Attention all chancers

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Any response would be WILDLY APPRECIATED. I have a weird GPA/SAT combination. D:</p>

<p>Person:</p>

<p>Asian Male
California
Very Competitive Public School, Graduating Class is around 900 each?</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>GPA: 3.72 UW (No reason or excuse. I’m just stupid. D: )
4.03 W
4.30 UC Weighted (The bulk of my bad grades were in my freshman year. :X)</p>

<p>SAT: 2360 single-sitting, two sittings total, superscore 2400
SATIIs: BioM 790 MathIIC 760 USH 780
ACT: N/A
APs: Biology 5, Chemistry 4, USH 5, Language/Composition 5, Calculus AB 4
Most Rigorous Courseload, etc
School doesn’t rank!</p>

<p>Other stuff:</p>

<p>Essay: It’ll probably be reasonably good, but I’m not sure yet. :< I’m pretty sure I’ll make it unique though.
Recommendations: Above average, but probably nothing special. I might ghostwrite a rec from the law office I interned for over the summer. I think that one will be a good one.
Hooks: I’m not sure if this is a hook, but my family makes over 100k a year. However, like a lot of this goes towards supporting my mentally challenged uncle, (his apartment, treatment, medication, etc) so we never actually get financial aid but we’re still poor. D: </p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>-Speech and Debate, 4 yrs, 1st place in district in numerous events and State semifinalist, might be the topic of my college essay because our school doesn’t do national debate so I went to the tournaments myself with my own money and qualified for the tournament of champions ettttttc
-Amnesty International co-founder, 2 yrs
-Model UN, Secretary, 2 yrs
-Student Council Orientation Committee (hand-picked by faculty) 1 yr
-Student Council Apache Commission (hand-picked by faculty), 2 yrs, treasurer
-Summer paid intern in a LA law firm, 2 yrs
-Paid intern for the biggest bank in the world in Shanghai over the summer, 1 yr
-Featured in a recital playing my own clarinet composition
-Poetry was published
-Make monayz tutoring kids for the SAT</p>

<p>Schools:</p>

<p>UCLA, UC Berkeley, Duke, Brown (ED), UChicago, Georgetown, Yale, Penn, Columbia, USC, NYU</p>

<p>I think that’s about it. I know I’m aiming high. :|</p>

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<p>Wow, if you think you’re stupid with a 3.72 GPA, I will look like an idiot! Overall, I think you have a good shoot, and your GPA should not be a huge problem really because you have really good SAT scores. I would say that you have a fairly good chance at Brown if you ED, but don’t forget their acceptance rate was at an all time record low this year at about 10%. Well good luck!</p>

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<p>you have a pretty good gpa, amazing sat’s and great EC’s (TOC will stand out, or at least i hope). I’d say you have a great chance at all these schools.
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<p>i think you have a pretty good chance at most of those schools, your gpa is solid and niiiiceee sat score and amazing EC’s. i think that co-founding amnesty international will stand out, and the internships that you did will definately help. you seem well rounded, academics, music, business, involved in your school etc! good luck!
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<p>Your SAT is amazing, as I’m sure you well know, and your EC’s are awesome. Your GPA pales a bit in comparison, but it’s not bad by any stretch of the imagination.</p>

<p>You look pretty decent for all of these schools. I think you’re definitely in at UCLA and probably Berkeley and USC. NYU is a match. Georgetown is a high match. Duke is a low reach. Everything else is a reach, but they are for everyone. I don’t think you should have any problems, but you should probably have a safety or two, just to be on the careful side. </p>

<p>Thanks for chancing me, by the way. ;]</p>

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<p>bump, thanks!</p>

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<p>you def have a shot at all of them, and although your gpa is slightly lower in comparison to your standarized tests, i doubt it will be a make it or break it for you…
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