LAST CHANCES THREAD EVER!!(for me anyway)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: M
Ethnicity: Indian(South Asian)
Location: Houston
College Class Year: 2013
High School: Public
High School Type: Very Large Public School- Pretty damn compepetivie for public school.
College Plans: Going to Major in Chemical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering</p>

<p>Colleges: Princeton,Harvard,Cornell,Penn,Duke,UT(Austin)</p>

<p>GPA(6 scale)</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 5.94
Weighted: 6.83
Class Rank: 6/931</p>

<p>SAT SuperScore- 1500/2210
Math- 750
Critical Reading- 750
Writing- 710</p>

<p>SAT2: MathII- 780 USH- 720 Physics- 750</p>

<p>AP: WHAP-5, Spanish Lang-2, APUSH- 5, Comp Sci A- 5, English Lang- 5</p>

<p>Senior YR AP classes: Chem , Physics B(only 1 offered), Calc BC, Gov , Eco , Eng Lang, Stats</p>

<p>EC's:</p>

<p>Key Club(9,10,11,12), Vice President(10)
Spanish Club(9,10,11,12)
Spanish NHS (10,11,12)
Special Olympics Volunteer
Habitat for Humanity
Asian Culture Club(10,11,12) President and founder(10,11,12)
- close to $3000 raised so far to benefit earthquake in China
International Festival Volunteer
Started my own very small company: Buying and selling car parts in Japan
Recreational Guitar Player</p>

<p>Job: Target- 23 hrs week in the summer.</p>

<p>Sports: JV Football 2 years along with consistent recreational sports</p>

<p>Community Service: 100+ Hours with Temple, 25 In lab hospital hours, 100 Hours with Key Club, 20 ish hours with Habitat for Humanity</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>National Merit Commended
AP Scholar w/ Honor
Cy-Fair Hospital certificate of recognition
Spanish National Honor Society
School: AP USH award, Health Sciences award</p>

<p>Essays and Recs should be good-great</p>

<p>Schools:
UT-Austin Honors Engineering
Penn
Cornell
Harvard
Princeton
Duke</p>

<p>If you guys could help me out it would be great. If you chance me i will chance you back!</p>

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<p>you look like a good match for penn cornell and duke. harvard and princeton are really unpredictable so its up in the air and im not sure how competitive honors engineering at UT is but you should be in</p>

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<p>thanks pgh, i know HP are unpredictable. any more input?</p>

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<p>bbummpp, 50 views and 1 chance, common guys</p>

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<p>bumpityyyy</p>

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<p>UT-Austin Honors Engineering-safety
Penn- low reach
Cornell-High match/low reach
Harvard-high reach (It is for everyone)
Princeton-high reach (same)
Duke-High match</p>

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<p>I agree with josh except I would give Penn a high match ... but not that big of a difference
if you dont mind chancing me...
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/584547-please-chance-new-member.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/584547-please-chance-new-member.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I don't see anything truly outstanding except for the nice SAT score and rank... you'd really, really have to distinguish yourself in your essays to have a shot at Harvard, Princeton, et.al. </p>

<p>At least you have a bona fide safety, so there's no harm in applying.</p>