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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White Male from Top 100 American Public School (Newsweek) in Pittsburgh, PA
Desired Major- Journalism</p>

<p>High Reach-
Vanderbilt University or University of North Carolina</p>

<p>Reaches-
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>

<p>Matches-
Ohio State University
Temple University (in-state, potentially want to attend Temple Honors)
University of Pittsburgh (in-state)
University of Connecticut </p>

<p>Safeties-
Rutgers University
University of South Florida</p>

<p>GPA/Class Rank-
3.65- Unweighted
4.3 Weighted
70/356 Class Rank</p>

<p>SAT/ACT-
SAT 1- 1900 (500 MATH, 700 READING, 700 WRITING)
ACT- 28 COMPOSITE</p>

<p>COURSELOAD- (AP's are only offered for Juniors and Seniors at my school, considered very demanding, but short of most demanding)
Freshman Year- All Honors Courses
Sophomore Year- All Honors Courses, except general level math
Junior Year- 2 out of 2 offered AP's (US History- 4, English Literature- 4), the rest were Honors, except general level math
Senior Year- 4 AP's (US Government, English Comp, Philosophy, and Physcology), the rest are Honors, except general level math</p>

<p>EXTRA-CURRICULARS (many have refered to them as "amazing or best I've seen")-
1. Legislative Intern at Local City Council Office- wrote legislation on increasing gun control, diminishing puppy mills, and ridding the city of a monopoly phone company. My legislation became law in the city of Pittsburgh. I had to interview and apply for this position and ended up beating out two college students applying for the same position. </p>

<ol>
<li><p>Regional High School Coordinator for Joseph Sestak's Campaign for US Senate- directed the organization of local youth involvement in canvassing and phone banking.</p></li>
<li><p>Official Barack Obama Campaign HQ Office Intern- canvassed for Barack Obama for 45 hours during the election season, including 12 straight hours on election day in Pittsburgh's most dangerous neigborhood at night. </p></li>
<li><p>Editor-in-Chief of "Local Award Winning" School Newspaper- worked 5 hours a week improving paper and editing each story.</p></li>
<li><p>Local Chapter Vice President of Nationally Recognized Religious Organization- worked 2 hours per week designing programs that benefit the community</p></li>
<li><p>Competed at a Pennsylvania state competition for school's Youth and Government delegation- won an honorable mention award</p></li>
<li><p>Friendship Circle Mentor- mentored and spent a Saturday afternoon on many weekends with a local mentally challanged student. Often times, I took the student bowling or to the movies or taught he/she the rules of baseball at a local park.</p></li>
<li><p>Teacher's Aide at Religious School- work 2 hours a week assisting local religious school teachers for grades 1 and 2. </p></li>
<li><p>NHS member- Junior and Senior Year</p></li>
<li><p>Frequent volunteer at local senior center</p></li>
<li><p>Held one job during the school year and one in the summer between high school</p></li>
<li><p>Played baseball and hockey in HS- did not letter however</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Awards Won-
1. Local magazine featured me in an article about youth volunteers
2. School award- Excellence in academics
3. School award- Excellence in citizenship
4. High Honor or Honor every semester in high school
5. Honorable Mention at PA state competition of Youth and Gov't</p>

<p>Essay- excellent...about how the election of Barack Obama affected me in discovering that anyone (a minority like myself) could be elected POTUS. </p>

<p>Letter of Recs- one from my favorite Honors Spanish teacher and one from my counselor who is a family friend so they are both amazing. Also, I recieved one from the City Council President that I interned for. He typed it and placed on official city "letter head" and signed it.</p>

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<p>Your essay sounds kind of cheesy, but if you have confidence then I urge you the best. Getting letters of recommendation from friends (those who have your best interests at heart) is definitely a major plus … and the City Council President’s letter can’t hurt either. Your SAT is really the only thing stopping you from reaching above and beyond; if you have the chance, I’d strongly recommend that you go for a retake. Also, have you taken any SAT II’s?</p>

<p>I can’t say that I’m at all familiar with the selective nature of the schools that you listed, but I’m tempted to say that you are at a match/match-reach when it comes to every one of them (except Vanderbilt which seems like a reach … although the average SAT score is apparently a 2040, so you’re not too far off).</p>

<p>source: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/310352-list-average-sat-scores-50-colleges-universities.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/310352-list-average-sat-scores-50-colleges-universities.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>yeah your sat scores are bring you down. i suggest some english sat2s
your ecs are amazing i think you are in everything except your high reaches, those im not sure ur sats cut it, try to get them up if possible</p>

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<p>Yeah you should take some SAT II’s, but overall, I’d say In at all matches and safeties. Wisconsin and Maryland are iffy, because those are somewhat math schools for public schools, and your 500 Math isn’t doing you any favors. High reach at UNC, don’t know about Vandy (sorry).</p>

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<p>Man I would kill for those reading and writing scores, but c’mon man, you coulda done a lot better on math!
Match for all except vanderbilt, which will be quite a reach for you.</p>

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<p>Nice EC’s, bro. Incredible…</p>

<p>Grades are sweet, too, especially from a top school.</p>

<p>I’m in the same boat as you with math. It’s my worst subject. I worked with a private Kaplan tutor, and although it was expensive, my scores went up 80 points in math and also 60 in critical reading and 20 in writing. </p>

<p>You’ll be all right for OSU, but I don’t know about it. Out-of-state public school fees are atrocious.</p>

<p>Agree with you on safeties. </p>

<p>If you really make a powerful case and get several heartfelt recs, then maybe a chance at Vanderbilt. State schools might not be as interested in the “whole you,” and less willing to read anything extra, especially if you are out of state.</p>

<p>UNC because it is big, public, and out of state might not be as understanding as Vanderbilt, even if Vanderbilt is a bit harder to get into.</p>

<p>Temple sounds possible, and honors would be great, though I don’t know what that does to selectivity rates.</p>

<p>Essay topic sounds hard to make credible. Also, remember that there could be Republicans reading it. Don’t censor yourself (I wrote last year about being at the scene of a riot against a bunch of Nazis and segued into talking about canvassing for Obama in a bad neighborhood, too), but don’t be too opinionated. Don’t brag about canvassing at night in rough neighborhoods. While cool, it might make you sound easily intimidated. There are going to be kids who have done much more dangerous things.</p>

<p>Wisconsin is a pretty involved place and will be especially impressed by your political EC’s. I think it could be a match for you.</p>

<p>Having your ideas become law is amazing beyond words. Maybe write about that. How does it feel? How did you become involved? Why?</p>

<p>Get interviews wherever you can and share these amazing EC’s (and a couple good stories from them) with them. If you blow them away, they can serve as useful contacts and advocates, especially if it could push you over the edge.</p>

<p>Once again, I bow down to your amazing EC’s and admire your views. I hope you get elected some day!</p>

<p>Best of luck. I hope this helps. Can you chance me? I’d appreciate it. The link is enclosed below. Thanks. Peace.</p>

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<p>Just an FYI, the average for Temple honors last year was a 3.85/4.0 UW GPA and a 1337/1600 on the SATs and that’ll likely go up next year.</p>

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<p>Since this is going to be a lame post, I won’t ask you to chance me back.</p>

<p>You’re right about everything. UNC and Vanderbilt are reaches. Ohio, Temple, Pitt, and Connecticut are matches. Rutgers is a safety. </p>

<p>Question: can you pay the bill for an OOS public?</p>

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<p>I dont know much about UNC, but I wouldnt be too terribly surprised if you get into Vandy :slight_smile: your UW GPA and ranks seems a bit low, but your courseload is obviously high. your SATS are probaly top 10 percent nationwide, not sure though. I socred a 2050 and collegeboard has me at the 95th percentile. Your community service and government positions are great, although idelly id like to see more leadership and displayed dedication to a club. If anything they will help you though :slight_smile: I have to agree that your essay seems real cheesy, but ur reccomendations seem like they will be stunning :stuck_out_tongue: Good Luck! Dont, worry youll be fine :slight_smile: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/812675-p-third-power-last-chance-before-i-hit-submit.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/812675-p-third-power-last-chance-before-i-hit-submit.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The chances you stated seem about right. However, I would say that Rutgers isn’t a safety and that is University of Maryland is more of a reach. </p>

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<p>I think most of your things are correct. Except I believe that rutgers isn’t a safety since your not instate. Temple is a safety for you maybe not for honors though. Your matches and normal reaches you have a pretty good chance of getting accepted to.
Goodluck and can you chance back</p>

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<p>You’ll get into all of them</p>

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<p>You’re reaches are matches! You’re ECs are amazing! </p>

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<p>^Agreed. </p>

<p>Just get those scores up and you should be good. Vanderbilt is closer than UNC, IMO. But slightly better ACT could get you in.</p>

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<p>You’ll probably get into all of your school except Vanderbilt and UNC. Vanderbilt is a huge reach while UNC is a pretty big one. Also, dont necessarily count on Maryland or Wisconsin although youll probably get in. Chance me back please <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1055030-do-i-have-chance-suny-binghamton-suny-geneseo.html?highlight=geneseo[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1055030-do-i-have-chance-suny-binghamton-suny-geneseo.html?highlight=geneseo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Ur EC’s and Sat II’s look strong however i am not so sure if ur SAT’s will cut it for your reach colleges. Try bringing them up or just hope for the best .</p>

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