Chances at selective schools

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Uhm…I feel so unsure about which colleges I might get into. These are the colleges I have been thinking about.</p>

<p>Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, John Hopkins, University of Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis, Brown University, Cornell</p>

<p>GPA: 3.88 (unweighted)</p>

<p>AP Classes/accelerated classes: AP Bio 1, AP Bio 2, AP Calc, AP US Hist, Stats 351 and 352 from Oregon State University, Honors English, Honors Chemistry, Honors Global Studies, and the ones that I’m working on now are: AP English, AP German, Honors Government</p>

<p>Activities: President of 2 debate teams, 265 hours of volunteer work and continuing, leader and founder of one of the largest online gaming community, salt water fish/reef keeping + tank designing etc., state syllabus and federation piano, and other tiny activities such as mountain biking, deep see fishing, and painting</p>

<p>Honors: National Honor Society, National Society of High School Scholars, National Forensics League (a honor for debating skills), 5 trophies from state piano (soon to be 7), Presidential Service Award, and I guess the fact that my online gaming community is one of the world’s largest</p>

<p>SAT Scores: EPIC FAIL!!!..the highest is 1770 but I’m gonna retake</p>

<p>SAT 2 Scores: 750 in Bio, 610 in U.S. Hist, and 600 in Math 2 (Epic Failure)</p>

<p>Job: Self employed–selling game services and advertisement space on my website and game servers</p>

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<p>Also note that the 3.88 GPA is on a 4.0 scale</p>

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<p>Slim chances unless you raise that SAT score by 400 points; even then some of those schools look very reachish.</p>

<p>Just curious;
What kind of traffic do you generate? What game(s)?</p>

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<p>“Just curious;
What kind of traffic do you generate? What game(s)?”</p>

<p>We get around 1,500 visits (not unique) on all our game servers each day and we have around 5,100 registered STEAM Group members…we only do CS 1.6</p>

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<p>My counselors have described me as “Good at everything except standardized testing” :\ </p>

<p>…also I have legacy in one of the colleges I’m applying for (but I won’t mention which one)</p>

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<p>“my online gaming community is one of the world’s largest”</p>

<p>An CS server…thats like dime a dozen (isn’t it), thought you owned some large server hosting or biggest fansite for a game.</p>

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<p>“An CS server…”</p>

<p>We have way more than one server, the only reason why we have a “world ranking” is b/c of our STEAM Group and our server popularity…it’s not like I own a gigantic hosting company but still</p>