<p>Well there are a lot more people here, so I’ll just make another thread</p>
<p>Right now I’m looking at</p>
<p>Wharton(reach?)
Cornell(match?)
Duke
Dartmouth
UVA
UNC Chapel</p>
<p>This is from my thread in the UPenn forum
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/forumdisplay.php?f=30[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/forumdisplay.php?f=30</a></p>
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<p>I know you can get Duke and Chapel Hill no problem. People much lower in every area then you have gotten them.</p>
<p>Yeah and UVA is prob. a safety</p>
<p>Also, I posted this in the other thread</p>
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<p>totally off-topic, but how do you run 2 hours a weekday and still only have 30 miles a week? thats like 20 minute miles there. </p>
<p>on topic, ivies are a crapshoot, but youve got a good as shot as any</p>
<p>Alright thanks, after 3 threads that’s basically the consensus</p>
<p>And as for the running, practices are with the team. They usually begin 20 minutes after school to give you time to get changed, 10 minute warmup, 20 minute stretching, etc. Actually it tends to be up to 3 hours before I get home. And a lot of my mileage during the school year are higher intensity intervals, like 6 x 1200’s (3 laps each) with a recovery time in between each. In the summer I worked up to 50 miles/week but they were slow and easy. So I get home at 5-6, and then I need 2 “recovery hours” after a hard practice/meet because I just want to relax and eat. </p>
<p>I know this isn’t anything special for anyone dedicated to a year-round sport, but if I had had an extra 3-5 hours a day, it would’ve mean a hell of a lot of debate tournaments, volunteering, and time for clubs. Or maybe I would have just sat at home and did absolutely nothing.</p>
<p>hey what gov school are u goin to?? im goin to sciences</p>
<p>Information, Society, and Technology… was going to do global entrepreneurship but a friend recommended IST</p>
<p>I listed weightlifting on my activities list, not sure if it helped though. Of couse, I had been at it for 2 hours a day for the 3 solid years and not just 6 months.</p>
<p>You have a good chance, not much more you can say in this forum.</p>
<p>Good chance for all of them. Try to do ECs that you truly enjoy and it will stand out.</p>
<p>renix: yeah, it sounds pretty pathetic on paper, I just started after I got injured in the beginning of indoor track and it’s been very hard to do while running track/xc since they conflict with each other. </p>
<p>But by the time I apply it’ll be a year and that’ll probably count for something more than a year of student council, for example?</p>
<p>gryffon, diginet: thanks, that’s what everyone’s been saying. I was going to start up my business again (with my own website instead of e bay) this summer anyways.</p>
<p>So I didn’t plan this at all (I really didn’t think about college at all before this week when I visited Cornell), but it’s going to look like this:</p>
<p>8-9 grade: small time e Bay selling, about $2000-3000
10th grade: powerseller silver level, e bay store $25000
11th grade: e bay bans selling virtual stuff
end of 11th grade: start my own site to continue business(money is good too)</p>
<p>Hopefully I wont need any leadership activities? Oh well</p>
<p>NO CHANCE ANYWHERE!!!</p>
<p>jk jk… c’mon, with good essays and recs u r probly in</p>
<p>i think you have good grades and scores but im sorry to say i don’t know why everyone is saying that you’ve got great chances sure you have the scores but hardly any ecs and no commmunity service</p>
<p>Haha snake, I actually tend to agree with you</p>
<p>Either colleges will really really like my e Bay business… or I don’t really have any business applying</p>
<p>But I dont think anyone knows for sure</p>
<p>wow holy crap somebody else who is a bodybuilder. Never thought I’d find somebody like that on here. I am a bodybuilder also. You say that there are no competitions – that is totally wrong. There are local competitions year round in which you could compete in; I’ve competed in two and placed fifth in both (one out of 22 contestants, the other out of 13) …good luck, and hopefully we’ll get into a school together ;)</p>
<p>Yeah I imagined it would be rare on here</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, but I’m not in any shape to win any comps right now… only started in Jan. and I’ve had to gain strength w/o gaining mass because of my runing… the whole low reps high weight thing while eating SLIGHTLY above maintenance. My lifts are around 200 for bench, 260-270 dead (trying to get this up), 230-240 squat(NEED to get this up), 5’10" 160lb. You got 5th in a comp? What are you r stats?</p>
<p>haha sweetness. Yea I got 5th in a bodybuilding competition; not a powerlifting one. Haven’t done max lifts for a while, but I could tell you what I’m repping at 5’s (currently cutting…)</p>
<p>6’0", 186lb’s @ 9% BF (gah can’t wait to bulk), 330 Squat, 280 SLDL (not regular, have never done), only 230 bench (rotator cuff sucks balls)</p>
<p>Back when I was young and spry and in highschool I was doing a 250 bench, never maxed on dead lift but 300 was pretty easy, and never maxed on squat for real but my projected was around 600.</p>
<p>5’9-10ish, 210lbs my in highschool days. lost some weight after highschool.</p>
<p>That’s crazy! That squat is definately disproportionate… I mean I could see my bench/dead (what do you mean by “pretty easy?”) being up there by the end of the year, but my squat probably won’t be anywhere close.</p>
<p>Isn’t it supposed to be dead>squat>bench?</p>
<p>I don’t know, I wasn’t too concerned about any max lifts except for the bench. It means I found a a bar with 300 on it and decided to try to dead lift for fun in the middle of my workout. It wasn’t too hard to pick it up, meaning I could have lifted more. Lifting is strange though, you’ll grow fast for a while in the beginning then you may hit a plateau for a little while which is frustrating.</p>