Could I get a Chance?

<p>High School Description - Berkeley Prep. (Tampa, Florida)

  • Private (Consistently sends students to top schools, one of the top HS in the state)
  • GPA on 4.0 Scale
  • No Class Rank</p>

<p><strong>Just for some perspective, a friend of mine got accepted into George Washington with 0 APs, a 3.55 unweighted/3.70 weighted, an otherwise weak courseload, and bad EC a few weeks ago, and while I didn’t read the essay or recommendations I chalk some of it up to the school’s admitedly inflated reputation</strong></p>

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<p>Personal Description</p>

<p>White - Male</p>

<p>BiLingual - English, Romanian (English is Native language)</p>

<p>1st Generation</p>

<p>Seventeen Years old on graduation day</p>

<p>Travel Experience -
18 Months, Romania
1 month, Italy <em>Art Class through school</em>
1 month, Germany
1 month, Greece
3 months, France </p>

<p><em>Subjective Notes</em> - Essay and Comments were good, not amazing, but good.</p>

<p>Not sure if it matters but I also skipped a grade (so 1 year younger than most in graduating class)</p>

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<p>Colleges: Rice, Emory, Furman, Washington University St. Louis, Tulane, Miami, Virginia, UNC Chapel Hill, Rollins, USF, UCF</p>

<p>Visited: Emory, Furman, Miami, Rollins, USF, UCF, UNC, Virginia</p>

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<p><em>Notes - Honors or AP english not offered until Grade 11, honors histories not offered until Grade 10, AP selection is fairly selective</em></p>

<p>High School Courses
8th Grade - Algebra I, Spanish I</p>

<p>9th Grade - English 9, Geometry, Biology, Honors Spanish II, Anicent History, Religion I (semester course, required), Health, Performance I,</p>

<p>10th Grade - English 10, Algebra II, Physics, Spanish III, Honors Economics (semester course), Honors American Government (semester course), Golf (semester course), Bowling (semester course), Religion II (semester course).</p>

<p>11th Grade - English 11, Precalculus, Honors Chemistry, Honors U.S. History, Cultural History, Religion III (semester course), Robotics I (semester course), Robotics II (semester course).</p>

<p>12th Grade - Honors English 12, Honors Calculus, AP Statistics, AP Comparative Government, AP Economics, AP Modern European History</p>

<p>Summer Courses - Introduction to Programming/Java (11th), Art History <em>6 weeks in Florence, Italy</em> (10th), Religion IV (12th)</p>

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<p>Unweighted GPA - 3.72</p>

<p>Weighted GPA - 3.88</p>

<p>SAT I
Critical Reading - 650
Mathematics - 670
Writing - 630
Total - 1950/2400</p>

<p>SAT II
U.S. History - 720
Math II - 700</p>

<p>Composite ACT - 28</p>

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<p>Extra Cirriculars</p>

<p>Robotics Club (Manager/Member) - 10th/11th/12th</p>

<p>Sports Analysis Club (Founding Member) - 11th/12th</p>

<p>Investment Club - 11th/12th</p>

<p>Model United Nations - 11th/12th</p>

<p>Philosophy Club - 11th/12th</p>

<p>Phoenix (Literary Magazine) - 12th</p>

<p>Football Game Announcer (5 games) - 2 games JR. year, 3 games SR. year</p>

<p>Baseball Announcer (6 games) - 6 games JR. year</p>

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<p>Volunteer Work</p>

<p>120 Hours+ Total</p>

<p>85 Hours - Teen Court - 11th/12th</p>

<p>44 Hours - Hope Children’s Home - 9th/10th/11th</p>

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<p>Work Experience</p>

<p>6 Week Internship with senator Gus Bilirakis in Washington (12th)</p>

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<p>Awards/Recognitions</p>

<p>Best Position Paper (APEC Committee) (KnightMUN) - Junior Year <em>First Conference</em></p>

<p>Robotics Placings
16th/16 <em>Robotics Club’s first ever tournament FTC (First Tech Challenge)</em>
21st/43 <em>State tournament, first year FTC</em>
1st/18 <em>Tempest 'N Tampa, won “Excellence Award” (highest honor given), qualifying Robobucs Team 429 for the World Championships in Dallas - VRC (Vex Robotics Competition)</em>
14th/16 <em>FTC</em>
8th/16 <em>FTC</em></p>

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<li><p>Two Published Poems in Phoenix (Literary Magazine)</p></li>
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<h2>- One Published article in Fanfare (Newspaper)</h2>

<p>So, knowing all that, what are my chances at these schools? Thanks for sitting through this =p</p>

<p>I think you have a good chance at all of them, but do try improving your SAT score for Rice, Emory, Washington University St. Louis, Virginia, and UNC-CH.
If you can manage to get it to about a 2150, then I think you’re good to go.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/626896-please-chance-me-upenn-early-decision-i-ll-chance-you-well.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/626896-please-chance-me-upenn-early-decision-i-ll-chance-you-well.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Thanks, hope your right, but my SAT isn’t ever going to get higher, I got lucky to get a 1950… I despise that test =p.</p>

<p>Bump? ((I forgot to mention in first post that I applied to James Madison as well).</p>

<p>Rice-High Reach
Emory-Mid Reach, but since you showed interest its anywhere from a (low reach–Mid Reach)
Furman—Never Heard Of
Washington University St. Louis-High Reach
Tulane-Very Good Chances
Miami-Good Chances
Virginia-Don’t Know
UNC Chapel Hill-High Reach, because you are OOS
Rollins, USF, UCF–Don’t Know…</p>

<p>Good chance at Furman</p>

<p>Pfffft…Berkeley…</p>

<p>Rice- Reach
Emory- Low reach
Furman- Match
WashU- High reach
Tulane- Match
Miami- High Match
UVA- Low reach
UNC- Reach
Rollins- In
USF- In
UCF- In</p>