Please Chance Me (UVA, Duke, Vanderbilt, Tulane, UPenn, UF)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Ethnicity: white
Gender: male
State: Florida
competitive private school

SAT: 1530, 1540 super scored (740 cr/e, 800 math)
SAT Subject Tests: 770 (math II), 780 (physics), 730 (US history)
ACT: 34 (36 reading, 35 english, 34 math, 30 science)
UW GPA: 3.94
W GPA: 4.34
Class Rank: N/A

AP Scores: US History (4), Gov (4), Physics 1 (4) Lang (5), Euro (5)

Senior year course load: AP Calculus AB, AP Psychology, AP Environmental Science, AP Literature, AP Statistics, Debate 5 Honors

Awards: AP Scholar with distinction, National Honor Society, President’s list (all As)

ECs:
1] varsity sports junior and senior year (jv freshman and sophomore) and team co-captain senior year
2] club sports all 4 years
3] debate varsity all 4 years
4] debate mentor
5] elected NHS secretary officer senior year
6] Best Buddies member senior year
7] honor council senior year
8] worked as a camp counselor at a Jewish camp over the summer,
9] gave tours of our campus to freshman and helped them in their transition to high school.
10] took-on a school leadership position

Service: 174 hours total from my ecs and some other small stuff

Rec letters should be good. People tell me my personal statement is great.

-I’m 4th generation legacy to Tulane
-my gpa isn’t 4.0 because of Bs in middle school classes that were high school courses; I’ve gotten all As in high school
-my writing scores for the SAT and ACT aren’t that great, 17/24 and 8/12 respectively

I’m not sure if I am going to ED somewhere, if I do it would be either Duke or Vandy.
Please chance me. Any comments are appreciated.

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I got your same stats, which are good stats that would give you as good of a chance at schools like Duke and Penn as anyone so let’s put that to the side. Assuming you have a good essay, the only problem I see are your ECs, which are scattered and not so focused towards an academic field of study or subject (I can vaguely see polisci/law from your ECs but other than that they do not depict interest towards an academic field). Otherwise, I think you should ED Duke and ED II Vandy. Considering that you write good essays, I think you will get in one of them (probably Vandy) through this method of ED. Penn will be a reach RD and everything else you should get in,

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Thank you! I have some more stats for my activities and I go a lot more in depth on my app than I did here but I definitely agree with you my ECs are scattered.

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You are an amazing student. Any one of these schools would be lucky to have you.

5

You should definetly do duke ED1!! i can see you getting accpeted