Chance a Junior w/ low GPA & no AP's

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Location: Northwest</p>

<p>Passions: Sports and traveling.</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>I go to a very competitive catholic private school</p></li>
<li><p>I have a 3.64 unweighted gpa, although besides first semester freshman year</p></li>
<li><p>I have only taken one honors class (honors advanced algebra)</p>

<ul>
<li>Do to health problems this year I was not able to take any AP or honors classes. </li>
</ul></li>
<li><p>I have never had a grade lower than a B</p></li>
<li><p>My SAT scores:
CR: 650
Math: 700
Writing: 650
Total: 2000</p></li>
</ul>

<p>I am planning on retaking them </p>

<ul>
<li>My senior year courses look like this if I stay at my current school:
AP Physics
AP Calculus
AP Government
College Modern Euro History
Psychology
French IV
English 12</li>
</ul>

<p>If I transfer to my local public school it will be:
AP Calc
AP Physics
AP Gov
Eng 12
AP modern Euro
(not that much different) </p>

<p>EC’s:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>I have over 150 hours of volunteer coaching sports</p></li>
<li><p>I also have a job as a coach</p></li>
<li><p>I was in religious school up until 10th grade (I’m Jewish)</p></li>
<li><p>I am volunteering at a riding center for disabled children</p></li>
<li><p>I still do gymnastics myself although not competitively</p></li>
<li><p>I was a varsity pole vaulter last year and was 10th at varsity districts</p></li>
<li><p>I do MUN</p></li>
<li><p>I have a part time job on the weekends</p></li>
<li><p>I have spent a lot of time traveling (I lived in England for 3 months, and went to school during that time, I have been there over 8 times. I have been to France twice. I have also spent time in Spain, and I spent a month in Israel last year.)</p></li>
<li><p>I have been involved in many other sports including figure skating and horseback riding, both competitively.</p></li>
<li><p>I am co-chair of one of the big fundraisers at my school for oppressed women and children</p></li>
</ul>

<p>Other:</p>

<ul>
<li>I plan on going into medicine, and I would like my undergraduate degree to be in Neuroscience or Psych. </li>
</ul>

<p>Schools I am looking at:

  • Whitman
  • Chapman
  • University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • Tulane
  • Bryn Mawr
  • Macalester</p>
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<p>Tulane will be a reach.</p>

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<p>How many AP’s does your school have? What is your rank? Are you a recruited athlete? How much do you think you can improve your SATs? (An increase to 2150+ can make you very competitive for your schools)</p>

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<p>Anyone else? The schools I like most are Whitman and Macalester, what are my chances at those?</p>

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<p>Can you answer dirdir’s questions? It will help us to chance to.</p>

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<p>My school offers the following AP’s

  • Calc, Gov, US history, English, Spanish, French, and also adv physics and adv chemistry which are offered every other year, and are not technically AP’s but you can take the AP test.
  • They also offer college European History</p>

<p>I am not a recruited athlete. </p>

<p>I might be able to increase my SAT’s to 2100 but that’s probably the highest I’ll be able to get.</p>

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<p>Bump again?
Oh, also I’m looking at Mount Holyoke.</p>

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<p>College’s seem to look for students who challenge themselves, and take the most rigorous courses offered to them. That being said, if you have a legitimate excuse not to take challenging courses, you may be reevaluated. Still i think you have a solid chance at most of the schools on your list, im not so sure about UNC though, it may be a reach.</p>