What do you think? (chance thing)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I don't really care much to what someone I dont know would think, but I'm kind of curious.</p>

<p>Background Info:
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Grade: Sophomore
College Major: Pre-law?
Class Rank: at least top 20, not sure yet (school's not over)
GPA: so far its 3.6
Languages: Fluent in Spanish and French. </p>

<p>Academics</p>

<p>FRESHMAN
All honor core classes & Golf, Film, French 1 & 2, Nutrition, Speech, Art, Global Studies.
ECs: none</p>

<p>SOPHOMORE:
All honors core classes & AP Biology, IB French, IB Spanish (two sciences)
Top 100 PSAT Score in the district, got an award for that.
Competed in UIL academics, won first place in News Writing, and 3rd place in Feature at a district level.
Took SAT (awaiting score)
Took AP exams in French, Spanish, and Biology. (awaiting scores)</p>

<p>ECs: tennis, officer in French Club. </p>

<p>JUNIOR:
All IB courses, part of the IB Diploma Programme, no language courses because I already did the most advanced offered.
Probably retaking the SAT to show improvement.
Start 150 community service hours requirement for IB.
Planning to take AP Italian this year or senior year.
NHS
ECs: Yearbook, Officer in French Club and Student Council, Tennis, UIL</p>

<p>SENIOR:
Planning to go study abroad in France for the entire year under an IB school.
Again, all IB classes.
Maybe Editor in chief of yearbook or something like that.</p>

<p>I project my GPA to be 3.8 at the end of high school.</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Soon</p>

<p>Community Service:
Will have 150</p>

<p>Interested Colleges:
Duke most of all. Ivy league, and colleges around the top 50 range. I would consider NYU a safety school.</p>

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<p>how small is your school when you have a 3.6 and are in the top 20? you need a denominator
20/1000 is great, 20/25 sucks</p>

<p>btw a lot of it is still unwritten- like that song</p>

<p>you can’t project your gpa or your sat-
you can’t assume leadership unless you have <100 kids in your class
assume leadership positions when somebody says you will have a leadership position next year
don’t say ‘150 hour requirment’ on your application, it looks bad</p>

<p>it’s all about your sat score and your gpa right now</p>

<p>don’t plan to retake a test when you don’t know the score the first time
if it’s 2200+, it’s sort of risky retaking it</p>

<p>your race does help
it’s too early to know you wan’t to be a lawyer</p>

<p>‘projected’ ec’s are solid, but you don’t really know what they will be
you won’t be editor in chief of anything if you’re the only person who doesn’t fluently speak french, or if your in a different country than the club is</p>

<p>saying you will work soon is dumb</p>

<p>overall, you can’t just decide to sit down one night and map out your route
there will be tons of obstacles, and you will be juggling job/school/ec’s/sports- especially sports
imagine coming home all sore and then working for four hours</p>

<p>i don’t know what your school is like, but i have a friend, who’s an editor for local newspaper and plays on the tennis team</p>

<p>he get’s home at seven to eight every night
he’s not in a lot of ap classes and stuff like that, so he get’s to bed at around 11</p>

<p>if you do what your thinking about doing, expect no more than 5 hours of sleep a night</p>

<p>final advice</p>

<p>to get into duke
great sat
solid gpa
solid ec’s
do something creative</p>

<p>or get really really good at basketball or tennis</p>

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<p>Hard to say without scores but don’t cosider NYU a safety if you need much financial aid. Most who get in do not have their financial need met.</p>

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<p>pinkslip, of course much of my plans are not concrete.
I’m still a sophomore, theres lots of things that could happen/not happen.
I’m just pointing out PLANS that I think are feasible. </p>

<p>I don’t think its too early to know what I want to do in life, I have my reasons and its not something I havent thought over.</p>

<p>My class has 235 students.</p>