AA applicant to Georgetown/Ivies High SAT low GPA?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I have little experience with American system just british one, could you tell me if I stand a chance? I'm applying Georgetown SFS Early action (first choice), Harvard, Columbia, George Washington, American U, Boston College, Boston U, NYU</p>

<p>School: Private school in CA
SAT: 2200 (760 CR, 730 M, 710 W)
SAT II (710 USH, 740 Lit, Wh to be taken in December)
AP: (5 USH, 5 WH, 5 US gov self study, 5 comp gov self study, 5 music theory, 4 Lit, Ap euro to be taken in May)
GPA: I believe 3.99 W and 3.67 UW, but upward trend.
Took lots of APs junior year so I could have 5's to submit for British schools, but as a result took all the ones I wanted to take so senior year rigor is poor (1 AP class)</p>

<p>Essays were good (hopefully) I wrote about my race and leaving an impact on my debate community to define myself so others could not use stereotypes to define me as a black person
Recs were inbetween good and very good</p>

<p>EC
Founded politics club
Parliamentary Debate captain (helped start club at school, wrote about in essay)
Service trip to China
Jazz Band (1st chair tenor saxophone)
JV golf 2 years, then varsity golf 2 years (scholar athlete)</p>

<p>Any advice would be appreciated!</p>

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<p>You have competitive score/grades wise with GW, AU, BC, BU and NYU. You are a bit outside the core scores for Harvard, Columbia, and GTown. Your scores for those last grouping of schools are in the bottom 25 percentile–more or less. Thus, you have a shot, but its an outside shot, unless you have something very compelling in your personal statement or life experience.</p>

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<p>Wow this was hard going because I thought AA was from a CC. You are not a perm resident, then? Yeah, not pursuing rigor as a sr isn’t a good move.</p>

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<p>English please?</p>

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<p>Not sure what any of that meant except the last sentence…“I thought aa was from cc. You’re not a perm resident then” what does that mean?</p>