YET ANOTHER "What Are My Chances?"

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>Hello cc’ers. Hate to be repetitive, but what are my chances?</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA: 4.36 at a very competitive private high school in New Jersey</p>

<p>National Merit Finalist</p>

<p>I have taken:
AP French, Freshman year, 5
AP Spanish, Freshman Year, 4</p>

<p>AP Chinese, Sophomore Year, 3 (OMG, I am SO WORRIED)
AP World History, Sophomore Year, 5</p>

<p>AP American History, Junior Year, 5
AP Lang and Comp, 5
AP Physics C, 4
AP Bio, 5</p>

<p>And I am taking AP Calc (BC), AP Lit and Comp, AP Computer Science (independent study), AP Economics, and over winter break I spent time studying for the AP Statistics exam, all of which I am sure I will get 5’s on, except for the AP Economics exam, on which I am anticipating receiving a 4. (Is that really bad?)</p>

<p>SAT I (took once): M800/V780, 1580 total</p>

<p>SAT II:
World History:800
Writing: 780
US History: 780
Chemistry: 800
Molecular Biology: 760
Math IIC: 800
French: 790
Spanish: 730
Literature: 720
(Do you think the last two will hurt my chances?)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Varsity Soccer, 4 years (captain two years)
Varsity Basketball, 4 years (captain this year)
Varsity Track, 3 years (captain last year, and I anticipate that I will be chosen as captain again this year)
Mock Trial, witness freshman, lead witness sophomore, lawyer junior and senior years
Model UN, won a few awards, and am the president of the club this year
NHS Vice President
NSHS Treasurer
NFHS Secretary
Started the NJ Organization for Helping Those Less Fortunate Than Ourselves (NJOHTLFTO for short)
Founder and President of the Key Club for two years</p>

<p>Summers:
Freshman year: spent feeding disabled children living in Peru
Sophomore year: travelling throughout Africa with a program run by my Church that helps out local tribes (became competent in two local dialects)
Junior: Habitat for Humanity (I know everyone does it, but it sounded like fun)
Senior Year: will work at Fermi Lab</p>

<p>Additionally, I will spend March in Asia, both studying and helping tsunami victims.</p>

<p>Gosh guys, do you think I have a chance? Some people may find this annoying, and even pointless seeing as how no one here is on the admissions committee, but I don’t think I’ll be able to finish my proof of the Riemann-Zeta Hypothesis with these worries on my mind.</p>

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<p>how do you know you're a nat'l merit finalist already? they're not supposed to be published yet.</p>

<p>also, it doesn't make a difference what you get on those AP tests...since you'll already be in.</p>

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<p>There is no AP Chinese...nice try, but a little too obvious.</p>

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<p>call me confused, but NMS finalists haven't been announced yet, and the first AP Chinese exam is expected to be administered sometime around 2006/2007. so... huh??</p>

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<p>Why are you lying? Wouldn't you rather get accurate opinions? Or are you just trying to soup yourself up so we can all worship you...?</p>

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<p>even if there WERE an AP chinese test...you could just not list it. don't be ridiculous, anyhow.</p>

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<p>Write an essay about living in Peru and Africa</p>

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<p>i dont understand why youd waste so much of your time on that. it was a long post</p>

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<p>lol, it gave me a good laugh so it wasn't a complete waste of time</p>

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<p>Usually when people make posts like this they try to make it <em>funny</em>
This just ****ed me off. </p>

<p>REJECTED. :P</p>

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<p>lol....sooo pathetic...sorry, but i usually wouldn't say that...but i mean come on...what's the point of typing this up? do you seriously have that much time on your hand?</p>

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<p>Did you really think anyone was going to buy that...I'm surprised you havent responded to all these comments...</p>

<p>You know college admission is more about being yourself. Why would you want to walk into college as a lie? </p>

<p>I'm also usually a nice person :-) & :-(</p>

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<p>Dammit!!! I wish I had the time to volunteer in Peru, Africa, and Southeast Asia over my high school summers.</p>

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<p>yoo if this is fake?...ur like thebiggest idiot..i feel sorry for u..:(..do u need a friend?</p>

<p>if it is true well..it cant be what idiot who "will spend March in Asia, both studying and helping tsunami victims." spent their time..writing up that crap..and yes true or not..u are an idiot..i hate ppl do that waht are my chances deal..obviously with scores like that and all that crap.. guys think u have a fantastic chance..and u just want to hear it..u know just as much as the next person..die..</p>

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<p>You are heading for community college, my friend.</p>

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<p>I can't believe you would waste so much time typing all of that crap up, especially when we ALL know that most of it isn't even true. I agree with sexydesi... die.</p>

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<p>it might have been funny, but there have been about a dozen joke-posts like this one before on cc. And the reference to the tsunami really shows that you have the maturity and sensitivity of an opisthobranch mollusc. so i have to agree with both sprezzatura and sexy desi... die, idiot</p>

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<p>"but I don't think I'll be able to finish my proof of the Riemann-Zeta Hypothesis with these worries on my mind."</p>

<p>lol lol hahaha. that gave me a good laugh...hehe had to look up riemann-zeta hypothesis on wikipedia before i got it...good stuff.</p>

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<p>From wikipedia.com (awesome site, everyone)</p>

<p>"The Riemann hypothesis is one of the most important open problems of contemporary mathematics; a $1,000,000 prize has been offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute for a proof. Most mathematicians believe the Riemann hypothesis to be true. (J. E. Littlewood and Atle Selberg have been reported as skeptical.) In 2004, Xavier Gourdon verified the Riemann hypothesis through the first ten trillion non-trivial zeros using the Odlyzko-Schönhage algorithm."</p>

<p>After re-reading this post, I can't see how this could be serious at all... but seeing as ragdoll only has like 13 posts and hasn't replied to this yet kind of makes me wonder how much of a joke this actually is... Well in that case, yeah right ragdoll. And again... go die.</p>

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<p>Started the NJ Organization for Helping Those Less Fortunate Than Ourselves (NJOHTLFTO for short)</p>

<p>Yeahhhhhh this has to be a joke</p>