Can I get into ANY of these places???

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Am seriously considering the following colleges/universities:</p>

<p>US Coast Guard Academy (New London, CT)
Furman University (Greenville, SC)
Winthrop University (Rock Hill, SC)
UNC Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Guilford College (Greensboro, NC)</p>

<p>Here are my stats:</p>

<p>I go to a sucky school. Airport High School in West Columbia, SC... Hardly the best. I'm in the top 25% of my class. Took AP English 4 and that's the only AP I plan to take because I can't fit any more into my schedule.
3.45 GPA uwtd (Yes I know that sucks)
1940 new SAT (590math, 680 verbal, 670 writing)
President-Elect of Model UN (Next year will be my 4th year as a member, recieved outstanding delegate award last year at Winthrop University MUN Conference.)
FBLA (1 year)
Founding member of Airport High School Young Democrats in 2004, organized campaign volunteering for Inez Tenenbaum's US Senate campaign and John Kerry's Presidential campaign as well as community service projects for a battered women's shelter in Columbia
Founding member of Airport High School Students Promoting Equality, aka SPEQ (said like speak, it was supposed to be a gay/straight alliance thingy but we got shut down a week later by the school district.)
AJROTC (Next year will be my 4th year, current rank is Sergeant 1st Class and I have held positions of Squad Leader, Assistant Staff Supply Officer, and Platoon Sergeant.)
AJROTC Drill Team (1st year. We are 2nd place in the state of South Carolina, 10th place nationally.)
Civil Air Patrol, USAF Auxiliary (Just joined a couple weeks ago... Lexington Composite Squadron, chosen as the best unit in the state of South Carolina this year.)
Special Olympics volunteer with AJROTC
Former Staff Writer for 'Starfleet Communique', a quarterly newspaper for the official Star Trek Fan Club (don't laugh, please...)
Chosen as one of about 20 students to be on next year's TV news at school
Was a SC Junior Scholar
Member of Airport High School B-27 club (I got a letter, yay!)
Lettered in 'Extracurricular Activities'
Media Center Student Assistant</p>

<p>Is there ANY way I can get into one of these colleges with what I've got?!?!?! And is there anything I can do to improve during my senior year??? HELP!!!</p>

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<p>Oh, I forgot I took Latin 1, 2, and 3 lol... All Honors. :P</p>

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<p>Have you thought about Clemson at all? I think UNC-Chapel Hill would be a slight reach for you, and I wouldn't know anything else about the others (though the Coast Guard sounds good). What career are you interested in? The only "dedication" you show is to the AFJROTC and the Model UN, quite different things.</p>

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<p>Well, Clemson is... Well... Clemson, lol. And I would like to get a bit farther from home than that. I basically live in Columbia, and Clemson is like a half hour from here. I want to go somewhere that would require me to live on campus so I don't have to deal with my parents lol, but I don't necessarily want to go on the other side of the country. All the ones I listed except the academy are in North/South Carolina so they're in the right area. Furman is on the scale of Wake Forest, it's private and it's very competitive, generally considered to be the best in South Carolina and one of the better ones in the Southeast. It's just a notch or two below ivy league, but better than USC by thousands of orders lol. </p>

<p>I'm interested in going to law school after I do my undergrad studies in Political Science/Sociology, and I hope to go into politics like my aunta (Inez Tenenbaum, South Carolina State Superintendent of Education on my stepdad's side of the family, and Debbie Stabenow, Junior US Senator from Michigan on my mom's side).</p>

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<p>I left you a message on your same post on the Furman CC board, just in case you didn't check that one.</p>