Please Chance Me

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White - Male - NJ - 1st Gen
GPA weighted - (98.1)
Top 10% - ~550 in class (doesn't give specific ranks)</p>

<p>Just about all AP and Honors courses throughout HS.
Thinking about majoring in Biochemistry and maybe a minor in finance or something</p>

<p>Senior Sched:</p>

<p>Spanish 4 Honors
Calculus AP
English 4 Honors
AP Macro-Economics
AP Biology</p>

<p>SAT results (first try):
M-720
CR-610
W-600</p>

<p>SAT #2
M-710
CR-620
W-680</p>

<p>Best Sections...M-720,CR-620,W-680 - total=2020 - taking one more time..going for 2100+</p>

<p>SATIIs
Math II - 750
US History - 710 should i send?</p>

<p>Working experience-</p>

<p>2 Pizza Shops - 9th to 11th - 12 hours per week
Babysitter- when needed
Tutor - 3 hours per week</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>-Vice President of my class for 2 years
-Member of student council (all four years)
-Interact club - officer next year - club that does community service
-Italian-American Club
-Student Alliance
-Philosophy Club
-Basketball league in which i've been playing since 2nd grade
-Another league in which i started playing since 6th grade
-National Honors Society
-Spanish Honors Society
-Accounting award for school</p>

<p>Volunteer:</p>

<p>Mentor to an autistic child
- Each week I spend one or two hours with an autistic child of a Families Fighting Autism family I know. Started in 11th grade to present.</p>

<p>Animal Orphanage
- Walk dogs at a local animal shelter</p>

<p>Highschool’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt
- Event when children come to Eastern and have a variety of acitivites to and food to eat. At the end, there is a egg hunt for all of the age groups.</p>

<p>Walk-a-Thon</p>

<p>Breakfast with Santa
- Annual event that children attend with many events going on and every child receives presents donated by the volunteers.</p>

<p>Senior Citizen Luncheon
- Annual event where the volunteers serve, talk, and entertain the the senior citizens who attend</p>

<p>Elementary Fair
- Volunteer at a elementary school (that i attended) annually when they have their fair</p>

<p>So what do you think my chances are at the following schools? (don't have to answer all, just as many as you feel like or as many as you know about):</p>

<p>Bucknell
College of New Jersey
Lehigh
Northeastern
Penn State - UP
Duke
Rutgers NB
University of Delaware
University of Maryland - College Park
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina
University of Florida
University of Miami</p>

<p>Any other schools to look at? Similar to my list?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>anyone???</p>

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<p>You’re in at UD, Maryland, Northeastern and Penn State. Not too sure about the rest of them, but I think UVA, Duke and UNC will be the toughest.</p>

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<p>yeah im worried about UNC and Duke. Id love to get into one but both are pretty big reaches for me</p>

<p>any1 else?</p>

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<p>Bucknell - Match
College of New Jersey - Match
Lehigh - Match
Northeastern - Match
Penn State - UP - Match
Duke - Reach
Rutgers NB - Match
University of Delaware - Match
University of Maryland - College Park - Match
University of North Carolina - Reach (If you’re out of state, it is really hard to get in)</p>

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<p>Bucknell - match to slight reach
TCNJ - match to safety
Lehigh - match
Northeastern - match
Penn State - match to saftey
Duke - slight reach
Rutgers NB - safety
U of Delaware - safety (but they are not consistent with their process)
U of Maryland - match
UNC - match</p>

<p>I would be surprised if you did not get into at least 7 of these - and more likely 9 or 10.</p>

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<p>oops - let me add the few I left out</p>

<p>Bucknell - match to slight reach
TCNJ - match to safety
Lehigh - match
Northeastern - match
Penn State - match to safety
Duke - slight reach
Rutgers NB - safety
U of Delaware - safety (but they are not consistent with their process)
U of Maryland - match
UNC - match</p>

<p>Michigan - match
Virginia - slight reach
UF - match to safety
Miam- match to safety </p>

<p>Okay, you will get into at least 10 of the 14…probably more like 12.</p>

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<p>Bucknell- match
College of New Jersey - safety
Lehigh - match
Northeastern - match to safety
Penn State - UP - low match
Duke -reach
Rutgers NB - safety
University of Delaware - safety
University of Maryland - College Park : low match
University of Michigan - high match
University of Virginia -low reach
University of North Carolina -low/mid reach, hard to get out of state
University of Florida - low match
University of Miami - low match</p>