Advice

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Check me Out and please tell me what u think i should/ can do. </p>

<p>Im a black guy, and i go to a international school in italy taking IB. Here some stats and college rankings down below, i plan on apply through questbridge. Advice, reactions, comments all are welcome. </p>

<p>HL
English- 6
Economics- 7
Philosophy- 7
SL
Biology- 6
Math- 5
Italian ab Inizio- 7
Total- 38</p>

<p>SAT
Math-550
Reading-680
Writing-640</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests
Math 2- Not Taken yet Expecting 650-720
Math 1- Not Taken yet Expecting 650-720
Biology- Not Taken Yet Expecting 650-720</p>

<p>Model UN- Best Public Speaker, Best Negotiation Team, Best Delegation
FBLA- Founder/ President, State Officer (Regional President for Baltimore City), 1st place Public Speaking REgionally, 5th place Public Speaking Statewide
Class Vice President
Indoor Track 500 Meter dash ranked 7th regionally
Student Representative
Worked 20 hours a week at starbucks
Page School U.S House of Representatives for six months.
Volunteerd 2 hours a week at elderly facitly
Week long Seminar Leader in Austria for Constructive Engagement in Conclict for Youth
6 years of flute
8 years of Choir Tenor
Various Church Volunteer work
Volunteered 4 Weeks at Canadian Youth Leadership Seminar, as a Facilitator. </p>

<p>Other Circumstances
worked to support my mom and grandma, during school
facilitated the move from baltimore to pennsylvania to a private school, found a house for us to stay in etc.
drove 3 hours each way from school to home to my mom's job for two months when my car broke down and went to work
father was just released from jail, then went back for probation issues, then got out again
two sisters just had kids, dropped out of school, ages 18 and 20
Mom is a single parent, no college</p>

<p>School Choices</p>

<p>Reaches (but i really want to go here, ranked in order)</p>

<p>1.Upenn- Huntman program (Italian), if not Wharton
2.Columbia
3.Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Harvard,
4.Mit</p>

<p>Matches Maybe
Emory (Gonzaga Business)
UVA (Business)
Notre Dame (Business)</p>

<p>Safety- No Ideas</p>

<p>I'd Like to get an Undergrad Business degree with a minor in music. If i cant do the undergrad business thing, a B.A in Econ is cool too.</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>Honestly, you have no chance at Wharton with your current math score. The program is very math based and I’ve never seen anyone accepted with below a 700 (which is low there), even a URM.</p>

<p>I would consider adding some less selective reaches. As a low income URM your chances improve by a lot, but the competition is still quite stiff at the ivies. I would look at schools like Emory, Duke and USC as reaches. And I’d look at some of Questbridge’s less selective schools like Trinity for a successful match.</p>

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<p>bump…</p>