Chances of acceptance?

Colleges & Universities University of Southern California
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<p>Here’s my stats (I’m applying to the school of cinematic arts):</p>

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<li>White/Male/Jewish</li>
<li>Live in Illinois, close to Chicago</li>
<li>4.7/5 GPA unweighted, 5.2 weighted (my school has a weird scale)</li>
<li>Blue Ribbon high school</li>
<li>Class rank: 50/540</li>
<li>32 ACT</li>
<li>AP Tests: 5 in European History, 4 in US History, 3 in Computer Science, 5 in English Language</li>
<li>I took the SAT Subject Tests in US History and Literature, currently awaiting scores</li>
</ul>

<p>Extra stuff:

  • President of Broadcasting Club
  • Debate Team
  • Creative Writing Club
  • Outdoor Education Counselor
  • AP Scholar w/Honor
  • Glowing teacher/counselor recs, highly acclaimed essays/supplemental materials
  • Spent sophomore summer at Northern Illinois University for film camp</p>

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<li><p>I write freelance (paid - $50 per article) for Cracked.com, and I’ve had 19 published articles read by an audience of over 5 million people </p></li>
<li><p>Runner up at my high school’s film festival 2009, winner 2010 (that same short video also won my school’s Best of Show at our annual Variety Show)</p></li>
<li><p>I’m leading a student organization to confront our School Board about some seriously questionable actions by my school’s administration ([Login</a> | Facebook](<a href=“Redirecting...”>Redirecting...) - this link should help). As of this writing, the school board meeting is tomorrow, and over 300 people have signed up to attend on Facebook - I’ll let you guys know how it goes</p></li>
<li><p>This probably doesn’t do much in my favor, but I met Danny Boyle at a 127 Hours screening and wrote about how I made him laugh out loud in one of my supplemental statements</p></li>
<li><p>As a part of my school’s VEI class (we run our own fake business, and everyone in the class has a “job”. I’m the webmaster), I went to the annual Tennessee Trade show (fake companies come together for a fake trade show, that sort of thing), and my website made the Top 10 finalists</p></li>
</ul>

<p>Okay wow, that was a lot of typing, but I wanted to exhaust everything I could pull out of myself. What do you guys think are my chances of getting in?</p>

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<p>I’m no expert, but your chances look pretty good. Just wondering, which articles on Cracked did you write?</p>

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<p>I write Topic Pages, and Cracked then runs them on the front page if they are deemed funny enough. Here’s a list of everything i’ve done on the site (it’s on the right-hand side):</p>

<p>[The</a> Furlinator | Cracked.com](<a href=“Cracked.com - America's Only Humor Site | Cracked.com”>Cracked.com - America's Only Humor Site | Cracked.com)</p>

<p>You can tell which ones have hit the front page by how much larger their view counts are than my other, non-featured topics.</p>

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<p>^dude solid articles on Cracked, make the adcoms read them lol</p>