Can I be considering highly selective universities such as Duke?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I’m not sure if I should really be considering highly selective colleges (colleges with less than 15-20% acceptance rates). </p>

<p>Current list:
Duke
Boston University
Colorado Boulder
Georgetown</p>

<p>Can I really be considering Duke, Georgetown, others like them?</p>

<p>Here are my stats:</p>

<p>Current Junior
Unweighted GPA: 3.9 (only one B so far)
Weighted GPA: 5.3
Predicted ACT Composite Score: 30
School: Public, ranked in top 5% of schools in country
Class Rank: Top 9%</p>

<p>ADVANCED CLASSES:
Freshman<em>: Honors English, Honors Geometry
Sophomore</em>: Honors English, Honors Algerbra II
Junior: AP Spanish, APUSH, AP English Lang.
Senior (prospective): AP Psych, AP Eng Lit, AP Calc AB, and one other honors/ AP course
*only advances courses offered to me at the time</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
Cross Country, Track, Half-marathon completed in May 2011, FULL Marathon to be completed in May 2012
People to People Student Ambassador 2009
Spanish National Honor Soceity (position of leadership), Mu Alpha Theta
Lots of volunteer hours
Debate Team
Lifeguard over summers
Potentially published article on [Matador</a> Network](<a href=“http://www.matadornetwork.com%5DMatador”>http://www.matadornetwork.com)</p>

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<p>All but Duke look to be in reach.</p>

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<p>I agree with the previous poster, all but Duke are attainable.</p>

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<p>Duke and BU are the 2 you may have a chance with.</p>

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<p>haha ryryh50 what are you smoking, Duke has by far the lowest acceptance rate of all the schools listed.</p>

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<p>Duke is definitely a high reach and I would say Georgetown is a low reach given your predicted (?) ACT score. I hope you are also considering George Washington and Boston College (although BC doesn’t give good merit based aid).</p>

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<p>All but Duke should be good. You can get into Duke but it is definitey a reach.</p>