Can I get into UNC, Emory, and/or Vanderbilt?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Hey, I’m Alli. I’m going to be a Senior next year. I’m from NY.</p>

<p>I will most likely do Pre-Law, but I’m also considering Graphic Design and Journalism.</p>

<p>Here are my stats:</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Caucasian
Religion: Jewish
GPA (unweighted): around 97.6ish (it was 98.2 before junior year)
GPA (weighted): as of sophmore year it was 103.2</p>

<p>Class Rank: I was number 3 last year, but I probably dropped somewhere in the top 5, we don’t officially do rankings anymore though…
Class Size: not sure, but large</p>

<p>AP Classes: World History (4), Physics, US History, English Language, but I also took Pre-Calc Honors (the second half of the year is the first half of Calc AB)
Planned Senior AP Classes: AP Calculus AB, AP Economic (Macro & Micro), AP Bio, AP Government, AP Spanish, AP British Literature
Honors: all my classes were honors in junior year, in sophmore year I took all available</p>

<p>I’ve only taken the SATs once so far. I plan to take it again in October. </p>

<p>SAT I Math: 670
SAT I Critical Reading: 620
SAT I Writing: 650 (11 essay)
SAT Composite: 1940, 1290 </p>

<p>SAT II World History: 610
SAT II US History: 680
SAT II Physics: 610</p>

<p>Probably taking the ACT in Sept</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>World Interest Club - Model UN - 10th & 11th
Battle of the Classes - 9-12
Spanish Club - 10th
Key Club - 11th & 12th
NHS - 11th & 12th
Spanish (World Language) Honor Society - 10th through 12th
Symphonic Band (Clarinet) (this is Honors band - it counts as an EC, right?)
School Newspaper - 10th through 12th (I’ve written & done graphic design)</p>

<p>Leadership positions:
Key Club - Secretary
Battle of the Classes - Art Captain Freshman Year
School Newspaper - Graphic Designer</p>

<p>Out of School Extracurriculars:
Clarinet Lessons - 9th through 12th
Graphic Design - for over 2 years by the time I graduate, I have an internet portfolio and I’ve won around 100 non-official awards: <a href=“http://www.tancosi.org/alliheathe/[/url]”>http://www.tancosi.org/alliheathe/&lt;/a&gt;
Newspaper - I arranged an interview with Constantine Maroulis from American Idol Season 4 and wrote the article for my school newspaper</p>

<p>Awards:
National Council of English Teachers Writing Contest - picked three students out of the whole class for a special national writing contest, I had to make it out of 30 selected students in my grade to this point and I still haven’t discovered how I did
Who’s Who Among American Students</p>

<p>Volunteer/Service Work/Jobs:
Tutoring - not sure what yet but I signed up for it for senior year
Hoping to volunteer in the hospital this summer if I can contact them again
I’ve had a job in CVS from 11th (summer) and I will still have it by the time I graduate
I’ve been a CIT or Camp Counselor from the summer of 9th grade until the summer of 11th grade</p>

<p>Some other colleges I will apply to are:
University of Miami - how much money do you think I can get from here? can I consider it my safe school?
George Mason
Duke (It’s a HUGE stretch due to SAT scores, but it’s my dream school)</p>

<p>I’m very lost with making a decision for college because since I was little I always wanted to go to Ivy League. However, my SAT scores are screwing up that option. What other suggestions would you have. Please help.</p>

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<p>yeah your SAT scores are the only thing screwing you right now. everything else looks good (courseload, rank, EC’s, leadership etc).
i would say if you got that SAT over 2100 (which you can), you could get into all 3 of the schools in your title. right now though, they’re all semi-reaches, especially if you’re out of state for UNC. good luck though.</p>

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<p>thanks so much, i decided im going to study a lot for the SATs & ACTs over the summer, but yeahh i seriously suck on standardized tests but do well on the ridiculously hard in class exams…</p>

<p>I’m planning to go to either UNC, Vanderbilt, Emory (if I get money), if I don’t (most likely) I’ll probably end up going to something like university of Miami because I’m sure I’d get a lot more money there, I’m gonna have to take out a lot of loans, so I’ll probably just wait to aim for Ivy League for law school</p>

<p>could someone please recommend other schools that would be in my range if i get my sat score up to a 1350 (which i think is very likely) and then if i get it to a 1400 (if i work ridiculously hard)?</p>

<p>also, for these schools, will my SAT IIs matter that much?</p>

<p>I’ll probably double major with Graphic Design & a Pre-Law program</p>

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<p>Honestly, if you didnt raise your SAT 150 or so points, I wouldnt be surprised if you didnt get into any of them. UNC OOS is especially ridiculous.</p>

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<p>is that 150 points out of 2400 or 1600?</p>

<p>also, would it help that my cousin went to grad school at Vanderbilt?</p>

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<p>Cousins dont help, sorry. a 2040 or so should put you in better standing IMO.</p>