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<p>Hi.
Senior, Female, NoVa, competitive high school (was ranked 6 in nation), IB School
IB Diploma Student
12th grade: 6 IBs, 1 AP
11th grade: 5 IBs
10 and 9th grade: rigorous, honors courses, highest offered</p>

<p>SCORES-
SAT: 1400/1600; 2110/2400
ACT: 30 (Retaken, I’m almost positive I improved)
GPA: 4.1 W; 3.9 UW
School does not rank</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
JV Basketball (1 year)
Varsity Basketball (3 years) Captain (1 year)
Varsity Soccer and Club Soccer (4 years)
Coach Youth Soccer (3 years)
Model United Nations
Mustang Ambassadors
Yearbook
Volunteered at Obama Campaign (50+ hours)
Other Community Service (100+ hours)
National Honors Society
National Spanish Honors Society
National Merit Scholar Commendation
Nation French and Spanish Exam National Ranking</p>

<p>Possible Hook: African American</p>

<p>Schools-
U Penn
UVA
William and Mary
Harvard
Princeton
Georgetown
University of Michigan
Virginia Tech</p>

<p>please chance will chance back. It’ll only take a second.</p>

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<p>safety- Va Tech, UVa
match- W&M, GTown, Penn, Michigan (OOS)
reach- Harvard, Princeton</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Penn is unpredictable, I’d call it a reach</p>

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<p>i agree, penn can go either way, they must get several hundred people with similar distinctions as you :slight_smile: its a reach for almost anyone…
good luck though :)</p>

<p>oh and also, on a sidenote, from reading around on these forums as well as interviews with admissions officers, ive heard that theyd rather have a shorter list of EC’s with only the things u really cared about and spent a lot of time with, than a long list with everything… :slight_smile: i was thinking of stuff like the yearbook, but im an international student, dont know how much work and ‘prestige’ is in it so :)</p>

<p>anyway, good luck! youve done really well and you deserve to get in where you want :)</p>

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<p>I’m wondering, what GPA scale does your high school use? You say you have 3.9 UW, yet only a 4.1 W. That is slightly unusual.</p>

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<p>Thanks everyone for replying. Very helpful…even thought I posted this on the wrong message board :slight_smile: <em>woops</em></p>

<p>About the GPA, it’s a 4.0 scale, and you can get 5.0 for As in APs and IBs, which can only be taken Junior and Senior year.
Basically, It comes out that if you take all IBs and APs 11th and 12th grade (which isn’t even possible because of the way our school schedules certain classes, ie. some classes are divided over 2 years), with straight As, you could have a 4.5.</p>

<p>Thanks Again . And i hope I answered your question gbraves :)</p>