Good GPA, alright SAT, chances?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Info:
From Arizona
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian
Grades: 4.777weighted academic, 4.6 weighted, 3.9 unweighted
SAT II’s: Chemistry and Math II (took today, and they went very well), and will take literature and spanish in the fall
SAT I: 660 CR, 730 Math, 710 Writing (11 essay) 2100 total
(This was a bad day for me, and I usually get around a 760 in math on practice tests, but I’ll retake it in october)
PSAT: National recognition (at least commended, they haven’t released that info yet)
Class rank: Top 1%</p>

<p>Classes Taken:
Frosh: H Bio, Spanish II, Algebra II H, P.E., English I H, World Geography H, Concert Orchestra
Soph: H Chemistry, Spanish IIIH and Dual Enrollment, English II H, Symphonic Orchestra, Trig/Pre-Calc H, Earth Science H
Junior: AP Calculus BC, AP US History, Symphonic Orchestra, AP Chemistry II, Spanish IV H Dual Enrollment, English III H, Chamber Orchestra
Junior Summer: Harvard SSP: Multivariable Calculus and (With some coaxing from my current chemistry professor) Biochemistry
Expected Senior classes: Gov AP/Econ H, Symphonic Orchestra (Principal Violin II), English IV AP, Biology II AP, Physics H, Spanish V AP</p>

<p>EC:
Symphonic Orchestra- audition-only, superior-rated, nationally recognized high school orchestra. Adjudicator’s award sophmore year, and this year, we went to the national festival of gold and performed in Boston Symphony Hall
Chamber Orchestra-select group, invited to play at city hall and various paid gigs
Performed in superior-rated quartet in the Solo and Ensemble festival
Science Olympiad:
Soph: school team placed second in state. I won a gold medal in the Math Applications lab event
Junior: I was treasurer. Team placed third. I placed first in Write-it Do-it, and Five Star Science (A combination event of all five science disciplines), second in Rocks and Minerals, and third in Robot Ramble
Senior year, I am to be the president
Arizona Chemistry Challenge
Soph: one of three selected from the school to compete. The three of us swept the awards, getting a perfect score on the lab (excecuted by me), and tied for first place on the individual exam, and I earned a silver medal for the individual exam (due to a tiebreaker).
Junior: Was selected again for Division II competition, on an AP level. Scored third on the individual exam, and another perfect lab score, and best time on the free response, winning by a margin of almost 100%.
Ambassadors Club Sophomore and Junior Year
NHS junior year, Secretary for senior year
Historian of the Orchestra Club
Vice President of Mu Alpha Theta
Vice President of Science Club
(already listed) Treasurer and then President of Science Olympiad</p>

<p>Lauds:
National Spanish Exam: Bronze Medalist ((Newspaper mention))
((Chem Challenge and Science Olympiad Awards)) ((Also Newspaper mentioned))
Chemistry Student of the year both sophomore and junior year
Rotary Youth Salute</p>

<p>Intended Major: Chemistry, Biology
Minor: Music (if possible)</p>

<p>Intended:
Harvey Mudd
Tufts
University of Chicago
MIT
Harvard
Yale
University of Washington in St. Louis
Cornell</p>

<p>I consider myself a good writer, so I’m not to terribly worried about the essays.
I will get great recommendations from my chemistry and spanish teachers, who have known me for multiple years.</p>

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<p>Oh, and I forgot to mention</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Three Dog Bakery sales and bakery lackey (from Jan '04-present)</p>

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<p>u do any sports?</p>

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<p>None in-school. Out of school, I do some crewing, but I’m not very good at it.</p>

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<p>Well from what I see from these forums…your EC’s look great but maybe if you upped your SAT to 2250?</p>

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<p>You need more match/safety schools. You could probably get into some of the schools you mentioned, but you might not. Maybe try schools like Michigan, BC, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, NYU, USC, Tulane, and Rice. What exactly are you looking for in a school?</p>

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<p>Haha, yeah, I know a lot of those schools are reaches. Of course, if all else fails, I will always apply to my home state school of U of A (ASU is far to large of a school for my comfort zone). Vanderbilt, BC, USC, and NYU, and maybe Rice are on my more general list for better safeties.</p>

<p>For a school, I would really like a smaller school (hence Harvey Mudd) with a great science program, and double major opportunities, and definitely a good research program.</p>

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<p>Anyone else have any honest opinions on this?</p>

<p>And I also have leadership experience in that I am a camp counselor.</p>

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<p>Very slight chance at Harvard and Yale, but a good chance everywhere else…even MIT since you’re a non-asian girl.</p>