Chance a Girl Please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi All,</p>

<p>I'm a Hispanic Female from Northern Arizona and am a Senior. I attend one of the most rigorous schools in Flagstaff.</p>

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

<p>UW: 4.0 through 1st semester Senior Year</p>

<p>ACT:
33C, 35E, 35M, 33R, 30S (only took once)</p>

<p>SAT II:
750 Math II, 710 Physics, 750 US History</p>

<p>School doesn’t rank.</p>

<p>AP Tests – Taken:</p>

<p>AP English Comp (5)
AP European History (4)
AP US History (5)
AP Physics B (4)</p>

<p>AP Tests – Will Take:</p>

<p>AP Calculus BC
AP English Literature
AP Biology
AP Microeconomics
AP Macroeconomics
AP Spanish</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:</p>

<p>-AP Calculus BC
-AP English Literature
-AP Biology
-AP Microeconomics
-AP Macroeconomics
-AP Spanish
-AP Human Geography</p>

<p>Extracurricular activities:</p>

<p>Piano, including ensemble performance, 10 years
Soccer (club & varsity level), 10 years
HS Student Theater, 4 years (lead, supporting & stage manager)
HS Peer mentoring, 2 years
Student newspaper, 2 years (member of editorial board)</p>

<p>Volunteer work:</p>

<p>2 years horse therapy with disabled children.</p>

<p>Youth Leader - 1400 hours volunteering in Latin America in rural, economically-disadvantaged communities working on sustainable local health and nutrition initiatives during summers had to raise funds for project through donations to non-profit throughout the school years.</p>

<p>Work experience: Worked as research assistant during junior year on a National Science Foundation grant at the university (8 hours a week, approximately 180 hours total).</p>

<p>Areas of interest: cognitive science, linguistics, neuroscience, mathematics</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>National Merit Finalist
National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar
State Scholar-Athlete Award</p>

<p>First language: Spanish, learned English at school</p>

<p>Low Income: yes</p>

<p>Schools:
Amherst
Cornell
Emory
Duke
Georgetown
Johns Hopkins
MIT (EA, deferred)
Northwestern
Princeton
Vassar
Wellesley
Williams</p>

<p>Thank you very much!</p>

<p>(Will chance back if you want!)</p>

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<p>I think you have a very good chance at all the schools you are listed. However, due to the competitive nature of all of them, it isn’t likely that you’ll get into them all. If I HAD to guess you’ll get into half of them. What’s your first choice, or would you be happy at any?</p>

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<p>It depends on the day you ask me and where I visited most recently. There are things I like about every one of them and each is unique. I wish I had the option of either 1) going to them all, or 2) combining the aspects I like most of each into one hybrid.</p>

<p>This is such a hard process!</p>

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<p>Your school not ranking and a 4.0 UW throws me off. MIT and Princeton are reaches because they are MIT and Princeton haha. Pretty much all the others I would go with a Match or at worst a low reach. Good luck.</p>

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<p>Our school does not rank. Apparently a lot of schools are starting to do that.</p>

<p>4.0 UW means that I have gotten all straight A’s throughout high school in every class. People say that weighted GPA is hard to interpret since every high school does it differently and weights can be all over the board. For instance honors classes are not weighted at our school, only AP’s. The highest weighted GPA I have ever heard of here was 4.35. My weighted is 4.29 with one semester to go.</p>

<p>Thanks for your post. I appreciate it.</p>

<p>Good luck to you too!</p>

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<p>I know what UW means haha, I just mean the combination throws me off. Also I would condense your list down, 12 is a bit much, for instance you have some schools located in rural areas like Cornell, Amherst, and Williams then you have some more urban schools like MIT and Northwestern. I would only apply to schools that you know you would enjoy. It’s also a nice thing to do for others since you won’t be taking spots at universities you wouldn’t attend :)</p>

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<p>Your point has merit and have been thinking a lot about this very subject for the last couple of months.</p>

<p>I could easily give my heart exclusively to several on the list (for different reasons). However, since there is no guarantee the my love will be requited, everyone tells me that I have to find several, as you say, that I would enjoy and could see myself at and pursue them.</p>

<p>There should be a better way to do this for both us and the colleges.</p>

<p>As sort of a consolation, I know of people who are applying to 20 or even 40 schools. That seems like too many. </p>

<p>I suppose that would have been an easy option if I had taken advantage of the “free applications” with no essay requirements from a bunch of schools I had never heard of, but this is serious for me and I don’t want to turn it into a game. </p>

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<p>20 or 40? My wallet hurts just thinking about the application fees. You don’t need to only apply to several (as in 3 or 4), I applied to 8 and I can think of 2 maybe even 3 I would eliminate. Well luckily you aren’t like me, I didn’t think until October of my senior year. I would start visiting campuses, maybe ask some people who were from your highschool who are now enrolled at one of the universities you are interested in, things like how they like it, if it was what they expected, etc. </p>

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<p>Yes, this is a very expensive process. I only applied to schools that I liked for specific reasons, and yes, there are a couple that I am totally in love with.</p>

<p>The reason I was able to apply to most of these is that I got a fee waiver. </p>

<p>However, I gave my selections a lot of thought. Had I wanted, like I said, I could have applied to many more places I either was not interested in or had never heard of since there were a bunch of free or fee-waived applications available. But I am not trying to collect admissions trophies here. I just want to go somewhere that has good programs for what I am interested in studying and where I can explore and be happy!</p>

<p>I have spoken with both current and former students as several of these schools. The interesting thing is that the same school can be a different experience for each person. My only real takeaway from conversations with friends who are there now is that wherever I end up, the experience will be my own and what I make of it.</p>

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<p>Anyone else want to chance me?</p>

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<p>Would you chance me back please?</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1614998-chance-a-girl-please.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1614998-chance-a-girl-please.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You are hispanic and you have excellent stats for anyone. Not to be racist, but you can go to any school in the country you want. </p>

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<p>Academically you are definitely qualified for all of those schools. The only thing is that your ECs dont really stand out. Your service work is impressive though. </p>

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<p>You should be a shoo-in at most of these schools. You are a straight A student with a rigorous courseload. You have very good test scores. Then, you are an URM with a state that is probably not as well represented at most of these schools. You said you are low income which may imply that you are first generation. On top of that, you are an arts kid (piano) as well as an athlete. Then, you have 1400 hours of community service!?! Wow. These schools would be lucky to have you! Good luck!</p>

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<p>I think your resume builds up to see you as a great person. Good academics and great EC. I think you are matches for every school. MIT, Duke, and Princeton might be high matches but you will get into one of those three. good luck
chance back
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<p>Awesome stats.<br>
Did you apply to ASU Barrett/U of A as back-ups? Has your family run the net price calculators at those (great but pricey) schools you mentioned? (waving from an hour and half south of you). </p>

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<p>@Mandalorian Thanks for your thoughts. I have worked hard. Hopefully it will bear fruit.</p>

<p>As to my Hispanic heritage, it’s just part of who I am. </p>

<p>Unlike grades or test scores, I can’t change it or improve it. Nor does it decline if I ignore it. I always find it a little disconcerting that every time we are asked to put together an application or profile (even here at CC), the ethnic/racial piece has to be so prominent.</p>

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<p>Excellent profile. I think you should be a match for most of them. But at the end of day you never know. Whatever happens you will be in a good place and you will do great. My best wishes to you.</p>

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<p>You have a simply amazing profile. You should get in to most of these schools. Whatever happens, any school would be lucky to have you. Best of luck!</p>

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<p>@sloth83 Thanks for chancing me! You are a great student and I hope you get into the schools you want.</p>

<p>As for ECs, it’s pretty amazing the things that some folks are able to do. I look at my own situation, the things I am passionate about and the opportunities that are realistically available to me, and there is no way I would have either the access, the money or the time to do a whole lot more.</p>

<p>My high school is known for being very demanding. We have at least 5 hours of homework every day, plus the EC things I am already involved in. Often, I don’t go to bed until well after midnight and am completely booked most weekends.</p>

<p>Objectively, I’m only 17. When would I find time to cure cancer, write a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and triple gold at the Olympics - all while maintaining my grades, taking the ACT/SATs, remaining curious about learning, and not burning out?</p>

<p>That is not to malign those who have been able to do it, but absent creating 30 hour days or 10 day weeks, there just doesn’t seem to be enough actual time to do much more; at least not for me.</p>