Am I a Match for DUKE??!!

<p>Female
Asian
Public School
Madison, Wisconsin</p>

<p>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</p>

<p>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)</p>

<p>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</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>so…what are my chances of getting into DUKE next year!!!</p>

<p>You’re a senior citizen?
that might hurt a bit</p>

<p>… 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.</p>

<p>My extra curriculars were nowhere near as impressive
and I thought my essay was weak… but ya never know!</p>

<p>senior citizen at my school means we will be volunteering during our senior year to help the underclass mates</p>