one anxious little boy. (Stanford, Brown, Rice, Boston)

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I’m simply a bit anxious right now as I plan for what I’m doing over the summer, and hopefully I can gain a realistic guideline that will influence what I want to do.</p>

<p>This is a revision from my previous thread that died somewhere in this forum.</p>

<p>Public School in Oregon
Asian Male
Rank: top 1% of some 600 people (expected to drop down to top 2% after recalculated GPA)</p>

<p>GPA 4.21/3.98
SAT 2050 (will be retaking in the fall)
ACT 32
AP Scores - bio (5) calc (4)</p>

<p>Soph Year:
AP Biology
AP Calculus AB
Media Studies
Spanish 3
American History 1 (Honors)
English Lit/Comp 1 (Honors)
Health/PE
[B’s 1 semester for calc and spanish]</p>

<p>Junior Year:
AP Statistics
AP Chemistry
AP Psychology
AP Comparative Govt
AP En. Language/Comp
Spanish 4
American History 2
[B’s 1 semester for ap lang and ap psych]</p>

<p>Senior Year (forecasted):
AP Physics
AP Calculus BC
AP Economics
AP Spanish
AP En. Literature/Comp
Choir</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
I have juggled for pretty much all my life. I have competed and won several awards and certificates as well as having taught juggling at a camp for adopted children. However, I am trying to organize something a bit larger during this summer…</p>

<p>Varsity Tennis (3 years)
Key Club (2 years, secretary)
MUN
Hip-hop club</p>

<p>If you need more info, feel free to ask. My targets are as follows.</p>

<p>First Choice:
Stanford, Brown, Rice</p>

<p>Second Choice:
Boston U, UW, Northwestern</p>

<p>Safety:
OSU</p>

<p>Thank you for your time.</p>

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<p>Reach: Stanford</p>

<p>Low Reaches: NU, Brown</p>

<p>High Match: Rice</p>

<p>Match: BU, UW</p>

<p>Safety: OSU</p>

<p>Make sure you display some interest in your match/safety schools because you don’t want to become a victim of Tufts Syndrome :P</p>

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<p>Oooh what part of Oregon are you from? I’m a fellow Oregonian.</p>

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<p>mj93: haha do all those schools up there have Tufts symdrome? I should probably visit Northwestern and BU to see if I like them as much as I should.</p>

<p>LilBabySeaOtter: I’m in the Beaverton metro area. Nice to meet you. Sort of. =)</p>

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<p>BU is a Tufts syndrome school, yes.</p>

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<p>Unless you’ve got some amazing ECs, Stanford isn’t going to happen. It’s super, miracle reach.</p>

<p>You can probably get Rice.</p>

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<p>Haha, I’m not sure what defines amazing; can you give examples?</p>

<p>Also, what other universities have similar atmospheres to Brown, Stanford, and Rice?</p>

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<p>BEAVERTON REPRESENT!</p>

<p>you must go to westview?</p>

<p>Good chances. Juggling is interesting, but besides that you have typical/boring EC’s. Work on making juggling bigger…</p>

<p>I would say that Northwestern and Rice are high matches, but realistic and likely. Stanford and Brown are crapshoots :/</p>

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<p>Westview? Haha, maybe. :)</p>

<p>Yeah, I’m thinking of working on the juggling a bit, but I don’t know what I want to pursue with it.</p>

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<p>Juggling eh? Look at this essay and write something similar:</p>

<p>Bernstein had his baton, Conners had his racquet, and I… I have my pen. True, I know that a pen’s main purpose is to “communicate ideas via paper,” but to me, it is more than writing utensil. A pen is the integral tool for the undiscovered art of penning – the long cylindrical writing instrument is the key to my passion of pen twirling.</p>

<p>My first experiences with penning started on my trips home in traffic. Every afternoon, my bored finders wandered around the car: opening cmpartments, exploring niches, searrching for something, anything, interesting to end the mundane ride. One day, I laid my hands on an old chewed-up pen jammed under my seat. With the radio stuck on country, the traffic crawling at two feet per minute, and my dad too exhausted for conversation, I resolved to entertain myself with the ratty old pen.</p>

<p>My first attempts to toss and catch the pen evoked worried cries about blinding my eyes in a moving car, so I proceeded to flip the pen through my fingers. As I continued to toy with the pen, I stumbled upon a new delight – my pen twirling lifestyle.</p>

<p>As I gradually learned, spinning a pen is an aesthetic art form requiring dexterous finders and deep concentration. To refine my pen twirling skills, I detailed a weekly exercise routine for my ten little phalanges. During the car rides home, my fingers warmed up with arm-rest splits, practiced with dashboard push-ups, and cooled off with window waves. But as a true master of art, I know that strength alone is futile; precise timing and rhythm are essential to the perfect execution of a pen rotation. So, to enhance the artistic aspect of my penning, I twirled to music and spun to beats. Eventually, my phalanges mastered intricate backwards pinky twirls and thumb summersaults; after countless hours in traffic, I had whipped my ten stubbly fingers into performing acrobats.</p>

<p>While some people can wiggle their ears and other can fold their tongues, I can twirl a pen. Even though I still use the pen to write essays, take notes, and fill out college applications, the pen has an additional role in my life. But until I can represent the US in pen twirling at the 2008 Olympics or start a pen-twirling craze at Harvard, only my friends and I will know of my hidden art. For me pen twirling is a knack, a talent, and a joy.</p>

<p>a</p>

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<p>Tufts syndrome school?</p>

<p>someone please explain.</p>

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<p>Look up “Tufts Syndrome” on Wikipedia.</p>

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<p>Wow, thanks for the essay. Awesome, I twirl pens too. :)</p>

<p>Tufts syndrome is when a school knows it is your safety/second choice school, and will reject you due to your lack of commitment to that school.</p>