RD chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Bucknell University
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<p>First generation college student</p>

<p>Thinking of:
Pre-med
Biology
Psychology
Neuroscience</p>

<p>3.69 GPA UW/ 4.41 W</p>

<p>School: public
rank: 61/940 (pretty competitive, top 6-7%)</p>

<p>SAT I: 690 M, 680 V, 650 W</p>

<p>SAT II (haha fail)
German 610
Bio M 600</p>

<p>Senior year courses:
AP Bio I and II
English, Calculus, gov and econ , physics, and german 5 (all honors)</p>

<p>APs:
junior: Euro, German</p>

<p>senior: Bio</p>

<p>ECS:
Odyssey of the Mind- 9 year participant (this takes up most of my time, averages about 15-20 hours a week over the entire school year)
5 time state finalist (state champs 2008)
3 time world finalist (8th, 16th, 13th place in the entire world woot!)
Renatra Fusca Award winner (award for outstanding creativity-state level 2008)</p>

<p>Tutor in english, history, and math (not paid), 3 hours a week
NHS member
2 time german honor society member
Softball player for 10 years (stopped in tenth grade because I was too old for my league, won home run derby in ninth grade in my league)
Volunteer at library (reads to little kids, helps with summer programs, shelving etc.)
Volunteer cleaning up creeks in my area (haul tires out of the creek, pick up trash, etc.)</p>

<p>awards: MLK “keeping the peace” award- school award for maintaining a peaceful environment in my school
School excellence in german award (out of entire grade)
Senior spotlight award (only 10 out of 940 students chosen)
again… that renatra =)</p>

<p>Recs: really great
Essays: pretty darn good</p>

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<p>bumppety- bump</p>

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<p>I think you are an extremely strong candidate.</p>

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<p>What does "bump" mean on these posts?</p>

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<p>I, too, think you are a strong candidate and probably have a good chance. Is Bucknell one of your top choices?</p>

<p>Maiby--Bump moves your thread to the top again</p>

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<p>Bucknell is my super strong 2nd choice. I love it to death. I applied ED somewhere else so if I don't get in Bucknell is #1.</p>

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<p>It might help your chances to apply EDII (I believe deadline is early-mid Jan.) if you don't get in to your 1st choice. </p>

<p>Best of luck to you either way!</p>

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<p>your SATs are just in the 50% range</p>

<p>but GREAT ECs though, so you would be a strong applicant.</p>

<p>like kaleigh said, I recommend you to appy EDI or EDII at least.. Bucknell is a good school</p>

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<p>I didn't get into my ED school (not that I'm surprised, and I actually realized that I like Bucknell more now anyway). But i'm worried about ED II because of the finances. My parents are split on this decision. I'm afraid of applying RD because Bucknell waitlists every person with similar stats at my school, yet it is the one school I want to go to.</p>