<p>I'm a white female that plans on majoring in Neuroscience if possible, Biology if not.
What would you consider my chances at the colleges I've listed?</p>
<p>1) GPA (I don't think this includes my past semester, but I dont know):
UW - 3.96
W - 4.26</p>
<p>2) Rank: 14/543</p>
<p>3) 9 AP classes when I graduate (Lit, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Psychology, Biology, Lang, Human Geo, Euro, Stats)</p>
<p>4) ACT: 32 Comp both times, 33 superscore
first time - Eng:35, Math:31, Sci:28, Reading:32.
second time - Eng:34, Math:29, Sci:32, Reading:34.</p>
<p>5) EC's:
Two Duke TIP summer studies (one for Art and Architecture, the other for Clinical Psychology)
TSA
TONS of volunteering every week (+two mission trips)
NHS (possible officer senior year)
Math and biology tutor
Leo Club (possible officer senior year)
Key Club
STEM Girls Sorority
involved in youth group</p>
<p>QUESTION: does how long you've participated in the ECs matter?</p>
<p>QUESTION: does how long you’ve participated in the ECs matter?</p>
<p>YES
More you are involved more passion and depth is indicated
Less you are involved it looks like you have very less focus no commitment and you are just trying to fill an impressive resume</p>
<p>That’s what I assumed haha. bump?</p>
<p>You have good grades. Scores are a little on the lower end for a school like Duke. I hope you are really involved with your ECs and can demonstrate that because they are a little flimsy. </p>
<p>Are you in-state for UNC?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1159533-yale-ea-chance.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1159533-yale-ea-chance.html</a>
chance back please</p>
<p>in state for unc you are in, no question. Duke is not too hard to get in, but some more extra curriculars wouldn’t hurt, I’d say it’s a low reach, maybe high match. I’d say the same thing about duke as JHU and Emory. DukeTip probs helps your chances at duke</p>
<p>UNC- If you are in-state, you will get in with a little scholarship money. Out of state for Duke and UNC, you’ve got around a 80 percent chance.</p>
<p>The classes over the summer make you look really good. Scores are a little low, as are your ECs. But your nine APs makes up for it.</p>
<p>^State residency does not matter for Duke because it is a private university.</p>
<p>No, I’m not in-state. Though if we’re being totally honest, my grandpa was chancellor of UNC Charlotte and NC State, so I’d probably have a little bit better chance.
Next year (my senior year), I’ll be picking up maybe one or two more ECs, but mainly just solid long-term committment volunteering.</p>
<p>to Anonymous Student, how were you able to be a page? I’m definitely impressed with your resume, but with Ivies, you never know. I’m right there with you with the income thing/the divorce.</p>
<p>Another question:
I transferred to my high school because the school I’m supposed to go is MUCH older to does not offer anything (kids from that school come to mine to take classes because they aren’t offered there, etc). My mom is a single working parent, so I was never able to stay after or go early to participate in ECs, as there is no bus for transfer students and I therefore had to rely on rides from other parents picking up their kids in my neighborhood, my mom’s tight schedule, etc. Once I got a car, I became the one picking up 4 kids every day (only 1 of whom is related to me) because they didn’t have rides home. Basically, I still can’t really stay after school, otherwise all of them would be stranded. This is why I focus on volunteering, which is later in the day/on the weekends.</p>
<p>Would it be worth explaining this in my college interview, as I can’t find a way to explain it otherwise?
I don’t want to look like I don’t do ECs because I’m lazy. That’s not and has never been the case.</p>
<p>(I’m also a Questbridge College Prep Scholar, and I’ll be attending the Yale College Admission Conference next week… dunno if that matters.)</p>