Early Decision Chances at Duke

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Asian American/Male
Massachusetts</p>

<p>Attends one of the mosts competitive public high schools in the country(Boston Latin School, we get 20+ kids into harvard every year, 14 admitted early this year, not so lucky at MIT though, abnout 2/3 a year, 2 admitted early this year, Duke 4 in last 4 years)</p>

<p>Stats:
Class rank: (N/A) top 10%
GPA: B average in Frosh, A average in Soph, A/A+ average in Junior/Senior</p>

<p>SATs: 2340 760R, 800M, 780W
SATIIs :
800 Math IIC
800 Chem
760 Physics
760 U.S.</p>

<p>Most Rigorous Courseload available to students at my schools
Skipped 1 year of math
APs-
World Hist - 4
US Hist -5
Calc BC - 5
Chem AP 5
Statistics(self Study) - 5
Physics -
Econ -
Enviro Sci -</p>

<p>Harvard Classes (Night classes took 1 per semester starting junior year/2 in first semester of senior year):</p>

<p>Computer Science using Java - A
Biology - A
Multivariable Calc- ?(A/A-)
Physics- ? (A/A-)</p>

<p>ECs:
Violin since age 8
Math Team Captian
Science Olympiad-Vice Pres
Science Bowl
Computer Club- Pres
A.S.I.A Club
Founder of a Math tutoring Program for competition lvl Math
Founder of Shostokovich String quartet at School
In Orchestras in school and out
Ulitmate Frisbee club</p>

<p>Awards:
Qualified for USA Math Olympiad (Top 250 kids in the nation)
5th place in 42nd Annual state math olympiad -soph
Schools Math team MVP
American regions math team A team memeber since soph
1st place in 43rd annual state math olympiad - jun
Invited to American computer science league All star compeition OHIO
Various math awards
Honor Roll
Perfect attendance all through HS</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Tutoring in School(sacrafice a study period) - since soph
Tutoring at Boston Public Libraries 4 hours a week on Sundays - since soph
Volunteer at Hospital during summer</p>

<p>Summer
Soph BU’s PROMYS(Program in mathematics for young Scientists- proabbly one of the most well known math summer progs in U.S, takes 70 kids nationwide)
Junior - Northeastern university’s Young scholar program, a summer lab internship(wrote a good chem paper there)
Senior- plans to return to PROMYS
Wrote a really good math reserach paper on Goldback’s conjecture</p>

<p>Work
8 hours a week since junior year/ law office</p>

<p>Essays: Good (not Excellent)
Recs: 1 good, 1 Excellent</p>

<p>What do you think my chances are at Duke(Early Decision), UChicago(RD), Cornell, Columbia, Brown, Rice, MIT(lol), Harvard(lol)</p>

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<p>I think you’re in at Duke ED</p>

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<p>Aren’t early decision results already out?</p>

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<p>IN at duke</p>

<p>Is duke your first choice? Personally I think you can go even “higher,” so to speak.</p>

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<p>really?</p>

<p>My 9th grade grades were pretty bad…</p>

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<p>Yeah well first off a lot of colleges don’t even look at 9th grade, and the fact that you improved is a big deal. Colleges look for upward trends (and downward ones too, but yours ain’t downward at all!)</p>

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<p>By the way Boston Latin is a cool place, I was there last year for a debate tournament (HArvard) and will be back in mid-February!</p>

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<p>hey jimbob, u think coming from Boston Latin School gives a student any type of advantage when applying to Duke, I mean,is it well known by college admissions outside of Massachusetts in your opinion?</p>

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<p>in at Duke. poor 9th grade grades mean nothing as long as there’s a serious upward trend</p>

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<p>well to answer your question about whether the fact that you went to boston latin means anything…
i went to a major private school on the west coast. our mean SAT score was 2070 this year (class of 06). that affected the college’s view of class rank and GPA–how tough the classes and competition were. as a result, these admissions for the class of 05:
Brown University (6); Berkeley (58); Carnegie Mellon University (18); Cornell University (10); Harvard (3); MIT (13); New York University (12); University of Pennsylvania (11); Princeton University (2); University of Southern California (34); University of St. Andrews, Scotland (3); Stanford (11); Wellesley College (14); and Yale (6)</p>

<p>So the same should go for your school. If it’s a tough school with lots of ivy admits, it is treated as such by colleges. they know.</p>

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<p>^ok the mean results for class of 06 did not affect the class of 05 but you get the idea.</p>

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<p><em>bump</em>
<em>bump</em></p>

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<p>Duke: Match</p>

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<p>last <em>bump</em></p>

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<p>Good a chance as anyone…</p>