Chances at Wake?

Colleges & Universities Wake Forest University
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<p>I’m a rising Senior…just got done with Junior year</p>

<p>Stats: </p>

<p>GPA: ~3.5 unweighted, ~4.0 weighted, these will hopefully be a bit higher by the end of first semester Senior year.
PSAT: 130 on Math and Verbal overall, 66 on verbal, 64 on math (This was kind of rushed though, only taken for AP Lang as an assignment)
ACT: Take this saturday…
SAT: Took yesterday…</p>

<p>Classes this year:
AP Psychology (A’s)
AP US History (A’s)
AP English Language & Comp. (A’s)
Precalculus Honors (C’s - ouch)
Physics Honors (A’s and B’s)
Debate VI Honors (A’s)
Government Honors (A’s) </p>

<p>Extra-Curric: </p>

<p>Debate Team (~325 NFL Points…for those who know what those are), this is my passion, I’ve competed in 5 different event categories as well, and placed in 3 of them (Student Congres, Oral Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Public Forum, Policy)
President of Debate
VP of Law Club
Mock Trial Team
Social Studies Honor Society
JETS </p>

<p>Community Service: Look to be a Counselor at local summer camp, should get ~100 Hours
Work: Public Library (20 Hours/Week)</p>

<p>Background: Single-Parent Home, Dad pays no child support, etc. Roman Catholic, Irish-Italian, Public School in Florida </p>

<p>Looking to major: Poli. Sci., Government, Political Media
Minor: Journalism/Psych </p>

<p>Courses for Senior year:
AP Euro
AP US Gov
AP Microeconomics
Independent Study (AP World History)
AP Lit
AP Stats
Debate VIII Honors </p>

<p>I’m VERY involved in Debate, and will be going to the Wake tournament in September this year to compete, couldn’t go this year because of the hurricanes down here. :frowning: Anyway, Wake looks quite interesting to me, any idea if I can get in?</p>

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<p>I’d say Wake is probably a match. Your course selection is moderately difficult, and your GPA is pretty good. You seem to be very involved in debate, which is definitely a plus. Do they not have a writing section on the PSAT anymore? If they do, what did you get on that section? 200+ would get you NM commended status. If you did well on the SAT, I think you have a very good chance. By the way, WAKE DOES NOT TAKE THE ACT!!!</p>

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<p>I just kinda brushed through the Writing because as I said, I took the PSAT’s this year as an AP Lang assignment and really didn’t care, so I got a terrible score on it just pretty much christmas treeing it…but I’m sure I did alright this past Saturday on the real ones. Thanks for letting me know they don’t take the ACT’s, now I only have to send them to one extra school, yay, less money. </p>

<p>Any other opinions?</p>

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<p>Right now, you’re a match. I think you’ll get a better picture of your chances when you get your SAT score back. I’m also tempted to say that those Cs you got in precal could hurt you. My junior year I got a C in AP US History (the toughest class offered at our school) but brought it up to a B the second semester (by quarter: C, C, B, A). I think that if you do very well this senior year (I notice you’re not taking a “real” math) they might look over it.</p>

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<p>Oh, no, I forgot to mention, brought the Pre-Calc up to a B second semester, and brought Physics up to an “A” second semester as well…hopefully the rising trend will help.</p>

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<p>Any other opinions, I’ll post my SAT and ACT scores when I get them in a week or so…</p>

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<p>UPDATE:
1910 New SAT
710 CR
600 M
600 W</p>

<p>What do you guys think?</p>

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<p>looks ok to me…good luck</p>

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<p>wait list at best you are applying to every scholl in the country anyway</p>