numbers of acceptance, and you just don't know who else is applying which is really what it would come down to with the ultra selective schools.</p>
<p>thanx 4 ur comments...and yes i have started to contact some coaches this year because im having a pretty good season (22pts 15boards) way up from the 10pts 10boards last year....but does the face that the first harvard admit EVER from school went early this year affect my chances greatly? he was ranked 1st in our class with a 1470 and a patent</p>
<p>No, he doesn't effect your chances. I'd say that stanford and harvard are slight-reaches, mainly because or your <em>relatively</em> low board scores. How rigirous was your course load?</p>