Would appreciate your opinion

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>White, upper-middle class male</p>

<p>Academic
-Junior, High School ranked Tennessee’s fourth best high school in 2005 by U.S. News and World Report
-4.0 unweighted/ 4.359 weighted GPA
-International Baccalaureate curriculum
-Class rank: 9/~425, Top 2%
-Principal’s List all six semesters
-Completed AP Classes: Statistics AP: 5/5
English Language AP: 5/5
Chemistry AP: 4/5
American History AP: 5/5
Biology AP/IB: 5/5
Math IB SL: 5/7
French IB B SL: 4/7
I probably wont self report those last two…</p>

<p>-Scheduled Classes: English Literature AP, Calculus BC AP, Physics AP, Theory of Knowledge IB, Psychology AP/IB, History of the Americas IB, Advanced Biology IB</p>

<p>-SAT:
Composite 2270
Critical Reading 790
Writing 790
Math: 680 (Hopefully will go up)</p>

<p>-ACT: 32</p>

<p>Extra-curricular
-Varsity tennis first doubles team
-Active water/barefoot skier and licensed boat operator
-Avid backpacker, ~35 nights of backpacking, including an 80 mile, 12 day excursion at Philmont National Scout Ranch with a 14,000 foot summit
-SCUBA open-water diver certified through PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors)
-Eagle Scout
-Eagle Project: construction of an outdoor classroom at a local middle school for special needs students, procured $2,000 in donations
-Order of the Arrow inductee (Boy Scouts honor society)
-Venture Crew
-Mu Alpha Theta: daily math tutoring totaling 1.5 hours/ week
-Science Olympiad: Second place medal at state level
-NHS, French Honor Society, some other clubs that dont really mean anything…
-Licensed amateur radio operator
-Won local “Mayor for a day” election; shadowed city mayor </p>

<p>Leadership
-Senior Patrol Leader of Troop 137: organized and led weekly meetings for over 100 boys, planned and implemented troop activities and ceremonies through three assistants and eight patrol leaders
-Assistant Senior Patrol Leader: aided the current troop Senior Patrol Leader
-Patrol Leader: led a group of 15+ boys and managed all patrol activities
-Quartermaster: supervised all troop equipment and gear, including stoves, tents, canoes, sleeping bags, backpacks, apparel, awnings, trailers, boats, etc.
-Rotary Youth Leadership Academy inaugural delegate for Rotary District 6760</p>

<p>Job</p>

<h2>-Worked this entire summer in a lab in the Vanderbilt University Department of Pharmacology; 30 hours a week; I think this will be a good essay topic for me</h2>

<p>Prospective Major: Cognitive Science</p>

<p>Could I get your opinion on my chances to WUStL and Rice University, s’il vous plait? Merci!</p>

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<p>Bump…</p>

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<p>You’ve got a great shot. Your GPA and scores are solid and ECs (especially the scouting) are really impressive.</p>

<p>Rice and WashU are very reasonable. Odds are you’ll get both. I’d be very surprised if you didn’t get either of them.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>I use to be on first doubles…but now i’m on first single…yay!!! but anyway, about your chances.</p>

<p>you have a very good chance at getting into those schools, especially if you raise your SAT math score.</p>

<p>my prediction? you’re in at WUStl and Rice.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the positive feedback, it is encouraging. Do you have any constructive critisism to add? Anything that its not too late to do to help my chances?</p>

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<p>TN helps, just raise the one score for a decent shot.</p>

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<p>I forgot my SAT II scores: Math lvl 2- 740 and Chemistry- 720. I am seriously doubting I will have the chance to retake the SAT reasoning test again; will that 740 make up a little bit for the 680? Also, will the 5 in English Langauge make up a little for a B in the second semester of that class?</p>