Another pretentious chance thread... but I'll chance back(;

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2150 superscore (760 CR, 640 M, 750 W) Retaking in November
ACT (breakdown): 33 (35 E, 33 R, 27 M, 35 S, 11 E) Retaking in December
SAT II: 720 US History, 620 Math II (lol), 720 Lit. Retaking all in December
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
Weighted GPA: 5.397
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5/508
AP (place score in parentheses): AP Human (5) AP World (4) AP Drawing (3) AP Psych (5) AP Physics B (2) AP Lang (5) AP Calc AB (4) APUSH (5) AP US Gov (4) AP Euro (4) I'm not reporting AP scores...
Senior Year Course Load: AP Macro, AP Micro, AP Enviro, AP Calc BC, AP Art 2D, AP Art History, AP Lit, Debate Honors. Most rigorous curriculum possible
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Scholastics Art and Writing Awards Regional Gold Key, Honorable Mention, and National Silver Medal, National Merit Semifinalist, Congressional Art Competition Honorable Mention (top 7 in district among all categories), National AP Scholar, Wellesley College Book Award, many many local/regional/national Speech & Debate awards</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars:
Speech & Debate (all four years)-Captain, ranked top 10 in the nation in my event, team is ranked top 10 in nation, tons of awards and leadership-my biggest extracurricular. I've dedicated over 3000 hours coaching and mentoring underclassmen, training judges, leading my squad by running weekly meetings, after school practices, working on speeches and delivery, etc.</p>

<p>National Art Honor Society (sophomore year-now)-President, completely transformed club from small group of kids to large organization with over 60 active members and counting. Developed and launched a weekly educational art program at the local elementary school and created opportunities for high-schoolers to volunteer as well as improve the community through mural painting, school-wide art events, a gallery night to showcase work, etc.</p>

<p>Amnesty International (junior to now)-Secretary, we petition against human rights violations and send aid to countries in distress as well as give out micro-loans to lift men and women out of poverty. This year I am helping launch an initiative to educate our school about current international issues and what students can do to help by setting up tabling stands in the cafeteria and encouraging school-wide participation in our efforts.</p>

<p>National English Honor Society- co-founder and VP, providing free tutoring and editing services to students as well as collecting, packaging, and donating magazines for local Magazine Literacy organizations.</p>

<p>National Honor Society- Book Drive Committee Chair. Basically I organize and run periodic used book drives to sell books at low cost to students. Other volunteer work includes helping with Relay for Life and our annual Harvest Food Drive.</p>

<p>I serve on the Congressional Youth Cabinet for our local congressman.</p>

<p>I co-founded Yoga Club last year if that's even worth mentioning, I'm trying to get it back up and running this year because it was a pretty cool way to encourage students to be healthy and provided an outlet to de-stress.</p>

<p>I'm also starting a school newspaper with my friend this year since we haven't really had one for a long time. It's in the works and our first issue should be out in a few weeks or so. I'm overseeing content and layout and specifically focusing on producing an event calendar as well as some preliminary articles until we get regular submissions that I can edit and publish.</p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: Journalist for a local Pulitzer-Prize winning news publication. I write and edit articles. I also serve on the Editorial Board, collaborating on and discussing future themes, assignments, etc.</p>

<p>Summer Activities: 3 years of debate camp, STARTALK Russian Language Institue (NSA sponsored program to promote education of languages critical to national security) I've been self-studying Russian for quite some time now.</p>

<p>Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered at local children's art museum for the past four years, over 350 hours. I was also a 2x designer for the Annual Recycled Fashion Show, which raised over $80,000 for the museum's at-risk youth programs and was featured in the local news.</p>

<p>Essays: Haven't written them yet, but they should be pretty good. I have to be really creative with them at this point because I'm worried nothing else stands out atm.</p>

<p>Recs: Should be decent to good. Haven't read them so I honestly have no idea. </p>

<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): FL
School Type: Medium public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): LOL nope</p>

<p>Prospective major: Either IR/international studies/business or PR/advertising or actually it could be anything humanities related really because I'm still not 100% sure.</p>

<p>Chance me for (yeah it's a long list, sorry):
FSU
UF
UM
Northwestern
Yale (lol)
Duke
Rice
BU
George Washington
UPenn...
USC
WashU
Carleton
Kenyon
Macalester
Grinnell</p>

<p>You are in for sure.Try retaking the SAT.Anyhow you are an awesome candidate.</p>

<p>you have a great list of ECs… But colleges like to see QUALITY over QUANTITY. So I think you should put down only the ECs that you have been with the longest and most important. They don’t have time for long applications.</p>

<p>But I’d say you’re in at FSU, UF, UM, George Washington, Carleton, Kenyon, USC (they like money), BU, and Macalester.
And your reaches are Northwestern, Duke, Rice, WashU, and Grinell</p>

<p>Your high-reaches are Yale and UPenn</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>awk moment when you find someone from your school on here.</p>

<p>Safeties: FSU
Matches: UF, Carleton, Kenyon, Macalester
High matches/low reaches: UM, GWU, Grinell
Reaches: NW, USC, Duke, Rice, Wash U</p>

<p>You seem like a very good candidate, but you never know about some of those schools on your list such as Yale and UPenn.
Reaches: Duke, Yale, UPenn
Mid-Low Reaches: Northwestern, Rice, WashU
I think you have a solid chance for the rest of your list.
Hopefully your essays are good! Your ECs are amazing!</p>