Chances! Mostly West-coast colleges

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Causcasian
Female
Oregon resident
Junior
Unweighted GPA: 3.89
Weighted GPA: 4.1
Rank: 33/451… Not sure if that has changed, around top 7%
SATs: Combined: 2130
Math 650 Writing 690 Reading 790
Will take both biology SAT IIs and the literature in the fall</p>

<p>Freshman: 4.0 (honors only offered for english)
Honors English
9th History
Geometry*
Japanese 2
Biology
Health 1/PE
Art 1/2</p>

<p>*This was the “standard track” I switched up to the “advanced” after Freshman year. Dunno if this makes a difference</p>

<p>Sophomore: 3.9
Accelerated Lit
Western Civilizations (not required but history credit)
Japanese 3
Advanced Algebra 2 (B second semester)
Chemistry
Health 2/Advanced art
Intro to Psych/Intro to Law</p>

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<li>took 2nd credit of PE online
I also had credits for Japanese transfer from my middle school because I was taking high school Japanese there. I demonstrated “proficiency” on the Japanese state test. The teacher was CRAZY (and I am really, really not joking) and my counselor advised me to drop it. Not as much language as I should have taken, I hope it won’t hurt me too much. </li>
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<p>Junior: 3.8
IB English
IB History of the Americas
IB Pre-Calc (only B)
IB Biology
IB Environmental Systems and Societies
IB Anthropology
Study Hall</p>

<p>Projected Senior:3.8-4.0
IB Biology HL
IB English HL
IB History HL project challenge
IB Calculus
IB Physics
IB Art
Study Hall</p>

<p>ECs:
Competitive club swim team for 8 years
Varsity Swim team Freshman and Junior year (not sophomore, coach/team major issues)
Volunteer at Good Samaritan Hospital 100+ hours Junior year (4 hrs a week)
Volunteer at Children’s Museum 30 hours Freshman year
Worked as a Lifeguard and swim instructor part-time during the year Sophomore and Junior year, and full-time summer since freshman year </p>

<p>Awards
Scholastic Gold award for art Junior year
English Award Sophomore year
Leadership and Inspirational awards Freshman and Sophomore year for my Swim Club
8th in long course state (summer 2008) 200 breaststroke, multiple top 10s
Link Crew leader for my school
NHS and Environmental club member since Junior year
On my high school’s “philanthropy board”
Will be a 4-h camp counselor this summer
Will participate in the “Portland Plunge” this summer, a week of intensive volunteering with Portland’s homeless</p>

<p>Reccomendations:
Biology and English teachers, expecting them to be excellent</p>

<p>I realize my ECs may be weak and I haven’t done anything incredible, but swimming is a 15-20 hour a week commitment, and Freshman and Sophomore year I was solely focused on my sport. Junior year I burned out a bit from swimming, and did different activities (more volunteering). I will not swim in the summer for my club, but I will be back to compete in the fall and return to Varsity for my school. I haven’t done a ton of things, but I am very passionate about what I have chosen to do. Hopefully I can communicate that in my essays.</p>

<p>Chances at:
Wellesly
Bryn Mawr
Scripps
Pomona
Pitzer
Amherst
Colorado College (would apply early action)
Haverford (visited there… card filled out)
Bowdoin
Occidental
USD
Denver University
Willamette
Whitman</p>

<p>Thank you for anyone who helps me! It’s greatly appreciated and I’ll try to chance back.</p>

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<p>honestly i feel you are a shoe in for all of the above colleges in fact u would look a tier up</p>

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<p>bump…bump</p>

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<p>I think you will get in everywhere. Haverford, Amherst, and Bowdoin are excellent schools. I think you can get into them, but that is not a guarantee. If I were you I would write my essay on the Portland plunge. That sounds very interesting.</p>

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<p>You DO look good, but I have to say, no one is a “shoe in” at Pomona…I’m not THAT familiar with schools outside of California, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the same applied to Amherst. I LOVE UCD, and academically , it should not be a reach, but these days, OOS, who knows what will happen next year. I think things look VERY good for Occidental ( my D was admitted there), and pretty good for Scripps too ( my D was admitted there as well, but those admissions were in 08).</p>

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<p>Thank you!
Amherst is similar to Pomona in admission stats… Just on the East Coast which may give me a bit of a boost.</p>

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<p>You have a good chance at most of those schools, though Pomona, Amherst, Wellesley, and Haverford would be considered reaches.</p>

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<p>There are no schools a tier up from Amherst and Pomona. Those schools are major reaches with current stats, I’d look a raising SAT Math and CR to mid 700’s from a shot at those. You look solid for the rest with Bowdoin being the other reach.</p>

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<p>“* took 2nd credit of PE online”
HAHAHAHA</p>

<p>Back to being serious, with an amazing essay you will have a shot at all of these schools.</p>

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<p>You have great chances at every college except Amherst and pomona, where i think rejection is highly probable (for any candidate that is…). If you wanna improve your chances you’ll have to raise your Sat score considerably (class rank is weak), and write good essays. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Yeah I know… math SAT=death. I’m pretty positive I can raise the writing though, because I raised it 100 point from my projected pSAT with cramming the night before >.<
Class rank should go up, especially weighted by the end of the year <em>fingers crossed</em>
Thank you!</p>