New ACT, new chances?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Female
White
Rising Junior (Class of '10)
Arizona</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 4.0, Weighted: 4.7
Class rank: 3/500</p>

<p>Freshman Schedule:
English I Honors
Biology I Honors
Spanish II
World History Honors
Art I
PE
Geometry Honors</p>

<p>Sophomore Schedule:
English II Honors
Chemistry I Honors
Algebra II Honors
Spanish III
World History AP (4 on the AP test)
TA Biology</p>

<p>Junior Schedule:
English III Honors
Chemistry AP
Physics Honors
Trig/Pre-Calc Honors
US History Honors
Spanish IV Honors</p>

<p>ACT: 33 Composite (Re-taking next year)
SAT: Taking in November</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:

  1. Panacea–Community Service, Secretary (10), Service Director (11) 100 hrs.
  2. Interact- community service club (9) 20 hrs.
  3. Basketball- Freshman Team Captain (9)
  4. Math Club (11-12)
  5. Science Bowl Club (11-12)</p>

<p>Honors or Accomplishments:
1 vs. 100 game show contestant “super smart kids episode”
Spanish Honor Society (Vice President)
National Honor Society
Published in school’s literary magazine</p>

<p>Research Experience:
Intern at the UCSD Medical School Department of Infectious Diseases during the summer of 2008 working 45 hours a week for 6 weeks performing research on various viruses. </p>

<p>Schools:</p>

<p>Duke (ED, legacy)
Georgetown
Dartmouth
UCLA (Legacy, OOS)
WashU in St. Louis
UPenn
UVA (OOS)
UChicago
Johns Hopkins</p>

<p>Chances for those schools? And I’m thinking I need more match and safety schools–any ideas about schools that are good in the sciences?</p>

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<p>bump (10char)</p>

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<p>Wow, looks like you’re shaping up to be an amazing college applicant. I say you are most likely in at all of the schools you listed.</p>

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<p>Really that optimistic? What are some good match schools for me?</p>

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<p>bump again</p>

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<p>You’re in contention at all of the schools on your list. Also, most of the upper tier institutions greatly value legacies.</p>

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<p>Only thing is that your extracurriculars are kind of lacking. It seems that once you started something you quit
“1. Panacea–Community Service, Secretary (10), Service Director (11) 100 hrs.
2. Interact- community service club (9) 20 hrs.
4. Basketball- Freshman Team Captain (9)”
Maybe you continued these clubs/sports through junior and senior year? I can’t really tell from this but colleges like to see that you stuck with something. Your score on the other hand are phenomenal. Not 1 B, ranked #3, good ACT score, and legacy which is really good for ivy’s. Even though colleges like to see your EC’s I believe your scores are good enough to get you into those schools you listed.</p>

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<p>Panacea is something that I started in 10th grade and I’m a junior now so I’m doing it this year (11). I plan to continue it in 12th grade, but I didn’t put that there, as I am a junior now.</p>

<p>I did quit Interact, which was a community service club after freshman year, but I picked up a different community service the following year and had a leadership position.
I also quit basketball, but only because they wouldn’t let me on the JV team because I’m only 4’10".</p>

<p>What I’m really trying to emphasize in my applications is that I do what I enjoy. I don’t have a huge list of extracurriculars, but I spend a lot of time doing the things I do. </p>

<p>Are there any other schools that I should consider as matches or safeties?</p>

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<p>Your credential just blows.
Looks like your forte is in community service. </p>

<p>For the ones that I 've been familiar with:
Johns Hopkins - low reach
UCLA - OOS makes it hard to predict but still match
Uchicago - low reach: i’ve heard many times it really depends on your essays.
Duke - I think you’ll get in considering your doing ED and your a legacy. I’ve heard that they are heavy on scores so you seem like a very likely candidate.</p>

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<p>What other schools should I consider?</p>

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<p>Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, Vassar</p>

<p>The skies the limit! =]</p>

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<p>bump (10char)</p>

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<p>Maybe Northwestern, Cornell, ? Northwestern has an insanely competitive honors medical program in which only 5-6% of people are accepted into (if that’s what you’re interested in). I really wish Northwestern had undergrad business, because I’d apply there if it did. </p>

<p>Seriously, you could apply anywhere and have a shot with your scores and class rank. Plus, because your only a junior you still have plenty of chances to raise your test scores if you want to, which would even further strengthen your app.</p>

<p>If Duke is your first choice for sure and you apply there ED, I don’t think you have anything to worry about. I can’t see them not accepting you. You’ve got above average stats for their standards and legacy.</p>