Chance me- HYP, Duke, UVA, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Asian female, junior </p>

<p>GPA: 4.85
Unweighted: 4.0
Class rank: top 1-2% out of 430</p>

<p>AP’s so far: US history, Environmental</p>

<p>Projected senior year:
AP European History
AP English 12
AP Government
AP Biology
AP Calculus
Honors Physics
Honors Spanish IV
Honors Chamber Orchestra
Honors Shakespeare II (online)</p>

<p>PSAT: 225
SAT I: (800/710/800)= 2310
SAT IIs: ? (planning on Literature, History, Biology)</p>

<p>EC</p>

<p>Debate
4 years
Captain 2 years
Random awards- 3rd place Districts, 3rd place Regionals, JMU semifinals, 5th place Speaker
Attended U of R camp in ’07, going again this year </p>

<p>Violin
8 years
School orchestra 8 years - Chamber Orchestra 3 years
All County Orchestra- ‘06
School musical
Played in numerous places (Children’s hospital, science museum, bank opening, library opening, nursing home, PSAT high scorers award ceremony, church, etc.)</p>

<p>Piano
4 years private lessons
~5 hours/week</p>

<p>Volunteering
100+ hours at local nursing home
40+ hours at ecology club (Will be VP next year)
20 hours tutoring
10+ hours on election days
Helped produce a list of resources for entrepreneurship class and a school handbook in Uganda with the VP of Rural Uganda Fund</p>

<p>Job
Courtesy clerk at Ukrop’s Grocers, 07- present, ~10 hours/week</p>

<p>Honors
National Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society
Music Honor Society
Math Honor Society (projected)</p>

<p>Summer ‘08
Hopefully internship, some college summer program</p>

<p>Awards</p>

<p>1st place FBLA Business Law Districts
1st place FBLA Business Law States
1st place FBLA Business Law Nationals
State Essay Contest Winner (sponsored by House of Delegates)
PSAT high scorer- 3 years
National Merit Finalist (hopefully)
Honor Roll- 7 years
English Department Award (2 freshman out of 500)
Science Scholar (1 out of 500)
Most Improved, MVP- Orchestra
5+ Perfect SOLs (state test)
3x team scorer VA math league (team scorer: one of top 5 scores from each school)
Outstanding Volunteer- Spring Arbor Nursing Home</p>

<p>Misc.</p>

<p>Pretty fluent in Chinese (9 years Chinese school)
Into Shakespeare (2 years online Shakespeare class) </p>

<p>Reaches:
Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Duke</p>

<p>Matches:
UVA? (in-state)
Georgetown?</p>

<p>Safeties:??? Maybe U of R?</p>

<p>Can anyone help me with this list of schools? I’m interested in IR, law, etc.</p>

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<p>bumpity bump</p>

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<p>HYP are reaches for everybody, but I think you have an excellent shot. You’re great in grades, test scores, and extra curricular. </p>

<p>In everywhere else</p>

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<p>Thanks! bump</p>

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<p>There’s nothing weak about your stats. Unless you have room left on your app, I’d leave out a lot of the school awards and most of the honor societies unless you’re really involved in them. </p>

<p>I think colleges will LOVE your involvement in the Uganda project. That shows initiative and caring. Also, your volunteerism suggests that you have a great awareness of the world around you and a willingness to better it. That’s something top colleges will love, and something you should definitely emphasize.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the suggestions?</p>

<p>Does anyone think U of R is a good safety?</p>

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<p>natty bumpo</p>

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<p>You should get into UVA, but do eliminate 5 perfect SOL thing. SOLs are not even included on your transcript. So do not bring them up. As for the U of R as a safety, find one more. The U of Richmond is a tough school to get into. There are plenty of good safeties in VA.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I won’t put the SOL score stuff.</p>

<p>Anyone have any ideas of safeties?</p>

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<p>UVA is a safety for you, no doubt about it. (you’re instate, otherwise its a target school)</p>

<p>HYP is a reach for virtually everyone (except those quadruple legacies who have at least two and a half buildings named after them).</p>

<p>I don’t know too much about how duke admits applicants but i’d imagine you’d ahve a fairly good chance.</p>