Chance please

Colleges & Universities Tulane University
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<p>State: Washington
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female</p>

<p>UWGPA: 4.0</p>

<p>Top 7% in Class
29/406
(My high school is one of the top schools in the state and sends many kids to the top schools every year. I could be ranked a lot higher at any other school in my area…)</p>

<p>Major: Biomedical engineering</p>

<p>AP’s taken: World History (5), Biology (4), US History (5), Calc AB (5), Micro Econ (5), Macro Econ (5)</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Environmental Science
AP Computer Science
AP Amer. Gov
AP Lit
AP 2D Photography
Advance Calculus (College in HS course)
Science Lab Assistant</p>

<p>ACT: 31 </p>

<p>Awards:
Knight Valor Award for 100+ community service hours (11)
AP Scholar with Distinction (12)
Team MVP for Junior Varsity Soccer (10)
WIAA Outstanding Scholar (10, 11)
Coach’s Award for bball (10)</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
National Honor Society (11, 12)
Varsity Soccer (10, 11, 12) (team captain senior year)
JV Basketball (9, 10)
Track and Field (9, 10)
Club Soccer (9, 10, 11, 12) (team captain since 2004)
BioClub (12) (I helped launch the club and serve as president)
TATU (Teens Against Tobacco Use) (9, 10)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Skyhawks Sports (10, 11)

  • Summer job coaching sports camps
  • 40 hour weeks
    Soccer Referee (9, 10)</p>

<p>Community Service:
ALS Association (9, 10, 11, 12)

  • 200+ hours
    Bellevue Boys and Girls Club (10, 11)
  • 100+ hours
    -youth soccer coach
    Peer Tutor (11, 12)
  • 50+ hours
  • tutor kids in math and history</p>

<p>Essays: Strong, I wrote about unique personal delimma I faced.</p>

<p>Recs: Counselor knows me pretty well so should be good.</p>

<p>I am planning to apply for the Dean’s Honor Scholarship. Are my rank and test scores too low to even have a shot?</p>

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<p>Your rank isn’t too much of an issue because your GPA is perfect (how can there be 28 people ahead of you, lol?), but the test score probably is. Maybe you can take it again before the deadline? Or try the SAT? As long as they have a higher score before they start judging (probably right after the Christmas break), that is what they would use.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>My school is super competitive and I have an extra smart class. The kids ahead of me have been taking 5 or more AP classes since sophomore year. I might try the ACT again because I did horrible on the reading the section. Do you know if Tulane superscores the ACT?</p>

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<p>I think they do, but I won’t swear to it. I am especially not sure if it makes a difference for the DHS. But, you will probably do as well in the other sections and hopefully improve the reading section. I think Tulane goes more off GPA and rigor of schedule (yours is fine despite those somewhat twisted overachievers in your class) than actual class rank when it comes to the DHS, especially since you could not have done better than straight A’s. So yeah, I think the ACT is the only thing standing in your way right now. Of course, the projects do matter, but it probably won’t overcome that much of a gap in the ACT score. A 33 puts you in the running, and a 34+ gets you right in there with the top candidates.</p>

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<p>Alright, thank you!</p>

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<p>jake & fc - tulane does not superscore ACT, fyi. I can give you more reason through a pm. And also, it can’t hurt to apply for the DHS, all you have to pay is postage!</p>

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<p>Thanks TG. Always meant to ask about that. Sure, go ahead and send me a PM with the reasoning. I assume the same applies to SAT.</p>