Please Chance Me-UVA,UChicago,UNC,DUKE,W&M,MIT, and more

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>About Me:
Northern Virginia
White Male</p>

<p>GPA: 3.94 UW, hopefully 3.957 UW by end of first semester senior year.
9th Grade: 4.0 UW
10th Grade: 3.9 UW
11th Grade: 3.93 UW
12th Grade(Hopefully): 4.0 UW</p>

<p>Class Rank: School doesn’t officially rank but top 5% of 55. </p>

<p>Tests:
SAT: 2140---670 CR, 800 M, 670 W (one sitting-will take again in October)</p>

<p>SAT II: 640 Latin, 720 Physics (taking Math II in November and maybe another)</p>

<p>PSAT: 189 soph, 215 junior</p>

<p>Courses:
APs:
10th grade: European History(4), Calculus AB(5)
11th grade: Physics B(4), Physics C E&M(4), Art History(5), Latin Vergil(5), Calculus BC(5), Psychology(5)
12th grade:English Lit, US History, Microeconomics, Chemistry, Biology, and self studying Environmental Science, Macroeconomics, and possibly Physics C M, Comparative Gov.+ US Government.</p>

<p>Junior Year:
English (there is no honor level)
AP Physics B
AP Physics C E&M
AP Latin Vergil
AP Art History
Greek III H</p>

<pre><code>Senior Year:
AP English Literature
AP US History
AP Microeconomics
AP Chemistry
AP Biology
Greek IV H
Senior Thesis H-writing and presenting 40 page paper on mathematics.
</code></pre>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Varsity Tennis 9-12------------------------(10 hrs a week/ 8 weeks a year)
Yearbook 10-12 (Editor 11&12)-----------------------------(5 hrs a week/35 weeks a year)
Coaching Tennis 9-12-----------------------(summer: 40 hrs a week/9 weeks)
(school year:2 hrs a week/ 40 weeks a year)
Saint Ann's Credit Union Teller 9-12----(3 hrs a week/12 weeks a year)
Mexico Service Project 10-----------------(3 week long service project in Mexico, painted, constructed, taught English, and coached sports in underprivileged villages)
Newspaper 11-12 (Yearbook Liaison)---(1 hr a week/5 weeks a year)
Foreign Exchange 10-------------------------(3 week long exchange with a Spanish student during 10th grade)
Boy Scouts 9-10-------------------------------(4 hrs a week/40 weeks a year)
Tutoring Math 11-12--------------------------(2 hrs a week/35 weeks a year)
Youth Group 9-10-----------------------------(2 hrs a week/10 weeks ayear)
Vacation Bible School 9----------------------(30 hrs a week/ 1 week)
Volunteering Tennis Coach 9---------------(8 hrs a week/8 weeks a year)
Self Studied AP Psychology 11-------------(5 hrs a week/12 weeks)</p>

<p>Honors:
National AP Scholar
National Merit Commended Student
National Latin Exam. (magna cum laude and so on)
National Greek Exam</p>

<p>Colleges:
U of Dallas
William and Mary
UNC-CH
UVA
Notre Dame
U of Chicago
Duke
Cornell
Columbia
MIT
Princeton</p>

<p>I know that my SAT I and SAT II's and ECs are very low but hopefully I will get my SAT I to 2250 or above. If you have any suggestions please offer them. Should I add more safety schools, more matches, or more reaches?</p>

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<p>You’re in at Dallas and W&M (at Dallas, you could probably get a full ride!); Cornell is a match. UVA, Notre Dame, and UChicago are low matches; Duke is a low reach (Columbia might be, too, though I’m not too certain…mid-reach, maybe?). Princeton and MIT are reaches, but they are for everyone…as is all of HYPSM, really, haha. Good luck!</p>

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<p>U of Dallas - Safety
William and Mary - Low Match
UNC-CH - Match
UVA - Match
Notre Dame - Match
U of Chicago - High Match
Duke - Mid Reach
Cornell - Mid Reach
Columbia - Mid Reach
MIT - High Reach
Princeton - High Reach</p>

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<p>^I would not say UNC-CH is a match in this situation. Maybe a high match/low reach. Dont get me wrong, your profile is very impressive, but OOS UNC is incredibly competitive.</p>

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<p>U of Dallas - Safety
William and Mary - Match
UNC-CH - Low Reach
UVA - High Match
Notre Dame - low/mid Reach
U of Chicago - Mid Reach
Duke - Reach
Cornell - Mid Reach
Columbia - Reach
MIT - High Reach
Princeton - High Reach</p>

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<p>Would it help that my grandfather taught for a long time at UNC or is the completely irrelevant?</p>

<p>Thanks for the replies. Any thing I could do to really increase my chances at some of the low reach places?</p>

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<p>@smorgasbord You said UVA, ND, and UChicago are low matches? Are you sure? I was thinking they would be a match or high match.</p>

<p>@NCBoy1 Do you think OOS UNC is more difficult to get in to than UVA?</p>

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<p>PergeModo: The people commenting on this thread are really confused and misinformed. </p>

<p>Look at kash money’s predictions. They are much more accurate. Get your SAT CR and W to 720 or so and your chances are more like eak325’s, except with Chicago/Duke/Cornell as high matches, and the rest low-mid reaches.</p>

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<p>@phuriku How bad are my ECs?</p>

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<p>^ Your ECs are average…not great because they don’t really have a focus, but you do have a few so they’re not bad. </p>

<p>However, I don’t think that you should list a self-study AP as an EC especially because you are listing a lotttt of time for it. I self-studied Micro, Macro and APHuG last year and it didn’t take me nearly that much time so I think that it might look like you are attempting to find fillers for your ECs. </p>

<p>I was really impressed with your schedule though. Greek sounds very awesome!</p>

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<p>Haha, yeah I should remove that because in all reality, I only studied about 5 hours for the exam. </p>

<p>Well it’s Ancient Greek. This year we are reading 1500 lines of the Iliad (in Greek of course).</p>

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<p>I want to play up my classics but unfortunately haven’t done many ECs to show my passion.</p>

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<p>Essays are a great way to show that passion! That could be made into a great topic</p>

<p>This may be a silly question but how similar are modern Greek and ancient Greek?</p>

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<p>Another thread with lots of participants without a clue. Cornell a match? Cornell and Columbia mid reachers, the same in spite of very different admit rates? This is bad.</p>

<p>Every ivy is a massive reach. With a 2250 they are reaches.</p>

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<p>YellowDaisies, they are extremely different! Its like comparing Old English or Germanic to modern English. There are common root words but I would have to start from scratch if I were to study modern Greek.</p>

<p>We learned Attic Greek grades 9-11, which was spoken around 400BC, however Homer’s Iliad is about 800BC. Its the equivalent of reading Shakespeare’s original texts for us.</p>

<p>Excellent suggestion for the essays.</p>

<p>@Redroses Can you chance me then instead of just criticizing other members?</p>