Quadrilingual Chances (Updated)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>North African male at competitive Seattle-area public school.
4.14 Weighted, 3.67 Unweighted</p>

<p>I am fluent in four languages: English, Arabic, French, and Spanish.</p>

<p>SAT I:
2020
CR: 740 M: 610 W: 670 (retaking in october & actually studying this time)</p>

<p>SAT II:
740 Spanish 700 US History 690 Biology-E (will probably retake)</p>

<p>AP:
I will probably be in the top 3 or 4 or of my class in terms of number of AP classes taken, (out of a class of 350). Also, I will be the only student in recent memory at my school to have taken both AP Spanish and French Lit.</p>

<p>13 AP's by graduation, 15 tests (took Euro and French Lang w/o the classes)
French Lang: 5
French Lit: 5
English Lang: 5
English Lit: 4
World History: 5
Spanish Lang: 5*
Spanish Lit:
US History: 4
Biology: 3
Photography: 4
Calc AB
Chemistry
US Government (not sure if this is the official name)
Comparative Gov (not sure if this is the official name)
Macro-Econ (maybe)</p>

<p>*Practice scores</p>

<p>Achievements, etc.</p>

<p>NEWSPAPER</p>

<p>Chief Copy Editor and Political Columnist
 A 2006 Gold Crown publication, as designated by the Colombia Scholastic Press Association.
 Chief Copy Editor (2006-07)
 News Editor and Copy Editor (2005-06)
 Political Columnist (2005-06)
 Attendee, JEA/NSPA Journalism Conference in Seattle (April 2005)
 Assistant Opinion Editor and Political Columnist (2004-05)</p>

<p>DEBATE</p>

<p>I would list my debate awards here, but they are too long and won't mean much to you unless you do debate. Needless to say, I have three tournament titles, am ranked the 3rd returning debater on the west coast (according to NDR, an unofficial but extremely comprehensive ranking. again, for you debaters out there, I too am not a big fan of NDR but hey, if my ranking sounds good whatever) </p>

<p>President
 Treasurer (2003-04)
 Vice President (2004-05)
 Co-President (2005-06)
 Revived the debate program, turning my school into a regional powerhouse—the #1 ranked team in Washington state, with two debaters in the Varsity top five.
 Increased membership from 3-5 to 15 -20 competitors.
 Taught new students how to debate, spending at least 2 hours at twice-weekly meetings teaching and drilling new students.
 My novices have consistently appeared in late elimination rounds, including finals, at various tournaments in both JV and novice divisions.
 Wrote and submitted a PTSA grant for to hire a coach, arguing the critical value of debate in intellectual development. The PTSA committee, which usually does not distribute funds for contracted services (coaching) granted us $750 (March 2006).
 Spearheaded the creation of a team web-site, involving a blog for results and designing a tournament sign-up interface.
 Attendee, Victory Briefs Debate Institute at UCLA, Summer 2004 (Intermediate Varsity), Summer 2005 (Advanced Varsity), Summer 2006 (Top Lab)
Have a pretty good shot at being one of the 5 with TeamUSA @ World Tournament in Korea (I'm one of 20 accepted to the tryouts next week)</p>

<p>DECA</p>

<p>Competing in the Financial Analysis Decision Making Event:
 Placed in the Top 10 at the International Conference (Dallas, Texas) [over 13,000 total attendees/competitors from across North America]
 Washington State Champion
 Washington National Qualifier
 Regional Champion (Area IV)
 State Qualifier (Area IV)
 Superior Test Score Award (Area IV)</p>

<p>Arabic Independent Study:</p>

<p>I have been studying arabic on the weekends since 1st grade, since 9th grade i've been spending 6 hours a week (4 with tutor, 2 homework) studying at grade level, supplemented with some advanced college-level textbooks (I think they are Georgetown U. Press, message me if you want the complete citation)</p>

<p>PHOTOGRAPHY:</p>

<p>My work has been displayed at the largest shopping mall in the region this year and two years ago.</p>

<p>INTERNSHIP (last summer)
Library of Alexandria (<a href="http://www.bibalex.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.bibalex.org&lt;/a&gt;) - A UNESCO cultural institution
Alexandria, Egypt</p>

<p> Participant, Forum for Egyptian Democracy
 Digitized (scanned and OCRed) the official UNESCO history of the Library (English and French)
 Debuted the Library Special Collections programme, creating the first Special Collection to be placed on the Library website as an example for all those interested in creating their own special collection (mine documented the evolution of High School Lincoln-Douglas debate websites).
 International School for Information Science (ISIS) web site
- Edited the English version of the web site prior to publishing
- Translated into French
 Assisted in the curricular development of a Technical Writing course destined to become a requirement for 800 Library staff members.
 Edited, translated and wrote portions of the script for a promotional video regarding the Gamal Abdel Nasser Collection and the Description d'Egypte DVD, the first digital publication of the French body of research on Egypt dating from Napoleon’s campaign.</p>

<p>So there you have it (I am also taking up rowing, but that's another story)</p>

<p>I'm looking at (semi-ordered):</p>

<p>Super Ambitious:
1. University of Cambridge (UK) - both grandparents received BA, MA, PhD from here
2. Harvard (Early?) - dad received MA and PhD from here, and retired prof will write me a rec as will an alum teacher
3. UPenn (Early?)
4. Cornell</p>

<p>Ambitious:
3. University of Chicago
4. Northwestern
5. Georgetown
6. USC
7. UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara
8. McGill
9. University of Washington
10. Boston College - mom received PhD from here, worked as a researcher here for 20 years
11. NYU
12. Middlebury
13. George Washington</p>

<p>Safety:
University of Washington (my mom is faculty and i have <em>very</em> in range stats)</p>

<p>So go ahead, rate my chances and add any recommendations you may have.</p>

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<p>ramses88:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach (out of state)
UCSB: Safe Match (out of state)</p>

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<p>with your unique background, you could probably get into just about every LAC in the northeast</p>

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<p>if you are interested in business, try the huntsman program at penn. it is a joint program with business at wharton and international studies at the college. it is competitive, but early may help. you have to be fluent in at least two languages and quadrilingual would probably help a lot.</p>

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<p>En tant qu'ambience, environement culturel et niveau acad</p>

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<p>I've talked about Berkeley with some friends who go there this past week and it is now very near the top of my list. I have also been thinking about Huntsman for a while, but the more I research about it the more I am intimidated (although if I ED at Penn I will do Huntsman/College) mainly by the math factors in the admissions-- to be completely honest I am terrible at math and I think that will hurt my chances for Huntsman.</p>

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<p>ramses, you're a great fit for Berkeley, and vice-versa. Georgetown est un peu bas sur ta liste, Penn un peu trop haut, IMHO.</p>

<p>N'h</p>

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<p>CalX, are you French? Tu parles en francais tres bien.</p>

<p>Ramses, we need WAY more North Africans like you to represent us. Are you an incoming senior?
Props to you, man.</p>

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<p>Oui sarah. </p>

<p>Tu es d'origine maghrebienne?</p>

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<p>yeah im an incoming senior and i am alexandrian (egyptian) with 1/8ths of polish and nubian thrown into the mix. j'etais un eleve a l'ecole bilingue de boston pour 9 ans mais il fait deux ans que je ne l'ai pas etudie' ou parle' regulairement.</p>

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<p>Huntsman and Cal OOS with the stats given? Qualified CCers must be on vacation. Sorry, but no way. You can get into Harvard if you can get into thoser.</p>

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<p>dude, i've seen you give consistently bad advice about colleges to people (ie 740 math IIC makes MIT out, 1360 makes ivies out). not only are you usually wrong, but you deliver your advice with a pretentious finality that is both absurd and hilarious.</p>

<p>Who are you and why do you have the authority to disqualify other people's opinions? I understand that Huntsman is way out of reach for me, I think that was exactly what I said. Moreover, the only UC school I see myself getting into is UCSB. </p>

<p>Look, I'm not here to be given an accurate forecast, I just want to toss my stats in and see what other people (who may not be entirely qualified) think. Stop taking yourself so seriously.</p>

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<p>oui, je suis marocaine.</p>

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<p>You're here to keep your head in the cloud. 740 math is about 50%, not even close to an MIT admit unless a URM. Though go ahead and listen to drsarah, hehehe. Just read her stats and posts first.</p>

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<p>... I really don't care what you have to say, to be completely honest. But regardless, my UC GPA (10th and 11th) is on the low-end of the Berkeley range, so even if i don't have a great shot at Berk I still have a shot, your demagoguery aside.</p>

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<p>Are schools going to start looking at the writing sections this fall? I know GTown's not going to, so I recommend you bone up on math. If you pull up that 610 to around a 650, you'd have a decent shot at most of those schools. Probably not Penn or Harvard, but the other tough schools on the list (GTown, Chicago, NW...) would be a coin flip with a higher math score. Your ECs look really good, at least I think they do because they were tldr.</p>

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<p>It's honesty guy, sorry. Your stats are at the low end of in state applicants. Not even close OOS. Most people who mistake what it takes are easy to feel sorry for. You are cocky and totally out to lunch about what schools take. You have the help of the other off season CC wishful thinkers. You do indeed represent the North Africans (you and drsarah). I wish it were legal to wager, because I would bet my last $$$ on your outcomes.</p>

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<p>how on earth am i cocky when i admit that every single one of the schools i listed are "ambitious" meaning they are reaches or far reaches except for UW which is pretty much a given because I'm in-state? moreover, i really don't give a sh1t what you think, especially when you lace your comments with racist undertones and arrogance that you by no means have earned above anyone else on this forum. jesus christ dude, it's an online forum of 17 year olds pretending to know something about which they know very little, don't take it so seriously and don't take your own opinions so seriously. finally, you can wager all you want, except i wouldn't bet on myself getting into the majority of the schools listed... so i guess you'd have to wager someone else.</p>

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<p>17 year olds who know nothing should refrain from commenting pathetic
assurances. I was you ramses 6 years ago with a list that was absurd but a lot of assurance that the schools would look past my reality and see the real me which deserved Harvard. Faced reality, went to where I could get in and spent the last two years at the big H. Just wish I'd gotten real sooner.</p>

<p>Sorry, but I just look at posters like you and wonder what you're thinking. The numbers clearly say you have no shot at Cal or Huntsman. Isn't it healthier to figure out how you can get there in the end?</p>

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<p>and now you're a 24 year old who scours a board dominated by 17 year olds and tells them how they don't know what they are talking about. big man, big man buddy.</p>

<p>i mean i appreciate the advice (you're more or less preaching to the choir about my chances at these schools) but you could have done it in one post without being racist/arrogant/a jerk</p>