NYU / U Washington / OSU / Miami U / Boston U

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I’m a junior in high school, and my top four college choices are NYU, U Washington (Seattle), OSU (main campus), Miami U (oxford), and Boston U. </p>

<p>My top TWO choices are NYU and OSU.</p>

<p>Here are my stats:
Echnicity: African-American (Ethiopian)</p>

<p>Gender: Female</p>

<p>Living in: Ohio</p>

<p>GPA: 3.0</p>

<p>SAT: 1630 (first time taking, didn’t fill out last two pages of each section) – I’m retaking again before the end of junior year</p>

<p>PACT: 24 (projected to be a 30 on actual ACT) – taking twice during junior year</p>

<p>AP Classes: AP Language (current), AP Lit (next year), AP Chem (next year), AP German (next year)</p>

<p>IB: IB Psych Yr 1 (current, dropping to take AP Chem next year)</p>

<p>Honors: Honors English (freshman year), Honors German (current), Honors Chemistry (current), Honors Organic Chemistry (next year), Honors Photography (next year)</p>

<p>EXC’S:
-German Club
-Literary Magazine
-Yearbook (I’ll be editor my senior year)
-I help with freshman orientation
-OSU MLK JR Scholar (Top two African-American students at your school, one female, one male)
-Varsity swim captain (senior year)
-Varsity swimming (9, 10, 11)
-Varsity water polo captain (senior year)
-Varsity water polo (10, 11) – I played my freshman year, but didn’t make varsity
-Two-year state meet qualifier for swimming
-13th in the state in the 200 IM
-21st in the 100 breastroke
-Work experience
-National Honors Art Society (After senior year)</p>

<p>Questions:
Would I have a better chance of applying early with these stats, OR applying regular with my semester one senior year grades? (Because my senior year schedule is stacked with 3 AP’s and two honors courses) Also, if my SAT and ACT scores aren’t that good, I’ll take classes over the summer to improve them so that I can retake them in the fall. And which schools would I have the best shot at getting into?</p>

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<p>I’m from WA and I can tell you a little about UW. You would definitely need to improve your SAT scores and try to boos your GPA by next year, but the fact that you are an out of state is a plus because they are taking a lot more over the next few years. And they don’t have an early admission (at least I don’t think they do) so you don’t need to worry about that!</p>

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<p>Thank you! Do you know anything about UW’s German program and their Pre-Med/Engineering programs?</p>

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<p>Yes a little bit… Their pre-med program is pretty good, especially seeing as they are one of the top Med schools in the nation. However, if you graduate from UW in pre-med, they make you attend Med school somewhere else, so you can’t go there for grad school. For engineering: I am going into engineering and I met with their department head, toured, etc… I personally was turned off by the program, because you aren’t officially accepted into the engineering program until your junior year, they just put you on a track to be able to apply for the program after two years. Basically, you would never really take any real engineering classes until your junior year… It’s a really good program though, and they have a lot of connections with big-name companies. You should do some research about it for yourself, it just wasn’t my favorite! :p</p>