Chance a rising senior!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm currently a rising senior in high school and interested in the following schools:
Boston university
Northeastern university
American university
George Washington university
Any other suggestions?</p>

<p>Stats:
9th grade: not many advanced courses offered, took the hardest ones available. 4.0</p>

<p>10th grade:
Honors bio A
Honors English B+, A-
Spanish 3 A, A-
Geometry A, A
Algebra 2 A, A
Choir A, A
History A, A
Gym (required) A
Journalism A</p>

<p>11th grade:
Pre calculus B+, A-
Chemistry A, A
Choir A, A
Spanish 4 A, A-
AP World A, A
AP Lang & Comp A-, A
Advanced literature A-</p>

<p>12th grade classes:
Spanish 5 & 6, Honors Physics, AP Government, AP Calculus, Choir, Honors English</p>

<p>ECs:
Figure skating & synchronized team skating (lettered through school), national honors society, Spanish club, music honors society, leadership position at skating club, 100+ hours of volunteer work at food shelf and animal shelter, previous work experience at grocery store (not fired), summer intern at a newspaper and at a magazine, college summer programs at BU and Georgetown, also a 3 week summer journalism workshop.</p>

<p>ACT: 24, retaking after tutoring and hoping for a 27. Have been getting around a 27 on practice tests.</p>

<p>Overall:
- GPA 3.926
- ACT 27 (?)
- College finances: not an object
- Live in the Midwest
- parents divorced
- Letters of Rec: predicting them to be pretty good. I have a good relationship with my counselor and same with my teachers.
- Essays: should be pretty good. Writing is my strong suit in school and I will be getting help on them with a college admissions person I know.</p>

<p>The schools I listed at the top are my top choices but list suggestions for other matches or reaches! Thanks!</p>

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<p>I can’t say much because I don’t know a lot about these schools. However, your grades look really good, but schools tend to judge the difficulty of your school by how you do comparatively on standardized tests. Keep working on raising your test scores–and have you looked into the SAT? It’s obviously different from the ACT but if you just haven’t thought about it, the summer would be a great time to do some prep work and score well on both the SAT & ACT. That’s the big thing. You have good grades and relatively good ECs, and it seems you’ve got journalism and perhaps skating as strong points/themes to focus on in your applications. Focus on improving your standardized test scores, and in my opinion you’re in. Of course, because I don’t know much about these schools, you’ll have to compare to their average ACT/SAT scores and see how you fare, perhaps you’re fitting right in, I don’t know. To get a feel for some more matches, try the SuperMatch tool that’s available on this website. I don’t know about everyone else, but it was pretty accurate for me–had my top 2 in the first 8 listings, and my number 1 was its number 1. Also try the College Search feature on the College Board’s website. Best of luck to you!</p>