Brandeis '10 RD - chances?

<p>(x-posted in several forums)</p>

<p>white, jewish female from charleston, south carolina
academic magnet public high school, 94 kids in the class
my mom is a self-employed attorney who doesn’t make much $, my dad makes 100g + a year as a scientist, BUT i am the oldest of 4 kids, so we’re not exactly rolling in the dough.
(not sure if you needed to know that stuff, but figured it couldn’t hurt.)</p>

<p>gpa = 4.54 weighted, n/a unweighted
class rank = n/a (bc my school is a magnet school and very competitive and challenging, our ranks/unweighted gpas aren’t put on our transcripts)</p>

<p>sat = 700 m, 750 w (740 mc 10 e), 800 cr</p>

<p>sat 2’s = 750 us history, 720 lit, 620 math i (taking math was a mistake, since cu only requires 2 sat 2’s - will this low score hurt me?)</p>

<p>ap’s = world history 5, english language 5, psychology 5, us history 4
senior ap’s = gov/eco (semester courses), english literature, statistics, environmental science, french (will graduate with 10 ap’s of 18 offered)</p>

<p>extracurrix -
journalism = school paper 10-12 (political coeditor 11), writer for major local paper’s weekly teen section 11-12, had one article published on a website
jewish involvement = attended young judaea camps every summer for 7 years, went on a yj israel program for 6 weeks this summer, copresident of synagogue youth groupp 10-12, member of school’s jewish awareness club 10-12 (pretty much a joke but whatevs)
political activism= volunteering w/ several local/national democratic party campaigns 10-12, member of school’s young democrats 10-12 (president 12)
volunteer activities = teacher’s aide at synagogue’s sunday school 8-12, aide at local music day camp for 3 weeks this summer (200+ recorded community service hours in total)
random = member of school’s academic team 10-12 (cocaptain 12), voice lessons 11, guitar lessons 11-12, drama club member 10-11, junior intermezzo club member 12
academic honors = a-b honor roll 9, 10, 12, all a’s honor roll 11, attended barnard pcp summer in new york city for 5 weeks before junior year, national honor society member 11-12, ap scholar with honor (so far), national merit scholarship semifinalist (so far)</p>

<p>if you read all this you are truly amazing - comments? criticisms?</p>

<p>thank you ever so much</p>

<p>you seem like a match</p>

<p>awesome, thanks</p>

<p>Visit campus and make sure brandeis has a chance with you. Also do keep in mind that at brandeis you can only have a certain amount of ap credits count and i am sure the same is at many of the universities u are applying to. I am not trying to discourage you from taking upperlevel classes but make sure u really want to take em and not just for the credit which u may not get.</p>

<p>if brandeis didn't have a chance with me, i wouldn't have posted in its forum. i have visited, and it's around my 3rd choice school, and it's my top match school. i loved the info session, and the tour was pretty great, too. and i don't take ap's for the credit - i take them bc i like being challenged, and they're really not much harder than the other courses available at my school anyway (all honors), but they boost your gpa more. thanks for the reply.</p>