give me a chance H,P,MIT, Wharton

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.0
GPA - Weighted: 4.3 (Highest in 30 year school history, all hons and AP taken, but we have a goofy weighting system.)
Class Rank: 1/200 No one else shares…weigheted or unweighted</p>

<p>White Male: Mid-West</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>ACT: 34
SAT II 800-math iic, 800 math ic, 800 bio, 800 physics</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
4 years varsity track (Harvard and MIT are interested in recruiting)
3 years varsity fball (Harvard, Princeton, and MIT interested)
NHS
Key Club
Various language and science clubs-7 hrs a week
Awards: your typical regional champ, nothing special nation-wide.
Volunteering: Various 200 hours
Work History: 9th Grade-40 hours/week for 12 weeks in summer
10th-20 Hours/Week during school year
10th-11th: Opened online business with $4,000. Year later: I have sold over $100,000 in merchandise from that $4,000 start up.</p>

<p>Give me your thoughts on Harvard, Princeton, MIT, and Wharton: including what I need ot improve this summer.</p>

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<p>I’d be interested in hearing your football stats and stuff if you want to post them, otherwise maybe you could pm me and we could talk a little football. I’m interested in playing at similar schools to you so i’d like to compare a little bit.
thanks,
dan</p>

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<p>This is a fake. Don’t bother posting.</p>

<p>The superlatives should have been a good sign of a fake.</p>

<p>“800-math iic”</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=332170[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=332170&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Oh, so you’re retaking the math IIC SAT II for a possible 801?</p>

<p>You people (e.g., iwannagoivy) make me sick.</p>

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<p>edit: Taking the IIC again, after an 800? I’m sorry, but would you mind explaining? It’d be appreciated if you answered the questions under, I’ll do my best to provide any information that might be helpful to you in more opportunities, but faking?</p>

<p>/edit</p>

<p>Honestly, valedictorian (including highest in 30 years?) as well as high ACT scores and perfect SATIIs is already enough to be amazing.</p>

<p>Then you’ve got a huge business (for a high schooler. $4,000 to $100,000 is good, period, too), and you’re recruited as an athlete.</p>

<p>I believe a lot of the Ivy Leagues are getting more competitive in athletics, particularly with distance track and cross-country. But I can’t think of any real sprinters of the top of my head.</p>

<p>I’m sorry if I’m generalizing, but provided you’re recruited in football and track, it doesn’t seem like you’d be leaning towards higher distances. Correct me if I’m wrong.</p>

<p>Either way, you’re already recruited, and if you’re a sprinter, it certainly can’t hurt. The student-athlete pitch works perfectly.</p>

<p>How fast, though? Recruited as in they’ve already contacted you, or you them and established a relationship, or recruited as in you think your times are good enough to have a chance?</p>

<p>And going from Wharton, it sounds like you’re into business. You’ve already got your huge business. Expand that, or possibly aim for an internship? Local firms, middle-class boutique banks or anywhere else would be worth contacting. Well-known places will almost definitely not offer you a chance, those are reserved for established undergrad/graduate students.</p>

<p>But it’s worth attempting at some place smaller, and it’s just as good.</p>

<p>If you’re busy with your own business though, stick with that.</p>

<p>I don’t see why you even have to ask, really, it looks good for you. I’d look more towards MIT and Wharton. Princeton’s actually extremely solid in economics, too -and nevermind, so is Harvard. You can’t go wrong anywhere, although I’d visit. I’m leaning towards Princeton, or MIT if you like the atmosphere. It’s amazing.</p>

<p>In short, while Ivy Leagues are Ivy Leagues, it’d be ignorant to say you don’t stand a good chance.</p>

<p>If you don’t mind me asking, I’m definitely not going into business, but what does your business entail? How’d you get into the start-up?</p>

<p>It’s just interesting.</p>

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<p>I feel so bad for you that you wasted all that time writing such a long post for this guy.</p>

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<p>I have been getting 45-47/50 on Rusen Myelani the past few days, I have an 800 in the bag.</p>

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<p>I’m sure I’ll pull through, eventually.</p>

<p>No worries, I would never have spotted it without you? But at the same time, he still could have an explanation. I’d be perfectly willing to type more if he did, there’s a lot to say.</p>

<p>edit:: The last post came in while I was writing.</p>

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<p>Also: MIT is desperate for athletes as they are trying to change their geek image. Harvard just got screwed over with a new track coach who knows nothing about sprints, they had to have fball players run indoor sprints because the guy didn’t recruit anyone. I am nothing special at track, they are just desperate. 11.25 100m</p>

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<p>School just started to weight past 5 years</p>

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<p>edit:: Missed the last post, I just copied and pasted this quickly from the private message. So scrap part of the first section of the following post.</p>

<p>11.25 won’t win meets, but as you said, you’re better than a lot of Ivy League sprinters. Have you already talked with coaches?</p>

<p>/edit</p>

<p>Remember on the admissions though -even with the athlete benefit (although I’m not sure how fast you are. I run track, too, though, although probably not as fast. 52 400, 2:02 800, 4:38 mile, can’t do the 100 like you probably do), if everything’s valid besides the SAT math IIC score, all those colleges are huge on passion/direction.</p>

<p>I’d be able to provide you with well known internship programs and applications, but it’s too late to apply for this summer.</p>

<p>Good advice that I mentioned earlier would be contacting local businesses. You’ll likely have to aim for the summer -personally, I had to avoid numerous internships and connections I’d made, due to focusing on cross-country and track, as the internship was in the fall.</p>

<p>I couldn’t miss school, and there was no way in hell I’d miss running -and by then, it was a little too late in the day to be of any value.</p>

<p>Personally, this summer, I’m probably going to end up with an internship in a large government office while taking classes on the side. If possible, I’d advise you to sign up for classes at the local community college or wherever possible -business classes and such are available.</p>

<p>You might already know everything. If that’s the case, look into the classes, make sure, and avoid it if you want to. But generally, college classes, and obtaining good grades on them, especially in business and your field of interest, will mean a lot. You’ll also, hopefully, learn.</p>

<p>It’s worth looking into.</p>

<p>I gave friends similar advice, one of them is now interning at a local banking firm. The other applied earlier (deadlines for summer typically around March 1) for a position in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -it’s pretty huge.</p>

<p>If you’re considering entrepreneurship, small companies (with entrepreneurs, yeah?) will typically be glad to have interns, high school students included.</p>

<p>It’s just a matter of contacting them. Most will require interviews, which isn’t typically a problem, I didn’t think so, and many require resumes.</p>

<p>I put one together quickly, that shouldn’t be difficult either.</p>

<p>Get some phone numbers.</p>