MY GIRLFREEEEEN' Got a 1890 on her SATS and applying to HYP (20 colleges total!!)

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>General
Grade: Senior
Gender: Female caucasion
Family: father and mother have gone to college
Location: Rural texas, school rarely sends kids to ivies</p>

<p>SCORES
SATS:
Math: 530
Writing: 720
Critical Reading: 640</p>

<p>SAT IIs: 690 spanish (i think), 600 math I, 630 literature
ACTS: 27 Composite…[31 writing, 30 reading, 23 science, 23 math]</p>

<p>Class Rank: 4/269
GPA: 3.89 unweighted</p>

<p>GOOD RECOMMENDATION LETTERS - Teachers say she is devoted and has a true desire to learn. she talks a lot in class, always tries her hardest, and is one of the best students in her year.</p>

<p>GOOD INTERVIEWS - she knows how to talk it up, y’all</p>

<p>EXTRAS CURRICULARS:
CELLO 1, 2, 3, 4
won state-wide recognition. Placed 2nd place state-wide in the category of “10-minute solos.” she has won several regional awards, and plays cello for six different bands throughout the school year and during the summer:

  1. community orchestra
  2. regional orchestra
  3. a neighboring town’s orchestra
  4. school ochestra
  5. friend’s rock band (they play at school talent shows, etc)
  6. summer orchestra. </p>

<p>she has been awarded by the school twice for her cello abilities
Lots of orchestra camp.</p>

<p>**TAP DANCING 1, 2, 3, 4 **
She placed 3rd place in a state-wide dance competition.
she has won 5 regional awards for dancing.
She has has been commended by the state for her choregraphy.
Because last year, she choreographed an entire tap dancing show!</p>

<p>guitar 1, 2, 3, 4
Picked up guitar through music lessons at nearby college. plays it for hobby</p>

<p>Community service 1, 2, 3, 4
300 hours community service - single-handedly raised $1,900 her junior year in order buy dance shoes for poor kids. she tutors at a prison, and helps out at the local hospital. she tutors kids after school.</p>

<p>Class president 3 ,4
NHS president 2, 3, 4
JV Basketball 2, 3, 4</p>

<p>Academic honors: governor’s program, school wide distinctions for her academic achievement, book award</p>

<p>APs: will have taken taken four APs…the school offers 8.
she takes mostly honors classes, but not all</p>

<p>work experience:
babysitting
dog-walking
lawn-mowing
waitressing
lifeguard
made money by giving cello lessons</p>

<p>Essay:
Is about her cello playing. well written. Links act of cello playing to the spiritual evolution of her as a person and her mind. Her 250 word essay is about tap-dancing and how she feels that tap-dancing is a transformative experience…how she changes into a different person on stage while tap-dancing</p>

<p>Applying to:
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Brown
Dartmouth
Columbia
Cornell
UPenn</p>

<p>Duke
Notre Dame
BC
Tufts
Georgetown
Wellesley
Smith
Wesleyan</p>

<p>Middlebury
Williams
Amherst
Bates</p>

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<p>Where will she get accepted. where will she get rejected? Why or why not??? how do her EC’s measure up? </p>

<p>You don’t have to answer all of them, but at least answer HYP!!! HIT HER WITH YOUR WORDS. SHE WANTS THE COLD, HARD TRUTH</p>

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<p>I think she should consider re-taking the SAT, if possible, as she happens to aim for the top notch colleges/universities. The above mentioned colleges are Reach for her. I also feel that she should apply to a few Safety schools.</p>

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<p>Chance me- <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/836162-ed-2-regular-decision.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/836162-ed-2-regular-decision.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>man, she already took it twice. the above is the compiled best SAT score. but i think her teacher recommendations will really bring out her passion, her absolute passion as a student and celloist. won’t that help at all…?</p>

<p>she isn’t going to waste any money on any safety schools she says because if she’s applying to 20 colleges, chances are that she’s going to probably get into ONE of them.</p>

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<p>also, i don’t think she will be sending in her SAT scores to bates</p>

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<p>See, I realize that she doesn’t wish to waste more money, but she too has to understand that , after all, she’d be competing with people with stellar grades and perfect SAT scores. I’m not saying that she isn’t a brilliant student, but getting into colleges is also a matter of luck, hence we can never predict any certain outcome.</p>

<p>She could choose 15 schools from the above list and apply to 5 Safeties.</p>

<p>It’s good to see that you’re so concerned about your gf :)</p>

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<p>ahhahaha
Is this a joke?
job experience: dog-walking, lawn-mowing. I’d suggest adding dish-washing and window-shopping. haahah</p>

<p>And if this is real, she might get in if her recs and essays are really awesome. You never know!</p>

<p>btw,

is not a really good quality to have. lol. Tell her to pay more attention to her teacher. haha.</p>

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<p>ssorry, i mean “She contributes a lot in class”</p>

<p>and she did all of the above for MONEY so her job experience is actually legit. AHHH! I also forgot to mention that she did an internship for two summers working in a doctor’s office.</p>

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<p>Applying to twenty schools is insance. She should pick 2-3 ives, 2-3 of the remaining ones in the list, and add at least one safety. Any ivy seems to be a big reach, mostly because of her SAT scores. Duke is a lower reach. Notre Dame and BC seem to be matches, but she should still definitely apply to a safety.</p>

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<p>I know it doesn’t fit the list, but UT is a nice safety for instaters in the top 10 percent.</p>

<p>Frankly, I can’t see any in the first two blocks with so many other students applying with near perfect applications. Not taking the hardest courseload hurts.</p>

<p>All of these schools are probably reaches right now.</p>

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<p>1st group - reaches
2nd group - matches
3rd group - matches/in</p>

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<p>She won’t get in to a single Ivy I can almost guarantee. With no apparent hooks and nothing that really stands out, her scores are well beyond the bottom of the Middle 50%. I doubt she will get in any of the Top LAC’s either.</p>

<p>I suggest completely changing her selected schools, because they are far from realistic at the moment. I suggest applying to one Ivy (her favorite), choosing 3-4 of the other schools on her list and then picking 5-6 in the lower tiers.</p>

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<p>Never apply to all 8 Ivies. Think about it- if you were an adcom, and saw that a student had applied to all 8, what would you think? Perhaps that the student was only looking for a big name and wasn’t necessarily interested in the school itself?</p>

<p>Pick 2. I suggest Brown and Cornell. Brown will be interested in her cello playing, and Cornell is less stingy about SAT scores. Still, both are major reaches. Check out the desicion threads- kids with 2200+ are getting rejected and deferred. I had a 2100, and everyone tells me how lucky I was to get in.</p>

<p>I suggest that she retakes the SAT, mainly for her math score.</p>

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<p>And add some safeties- ALL of those schools are reaches. You don’t want her to apply to 20 schools and get into none of them.</p>

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<p>1st group - no
2nd group - high reaches
3rd group - low reaches</p>

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<p>1st group - no
2nd group - high reaches
3rd group - high reaches</p>

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<p>Chances are that Beowulf is right. I don’t know much about the 3rd group.</p>

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<p>I could honestly see her getting rejected from all twenty schools. Her standardized test scores are unimpressive and are not commensurate with her high ranking. Her extracurricular activities and work experience should be more focused—right now they look like a laundry list. And, frankly, the teacher recommendations will not help her considering they are hesitant and lukewarm in their praise (“talks a lot in class,” etc.)</p>

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<p>Those are all reaches with SAT scores so abysmally low.</p>

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<p>and she’s applying to all 8 Ivy League schools because…? </p>

<p>the Ivy League is an athletic conference, nothing more. what does she like that’s common to all eight, besides prestige? Anyone that has Brown, Wesleyan, and Notre Dame on the same list probably hasn’t done as much research as he/she should. applying to 20 reach schools is also a bad idea (which these all are). not to sound mean, but I’m inclined to think this is a joke post. what kind of list is this?</p>