May God help me

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm not applying to any colleges yet because I have just begun my Junior year, but I'm in a state of serious disheartening because I have only just realized that its impossible to get into ivies without the "desire" to help kids in africa and stuff like that</p>

<p>I have yet to pay any interest to college because I always 'well I'll go wherever', not 'where I can get the best education' and I had no idea about what I'd like the best. So until the end of last year, that is how my life went and I just slacked off with average grades and practically 0 EC's. I don't know what to say here, but what I am looking for it some kind of reassurance that I can make up for my failure in in Junior year? I can get high grades, but I don't know if anything will get me into Vandy or Stanford if I don't cure cancer and write bestselling novels- in fact I'll copy and paste some of the weird stuff that has caused me to go into a state of intense panic:</p>

<p>Attending: Duke
Accepted: University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan, Brandeis (full tuition), Case Western (25,600), Johns Hopkins, WUSTL, Rice, Emory, UNC
Rejected: Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, and Brown (waitlisted and then rej)</p>

<p>GPA at end of 11th: 3.96 UW, 4.1 W
End if 12th: 4.13 W
Rank: 7/274
SATs: 2210 M 790 CR740 W680
SAT IIs: 770 US History, 800 MAth IIC, 710 Biology
APs:US History, Biology, Physics, Government, Macro, BC, and Latin</p>

<p>Location: Pennsylvania
School: Public</p>

<p>ECs:
Nothing really great:
Soccer Varsity
Track Varsity
C0-president of Science Olympiad
NHS member
Interned with a Vet for a summer
Volunteered to help tutor a girl how to speak English
Newspaper Ed. of JCL
and other minimal stuff like that</p>

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<p>this stuff is much more than anyone i know does.. idk how these people find oppurtunites to help tutor people engisha dn internw ith veterans and still make varisty sports and nhs and all this</p>

<p>and with all that and the amazing scores he doesnt get into the best ivies</p>

<p>i dont understand at all the process even after reading a book and numerous posts on these forum</p>

<p>as i said i know no one with these types of activities in a school of 1200 people yet this guy does crazy stuff and doesnt get into ivies</p>

<p>so what am i looking at like west virgina u is my best bet or am i not even good enough to get in there ,what am i gonna do :(</p>

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<p>Accepted: UNC-Chapel Hill, Georgia Tech, UGA Honors Program, Carnegie Mellon University (attending and CS major), UCLA, Case Western, Emory University</p>

<p>Deferred->Rejected: UPenn (Wharton) ED</p>

<p>Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Duke (was rather sad about this one…), UC Berkeley, Dartmouth</p>

<p>Race: Asian
Gender: Female
Class rank: 2 out of ~350
Medium sized public school in Georgia</p>

<p>EC’S, Awards…
-Salutatorian
-3 year debate member - won some team and speaker awards
-American Red Cross Youth Board 4 year member
-Beta Club 4 year member (2 year officer + won $1000 Beta Club scholarship)
-4 year Wind Symphony member (flutist, first chair in 12th grade)
-4 year District Honor band member
-All State band member
-3 year marching band member (piccolo!)
-3 year member of a local university ensemble - was first chair
-Meritorious NHS member 3 years
-Chinese school
-Tri-M Music Honor Society member
-Mu Alpha Theta member/officer</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Chem: 5
Eng. Lit: 5
Eng. Lang: 4
Bio: 5
Calc AB: 5</p>

<p>(I didn’t take Physics C because I’d get a 2 haha)</p>

<p>SAT Scores:
Math: 700 (yea not that great…)
Writing: 740 (with 11 on essay)
Verbal: 740</p>

<p>SAT II scores:
Chinese: 750
Chem: 750
MathIIC: 730
US History: 790</p>

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<p>i just read this one too its so scary this girl did everything i read about… she maintains superb test scores, she is rank 2 in her class… she is a somewhat minority… she focuses on specific extra curricular and takes them farther… there’s nothing she could do better yet she got rejected by all the ivies?</p>

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<p>What do you want to know? If you will get into Ivies? What are your credentials?</p>

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<p>idk im just mad</p>

<p>why cant i delete this stuff that i already posted like an hour ago</p>

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<p>Duke is practically an ivy so its solid for the first post</p>

<p>2nd post: 2nd doesnt mean much out of context. for example, at her school, maybe only the top 3-5 get into ivies every year. at my school (class of approx 150) we send 1-2 harvard, 1-2 yale, 1-2 princeton, 1-2 stanford, 2-3 dartomuch, 2-3 brown, 2-3 columbia, 3-4 penn, 5-7 cornell, 1-2 williams, 1-2 amherst, 1-2 duke, etc. last year, 15 kids were accepted to cornell because our public school has an insane rep. The stats above are our attendeances so the ppl accepted is likely higher at each school. in a bad year, 20 get into top schools, in a good year 30 get in. so basically, her salutatorian doesnt hold tht much weight
also she had literally no leadership in her community and being asian hurts a lot.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1005943-chance-senior-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1005943-chance-senior-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>It’s not clear what you you want here. You’re mad because you slacked off for two years in high school and woke up one day and decided you were Ivy League material? Yea, it’s probably too late for you to get into the Ivies for undergraduate work in today’s environment. Get your grades up, go to a good state school, get top grades and then get your master’s degree from one of the elite universities. There’s always a second chance!</p>