This made George Bush's Jaw Drop

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Hi
Final Chances Thread- everything has been completed
Please be brutal yet honest.</p>

<p>Schools: Stanford SCEA, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Duke, Wash U St. Louis, Cornell, Brown(HPLM), Emory, University of Miami (Honors Program in Medicine)</p>

<p>Public School in South Florida, sends some kids to Ivies
Interested in pursuing medicine as a career</p>

<p>Ethnicity: White (Jewish)
GPA: 4.0 uw/4.9w
Rank: 1/850
SAT: 800 CR/800M/730W
SATII: 800 Math 2/780 Chem/760 Bio
AP: 5 on Calculus BC, Biology, Chemistry, Statistics, US History, European History, Statistics, Psychology
4 on English Language, Physics C Mechanics</p>

<p>Clubs
Mu Alpha Theta(9-12): Vice President in 11th, Pres in 12th
National Honors Society (10-12)
Science Honor Society (10-12), Vice President in 12th
Key Club (9-12)
Physics Club (10-12): President 11th, 12th grade
English National Honor Society(11-12)</p>

<p>Academic Events
Captain of Statistics Team (10-12), qualified for Mu Alpha Theta States (11)
Captain of Calculus Team (11-12)
School Scholar’s Bowl Captain (11-12)
AMC 10 School Winner in 10th- no AIME though
University of Miami David Essner Examination School Winner(11), County Superior Score (10,11)- both of these will be in 12th grade as well
Regional Science Olympiad- 3rd place Mathematics</p>

<p>Out of School
-Cancer Research for past two years at University of Miami for three years- recently was named Semi-finalist in Siemens. Going to do Intel and ISEF.</p>

<p>Community Service
-“Learn to Swim” (9-12)- swimming instructor for underpriveledged kids- 300 hours
-Special Olympics “Hugger” (9-12)-30 hours
-Kids in Distress (10-12) volunteer spending time with abused kids-50 hours
-Random Tutoring -100 hours</p>

<p>Athletics (Not recruitable, but can walk on DI school)
Club Swimming since the age of 6
4 Year Varsity Letter in High School Swimming, Captain (12)
District Runner up 100 back (9/10), 3rd in 50 free and 100 back (12)
5th in the Greater Miami Athletic Conference 100 Back
Junior Olympics Qualifier- 50 Free
MVP (12), led team in points sophmore year</p>

<p>Awards
National Merit Semi-finalist
National AP Scholar
Silver Knight Nominee- General Scholarship (Highly prestigious)
Sunshine State District Scholar
Harvard Book Award From School
Top Mathematics Student in School (9/10/11, will be in 12)
Essay Contest Finalist- “Do the Write Thing”
Other awards from my school for GPA/EC/CS</p>

<p>Other
Speak/Read/Write fluently Hebrew, Russian English
Born and Lived in Israel for 8 years</p>

<p>Recs: Excellent (top 3 student from Euro History/Macroecon teacher, top 1% from science teacher)- NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TEACHERS</p>

<p>Essays: Unique; dealt with how I found my love of medicine</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>damn freakin machine…In at all without a doubt</p>

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<p>have you considered rice/baylor (imo, the best bs/md program) and northwestern’s hpme? awesome stats. great chance at all of them</p>

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<p>ur a stud. great chance for all.</p>

<p>Chance me?</p>

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<p>man wow, ur ecs and academics is really impressive. It’s so good that it seems fake.</p>

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<p>haha your swimming thing is pretty bs. walk on in those schools with just 1 JO qualification? Definitely not stanford or ivies. you would need like junior nats to do that.</p>

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<p>Yeh, i used to be a simmer (back in the day), and i qualified JO in like every event i did (i placed 2nd once)…i WISH i could walk on to a DI school.</p>

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<p>im just curious, did you dedicate your life from the beginning of high school to getting into the most prestigous college you could find, or was it just by coincidence that you ended up with the most perfect resume that ive ever seen for an application</p>

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<p>god i hate you</p>

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<p>Frankly, I dont care what you did. A resume is not a check list, and as much as I’m sure you’re deeply involved in your activities, you need to be legit. Secondly, you’re not involved with a club that some people may argue supercedes all of your activities. Boy Scouts. I see nothing about becoming and Eagle Scout. And if you are one, then I am seriously distressed that you fail to mention it. That would only further lead someone to believe that you’re involvement, regardless of how many hours you claim, is superficial. A resume’s beauty is only 2-D, it’s cold and unfeeling. You have to be the living 3-D version of that. (and hopefully humility, despite your right to brag, is a virtue that you live)</p>

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<p>um sorry but you cant exactly “walk on” to most DI schools… especially a school like STanford</p>

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<p>With regards to swimming- I looked at the times of swimmers at some of these schools and I am faster than some members on varsity, which is why I assumed I could walk on. I’m not that fast, but could probably swim for most of the schools on my list, with Stanford of course a noteworthy exception.
As for the Boys Scount comment- I’m not involved in Boy Scouts :slight_smile:
Thanks a lot everybody- you guys make me feel better; it’s just that I’ve seen some amazing people get rejected from some of these schools that got me a bit worried.</p>

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<p>You said for us to be brutal, so here it is…</p>

<p>Though your stats are impressive, they aren’t going to get you in HYPSM. There are probably (I’m sorry to say) literally thousands who have as good or better resume than you do. The question is, what makes you outshine 10k other applicants? From what I’ve seen, is NONE.</p>

<p>YOur passion for medicine, and your hundreds of community hours are probably shared by hundreds of applicants for HYPSM. Unless you are a globally accounted mathmatical genius, nobody has even 30% chances of getting into HYPSM.</p>

<p>Emphasize what you think not only the most impressive, but the most passionate of your qualities.
I, for one, am a global nomad, and THAT is the kind of hook that’d get you into HYPSM. THough my resume is not as good as yours, a student like my may have shown much more versatility and pure passion for what I do. (I am not saying I have better chances than you).
My point is, EMPHASIZE your most outsanding quality.
Dont say math unless you are comparable to John Nash.
Dont say science unless you’ve won a globally recognized championship</p>

<p>Cheers, and sincerely hoping you’ll get accepted :wink:
Kowloon</p>

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That’s the most ■■■■■■■■ thing I’ve heard. Please tell me a high school student who is comparable to John Nash.</p>

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<p>stupidkid, I meant by potential, dumbass. He was accepted at both Princeton and Harvard, but Princeton’s president actually wrote to him, begging him to come to Princeton with full scholarships.</p>

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<p>Hmm…weird, I don’t see anything that implies “potential.” I don’t know but all I see is “EMPHASIZE your most outsanding quality.” Perhaps my eyesight isn’t as good as yours? If you do mean potential, do you have a good potential for becoming a global nomad?</p>

<p>Whats the point of calling people “dumbass”? Insults really don’t mean anything on an online forum.</p>

<p>Anyways, your chances are good. kowloon is obviously jealous that he doesn’t have anything as prestigious as Siemens Semifinalist. Don’t listen to him.</p>

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<p>you really have lots of potential of an impotent ****. Anyways, since that aint the point, stop talking about irrelevant stuff. And since you arent a global nomad, you’d have no idea what kinds of potential that brings (for example, ample tolerance of others, broad vision). And who cares anyways? My point was to EMPHASIZE a specific quality, not for a stupidkid to come here and completely miss the point.</p>

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<p>Haha, please, humor me. Seriously, you should win a Nobel Peace Price for being a global nomad. (And think of a better name than “nomad,” it doesn’t have great connotations…)</p>

<p>Not only are you naive, but you are very arrogant. Who the hell brags about a 760 on the Math II?</p>

<p>Just for the record, you still haven’t answered my initial question. Too bad, I may never get a response, you seem pretty angry =(. </p>

<p>If you want to talk more, please PM me. It’s not nice to have a conversation in the middle of another person’s thread.</p>

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<p>Your are a qualified candidate for all the schools. One thing I would like to point out is regarding the love of medicine you are describing in your essay. I know many people who wish to enter the medical field, and they all have numerous ECs that show their interest–research, hospital, etc. However, looking at your extracurriculars, I would never have guessed an interest in medicine. Only the cancer research seems to relate to medicine. Unless your essay is really good, you might consider writing about a passion that ties in better with your ECs. Just a suggestion. Good luck to you.</p>

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<p>This is AMAZING! The only thing missing is that 70 points on the writing score. I hate you. please forget to mail your apps so I can have a chance. jk</p>

<p>From what I’ve seen so far, first out of 850?! WOW! Your ECS are incredible!</p>

<p>Now for the verdict…
I would say accepted on all levels, BUT!!! WAIT!!! These are the Ivies, and we all know how notorious they reject the perfect candidates. So what I mean is, if lady luck is with you, you’re in.</p>