Given these stats...

Applying to College
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<p>I’m looking at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, Pomona, Emory, UF, UBC and Claremont Mckenna for college. I’m about to enter my senior year, but I’m putting down the classes I’m taking in my senior year too. </p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 UW
Rank: 1/about 240
SATI: CR: 720 M: 800 W: 800 TOTAL: 2320
SATII: Math II: 800 Chemistry: 790 US History: 770
I didn’t take the ACT
I’m probably going to be a national merit scholar (108 in my home state makes the cut)</p>

<p>Classes:
AP Microeconomics
AP US Government
AP English Language
AP US History
AP Physics C
AP Calculus AB/BC and IB Mathmatics SL (tested out at SL)
IB Spanish SL (taken Spanish for 5 years)
IB Economics SL and HL (SL exam)
IB Chem SL and HL
IB English HL
IB Contemporary History HL
Theory of Knowledge</p>

<p>Electives:
Band (two years), marching band 1 year
creative writing/drivers ed
study hall =)</p>

<p>Extracuriculars:
-4 year member of the Canadian Youth National Rock Climbing team
-I have attended the World Youth Championships 3 times for climbing, soon to be 4, my highest placing being in the top 10
-I have placed in the top 3 in the US for my age for the last two years
-I have won the Canadian Nationals for my age group twice
-I help coach a few competative climbers at my gym
-Won a district poetry competition and became a finalist in a few national writing competitions.</p>

<p>Community Service:
-I have founded and currently run a small program that introduces children with special needs to rock climbing. I’ve worked with 17 children and have received funding from a few local organizations as well as the climbing gym itself.
-assistant tournament director for local scholastic chess tournaments
-volunteered at the local library
(most of my effort goes into my program)</p>

<p>So what do you guys think? Do I stand a shot for some of these prestigious schools?</p>

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Man, are you serious? You’re taking ALL those courses THIS year? wow!</p>

<p>Yes, your rockclimbing is a pretty unique EC and it’s pretty interesting, but do you not have some others like some clubs, organizations, etc? Your community service is pretty cool, but nothing really stellar.</p>

<p>Yeah, you stand a shot (everyone pretty much does, no one’s like “auto-reject” unless you’re like 3.5 gpa 1600 SAT bad EC’s), and good luck presenting yourself in the application (like essays).</p>

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<p>no - those are the courses I’ll have on my transcripts when graduating. Sorry for the miscommunication.</p>

<p>I put most of my time into school, my climbing, and my community service project. I also live 30 minutes from my school and can’t afford driving back and forth for clubs. I was in NHS but decided to leave it because I couldn’t make any meetings, as explained previously.</p>

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<p>Statistically you’re solid as hell and the rock climbing ec is pretty original and cool IMO. What state are you from?–since that would influence admissions at UF or UNC.</p>

<p>Edit: Ah and in response to your statement at the bottom of you post

Yeah you stand a great shot!</p>

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<p>wrong forum my genius buddy…</p>

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<p>^This was their first post, so assume that he isn’t familiar with the site</p>

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<p>Eli, to answer your question I’m from florida, so that helps with uf, but not so much with unc. </p>

<p>az1698: sorry. I am not really familiar with the site yet. I’d move my post, but I actually have no clue how.</p>