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Old 05-05-2008, 10:57 PM   #1
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Madison, WI
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Am I a Match for DUKE??!!

Female
Asian
Public School
Madison, Wisconsin


PA - 4.0 (unweighted)
- we don't have weighted GPA at our school
SAT - 2200
ACT - 34
SAT II - Math IIC 800
- Chemistry 780
- Biology 740
- Might take physics in oct
APs - taking Calculus AB, chinese, biology, and chemistry in next two weeks
- planning on taking physics, calculus BC, and maybe statistics and one history next year

Honor classes:
- freshman year - two math honors
- sophomore year - one science, one math, one english
- junior year - two english, two science, AP calculus
- senior year (planning) - AP calc II, one science, two english, and also I'll be taking a science class at my state university next year (university of wisconsin - madison)

EC
- Science Olympiad since freshman year; moved up to varsity from JV this year, and got two gold medals at state
- SMART team - joined since freshman year and attended a science conference at San Diego, CA this year
- Math Team - joined since freshman year
- Everytown Camp Club - formed this club after participating in Camp Everytown (a leadership camp) in the summer of freshman year to promote peace and non-prejudice at school
- Science Internship at the University this summer
- attending an women's engineering camp at the univeresity here this summer
- Senior Citizen
- National Honor's Society
- Japanese National Honor's Society
- Piano (elementary school to 10th grade), not playing anymore
Honors/awards
- honor's roll every year
- National Merit High Scorer
- Piano state competition - honorable mention and some other awards
- science olympiad medals
- math meets ribbons

I'm REALLY passionate about science, so most of my EC and classes are science related.
also, I am really motivated and set high standards for myself.
I came to the U.S. five years ago without knowing any English and worked really hard to climb up to the level i am at right now.

so..what are my chances of getting into DUKE next year??!!
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Old 05-05-2008, 11:05 PM   #2
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You're a senior citizen?
that might hurt a bit

... I can now say with confidence as to your chances as a newly admitted student that it's as good as anyone
but you never know.

My extra curriculars were nowhere near as impressive
and I thought my essay was weak... but ya never know!
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Old 05-05-2008, 11:07 PM   #3
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senior citizen at my school means we will be volunteering during our senior year to help the underclass mates
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