Chances at Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Georgetown

Chance Me / Match Me
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SAT: 2100 (760 W, 690 CR, 650 M)
ACT: 31 (34 E, 32 CR, 31 M, 28 S)
SAT IIs: plan on taking Math 2, English Lit, US History in Sept. 2015
GPA: 4.5 weighted, 3.9 unweighted
Class rank: 10 of 366 (based on weighted GPA), 9 based on unweighted
APs: Euro History 3, Macroeconomics 3, Environmental Science 4, US History 5, English Lang 5
Senior Year Classes: AP Stats, AP English Lit, AP French, Ceramics, Physics, AP Gov’t., Senior Project
Junior Year Courses: APUSH, AP English Lang, Pre-Calculus, Philosophy/AP Macro, AP Environmental Science, Honors French 3

Academia Civitas: Four-year honors program in Political Science. 5-honors courses completed: Intro to Poly Sci, State and Local Gov’t., Int’l Relations, Speech, Philosophy. 100+ hours of “service learning,” completed internship at the California Department of Education, Senior Project to come fall 2015: recycling advocacy and expansion of my club to include more of the student population - liaisons for each sports team responsible for collecting recyclables at games

Extracurriculars: Rio Recycles - on-campus recycling program that donates profits back to programs at school - ie Athletic Boosters, band, Avid, theater, PTSA. VP last year, President this year. French Club- 4-year member and 2-year Secretary, Rio Model UN- 4 year member, Women in Leadership Senior member
Varsity Basketball - Coach’s Award as sophomore, All-league Honorable Mention
JV Basketball - MVP as freshman, 10-0 in league
Freshmen Girls soccer (Spring 2013) Co-Captain
Summer 2015 internship at the California Department of Education
Summer 2014 attended Leadership Institute at Georgetown University
Volunteer work: 200+ total community service hours, 113 community service hours as camp counselor at Sacramento Zoo, phone bank on a 2012 election, additional 75 hours working for variety of causes- river clean-ups, manning fun-runs, serving homeless, tutoring, etc.

Intended studies: Major in Poly Sci w/ minor in Econ
other info: CA resident, white female, $200k+ tax bracket, twin

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Hmmm. Well here’s what I think. First of all, your SAT scores will need to go up at least 100 points or your ACT needs to go up 1 or 2 at minimum in order to be somewhat competitive. Second, I hope you know that SAT 2’s are not offered in September (were you thinking of October?), and you need to do well on those. Your grades (especially unweighted GPA) are decent. If weighted is out of 5, then it’s a bit on the low side for weighted. Your class rank is excellent. Your coarse load is acceptable, perhaps a bit on the lighter side, but that won’t be the killer. Your extracurriculars are okay at best, but I would really recommend hitting them home on the application (and none of them are strong in accordance with your intended major too much. Volunteer work is average. In your current state, though Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton are all crapshoots, they are all very high reaches, and you will likely need to improve your application if you want to be competitive for admission. At Georgetown, I would still say it is a high reach but more likely than the other 3. Please chance me back! http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1796275-what-do-you-think-of-my-chances-are-at-these-universities.html#latest Good luck!

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What’s the point of making two threads under different names and leaving rowing out in this one?

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social experiment…