So, what do you think...Chances Please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Male, Caucasian, Jewish
Location: NY
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.8
GPA - Weighted: 4.26 (Weighting: Honors= +.33 AP=+.43)
Class Rank: 14/400 (top 4%)</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 780
SAT I Critical Reading: 730
SAT I Writing: 790
2300 total</p>

<p>SAT IIs
U.S. History: 720
Math Level 1 (IC): 750
Physics: 790</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Treasurer--National Honor Society</p>

<p>President---Mu Alpha Theta </p>

<p>Sports Editor for School Paper</p>

<p>VAASA (Varsity Athletes Against Substance Abuse)--captain</p>

<p>Jazz Band - (Trombonist)</p>

<p>Sports
4 years Varsity Wrestling</p>

<p>Freshman Baseball</p>

<p>Volunteer/Service Work: This summer attended community service trip affiliated with Peace Corps and UN...40 hours community service</p>

<p>AP Courses
Freshman: World History---4
Sophomore: US History---5
Junior: Statistics----5
Government--- 4
Physics B-----5</p>

<p>Full Senior Schedule:
AP Microeconomics/AP Macroeconomics
AP Chemistry
AP Calc BC
AP Language
Band
Spanish 200/201 H (Unable to take junior year because I was blocked out of the class.)</p>

<p>Future Plans: Undecided. Potentially science-related in some form</p>

<p>Applied/Applying to:</p>

<p>Princeton
Columbia
Yale
Penn
Cornell
UVA
William and Mary
Duke
Wash U
Northwestern
University of Florida</p>

<p>Thanks a lot guys for your time and input.</p>

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<p>Princeton--Slight Reach
Columbia--Match to Slight Reach)
Yale--Slight Reach
Penn--Match to Slight Reach
Cornell--Match
UVA (OOS)--Match
William and Mary--Match
Duke--Match to Slight Reach
Wash U--Match
Northwestern--Match
University of Florida (OOS)--Safe Match</p>

<p>P.S. Great test scores and good grades, okay rank for Ivies, but you didn't list your ECs, so it's kind of tough to rank you for the Ivies as a result. (Need at least a regional award for admission to Penn and Columbia. A national award of some type (or a finalist) might get you into Princeton and Yale).</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>I did list my ECs...</p>

<p>What kind of "awards" are we talking, here?</p>

<p>I could throw National Merit Commended Student (NY), AP Scholar with Distinction, Nat'l Honor Society, various subject honor societies in there also. That kinda stuff? Or some extra significant competition of some sort...</p>

<p>Thanks for the input!</p>

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<p>Bump.......</p>

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<p>yeah throw that stuff in there too. Ur stats are pretty amazing and make me jealous lol. I ask everyone this question though but what are u really passionate about?</p>

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<p>Well, thanks, comparing myself with some ridiculous people on here gets me a little crazy I guess.</p>

<p>The passion thing makes me nervous because it is difficult for me to select one thing that I really am into most. I am pretty well-rounded, and though I definitely believe that is what is best in life, not sure if that is so in college admissions.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>ur right about being well-rounded in life, but for college admissions they want to see that ur really passionate about something. Find out what that is, show that u have invested a lot of time into it, and u'll be fine</p>

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<p>i really think u should take the iic as well</p>

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<p>Really? I mean, I guess it's too late now... 750 is 95th %tile, but I guess I could have probably done better on the Math II (Math I has some sort of extreme curve?)</p>

<p>Ah, well.</p>

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<p>^i think some of your schools (Yale?) require 3 (in which case the math should prob. be level ii), but the other 2 are very impressive regardless...</p>