Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Applying to:
Swarthmore College
American University
Ithaca College
Guilford College
Colby-Sawyer College
University of Maine at Farmington</p>

<p>School: 500 kid public school in a 8,000 person town (in Maine).
Race: White. My father is 100% Russian, though, so maybe that will add a little to my cultural diversity, haha.
Gender: Female.</p>

<p>Cumulative GPA: 92/100 (honor roll every quarter except for one in freshman year)
ACT: 31 (E: 36, M: 25, R: 34, S: 27, W: 9 on essay, 33 Writing+English)
SAT: Don’t intend to send out.
Rank: N/A (guidance counselors feel class is too small for ranking)
Recommendations: Latin teacher (junior year), English teacher (junior year), guidance counselor. All of them will probably be very nice, as both of those teachers like me a lot and my guidance counselor had me go over my resum</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1034801-yale-penn-chicago-chance-ill-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1034801-yale-penn-chicago-chance-ill-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;
chance me back please!</p>

<p>okay, so all the colleges on your list are matches/safeties but Swat. Your big issue here is going to be that you only took 2 of 6 AP courses offered, that’s a big negative for liberal arts colleges in general. its probs a high reach for you.</p>

<p>if you’d like to play up the diversity, maybe talk about your GSA experience etc… in your essays, that could really compel them if you went through a harsh time/interesting experience.</p>

<p>it’s impressive that you’ve held up your job for so long, talk about stuff you’ve learned from that in essays.</p>

<p>my last piece of advice is to raise that ACT. get a practice test book and study for 50 hours (that’s what i did with the SAT), and you’ll have an excellent score in no time. :)</p>

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<p>Ahh… half of the APs offered are math/science, and neither of those subjects are strong areas for me. I’d love it if my school offered AP Psychology.</p>

<p>I’m still working on the essay that I’ll use in my Common App, but I’ve considered writing an essay on gay tolerance in schools. I haven’t gone through anything especially harsh, but I have a lot to say about the topic.</p>

<p>I don’t think that I would have the time (or chance) to take the ACT again. I’m going to send out all of my applications very soon, though I do appreciate your testing suggestion and positivity.</p>

<p>Thank you for responding to this.</p>