<p>Please tell me what you think about my chances to get into Duke University early decision. I hope for positive feedback, as I know I want to go to Duke. I'm in a hotel 5 minutes from the campus as I write this, heh.</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 1440/2240 (CR 700; M 750; W 780)
* ACT: 34 Composite (35 Science, 35 Math, 34 Reading, 32 English)
* SAT II: 780 Biology M, 730 US History, Math IIC and Spanish in October
* Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91
* Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10% out of ~250
* AP:
Euro: 4
US: 5
Bio: 5
AP Lang: 5
Psych: 5
* Senior Year Course Load:
AP Lit
BC Calc
Engineering Design and Development
AP Physics B
AP Macro/Micro Economics
AP Spanish
AP Chem
* Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Bronze medal-National Spanish Exam
National Merit Scholar Semi-Finalist
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<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Spanish Club (President, 2 years)
National Honor Society
Engineering Club
TaeKwonDo (Third degree black belt, 11 First Place Trophies, 8 years)
I teach TKD 20 hours/week during the school year (4 years)
* Summer Activities:
Worked 40 hours/week at a TaeKwonDo camp (I ran it along with another woman)
- Teacher Recommendation: Hopefully good, from AP Biology and AP English teachers
- Counselor Rec: Good
- Additional Rec: Excellent.
- Interview: Likely good. </code></pre>
<p>I go to a competitive public school in New York, my parents income is ~150k.</p>
<p><strong><em>Please read</em></strong></p>
<p>I have always wanted Pratt, BME. I've taken engineering courses every year at my high school, and they are very hands-on. We design and build race cars, program milling sequences, etc. However, the only research experience I have is from a week long program in biological research at the University of Rochester. Besides this, I am planning another week-long shadow/assistant-ing from a BME phD at the U of R, but that will be in February. Will this lack of hands-on experience hurt my chances of getting into Pratt? If that's the case, should I just try for Trinity?</p>
<p>Any and all advice/comments/feedback is appreciated.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>