Please Chance (yes mathlete) (yes super nerd)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Rising Senior
Probably going into engineering
Age:17
Half Asian/half Caucasian male
Location: Alabama</p>

<p>GPA: UW 3.7, W 4.0 but shows improvement with 4.0 UW Junior Year
APs: USH 4, Chemistry 5, Physics B 5, language 5, Euro H 5, Psych 5
Taking senior year: government, physics C e&m, literature, Calculus BC, Computer Science A
Pretty much most rigorous courses at the school</p>

<p>PSAT: 237
SAT: 1590/2330 (800 R, 790 M, 740 W) (one try)
ACT: 36 (one try)</p>

<p>ECs (bit limited)
Math Team Captain
Physics Team Captain
BEST Robotics Team (will be team leader this year)
Club Lacrosse Team</p>

<p>Awards:
1st place Alabama Statewide Math Competition for Algebra II 08, 4th place for Comprehensive 09, top 3 in many other math tournaments
6th place at the University of Alabama High School Physics Contest
NHS, Mu Alpha Theta, probably National Merit Semifinalist/Finalist</p>

<p>Recs: Probably a great one from the math team teacher, since hes been heading the team for something like 18 years and he's never had anyone do close to as well as I have. Hopefully something good from the physics teacher as well, because hes new working on an emergencey teachers license or something like that, and I've helped him out with the class (also only one from our school to place at the physics contest we went to). Other teachers and counselors like me too.</p>

<p>I'm looking at:
Cornell
Duke
Georgia Tech
MIT
Northwestern
Rice
Stanford
Vanderbilt</p>

<p>For the in-state schools national merit finalist= full ride+laptop+goodies, which is pretty tempting really</p>

<p>Thanks everyone!</p>

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<p>Weak EC’s but amazing test scores. I’d say this…
Cornell- low reach
Duke- low reach
Georgia Tech- MATCH
MIT- mid-reach
Northwestern- high MATCH
Rice- MATCH
Stanford- mid reach
Vanderbilt- high MATCH</p>

<p>Scores are maxed out, but other stuff are not. Sounds like your rank isn’t too high either, since you say GPA is not so great. To get into top schools even having EVERYTHING, gpa, rank, scores, EC’s, is not enough. Write a great essay and apply EA/ED to somewhere will improve your chances too! Chance me~!</p>

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<p>great scores… and you’ll most likely be national merit finalist. congrats!</p>

<p>Cornell - low reach
Duke - high match/low reach (they love great test scores like you have)
Georgia Tech - low match
MIT - reach (you seem like a very typical applicant for MIT and they always have great applicants – definitely a good shot though)
Northwestern - match
Rice - match
Stanford - reach
Vanderbilt - match</p>

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<p>Don’t send your SAT reasoning test score. It will be a disadvantage compared to your perfect ACT score. I suggest send only ACT score</p>