What do yal think chances are? (At least look because I said yal)

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<p>I'm from Virginia, its ok. A friend told me about this site and I figure why not ask around. Thanks for any ideas on what I should send in, my chances, etc</p>

<p>SAT: 1580 (800 M / 780 V)</p>

<p>SAT2: 740 MIC, 710 MIIC, 740 Writing, 690 US Hist, 690 English</p>

<p>AP: 5 Statistics, 5 US Hist, 4 English</p>

<p>Current Classes: Honors Humanities, AP Modern Euro, Spanish 4, AP BC Calc, AP Bio, International Relations; taking hardest classes available. </p>

<p>GPA: 3.558 for soph/jr year combined, 3.783 for first quarter of senior year. </p>

<p>School: Our school leaves them weighted, and it is on a 4=A, .5 extra for
AP/Honors. So highest possible is 4.5 if you had all As in all APs. I am about 8-15 range out of 70 students in my grade, in a very competitive school. People have gotten into Dartmouth, JHU, Williams, Yale, Stanford, Duke, UVA, William and Mary, etc. </p>

<p>Extra Curricular: Dorm council (student council for boarders, elected by 40 other boarders), Varsity Squash 3 years, Basketball (AAU + School), Academic "A" Team for 3 years (One of the top teams in the nation, have won numerous scholarships and $), Science A Team 3 years, Model Organizations general committees, School Play.</p>

<p>Other activities: Stand up comedy (performed at club), Worked at Ben and Jerrys for 2 and 1/2 years, worked for rivals100.com for two years. Both paid well </p>

<p>Dad went to Harvard/Duke Med. Mom went to Brown/Harvard SOPH. I spent summer between soph/jr years at Amherst taking classes. Summer between jr/sr years at Harvard taking classes, which I got 8 credits for (received B+ in both classes). The SSP thing, got a reference from teacher.</p>

<p>Submitted extra materials from Academic team tournament (Scholarship info (have won close to $2000 or so for my school with team) and program from the night I did the standup comedy set. Essays were good, as were recs, although I didnt see them. Just assuming, I mean not like the teacher is gonna bash me. </p>

<p>Oh right, received a couple honors:
-Honor roll after sophomore year, high honors after junior year
-National Merit Commendation
-AP Scholar
-Ben Carson Nominee (8th grade so not that big deal)
-Academic team has won a crapload of stuff.</p>

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<p>A very decent chance i'll say. Good luck!</p>

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<p>You didn't spell "Y'all" correctly.... Just kidding. You have a good chance. What is the academic team? I was captain of our school's quiz team. Is it anything like that? My best wishes! :)</p>

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<p>which academic team, if you dont mind me asking? i ask because i competed at PACE last year and am on dartmouth's collegebowl team</p>

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<p>haha naw its yal, thats how we really do it. thanks for the wishes. and academic team=quiz bowl. </p>

<p>i goto STAB. We qualified for Pace last year, and will easilly this year, same for NAQT. A few years ago I think we won it, with a team that had two harvard kids. We play the team that won it last year I think, Thomas Jefferson, as well as Maggie Walker Gov School, which won NAQT.</p>

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<p>You will be fine. Why are you even posting a "what are my chances" thread. You know you will be fine.</p>

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<p>ah. i think we played STAB at yale. good luck</p>

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<p>while I appreciate your confidence cinderelly, i hardly consider myself a lock for dartmouth. </p>

<p>howd yal do vs stab? I did not go up there</p>

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<p>we won a practice round against you and lost an actual round.</p>

<p>let me know if you have questions about college bowl or dartmouth in general</p>

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<p>well, i will if i get in haha. i do really like it, i had a great time visiting. id say they are right up there, although itd be tough to say no if amherst/harvard let me in (im from mass, grew up near amherst, just love it).</p>

<p>thanks for the advice, what do you think my chances are? you should let the admins know that if they let me in they are getting a good academic teamer haha. not that great with literature or ancient history, but solid with US, Euro, Science, and Math, and dominate pop culture. Sports, I own. Unfortunately, we get like maybe 2 a round at best, but thats my forte.</p>

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<p>to be honest i'd be surprised if you werent accepted at all three of those schools. </p>

<p>of course, we offer aid packages for varsity academic team recruits, so keep that in mind.</p>

<p>seriously though, give dartmouth its chance if you get in elsewhere as well. who knows which school is the best place to go, but i guarantee you dartmouth is the best place to be. theres just not much to dislike.</p>

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<p>well i got deferred early from harvard, and my grades need work. if i get into all three, i promise ill go to dartmouth ;)</p>

<p>well actually no, i dont know. i doubt i will, but if i do i will definately visit all my top schools. right now, its probably harvard amherst stanford penn duke dartmouth william and mary uva. but once i find out where i get in, ill look at all the schools again. uva is the only real safety school, the rest i will look at no matter what. </p>

<p>as far as academic team scholarship, i dont know if i am that good. i am #3 or #4 on a good team, probably top 25-50 in nation, but our top two are real good. depending on style of tourney i can be very good, and if you have three pure academic people, i can do a little of that but dominate sports haha. and of course the occasional simpsons question.</p>

<p>oh yeah, and check out <a href="http://www.battleofthebrains.net....we%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.battleofthebrains.net....we&lt;/a> got in semis last year, losing to a team that won the national championship. this year, we might be able to beat them (they lost one or two guys), and have a good shot at taking home the 3k first prize. Saint Annes Belfield Saints</p>

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<p>nice job, maggie walker was pretty crazy i remember. we were a one-year type deal and then all graduated, but ended up somewhere in the top half of PACE so it was fun.</p>

<p>kidding about the scholarship, btw</p>

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<p>ahh haha about to say</p>

<p>yah, two years ago we had a great team, then they all graduated. so then last year the whole b-team moved up, which was then two juniors and a soph. this year its the same team, with myself and another senior (got into JHU early, coulda gone anywhere probably) and two juniors.</p>

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<p>eh, ok chances</p>

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<p>anyone else have any idea?</p>

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<p>wut part of virginia? i lived in fairfax station for 5 years.</p>

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<p>charlottesville</p>