Ahh, damn, I really want to go to an Ivy, but am I good enough?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Alright... uhm, well, for my freshman year & half of my sophomore year, my house was like, really screwed up, and I had to watch over my brothers & the like.</p>

<p>For my first semester of freshmen yr, I had a 66; second, 86. For sophomore yr, I had an overrall of 89, and from then on 90+</p>

<p>Anyways, my schedule:</p>

<p>Sophmore year:</p>

<p>Regents Chemistry
Anatomy
Math B 1 & 2
English 3 & 4
American History Honors
Art
Communcations</p>

<p>Semester 1: 89; Semester 2: 94</p>

<p>Junior Year:</p>

<p>Honors Chemistry
AP English
Pre-Calculus
Economics</p>

<p>[College classes taken: Psychology - A]</p>

<p>Semester 1: 91; Semester 2: 95</p>

<p>Senior Year</p>

<p>AP Calc
Earth Science
Expository Writing</p>

<p>-</p>

<p>SAT: 2260
SAT II: Chem 740; World History 760; Math IIC: 730</p>

<p>-</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Debate Team <a href="Won%20numerous%201st%20place%20team/speaker%20trophies"> 10 - 12</a>
100 Hrs. Community Service
NMS
Job at Science Museum
Participated In Workshop
Medical Assisstant Program/Internship</p>

<p>If anything, I would love to go to Dartmouth, Columbia, or Cornell. Oh, by the ay, I'm an African living in the Bronx attending a school in the South Bronx from a middle-class family.</p>

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<p>I think you stand a decent shot (as decent as anyone else, anyway) if you talk to your GC and explain your unusual circumstances to her.</p>

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<p>Oh btw, my school only offers 3 ap classes (2 of which i took)</p>

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<p>yeah, tell your gc to write about your grade dip in her recs</p>

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<p>bump...........</p>