Liberal arts crunchy granola hippie student?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>My stats:
Asian female
Average MA public HS
GPA= 3.62 weighted, will be 3.72 weighted by 1st sem
Class rank= 38/347, shows up as top 10.95%-- 31/347 will be 8.9% by 1st sem
Very very ill sophomore year which brought my GPA down immensely. GC explained in rec.</p>

<p>SAT= 2340 SAT-- 800 critical reading, 770 math, 770 writing
SAT 2= 740 Literature, 740 Biology-E, taking Math Level 1 in Oct.
AP= 5 Bio, 5 English Language</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:

  1. Debate= #1 in the nation, dozens of state, national, and international awards, captain, president, etc
  2. Amnesty International= 2 time president
  3. Darfur relief= founded activism organization at school, holding events to raise money, president
  4. Tutoring= 3 year tutor, founded tutoring club
  5. Muslim club= public relations liason</p>

<p>Miscellaneous:
NHS, NM Commended, political campaign volunteer, assist with autistic kids, middle school debate coach, Planned Parenthood intern</p>

<p>Schedule: Hardest offered except not taking AP US, Physics, or Calculus</p>

<p>AP classes: Bio (5), English Lang (5), English Lit, Psych, Stats, Latin Lit</p>

<p>Major:
Anthropology/IR</p>

<p>Harvard SCEA
Swarthmore
Carleton
Claremont McKenna (McKenna scholarship)
Tufts
Scripps (Scripps scholarship)
Barnard
Macalester
Wesleyan
Brown
Penn
GW - Elliot</p>

<p>Chances?</p>

<p>Addendum:
I got into Swarthmore’s Discovery Weekend and Taste of Carleton. I also have great recs/phenomenal essays.</p>

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<p>why not think about some highly ranked selective LAC’s that have a great intellectual life, and yet are undergrad centered and have a more relaxed atmosphere with lots of opportunities? Think about Colgate, Grinell, Connecticut College, Washington & Lee or Reed</p>

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<p>I am trying not to add any colleges onto my list-- as you can see, it is extremely long already!</p>

<p>Bump?</p>

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<p>You would really fit in at Tufts, I’m currently engaged in research through a professor at Northeastern in collaboration with the UN, and a bunch of other opportunities are coming along, and I’m a first semester freshman!</p>

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<p>Tufts would be a reach due to your relatively low GPA (compared to applciants with 4.0) but your ECs stand out. If you were to apply ED, you would have a 50/50 shot. RD would be hard seeing you’ll be applying along w/ 15,000 othe rpeople.</p>

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<p>Coming from a Sociology/Anthropology person at Carleton…the department and the profs really inspired me, it’s not overcrowded like Biology and there’s a lot of freedom to study what you want as opposed to a rigid course filled with prerequesites. You just might like it there <grin></grin></p>