California Senior that wants to leave state

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi Guys--</p>

<p>As you can see, I am a senior, male, white, wanting to go to a school out of state. Here are my stats as of now, I just retook my SAT.</p>

<p>GPA: UW 3.7 W 4.0 Top 10% of students, very tough load. I have a 4.0 College GPA with about 20 credits tranferable to UC.
ACT: E30 M25 R34 S28 Superscored 30 Composite, otherwise 29.
SAT: These are last years, I just retook. CR:640 M:610 W:660 E: 11
Predictions for this one, I now have extra time: CR: 680-700 M: 660-700W700
SAT IIs: Spanish 640 USH 650 Lit 610 (Retaking with Extra time, was a fluke)</p>

<p>I have taken spanish to the highest level at my school, and will max out college mandarin classes at a cc. I am part of a film academy that has won 6 student emmys in the past 3 years. It is combined english, history and filmmaking, we make documentaries. I just won the largest student film festival in the nation, best documentary.</p>

<p>Classes:
9: no ap/honors offered
10: H. Integrated Science, H. Physiology, H. Spanish, English (no ap/h) World History(no ap/h) Adv. Algebra
Summer: AP Govt at G-town
11: H. USH (in academy, no ap offered) H. English, Documentary and Media Studies, AP Spanish, Chinese 110, Chinese 101(both at CC) Precalc(no honors offered)
12: AP Comp, Econ/Gov(no ap offered), Documentary and Media Studies, Stat(CC), Chinese 102(CC), General Psych(CC, no ap/h offered) Honors Physics</p>

<p>I interned this past summer for Congresswoman Woolsey, in DC, only hs intern. Have traveled extensively by myself. </p>

<p>Want to major in IR, combined with some media aspect.
Schools:
ED N-Western (school of communications, they will love my media abilities)
EA Michigan
EA Tulane
NYU
G-town
Princeton (Legacy)
Tufts (Legacy)
Stanford
UCLA
UCSB
UCSD
UCB
JHU
GWU
U. Wisc
U. Washington
Penn
Brown</p>

<p>thanks alot guys.</p>

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<p>Berkeley/UCLA: slight reach (scores)
UCSD: match
UCSB: safe match - safety</p>

<p>The internship + film academy + film festival will help.</p>

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<p>Thanks kyle. </p>

<p>Just to note a few things. I am in consideration for a national and regional student emmy award for my documentary, and possibly for a short drama. </p>

<p>Also: Which ACT should I submit?</p>

<p>1) E28 M25 R29 S28 Essay:11 C: 28
2)E 30 M25 R34 S25 Essay:8 C29</p>

<p>Maybe both, who knows????</p>

<p>Any chances on other schools?</p>

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<p>Submit only second ACT. The composite score is most important and only your science suffered...not terribly important given your plans. </p>

<p>Low SAT II's</p>

<p>Princeton: Reach
Northwestern, Georgetown, Tufts, Stanford, Penn: Reach - High Match
Brown, Tulane, NYU, UCLA, UCSD, UCB, JHU, UWash, UWisc, : Match
UCSB: Safety</p>

<p>A lot will depend on how impressed the admissions officer reading your app is with the internship and your essays. You will be considered seriously everywhere you apply, IMO. My guess would be you'll be in Evanston before you know it!</p>

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<p>Dear god i hope your right. I would kill for Northwestern. I just wrote the Why NU essay today, and it reflects a ton of research, and how great of a fit it would be. </p>

<p>I forgot to mention that I am the president of my chapter of Junior Statemen of America, Statewide cabinet, director of debate. </p>

<p>I am also a former member of a well known freestyle skiing team.</p>

<p>I have volunteered for special olympics every saturday morning starting in soph year.</p>

<p>I have taught tennis to kids and adults for the past 4 years.</p>

<p>Any more?</p>

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<p>Studying journalism at the undergraduate level is often discouraged. Consider getting a well-rounded liberal arts education and save professional studise for, well, practical job experience or, if that's lacking, then a master's degree. Just my two cents, as a journalist myself at a top-5 circ newspaper.</p>

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<p>He's applying to school of communications, not journalism. They are two different schools at Northwestern. </p>

<p>Also, some schools offer well-rounded liberal arts education for J-students. At Northwestern, journalism students are required to take over 70% (33 out of 45 courses) of their classes outside the journalism school and many therefore have a second major in arts and sciences.</p>

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<p>Be it the communications or journalism school or any other kind of pre-professional I'd say that many of us in the media field would still not consider it as well-rounded as a liberal arts education, even if 70% of the classes are not in the professional school. I would advise seeking your pre-professional experiences in internships, not in the classroom. You have all your life to be professional ;)</p>

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<p>Sir, when you have more than 70% of your classes outside of the school of journalism, then how well-rounded is what you make of it. You can be a chemistry major and pick all your electives in chem department, would that be considered "well-rounded"? We are not talking about 10 or 20 classes here. We are talking about 33 classes, enough to allow many of them to have a LIBERAL ARTS major as their second major easily. Perhaps you should do some research before you call all programs aren't well-rounded.</p>

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<p>Leaving CA is a good thing...don't look back. This state is going down the tubes.</p>

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<p>Guys, stop arguing. I never said that I want to study journalism. I will be getting an adjunct major in international relations, paired with my concentratin in media and politics and school of comm.</p>

<p>Any chances anyone?</p>

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<p>Brown is a reach.</p>

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<p>Brown/Stanford/Penn should be reach in post #4. </p>

<p>Your test scores are a little lower than Northwestern (overall) averages but the communication school students usually have slightly lower test scores than the overall ones. You are probably okay since your ECs seem to be pretty good and you are doing ED.</p>

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<p>anyone else? I think my GPA this semester will be the highest ever, probably around a 4.3. What should I try to get my test scores to?</p>