Super Nervous!! Please Chance!!

duke412
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:58:16 +0000

I’m going ED to Duke and its absolutely my favorite school and just want to know if I can expect some good news.

I have a 95.7 unweighted average with a weighted average of 99.1
this lets me graduate with summa cum lade (98+ weighted) only like 15-20 people for heaviest years.
I’m in the full IB diploma so my schedule stays extremely difficult (only AP I’m taking senior year is AP Calc BC and rest is IB classes)

33 composite on my ACT,31 english, 35 math, 34 science, 33 reading

I play 2 varsity sports, captain on 1 (3 years for that) and 2 years for the other. In addition I have summer and fall teams that take up another 8-10 hours a week.

Have had a summer job 2 years, worked in 2 springs as an umpire until sports didnt allow me to anymore, work with an organization that helps disabled children play baseball for 4 years-- a lot of my supplements will include this and briefly mentioned in my common app essay and its had a big imprint on me that I am trying to convey in my essays.

I’m a member of a few clubs, but no real leadership positions and often i cannot make meetings for that as i have sports that just conflict too much being 20 hours a week.

Member of NHS and foreign national honor society for spanish

My common app essay was about a condition that I was born with that occurs in 1 in 18,000 kids and how its really changed my outlook on life and a lot of things— i had to make sure that it didn’t sound like a sob story, because it wasn’t at all just a real life changing thing for me as i got older (i think that could be something really interesting)

recommendations are good from both teachers, won awards in both classes

won book award for RPI (only top 10% can win, but we dont rank officially)

In terms of major, i’m undecided but i have interests in economics, psychology and possibly a pre-business/undergrad business school (mich/uva)

Thanks for the input! And other schools I’m applying to are:
Michigan, UVA, Binghamton (NY resident), Northwestern, Cornell, Lehigh, Vanderbilt, Penn (legacy at Penn)