Uh-Huh, I AM a JuiceboxHero.

Colleges & Universities A-Z Emory University
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<p>I am an Indian Male.
My GPA is a 3.45 in core academic subjects (Science, Social Studies, Foreign Language, English, Math), with assigning 4 pts for A, 3 Pts for B, and 2 Pts for C. I have one of the 5 hardest schedules in my school. So, this GPA is a bit deflated, in my opinion.
My rank is 99/471, but will go up to about 90/471. This is also due to many schedules that are a lot weaker than mine at a huge suburban, competitive, high-school.
I have a 800 V, 740 M on SAT I
710 Math IIC, 760 Chemistry, and 700 US History.</p>

<p>I recently turned 16 years old, and I am a senior, I hope that helps.
I sent in a CD, and a copy of my research paper on Field Emission. That paper was a big deal...It was at a prestigious lab..blah, blah, blah.</p>

<p>I am an Eagle Scout, so I have a 1000 + Community service hours with that.
I have been a varsity swimmer for 2 years. An avid swimmer for 8 +.
I'm an active Stand-Up Comedian.
I'm on my school's Math and Science, as well as Academic Quiz Bowl Teams. I have some awards and good showings at these. I am captain of two of them.
I used to play piano for about 6 years, but stopped 2 years ago.
I have lots, and lots, and lots of community service, through Boy Scouts, Habitat for Humanity, The Local Library, a Center for Autism and Related Disablities, and coaching sports to low-income kids.</p>

<p>Other Interests, Activities, and Notes</p>

<p>· Member of school’s Pep Club (Big Bad Wolves)
· Long interest in Stand-Up Comedy
· Sustained interest in hiking and other outdoor activities
· I have a very strong interest in football and baseball. I was very eagerly awaiting a chance to play on my high-school varsity teams until I suffered an injury that shattered my wrist. However, I still play intramural flag-football, as well as intramural baseball with local high-school students.
· I am very proficient at cooking traditional Indian dishes.
· I am an avid hip-hop enthusiast and DJ. I experiment with making break-beats and cutting records with my friends on weekends.
· I am fluent in Hindi and Telugu. Telugu is spoken frequently in my house, but Hindi is only spoken occasionally. I practice Hindi by watching Bollywood films. This is one of my guilty pleasures.
· During my youth, my family traveled to India, Scotland, Italy, France, and Germany. This travel has been very influential and has been instrumental in giving me a more worldly view.
· I have participated in some research every summer at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and The Center for Advanced Power Systems. This research has not been “official.” I will “officially” be allowed to participate this summer, as I have just recently turned 16.</p>

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<p>Good for you.</p>

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<p>I should have specified that this was a chances post...Maybe that would have elicited a less douchebagish response...</p>

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<p>hahaha, about the "good for you"</p>

<p>i would say you have great chances...ec's are relatively unique...but you should stop worrying about chances....just wait and see what happens!</p>

<p>I was accepted with average ec's and around the same test scores......telugu all the way babyyyy...haha i "learned" hindi the same way</p>

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<p>dude, you've posted in 12 different places this exact same freakin thing...explore the chances thread rather than abusing the individual college threads</p>

<p>you also posted that you want to go to JHU; if so, then why post in Harvard, Columbia, Emory, etc???</p>

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<p>AGAIN...You can just skip it..It doesn't pop up on your screen and make you read it. I want the opinions of current students. Chillax man. I'm sorry, but, I'm not "abusing" anything. I'm just trying to gauge my chances, like every other sap out there.</p>

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<p>for the sake of CC, IMO, i still think the purpose of the chances thread is to prevent MULTIPLE threads like this one</p>

<p>there's a reason there's a specific seciton for these types of threads...</p>

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<p>"I should have specified that this was a chances post...Maybe that would have elicited a less douchebagish response..."</p>

<p>with an attitude like that i hope you get rejected..</p>

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<p>haha and you guys call juicebox a troll.</p>

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<p>were not calling him a troll were calling him a piece of shi...</p>

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<p>What high school do you go to?</p>

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<p>What is a juiceboxhero??</p>

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<p>don't worry juicebox, some people on CC just get intense pleasure by *****ing out other people.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?=juice+box+hero%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.google.com/search?=juice+box+hero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Try that. This is off the top of my head so I'm hoping it's correct.</p>

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<p>What was the google search supposed to land?</p>

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<p>Nothing... I was just testing my skillz. :cool:</p>

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<p>also juicebox, I think your SAT scores (combined with your unique EC's) make you pretty much a lock. don't let people tell you you can NEVER be a lock and blah, blah, blah...elite colleges (with the exception of liberal arts schools maybe) LOOOOVE the SAT, and I promise you a kid with a 1500, a pretty good GPA and unexciting EC's has a better chance at a top school than a kid with a 1280, an amazing gpa, and amazing EC's. people will argue with me on that, but it is a fact...i see it happen over and over and over.</p>

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<p>^ are you kidding. admissions officers themselves say the exact opposite.</p>

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<p>...why wouldn't they? Admissions officers are in the business of selling their school and building the best reputation for it. What do you think would happen if they said "well, all we really care about is the SAT." Obviously SATs aren't all they care about, but people these days hate to think that that test dictates a decision as important as college acceptance. Saying that a school cared only about such a trivial, as some call it, test can make them look bad. Notice how the US News and World Report only cites the average SAT scores at each school. No mention of the average GPA or ECs. The SAT, many would say unfortunately, is the measure of all things.
Bottom line is, admissions officers work first and foremost for their institution.
I hope this post doesn't come off as being too harsh or anything, I'm just trying to uncover truth in the college admissions process. I humbly submit to you all that this is part of that truth.</p>

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<p>agree with pugachev and hshtein</p>