Reverse chance me and I’ll chance you back

College Search & Selection
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Demographic: Middle class white male

Major: Mechanical engineering

Academics:

  • 4.27 W GPA
  • 3.7-ish UW GPA
  • 27/319 rank, top 10%
  • 3.95 College GPA (explain later)

Testing:

  • SAT: 1410, 670 RW/740 M

Rigor:

  • Former part of a special STEM program in school
  • Honors Math/Science every year possible
  • Honors English/History every year but 9th
  • No AP, but I have Dual Enrollment (this is where I got my college GPA above)

LOR (Expected):

  • Former counselor who moved to another school, she loves me and thinks I’m practically a model student, it will be a great letter
  • 11th grade English teacher, she mentioned writing my letter and thinks I could be a great writer one day (I know it’s a bit off mech. engineering)
  • 9-10th STEM teacher, me and him are kinda buddy buddy and I showed him a math formula I think I discovered and he was all for it, and he likes me

EC’s (Lacking):

  • Lead anchor for the morning school news, 11-12
  • Men’s Volleyball, 10-12, 1-year varsity
  • Intramural Flag Football, QB of winning team, 10-12
  • Leader at local church’s Kids Club, 11-12
  • NHS, 12
  • Interact, 10 (Had to leave due to time interferences but I loved it)

Honors/Awards:

  • 2-Time National High School Poetry Contest Topical Winner, published also
  • 1st Place in Innovation, local robotics competition at a county college
  • STEM student, one of 24 students placed into the program per grade
  • 2-Time President’s Honors List at a local county college I do my DE at
  • Computer Applications award winner at my high school’s award ceremony

Extra (Not included in application):

I am expecting to become at least a pre-finalist in the International Youth Math Challenge

I’ll use this to replace either the President’s honors list or the computer applications award

So where do you think I got a chance? If you can separate by safeties, competitive, and reaches that would be a great help, too.

Thanks!

Just pop the link to your chance thread, and I’ll answer.

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You’re asking people to tell you where you can get in and offering to do the same for them? I’m confused. If you know enough to do it for other people, why don’t you know enough to do it for yourself?

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If you want some suggestions, give us a little more info: what is your home state? Do you have geographic preferences for colleges? Do you have a preference for large, medium, small schools, Greek life, or any particular activities? And most important - the finances… have you talked to your parents about this part? Are you looking for financial aid? Merit aid?

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I see why you’re mentioning all this. However, my main goal of the chance thread was to use the suggestions that I got to figure out the level I am at college-wise. From there, I will narrow it down to my preferences and everything like that. So don’t worry about all of your questions if you decide to chance me. That’s something I plan on handling after seeing the level I am at college-wise.

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Well, I find that it’s much more difficult to judge yourself than it is to judge others, so I have ideas of where I could fit in, but I don’t know if I’m judging myself correctly because it is very difficult to take an objective point-of-view of yourself. I can chance other people because I can see them objectively, while I really can’t do that to myself.

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The problem is, of course, that it’s not about how YOU “judge” others or how they “judge” you… particularly when you’re both high school students with no background in college admissions. Its about how closely your profile matches that of the colleges you want.