What do you think about my chances?

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<p>What do you think about my chances? I intend to apply EA. The other colleges I am applying to are: Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Indiana, and Brigham Young. Here are my stats, thanks!</p>

<p>Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Intended Major: Physics (or biophysics if offered)
GPA: 3.97 unweighted, 4.369 weighted
rank: 3rd of 364
SAT: 1430, 710 verbal, 720 math (will be retaking in Nov. and maybe Dec.)
SAT II: Writing--680, Spanish--720, and Math IIC--750
ACT: 32, will be retaking the 23rd, should receive 33 or 34
AP: AB Calculus (4), Physics, Statistics, English, and Microeconomics (Our school offers 10 but several were just added this year and I couldn't take them due to scheduling conflicts. Should this be mentioned in the school report?)</p>

<p>ECs: Varsity Gymnastics (4 yrs., been in my whole life, lettered each year), Varsity Cheerleading (3 yrs., lettered each year, NCA All-American, Motions Award, Sportsmanship Award), Class Officer (Treasurer, Secretary, VP, VP), Key Club (2 yrs., read to elementary school kids), Church Youth Group (4 yrs., President 1 yr.), Band (4 yrs., Marched 1 yr., band letter, alto saxophone).</p>

<p>Work Experience: Gymastics Instructor for about 7 months. Babysit for various family members.</p>

<p>Awards/Honors: National Merit Commended Student, Marion County Principal's Award (3 yrs., given to top 1, 2, and 3 percent of class respectively), Who's Who Among American High School Students ( 1 yr.), scored in 90th percentile on American Chemical Society end of year exam, National Honor Society, Straight-A Honor roll each semester, various honor ribbons for the highest percentage in individual classes.</p>

<p>Miscellaneous: I attend a seminary class (scripture study class) before school each morning for about an hour. I attended the Richard Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow's Leaders and Mayor's Teen Summit (both 1 day events). I watched my grandma for about an hour each day for 1 summer because she had alzheimers.</p>

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<p>I think you have a pretty fair chance, your test scores and classes seem to be good, but remember almost everyone that applies to Duke has great grades and tests. Find some way to distinguish yourself from the applicant pool. Have you done any unique activities outside of sports or school?</p>

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<p>WOW! I think you have a good chance at any school you apply to, but like the other person said, talk about some different or interesting activity you have been involved in.</p>

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<p>yeah, early decision you have an above average chance. By the way, I think we've pretty much deduced that Who's Who is a scam, and your miscellaneous things aren't really going to make a difference. You could write an essay about one of them though. but yeah with your grades and sports stuff you have a pretty good chance early.</p>

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<p>post your stats on the early decision roster =) tryin to see if we can get a good list going</p>