Will this southern boy be traveling to Harvard?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Haha, I doubt i'll get into harvard. </p>

<p>Stats
3.8 UW gpa (upward trend!)
2130 SAT I score
SAT II scores- 750 world history, Biology 740, US history 790
5 - World history
4 - us history
5 psychology
4 English literature
I've taken an anatomy and physiology class at my local Community College and recieved an A</p>

<p>All my academic classes are either honors or AP's (besides freshmen year) </p>

<p>I am a Certified Nurses Assistant and will be a Certified Pharmacy tech by the end of this year</p>

<p>EC's I don't have a lot of EC's, but I think they're pretty well focused around healthcare.
HOSA- 4 years, HIGHLY active, Vice president 1 year then president the next. Won state in a competitive medical competition. (huge club 200+ members!)
Habitat for humanity- Founded the club and have about 190 volunteer hours with them so far. President all 3 years.
Hospital Volunteer - 700 recorded hours
Surgical Hospital Intern/volunteer - 150 hours
CNA (Nurse's assistant) at an old folks home (paid) - 200 hours
Starbucks employee- 300 hours
Medical Mission trip (not religious) for two weeks
Red Cross- 100 hours</p>

<p>Decent essays, really good recs. </p>

<p>I'm not a legacy, and i'm white.
colleges</p>

<p>Stanford
Johns Hopkins
Rice university
Duke university
Williams college
Colgate College
Northwestern
Harvard - Going to apply just for fun, and because I love their campus! Does anybody think I have any chance of getting in XD? I'm not going to be disappointed if i don't get in.</p>

<p>My safeties
UT austin - automatic admission
Texas A&M</p>

<p>Major: International Relations, some type of other humanities, or neuroscience. </p>

<p>If you have any suggestion of colleges that I should try to persue with my stats, please tell me.</p>

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<p>I wouldn't be surprised to see you get in to a top school- the nursing assistant is a great ec, I would say in at Colgate and John Hopkins and a definate maybe at Stanford and Harvard. Good Luck</p>

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<p>Stanford - 50/50
Johns Hopkins- 70/30
Rice university- 70/30
Duke university- 65/35
Williams college- No idea
Colgate College- 100%
Northwestern- 75/25
Harvard- 50/50</p>

<p>Reasons: Good hook, meh GPA and SAT for your competition. With good essays you have a good shot. You do have good safeties, and I predict you will make it into at least two of the schools on your list.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>I'll say no to Harvard, but probably to Johns Hopkins. The others, definitely yes, especially because it is clear that you know what you want to do.</p>

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<p>I wouldn't go so far as to say that Stanford and Duke are guaranteed. In fact, I would say that Stanford probably won't happen and that Duke may or may not happen.</p>

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<p>You don't get into Harvard with "decent" essays. Thousands of the brightest minds in the U.S and the World are fighting for a seat at Harvard, decent is unacceptable!</p>

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<p>I just put decent, because I don't know how to compare my essays to others on these forums. </p>

<p>My essays are very good compared to other people at my school who have a similar gpa.</p>

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<p>A student from my school was accepted at Harvard with a 3.9, so you never know!
I wouldn't be shocked if you got in, because although your GPA and SAT scores are a little low for Harvard, you seem to know what you want.</p>

<p>I'd say you're probably in at JHU and Northwestern as well, but I really don't know about the smaller schools.</p>

<p>Chance me too!
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/587297-please-chance-freshman-harvard-class-16-a.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/587297-please-chance-freshman-harvard-class-16-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Damn y'all are making me feel good about my chances!</p>

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<p>My personal prediction is in at JHU, Northwestern, Colgate, rejected at all others. The only reason I think you won't get into Rice is because you are at a disadvantage for being in-state (you an me both!) unless you go to a feeder school, and your SATs are very average for Rice. The upward trend in GPA always looks good though :)</p>

<p>Honestly, nobody can predict what Harvard and Stanford will do. Good luck!!</p>

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<p>If I get into colgate should I buy a lot of colgate toothpaste?</p>

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<p>I feel like they should reject you just for that. </p>

<p>I'd say you have a solid shot at all of them, thought it might be a bit harder for you to get into Harvard and Stanford. I tell you,though, if you didn't have the Nurses assistant and Phram. Tech thing, it'd be a lot more dicey.</p>

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<p>Haha, well I just checked and I already have 2 tubes of colgate toothpaste, so i'll be good for a while.</p>

<p>Well I'm glad my ec's are helping me, I spent most of my time on them.</p>

<p>It's kind of funny to see how optimistic or pessimistic people are on this forum. I can understand senior year is a wave of emotions.</p>

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<p>Does anyone else have advice for me?</p>

<p>Oh by the way the medical mission trip I went on twice, 1 week each. It was in El Salvador. I even got to ASSIST in a surgical case! They don't have too many laws there, so I got to actually got to do stuff that would be illegal in the US even though it's extremely basic.</p>