My chances at top schools

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Im a white male (ouch bad start) from middle of missouri. I go to a public school of about 1500 kids. I am ranked 1 out of about 350 kids with a 4.0 uw and 5.0 weighted. My scores are fairly weak with a 1350 on sat (760m590v) me is the suck at the english. I have taken a pretty tough course load all 4 years and have alot of activities. Play lacrosse (started the team) did competive gymnastics for 12 years and was team captain, president of our boys service club, founding member of a political club, active in my church praise band and youth. my sat2s are not good but i am taking them again in december and the act in december. I have big dreams about schools and here is my list of schools that im applying to:
Stanford(i know very small chance but thought i might as well try)
Darthmouth
Brown(my dad went there but never got a degree)
UC Berk. (#1 choice also small chance)
Duke
Some safty schools open to suggestions i wana be on the west cost but east is cool to just not midwest so i have thought of u of washington where my bro goes and maybe UC SC</p>

<p>And i almost frogot my biggest application padder- i won the regional science and engineering fair and went to the intel science and engineering fair in portland my junior year</p>

<p>wow that was long
sorry for spelling mistakes and grammer errors</p>

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<p>chances that bad?</p>

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<p>if you bring up your sat verbal to like a 700 and get good sat IIs and/or get at least a 32 on your ACT, you will have a very decent chance at all those schools in my opinion</p>

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<p>Yeah, I think SAT’s the only problem. But then again, you can never tell with these top universities - they’re never ‘safeties’ for anyone.</p>

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<p>yea i guess i mean safer because right now my list is pretty much a toss up list</p>

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<p>Might want to look at some eastern colleges such as Holy Cross, Bucknell, or Trinity. Each school should be a match and all have lacrosse programs. Holy Cross has best location only 1 hour from Boston,.</p>

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<p>thanks but im not planning on playing competive lacrosse in college i have only been playing for 2 years so im not good enough for college lacrosse</p>

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<p>ucb looks good…</p>

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<p>Everything looks great except the SAT score. That’s not to say that you won’t get in to these schools. I think 1400 makes you extremely competitive, so if you can just get the verbal up to about a 650, I would at least be fairly confident.</p>

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<p>to late already took sat again and i stayed same in verbal and did worse in math somehow</p>