Chance me for Duke/Columbia/UPENN ED (still deciding)?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>About me:

  1. Ethnicity & Gender: White male (First generation immigrant? Born in Ukraine.)
  2. Income Bracket > 150k?</p>

<p>Stats:

  1. Unweighted GPA: 3.91 - 4.0 (Top 1% - Top 3%)
  2. PSAT: 207 & SAT: 2160 (750 M 720 W 690 CR) - Aiming for a 2200+ on my third try…
  3. AP Tests: We’ll have to see lol
  4. Subject Tests -Predicted Scores: SAT 2 Math L2 - 750+ US History - 750+ </p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:

  1. Tennis (JV - 2 years, Varsity - 2 years)
  2. Soccer (JV - 3 years, Varsity - 1 year)
  3. Investment Club (3 years) (Have my own stock portfolio separate from the club, under supervision of parent of course)
  4. Debate (All 4 years) (Undefeated JV season; won 3rd place team award @ the last debate)
  5. Vice President of UNICEF Club (2 years)
  6. President/Co-Founder of BergenVolunteers (2 years) (A club my friend and I are making that “hooks” people up with new volunteer opportunities)
  7. Intermediate Programmer (2 years) (Pretty good with HTML, Javascript; Satisfactory with C++)
  8. National Honors Society (2 years) (of course, lol)
  9. 70+ volunteer hours at a local blood bank (telerecruitment and data entry)
  10. Relay for Life Participant (2 years)
  11. Made packages and sent it to military overseas (1 year)
  12. Peer Leader (2 years) (Help 10 freshmen in their first year of high school)
  13. Math League (4 years) (Invited to dinner meet 2x; only top 10 people at the club)
  14. Science League (2 years) (Top 5 students in the grade) </p>

<p>Awards:
-Excellence in History - 9th Grade (Only one given out for the entire student body of 350+)
-Excellence in Foreign Language - 10th Grade (Only one given out for the entire student body of 350+)
-New Jersey Scholar’s Program Nominee (Top 2 Students in the grade, based on GPA; kind of slid since then, have done badly in physics). </p>

<p>Most rigorous curriculum senior year (probably will have to drop some classes unfortunately…):
-AP Statistics
-BC Calculus
-AP Lit
-AP Spanish IV
-AP Java (Skipping CP Java; taking a summer course)
-AP Euro/World History (Whatever it will be called)</p>

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<p>Oh yea, I almost forgot…</p>

<p>I speak fluent Russian (because of my background) and conversational Spanish (as you can tell by my curriculum)</p>

<p>Also, I am part of a new program @ my school where we designed a new iPhone app, which reports school news (sports updates, homework, etc.). I helped create this application, and will be an administrator.</p>

<p>I will also probably be an AP Scholar of some kind, and a National Commended Merit Commended Scholar.</p>

<p>Lastly…and this is kinda bad…I come from a fairly affluent neighborhood in NJ.</p>

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<p>I think you’re good for any of those schools (Duke, Columbia, UPENN), but I suggest you don’t take the SATs again. Other than that your GPA, extracurriculars, and awards are pretty amazing. Plus, you’re a first generation immigrant.</p>

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<p>bumpbumpbump</p>

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<p>Definitely retake the SAT. </p>

<p>Your ECs are really scattered. Try to package yourself a bit better, don’t include every last thing of it’s not important. </p>

<p>With good essays, you’ll have a shot, but not a guarantee, at these school’s. Definitely apply ED to your favorite for the added boost.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I agree, definitely retake the SAT…</p>

<p>What can we say? You have a shot at any one of those schools… You just gotta apply ED and see what happens :)</p>

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<p>Well I was thinking about just taking out science league, and the military packaging. but I thought about leaving the rest in…I mean all of the clubs reflect my wide variety of interests (might have to explain that?). Which clubs would you recommend leaving in, and which would you recommend taking out? </p>

<p>And thanks for the advice on re-taking the SAT…I think I will do that in October as a senior.</p>

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<p>bumpbumpbump?</p>