Chances? Please don't laugh

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<p>User Name: Zamzam
Gender: M
Ethnicity: White
Socioeconomic background: Middle-middle class (parent is teacher, but we can afford to live in a rather affluent 'burb)
Location: Near Boston, Massachusetts
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Public
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.10
GPA - Weighted: 8.10
Class Rank: top 10% (~20?)
Class Size: 332</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Critical Reading: 770
SAT I Writing: 700
SAT II Literature: 730
SAT II U.S. History: 720
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 730
SAT II Chemistry: 750
AP US History: 4
AP English Lit: 5</p>

<p>Courseload: (Electives excluded)
Freshman Year: 4 Honors, 1 Non-honors (no Honors available in French)</p>

<p>Sophomore Year: 5 Honors</p>

<p>Junior Year: 5 Honors</p>

<p>Senior Year:
AP Biology
AP Literature
AP French
AP European History
AP Calculus</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Drama: 17 performances from sixth grade on: 10 in high school so far.
Ballroom Dancing Club: Elected Historian; only this year.
Leadership positions: Historian of Ballroom Dancing Club.
Have worked in retail for three months as stocker and cashier.
Went on tour of Central Europe last summer.</p>

<p>Frankly, I’m pretty confident that I’m not going to get in (especially seeing the myriad “omg i built a bridge in africa to save starving children: will i get in???” posts. Still, there are lingering hopes of me getting in. Lay them to rest so that I can get over it and get all excited about other schools. (Unless I have hope, of course.) Though the four or five other kids from my school who are applying would undoubtedly be accepted before I would.</p>

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<p>so your school must be hard if you have a 3.1 and your still top 10%</p>

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<p>I guess. My class is still very competitive, especially compared to last year’s, and the top 2 students both have ~4.00 uGPAs, and the 3rd, 4th, and 5th students all have ~3.8-9.</p>

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<p>good chances. don’t laugh? you look really good (except gpa may be a little low)</p>

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<p>weighted gpa 8.1???</p>

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<p>How does a 3.10 turn into an 8.10 when its waited!!!</p>

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<p>i think you will get in just because your username is Zamzam</p>

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<p>At my school, AP classes have a 2.71 weighting as compared to level 4 (AP is Level 0) classes, and the unweighted is on a 4.00 scale. I’m working on finding a GPA calculator that can be applied to high school and makes sense. In any case, while the compliments about my name and stuff are nice, they’re not really germane to the topic.</p>

<p>My weighted GPA is approximately 3.53, according to a (totally authoritative) Google’d source.</p>

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<p>test scores are good, but, as i’m sure you know, GPA is low.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t give up hope. If you gave them more EC info than you gave us (and i hope you did), then you probably have a decent shot.</p>

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<p>Actually, I just realized earlier today that I <em>left out</em> a description of the mission trip I took two years ago, which I’m sure would have helped. Upon remembering, I got a wave of nausea. Good times.</p>

<p>Also, I found out yesterday there’s a forum for these threads that I, in all my noobiness, did not know about. Is there any way to get the thread moved so I don’t feel silly?</p>

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<p>Nah, you’re fine to leave to leave this post here. </p>

<p>But you can repost on the Chances thread.</p>