Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Numbers:
GPA: (3.91/4.72) or (4.00/4.91) non-freshman
ACT: 36
SAT II: 800 physics, 800 Math II, 790 Chem
Course-load: 12 APs, most of the rest honors (5s on all APs)</p>

<p>ECs (7 for CommonApp):

  1. Ice Hockey - Two-Year Varsity Captain, First-team All-league, MVP, All-City, etc.
  2. Math Club - Two-Year V.P., second overall at a regional invitational, more placements
  3. Sled Hockey (volunteer) - 100+ hours
  4. Engineering Club - National Championship in JETS
  5. Youth hockey (volunteer) - 100+ hours
  6. Humane Society (volunteer)
  7. Select hockey teams - based on talent/tryouts</p>

<p>Academic awards (5 for CommonApp):

  1. Divisional National Champion in JETS Engineering Competition
  2. Repeated AIME qualifier
  3. Top ten in state (all grades) in Ohio Invitational Mathematics Olympiad
  4. A.P. Scholar with Distinction
  5. NMSF</p>

<p>Essay: about my alcoholic/abuse father and leaving my house to protect myself. Also explains my lack of performance earlier in high school and how I was stifled.</p>

<p>Helpful:
Scores, Nat’l Ship in Engineering, dedication to math, volunteerism, leadership/skill in sports, compelling story about my childhood</p>

<p>Negative:
The essay about my childhood. I intentionally made it really long (1200 words) and some schools don’t want to read it if it’s that long. I decided to do this because if a school doesn’t want to read an extra page or two about me… screw them. I don’t want to go there.
Also, I didn’t cure cancer twice and do six years of research in some lab.</p>

<p>So… I’m asking, in addition to chances, which schools of HSYPM will most likely not read my lengthy essay and toss the application early?</p>

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<p>First of all, you post way too many chance threads. Just stop, please. </p>

<p>Now regarding your essay, it better be good. Basically, I’d only recommend keeping it 1200 words if you know that it is an extraordinary essay. Reading an essay that’s twice as long as most kids’ will only be a chore to adcoms if the essay isn’t great. Make sure yours is.</p>

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<p>The schools you want to be chance for is a toss up for any top student, virtually these universities can be looking for anything within each top student that we ( the ones chancing you) can not determine. Overall I think you will be a serious candidate for all if not most schools.</p>

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<p>I think that even though all your schools are super competitive, you have a really good shot, especially if you plan to play hockey at any of these (I don’t know which will recruit for hockey). Good luck!</p>

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<p>This chance thing is so stupid and sad–really the “chancers” should be in deep therapy and on anti-anxieties. No one, here, not even an admissions person at your coveted institution, can tell you, esp. out of the context of your peer applications for a particular school.</p>

<p>And I am sorry about your alcoholic father.</p>