Chance Me!! (Duke Legacy)

rinarielle
Tue, 15 Jan 2019 01:22:44 +0000

Hi! I was wondering if anyone could chance me for the following schools: Duke (I’m a legacy), Harvard, Yale, Brown, Emory, Vanderbilt, Rice, and Northwestern.

I’ve been debating applying ED for Duke, I’d only pick Harvard or Yale over it but I don’t know if I have enough of a shot at those schools to make sacrificing the ED advantage worth it, so I’d really appreciate it if someone could weigh in on that!

Stats:
Currently a Junior attending an elite private school that’s well-known to most universities
I’m white, a girl, and Jewish
SAT: 1520, 800 Reading/Writing, 720 Math
GPA: School doesn’t calculate but somewhere around a 3.8 with my humanities grades being significantly higher (consistently As and A+s) than STEM
APs: AP Spanish Language and Culture (5), currently taking AP Bio, AP US Government and Politics, and AP Spanish Literature and Culture, predicting 5s on the latter two and a 4 on AP Bio. Every other class I’ve taken is an honors course where possible.
My school doesn’t do class rankings

EC:
Model UN all throughout high school and have won several awards
I’ve had writing published in two national literary magazines
Started and led a movement at my school that eventually resulted in the creation of comprehensive sexual harassment/assault policy after the school had issues with it, afterward I founded and currently am the co-head of SLASH, Students Against Sexual Harassment, which basically means I organize a lot of assemblies/other educational opportunities and work w the school on policy
I spent a semester abroad in Israel last year in a program that was mostly focused on the politics in the region
Camp CIT
80 ish hours of volunteering that mostly consist of volunteering in classrooms/camps and food distribution
Nominated for a national writing award – we’ll see how that turns out!
6 years of figure skating, varsity for all of high school except for last year since there’s like four ice skating rinks in the entire country of Israel, will most likely be captain next year.

That’s about it! Thanks so much in advance!