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Old 05-15-2007, 05:18 PM   #1
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Need big time advice at some very respectable schools, Any advice is appreciated

Stats-
Junior, White, middle class, competetive public Texas highschool
SAT Math:680 CR:740 Writing:780 (12 on essay) total 2200

GPA-4.5 out of 5
class rank 14 out of 385 top 5%
National Honor Society Member 2 yrs
Varsity Golf 3 years
Multicultural Club treasurer
Class Vice President for both Junior and Senior Year
UIL Current Events All District
Regional Qualifier and top 10 finisher out of 150 individually(golf)
STUCO member 3 yrs
BPA and HOSA member
100 plus community service hours at local hospital
Debate Club
Boys State nominee and attendee
Boys Nation
HSTE student of the year
cofounder and coauthor of student body constitution
Excellent writer (I'll do well on the essay portion of the application)

Senior Class Schedule
-AP Stat
-AP Gov. and Economics
-AP English IV
-AP Biology
-AP Psychology
-Mentors
-Debate

Interests and Hobbies:
-Political Science
-Debate
-Law
-Golf
-writing
-psychology/sociology

This is the girth of my academic record.
One important question-(Does Boys Nation qualify as a hook into awesome schools)

Schools I'm considering in order of preference-

Top Choices (includes some reaches in my opinion)
1. University of Chicago (%?)
2. Washington University St. Louis (%?)
3. University of Virginia (%?)
4a. Carelton (%?)
4b. Middlebury (%?)
5. Dartmouth(love the school but chances are evanescent at best with my highschool career coming to a close) (%?)
6. Carnegie Mellon (%?)
7. University of California Berkeley (%?)

Saftey: University of Texas (Austin) (%?)

If you guys could please give me some honest feedback I would really appreciate it, Thanks

Last edited by schismmanifesto; 05-15-2007 at 05:38 PM.
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Old 05-15-2007, 06:36 PM   #2
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pretty excellent stuff. okay lets see..

1. University of Chicago () not sure a/b acceptance percantile sry
2. Washington University St. Louis (64%) possible match
3. University of Virginia (70%?) not sure outof state percentile, gave a guess
4a. Carelton (60%)
4b. Middlebury (48%)
5. Dartmouth(love the school but chances are evanescent at best with my highschool career coming to a close) (40%)
6. Carnegie Mellon (75%) Match/saftey school
7. University of California Berkeley (68%) possible match

You are a well qualified canidate for all of these schools, strong sat/ and academics, EC's are great! but don't strive towards any ambitions. Liberal Art Schools iam not sure how to tally as their admition charts are a bit different than the standard universities. Dartmouth will be reach manly because of its Ivy status; however, you will be a good canidate, and i hope you get in. Its been a while since i looked at university acceptance rates, so sorry if i mess up or if they are a bit unrealistic. Tried to base this off other applicants with similar stats.
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Old 01-11-2010, 05:58 PM   #3
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let me give you some advice... CMU is a good school, but they are primarily for people wanting to go into engineering... plus they wont give a ton of money seeing as you're middle class

hope it helps for that school, but impressive bro! good luck
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Old 01-11-2010, 07:10 PM   #4
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If you're middle class and need aid, forget Berkeley which won't give you any beyond what you might qualify for Federally.

You are not out of the running at any school. With the proper positioning of a passion, great essays and great recs, any school is worth a shot.
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