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aiming too high?

rhswim9rhswim9 32 replies31 threads Junior Member
edited July 2009 in What Are My Chances?
hi, im about to go into my senior year and I feel im a pretty good student. Im in the IB Program and think I have taken rigorous courses, but i'll let you be the judge of that. i currently have a 3.6 unweighted GPA, and a 4.31 weighted GPA, am african-american varsity swimmer for 4 years, club swim team member for 4 years, have 500 community service hours, Editor in Chief as well as a member of many clubs including NHS. I have also been accpetied into J-Camp which is a prestigious journalism camp which selects 30 of the nations best journalists for a program in different cities. I am also involved in helping to build schools in nations that dont have very good education systems, and have helped fund raise and get the word out to the public. The only set back about my resume is that my SAT's are not good, only a 1740. I really like those schools, and some have EA, some SCEA, and all RD, and i just cannot find a way to apply to them where my chances are good of getting into the school. Some schools i know are easier to get in early, while others are hard, and if someone could help me out with explaining on my chances, and what i need to do to ensure my success. I plan on double majoring in journalism as well as medicine. i am from maryland. Have countless awards-MVP for Swim Season;Unsung Hero;Most Dedicated. Editor in Chief of one of the nations most respected newspapers. Apart of the Young Democrats Club, NHS, Spanish Honors Society. i will definetly raise my sat and take subject tests from the future.

Schedule

Sophomore

Pre-IB English 10
Pre-IB Chemistry
IB Pre-Calculus
Journalism 1
Honors Spanish 3
Honors Computer Programming
IB/AP Government

Junior

IB English
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB Calculus
IB Spanish 5
Journalism 2
IB History
IB Biology

Senior- I will take
Honors Law
AP Statistics
IB Psychology
IB English
IB History
Journalism 2
IB Biology
Honors Health
Educore
Law
Philosophy

The schools that i am applying to are Maryland- College park, UVA, UNC-Chapel, Gtown, Upenn, Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, Wash U St. Louis, Michigan, Vanderbilt and UCLA.

What do you think, too hard of a list? would i get into any of these schools? i will certainly get my sat scores up, ive been practicing.
edited July 2009
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  • welles10welles10 820 replies11 threads Member
    If you can raise you sats significantly, definitely over 2000, you have a much better shot at these schools, but as it is it will be very difficult to get into a lot of these schools even with URM status.

    Maryland- College park - match
    UVA - reach
    UNC-Chapel - reach
    Gtown - reach
    Upenn - reach
    Stanford - reach
    Columbia - reach
    Harvard - reach
    Wash U St. Louis - reach
    Michigan - reach
    Vanderbilt - match
    UCLA - reach
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