Brown, UChicago, Haverford, Swarthmore, etc

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I refuse to use ‘chance’ as a verb in this context.</p>

<p>Brown, UChicago, Swarthmore, Haverford, Yale; I’m still shopping around for colleges, so this is a tentative list.</p>

<p>White female from NC; medium-large public school where most opt to go to NCState, Davidson, Duke, UNC, or community college; will need financial aid</p>

<p>UW GPA: 4.0
W GPA: 4.98
Class rank: 3 of 583</p>

<p>SAT - 2360
790 CR
770 Math
800 Writing</p>

<p>SAT IIs
800 Latin
790 French
800 Literature</p>

<p>ACT composite: 34</p>

<p>APs taken -
Civics & Economics: 5
Environmental: 5
European History: 5
English Language: 5</p>

<p>Senior course load -
AP Calculus AB
AP Latin
AP English Literature & Composition
AP Psychology
AP French
AP Government
AP Biology
If you want to pray/send good vibes/perform spells of good luck for me, that would be cool.
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[<em>]35+ hrs/wk waitressing/hostessing at a local Italian restaurant, 2 yrs
[</em>]Internship with newspaper; 3 hrs/3x a wk
[<em>]Officer of Latin club
[</em>]Spent one month in Hungary with church group building houses for impoverished people
[<em>]Interned & researched with professor for one summer; 300+ hours; co-authored two entries in to-be published research journal
[</em>]Co-president of Green club; treasurer of two fundraisers, each earning approx $3000
[<em>]President of Photography club, in charge of all pictures & captions for yearbook
[</em>]Horseback riding; I show on the A circuit, help with summer camps, and teach the occasional lesson
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<p>Essays should be very strong and ‘quirky’ (as someone put it). Recommendations are going to be perfect.
Those are my only notable ECs, which worries me a bit since I’m not some nationally accredited supergenius and/or Mother Teresa. The job really diminishes my time to do more things that interest me.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Your grades, rank, SAT’s + ACT’s, AP’s and curriculum are all awesome, even upper-end of Ivy applicants. Your EC’s don’t make you a shoo-in, but are still very, very good. the month in Hungary is definitely a plus, as well as the research hours and soon-to-be publication. I’m not sure where you could go if you NEED fin-aid, but I would say you are a competitive candidate at all of these places.</p>

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<p>Thanks for your input.
Anyone else? I realize that my grades, scores, etc are all good, but I’m concerned that my ECs don’t show enough depth and interest.</p>

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<p>Great scores, great rank/GPA, courseload, and your ECs are pretty good. I have a lot of respect for the waitressing, research with professor, maybe horseback riding (is it competitive to get on the A circuit?), but not so much the month in hungary…it’s not damaging but I don’t know why dynamo729 thinks it’s so great.</p>