the stress is too much!

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I am a high school senior and I am in the “waiting” period of my college acceptance letters. As a student I have always been very ambitious and felt I have never settled for anything less than my best, which is why I am a bit fearful of my college chances, I have applied to one safety school (university of oregon, as an oregon resident) and 5 other schools that may or may not be “targets”. I would just like to know what everyone else thought of my chances. Here’s a bit of my history:
I attend a small private high school (about 250 students)
3.79 gpa cumulative gpa (unweighted and not counting 1st semester senior year I got a 3.85 also my school does not rank.)
Ap classes include: bio, us history, us government/economics, English/lit, macroeconomics, cal AB.
Honors classes: 2 honors English classes (10 and 11), and honors Spanish 3.
I attended the Huge O’brian youth leadership seminar, usually do about 15 hours of community service a year (except for last year which I logged 100 hours)
I also received the presidential service award for volunteer work.
Attended the junior statesmen summer school at Yale university where I studied Constitutional law, and was also involved in speech, debate and politics.
Throughout high school I have participated in three varsity sports (soccer, basketball, and track), have been on student council for all four years of high school, captain of our schools’ Mock trial team, and have been involved in concert choir for three years. Also i just received a letter from Berkeley about applying for the leadership merit scholarship which I am planning on filling out.
In retrospect, I feel that I have done a decent job trying to be a well rounded student and individual, yet the thing that worries me are my standardized test scores.
SAT I
590 Math
630 Reading
670 Writing (12 essay)</p>

<p>SAT II
620 Lit
600 US History.</p>

<p>I hope I don’t sound too arrogant in this next sentence but I just want to be honest…
Although I feel I excel in a classroom I feel my standardized test scores do a poor job of representing my ability to exceed academically which is why I’m a bit nervous.
The other schools I am applying to are:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
USC
Pepperdine
Cornell U</p>

<p>What do you guys think? other than my safety do I stand a chance?</p>

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<p>BUMP! anyone have a say?</p>

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<p>oh also national honor society member! forgot that!</p>

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<p>It’s a high reach for all of them based on your OOS status and SAT scores…</p>

<p>You don’t have any =significant= (Intel, Siemens, etc…) awards to make up for them…sorry</p>

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<p>snowboarding-- everything is going to be all right, and nobody on thsse boards can tell you what the adcoms at any of those schools are really looking for to make up thier class. I think you have a reasonable list, and I would just take a deep breath and hit the slopes, and keep studying. Given your list, and stats, you are bound to end up at an excellent school.</p>

<p>Good luck to you. And, if at all possible, don’t worry about it so much. Wherever you end up, by this time next year, you will not even remember you wanted to go anywhere else.</p>

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<p>really? any? cause with pepperdine I fit in all SAT score ranges, my GPA is at or above the average, and have a pretty good amount of course loads, same for USC, (other than like 50 points in math I think…)</p>