Bet you haven't heard this one before!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>.......welll maybe you have :) :) :)</p>

<p>I am a white lower middle class female from the central east coast. (I don't want to state the exact location.) Not an underrepresented state so that need not matter. I go to a respectable local public school that isn't really competitive. (In the college sence.) However, I know of one student who got into Yale, one who got into Stanford, and one this year will be going to Columbia. NOTE: I will be in only the 10th graduating class so the school is still relatively young. </p>

<p>Info about school...
Predominantly black...the only time in my life I will be a minority
average SAT score in 950 (old sat)
most graduates (60%) go to local CC college
only 30% go to 2-4 year institutions</p>

<p>Info about me.....
1850 (SAT)...will be retaking in June
29 (ACT MOCK)...will be taking in June
30-35/400
3.5uw/4.01w
Don't have any SATII's
Will have 10 AP's by graduation
(u.s. Hist., Lang., lit., world hist., chem., bio., stats., latin lit., euro., and phyc.)
I am taking the hardest coureload of any student in my school, so that is why I don't have a stellar uw GPA.</p>

<p>Activities</p>

<p>Freshman
Piano (3rd year)
Latin club (member)</p>

<p>Sophmore
Piano (4th year)
Latin club (president)
NOS (member) NOTE: you aren't supposed to join until Junior year</p>

<p>Junior
Piano (5th year)
Latin club (president)
NOS (member)
NHS (member)
Academic club (member)
Teen court (county organization)</p>

<p>Senior
Piano (6th year)
Latin Club (president)
NOS (vice-president)
NHS (treasurer)
Academic club (member)
Teen court (respected postion)
Varsity tennis</p>

<p>I have accumulated about 200 hours of Community service. 100 from an organization I was involved in that helps underprivilaged children in New York.
The rest was accumulated through volunteering at two summer day camps for children.</p>

<p>Awards
I won two scholarship together worth about $5000, and a National CS award. Plus several school awards...honor roll, student of the quarter, etc.</p>

<p>Well I am looking at Georgetown, U of Maryland, William and Mary, Bryn Mawr, U of Penn., Smith, Bucknell, and Dickinson.</p>

<p>Any advice on my chances at these schools would be greatly appreciated. Thanks</p>

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

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<p>i wouldn't bet on penn with the sats... ur rank is fine (top 10%) and ur activites are fine... it's just ur testing</p>

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<p>Yeah I was thinking that too, but it doesn't hurt to try. Thanks for the reply!</p>

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

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<p>ok, after reading again, i should offer a more indepth assessment i suppose ;) all of them are reasonable... penn is the greatest reach i believe... georgetown is also a reach, HOWEVER, they overlook writing, so ur sat might be better that way, and also, show ur dedicated to ur activities, if you can do that, georgetown is a possiblity, nothing else is really too out of hand assuming u get about 1950-2000 sats i's good luck!</p>

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<p>if those scholarships were based on gpa, I dount those schools will be very impressed with them. I think yale and u of penn are big reaches for you I'm afraid considering you're low(for ivies) sat, and the fact that you're not a minority. Of course i'm not discouraging you from applying, I just think that you don't exactly have a decent chance. You can try starting with a not too obscure state university, and get your masters or phd at a more prstigious university. The only reason people go to an uber perstigious and costly school for undergrad is mainly because of the student body, and some diversity factors anyway. Grad school is when you get the most attention from all the best profs.</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>bump.....anyone?????</p>