Chances of Admission and then Full Tuition Scohlarship

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<p>Important note to DoctorMagic: You have stated the name of your high school and confirmed your full name in a visitor message, and at least one of your classmates appear to have identified you. I suggest you go to those posts, click “Report problem post” and ask that the moderators edit your posts to remove the name of your high school and the visitor message where you confirm your full name.</p>

<p>Thank you for the information. It is unfortunate that you have discounted your actual accomplishments (likely NM Commended Scholar, SAT scores or practice scores of 650 CR and 750 W) with the unrealistic claims you have made. Based on your PSAT and your post concerning your CR and W scores, your actual or predicted SAT is probably about 2000-2100 (these are very good scores), which combined with an UW GPA of 3.44 will gain you admission to many colleges and universities and if you are willing to look beyond the top 50 or so, you may qualify for merit at some of them.</p>

<p>As for USC, admission would be a reach, but not unheard of for a ~2100 and 3.4. Excellent grades your first semester and any of the prestigious awards you are hoping for would help for admission. Unfortunately, your fall semester grades and the 2013 awards you are hoping for will not be in time for scholarship consideration at USC - full and half-tuition candidates are selected by mid-January and invited for interviews by late January.</p>

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<p>To substantiate my conclusions (and because I sprained my ankle and am trapped at my computer…), I have included some highlights from DoctorMagic’s post history to illustrate my doubts about the validity of the claims of perfect SAT/ACT and 6 SAT IIs:</p>

<p>The dates you list do not match up with the timeline you established with your post history, nor is the number of SAT II tests consistent. For example:</p>

<p>on 4/23 you posted:

Let’s say I have perfect SAT/ACT/SAT II scores, 5’s on AP Chem, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C, AP US History, AP World History, AP English Language, and AP Computer Science A

suggesting that the SAT, ACT SAT IIs and 7 AP test scores were all potential rather than actual. On 4/25 you posted:

SAT: 2400 ACT: 36 SAT Chemistry: 800 SAT Math II: 800</p>

<p>AP Exam Scores (Self-Studying for all besides Chem and Calc BC) (Potential):</p>

<p>5’s in AP Chemistry, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C-Mechanics, AP Physics C-Electricity and Magnetism, AP Computer Science A, AP English Language, AP US History, AP World History

suggesting that the SAT, ACT and 2 SAT IIs were actual and now 8 APs were potential.</p>

<p>On 5/11, you add an additional SAT II for a total at that time of three:

SAT: 2400 ACT: 36 SAT Chemistry: 800 SAT Math II: 800 SAT Physics: 800</p>

<p>AP Exam Scores (Self-Studying for all besides Chem and Calc BC) (Potential):</p>

<p>5’s in AP Chemistry, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C-Mechanics, AP Physics C-Electricity and Magnetism, AP Computer Science A, AP English Language, AP US History, AP World History

and continue to list potential 5s on 8 AP tests. Posters at that time suggest that you should take an additional SAT II in history to meet the application requirements of some colleges.</p>

<p>On 5/15 you make a significant post asking about the AP Eng Lit test stating:

AP English Language…Common Sense?
If I can consistently score 650 and above on the critical reading portion of the SAT and 750 and above on the writing section, and I learn all the rhetoric vocabulary thoroughly in a couple hours and practice it…

suggesting that you have different SAT scores than listed in your many chance threads.</p>

<p>On 5/17, you ask a question about whether AP scores or SAT II scores are more useful in admissions:

SAT Subject Test in place of AP Exam?
I know that the AP exam probably looks more impressive because it has a free response section in addition to a difficult multiple choice one, but if you take the SAT Subject Tests in subjects Biology, Chemistry, Physics, US History, World History, and Math II and get 800’s in them, would they carry somewhat the same weight on your application as getting a 5 on the AP exam?

and posters tell you that SAT II scores are more useful than APs.</p>

<p>On 5/22 you make the following post:

SAT: 2400 ACT: 36 SAT Chemistry: 800, SAT Math II: 800, SAT Physics: 800, SAT Biology M: 800, SAT US History: 800, SAT World History: 800</p>

<p>AP Exam Scores: NONE

listing 6 scores of 800 on SAT IIs. You post that listing of 6 SAT II scores of 800 in multiple threads on multiple days. The 8 perfect AP scores have disappeared. In addition, you post this statement on 5/26:

perfect test scores (SAT, ACT, and 6 SAT II’s),

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<p>In response to poster questions about your AP scores, you post this on 5/27:

About the AP Scores, I just decided not to score any of them.

and this on 5/28:

AP Scores-took the exams but got in my results for subject tests and cancelled the AP Scores

suggesting that your SAT II scores became available after the time you took the 8 AP tests (early May, 2012). That does not match up with the 2011 dates you say you took your subject tests.</p>

<p>In response to poster questions about the PSAT, you posted the following:

On the PSAT, I got a score that will probably only get me commended scholar in my state, but I went through a few practice books and found some Barron’s books online and aced the SAT/ACT and few subject tests respectively.

suggesting that you took the PSAT and then purchased study materials and took the SAT afterwards. In the timeline you present above, you have the SAT listed as before the PSAT (PSAT for the class of 2013 was mid-October, 2011).</p>

<p>On 6/10, you reduce the number of SAT IIs to 5:

SAT: 2400 ACT: 36 SAT Chemistry: 800, SAT Math II: 800, SAT Physics: 800, SAT Biology M: 800, SAT US History: 800

and you list 5 SAT IIs in your post above. That is inconsistent with your statement that you had 800s on 6 SAT IIs and your many posts reflecting that number.</p>

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<p>Geez, I have to find something productive to do…</p>