New (and Hopefully Improved!) Chances Thread

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Hi guys! I posted on this board a while back and got some really great feedback and advice. Now that I have my actual GPA and more pertinent data, I was wondering if my final list is realistic/well balanced. Thanks!

School: small LAC in New England
GPA: 3.75 in honors program
SAT: 2070 (CR: 700 WR: 720 M: 650) SATII: Literature: 680 Math 2: 620
HS GPA: 3.62 uw (8 AP's, all the rest honors; skipped ninth grade; 8 classes a semester)
Rank: 80/935-Top 10%

Activities:

Public Achievement coach
Yearbook copy editor (only freshman chosen to be on staff this yr)
Newspaper copy editor
Drama club (directing one act play this semester)
Tutoring
Campus activities board

HS Activities:
Newspaper editor in chief
Class Fundraising Coordinator
Lots of theater activities
Founded local planning board for teen programming in town
Founded local creative writing group for teenagers
Religious education teacher
Tutoring
Babysitting (main ECs 10th and 11th grade were work and taking care of 2 younger siblings while parents worked)

Employment
Restoring old books and documents

Awards: Honor roll, NHS, FLHS, statewide community service award, several local writing/journalism awards, a few others

Other:
Creative endeavors: midway through writing a novel, and have own original comic book series that I'm looking to get published
Athletics: Cycle 10-12 miles per day
Grew up in lower income situation

Reasons for transferring: I decided to change my major to neuroscience, which is not offered at my present school. Also, looking for a bigger environment; my current school is about half the size of my high school. I would like to travel a bit more too; my school is only about twenty minutes from my house

Essays: should be good
Recs: great; one from English professor who attended and taught at Brown, the other from head of the Poli Sci department and advisor to one of my activities

Schools:
Barnard
University of New Hampshire
Brown
Wellesley
University of Rhode Island
Northeastern University
New York University

Thanks!

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