Please chance!!! I will chance you!!!

Applying to College
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<p>This is my first post, but I’ve been frequenting similar posts for months now.
I’m less concerned with admittance and more concerned with scholarship potential. My parents are not in a place to pay for my full tuition, but we do not qualify for financial aid due to the nature of my father’s job (he will be forced to retire in about 7 years)</p>

<p>If you chance me, I will chance you! Please help a distressed student in need!!!</p>

<p>Applying to: Washington University, Duke, UNC, UVA, Uchicago, Oberlin, U Miami (florida), Vanderbilt, Brandeis, Bucknell, already applied to Mizzou (accepted!)</p>

<p>More importantly, I want opinions on my chances on the following merit scholarships (I am already nominated/applying to them)
Vanderbilt
Ingram (community service)
Cornelius Vanderbilt (all around merit)
Duke/UNC
Robertson (gahhhhh!)
UVA
Jefferson
Washington University
Rodruigez (Community service and community leadership)
Ervin (community service, diversity outreach and community leadership)</p>

<p>ACT :36 composite, 10 writing, (I got soooo lucky)
I never took any SAT II’s, I’m already applying to 11 schools</p>

<p>GPA: 4.35 weighted, 3.93 unweighted.
10/292 in the class, extremely competitive high school</p>

<p>I have taken the most rigorous course load available at my school.
APs: US government (self taught) – 4, Comparative Politics – 5
By the end of senior year I will have taken the following APs
Physics C (Mechanics), Physics B (Electricity and Magnetism), Calculus BC, Chemistry, and Statistics
I am taking AP Latin, but most likely will not take any tests for it.</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Student Council – Treasurer (11th), Class President (12th)
Project Help – Community Service Club (9th-12th), Executive board (11th-12th), tri-weekly meetings
Ready Readers – Read to inner city youth to promote literacy (11th-12th), weekly program
JCRC Student to Student - Diversity outreach program for Jewish teens (11th-12th), Steering committee and group leader (12th)
National Honors Society (10th-12th), secretary (12th)
Main stage Theatre Productions – (10th-12th), three main stage productions including lead role in The Mousetrap
KidSmart – Community Service project available only to seniors, I work in a warehouse once a month, giving school supplies to students who cannot afford them (12th)
Senior Men Community Service Club – Another club that provides community service opportunities to students (12th)
JAM - Jews and Muslims Diversity Group, a one-year program that promotes dialogue between Jewish and Muslim teenagers in St. Louis (12th)
Flyspace Improvisational Theatre Troup – (11th-12th)
Parkway North Ultimate Frisbee Team – (11th-12th), 3rd place at the state Ultimate tournament (11th)
Senior Directed One Acts – One Act performance, I’ve been in two of them (10th-11th), I plan on being in another this coming spring
Beta Chi Pi – Science Community Service Honors Society (11th-12th)
Slice Camp in Impoverished County – Put on a one week summer camp for impoverished kids in a St. Louis slum (9th)
Forensics Debate Team – Numerous novice Public Forum awards (One first place, 3 second place) (10th)
World Awareness Club – A club for the education of students regarding humanitarian crises (9th-10th)
Harry Potter Club – A club dedicated to fighting the Dark Arts in the world, the first official branch of the Harry Potter alliance (look into it, it’s quite prevalent now) (9th-10th)
Jewish Youth Groups – BBYO and USY (9th-12th)
JV Tennis Team (9th)
Science Research – The summer before 11th grade, I spent a month in a Public Health lab and Saint Louis University designing and carrying out tests on water filters that are used in third world countries. I left behind instructions for graduate students to complete my work, although lack of funding has put my project on the back burners.
National Merit Commendation
Williams Book Award
“Spirit of Parkway Central” award for extracurricular involvement and all around citizenship</p>

<p>Essays: I’m a pretty good writer so they’re turning out fairly good
Recs: Both teachers are known for their rec letters and I have developed very close personal relationships with them during my high school career. For extra-curricular rec’s, the Project Help sponsor, I’m sure, wrote an amazing recommendation. The director of Student-to-Student and JAM wrote me a recommendation for diversity programming. I haven’t seen it, but I’m sure it is pretty good.</p>

<p>I’m white and male. My grandpa/uncle/3 cousins went to Washington University and my Aunt currently teaches there. There’s also a dorm there with my last name on it, only distantly related though (we don’t have that kind of money :P)</p>

<p>I’m pretty much freaking out right now since I don’t think I have a shot at any merit-scholarships at my schools, so I want to know the truth. It’s hard to get a good opinion from my parents since they seem to think that I am the salt of the earth. Be brutal, I want to know the truth.
Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>How could you be worried about anything with those stats!!! If i were an admissions officer, i would take you right away. very impressive. in fact, if i were you i’d be shooting for some more competitive schools. Im sure they are going to be offering you aid, so rest assured. Good luck!</p>