prospectives for your run-of-the-mill student

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Heya :slight_smile: Got my SATII scores in! (first time posting in this topic, btw!)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.9 weighted (~3.4 uw. ick.) all honor/ap classes since freshman year…
RANK: School doesn’t rank; ~10-20%?
SAT: 2230 (770M 760V 700CR)
SATII: CHEMISTRY 720 / MATH IIC 780 / (Physics & Bio next May)
ASIAN FEMALE - undecided major… going premed :slight_smile: an artist (going to submit portfolio!) LOCATED in MASS, competitive public high school. </p>

<p>ECs:

  • Student Leadership Council (10-12)
  • Red Cross Club (11-12) LEADER
  • MOST leader, community service walks (11-12)
  • Mock Trial (11-12)
  • Intern @ Regional Lit Magazine (2 hrs/week, 40+ hrs)
  • PALS (11-12) - tutoring bright middle school students (head in senior year)
  • Ultimate Frisbee (10-12) (should I even include this? you can tell I’m not very sporty, this is the only thing I do, but still time consuming!)
    (I do a LOT of community work… total 300+ hrs)</p>

<p>JUNIOR/SENIOR SCHEDULE:

  • AP Chemistry, AP Euro, Physics, Humanities, Precal, French IV
  • AP Calculus AB/BC (haven’t decided), AP English, AP French, AP Physics (probable), Portfolio, Bioethics, Econ</p>

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<li>Essays will be decent/good, I’m into creative writing :] Teacher recs - one glowing / one good ; GC rec - better then average? also submitting slides, though i’m not applying as an art major. </li>
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<p>APPLYING TO… (tentatively)</p>

<p>Tufts University
Brandeis
John Hopkins
Vassar
Weselyan
Boston University
Boston College
UMass Amherst
UConn
Syracuse
Trinity College
Holy Cross</p>

<p>Am I aiming too high?</p>

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<p>“SAT: 2230 (770M 760V 700CR)” lol, sure 100% run of the mill ( note sarcasm)</p>

<p>I think you have an awesome chance, to bad your GPA isn’t that high,but still , you have a great chance at all your schools, in my opinion.</p>

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<p>You have a good shot at all the colleges you are applying to. Might I recomend that you apply to a few ivies as reaches</p>

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<p>REALLY? You think I can make an ivy? With my GPA? hahaha… I was looking at Brown, Dartmouth and Columbia, but eh :[ should I even bother?</p>

<p>My SAT is really my only redeeming factor, lol! (dunno how that happened. maybe they mixed my score up with somebody elses.)</p>

<p>and as for run-of-the-mill… well. compared to the other CCers here, yes, I’m pretty ordinary :)</p>

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<p>How do you have a V and CR score…</p>

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<p>i dont think the GPA is too competitive to schools like Columbia but you could try Brown, Cornell, UPenn, perhaps even Dartmouth. They are reaches though. You have a chance, I think. But you may not make it in. It doesnt hurt to try :smiley: You seem to have a good shot at the schools you are applying to, though.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>oh, that’s supposed to be verbal 760, and the writing section 700, haha.</p>

<p>and thanks! any ideas which ones i might make it into and which ones i only have like a <50% chance? ;[</p>

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<p>I think your best chance ivy wise would be at cornell. Besides from that all the other ivies, I think, would probably want a higher GPA. You might also have a chance at dartmouth if you can manage to write killer essays. The main problem, besides GPA, that I can see, is that you joined most of your ECs during junior year.</p>

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<p>yeah, I did :[ sophmore and freshman year, I had a lot of circumstances in which ECs weren’t as accessible to me (transportation mainly b/c both parents worked, outside-of-school currics like drawing classes, other internships… didn’t include those. did a lot of summer work also since freshman year; christian camp newspaper staffing, chinese school math tutoring, library assistant… the like)</p>

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<p>pssch run of the mill…</p>

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<p>lol, i am… in comparision to CCers.</p>

<p>bump ba de bump bump bump…</p>