Western New York Kid Who Wants To Be A Blue Devil!

Colleges & Universities Duke University
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<p>Small Catholic High School </p>

<p>Class of 50 (Will graduate 2nd or 3rd)</p>

<p>SAT I:
V: 770 M: 690 (Total: 1460) W: 660 (Total: 2120)</p>

<p>AP US: 4 (Only AP class school offers)</p>

<p>Dual Enrolled at local community college to strengthen courseload</p>

<p>GPA: 97% (What does this calculate to?)</p>

<p>Senior Year EC’s (Just listed those with leadership roles, most important:</p>

<p>Captain of Varsity Football Team
President of NHS Chapter
President of Concert Band
Treasurer of Student Senate
Buffalo Bills Student Leaders Program
4 Years Varsity Golf</p>

<p>Consistant community service throughout high school, increasing time every year, most at local Catholic church and school. </p>

<p>Solid teacher rec (Football coach and teacher)
Solid essays</p>

<p>Any Chance? What do you think I’ll pay if I get in? Parents make about 80,000 combined a year… 3 kids.</p>

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<p>Duke is going to be a reach for you, but it is possible. Did you apply ED?</p>

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<p>No, I have yet to apply.</p>

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<p>i dont think its that big of a reach, although still a reach</p>

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<p>

It’s hard to tell without your actual grades.
If an A is a 4.0, an A- is a 3.7, and a B is a 3.0 (those are the actual values at Duke):
Student 1 gets 2 90s, so that’s 2 A-'s, so the GPA is 3.7.
Student 2 gets a 95 and an 85, so that’s an A and a B, so the GPA is 3.5.
Both students have a 90 average, but they have different GPAs</p>

<p>Sorry for the whole explanation for a minor point, but lots of people ask for the conversion when it’s not that easy.</p>

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<p>every grade on my transcript is 95 or above.</p>

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<p>then that’s most likely a 4.0. good job.</p>

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<p>the size of ur small school will be a factor…</p>

<p>Also how is there even a football team for your school. It would have to constitute like 1/4 of your school</p>

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<p>obviously a negative factor, but how so? that does not seem fair.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure it would be a negative factor… but if it was, it would probably be because your school is small, has fewer resources to challenge it’s students with (like APs), less competition from other students, etc. That’s not necessarily negative in terms of them evaluating you b/c they would do it withint that context, but I think that maybe because of that things like SATs might play a bigger role in the decision making process than they might normally because they need like a larger comparison… then again i’m not an admissions officer so i don’t really know, people get into great schools from really small high schools all the time</p>

<p>good luck!</p>

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<p>why the hell did u find it necessary to tell everyone ur f-ing resume. Like we are students you think we know who will get in. just apply and see what happens</p>

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<p>umm thats what people do when they ask for their chances</p>