My Chances???

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<p>Sex: Female
Ethnicity: Asian American...born in america, but family is from india</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.97 unweighted, 4.61 weighted
My high school does not rank
AP Classes:
Sophomore- AP Chemistry (5 on exam)
Junior- AP Psychology (4 on exam), AP Biology (5 on exam), AP AB Calc (5 on exam), AP English lang (4 on exam)
Senior- will be taking AP Spanish Lang, AP English Lit, AP Stat, and AP Human Geo</p>

<p>Test Scores:
SAT I Math: 750
SAT I Reading: 670
SAT I Writing: 800
Total: 2220, but my superscore is 2240 (I received a 690 on reading the first time I took it)</p>

<p>SAT II's:
Chemistry- 800
Biology- 700
Will be taking math in october, 2009</p>

<p>PSAT:
211</p>

<p>Extra curriculars-
Class President of 2010 (9th grade-present)
Girl Scouts (2nd grade-present)
Treasurer of Club INNcredible (club which volunteers at the Childrens Inn at NIH)
Piano (2nd grade-10th grade)
National Honor Society
Spanish Honors Society
Science National Honors Society
Member of Science, Research and Technology Signature Program at High School</p>

<p>Over 350 hours of Volunteer Hours (which means I will receive an award, not sure which one)</p>

<p>Awards:
Received the Silver Award in Girl Scouts (volunteer work)
First cut of Maryland Distinguished Scholar award, waiting for next round</p>

<p>I am currently participating in a summer internship/apprenticeship at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. It is an 8-week program, and I am working with a mentor with her research. I cannot go in to details about the research because it is still confidential. </p>

<p>Ahh i think im average compared to the other students applying to duke, but i dont know. Thanks in advance for any of your comments!</p>

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<p>wrong forum?</p>

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<p>Bad idea to post here…The Duke people hate chance me threads. they hate it. a lot. i don’t know why…</p>

<p>go to the post titled “I really really hate chance me threads!” or something like that…you’ll get some idea, plbro81 (he’s the author) is funny as anything!</p>

<p>i would chance you but i really have no idea. i guess you have a good shot but i dunno i dont want to mislead you or give you high hopes, etc…</p>

<p>Chance me for rice! go to rice university, and my thread is titled something like “chance me please?..rice-dream school”…idk how to put the link here haha…</p>

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<p>i think with good essays u would be in, but again thats just my opinion as a Duke '13.</p>