Chance a somewhat weaker applicant for Smith?

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<p>Grade: Junior</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.7</p>

<p>Class Rank: Top 5% (20/500)</p>

<p>APs - APUSH, AP World, AP English Lang, AP English Lit, AP Calculus AB, AP Environmental Science, AP Politics and Gov - (all other courses are honors) </p>

<p>SATs: 1950 - retaking, projected to go up to around 2100+</p>

<p>Activities/ECs/Etc
- Model UN (Best Delegate award, Northeastern University, Harvard University)
- Internship Dell/Verizon
- Representative for City Year Boston
- Citywide Math Enrichment Tutor
- NLE Participant
- Key Club (meh.)
- Babysitting (five days a week, 30 weeks a year)
- Worked with city gov't to work out a budget for the school which wouldn't sacrifice our arts program - was able to showcase this community service project in Boston at a conference
- Couple of local essay competitions - Freshman year, had a piece about the American Dream published in local newspaper, Junior year, had a satire piece about the war on drugs published in school newspaper
- Artwork featured in city wide art show
- AP Scholar with Honor
- Next year, I'm going to found and run our school's first Latin club </p>

<p>RECs - Strong recommendations from three teachers, two are AP teachers, all are teachers who I've received A+s in.</p>

<p>Essay - Probably decent, going to write it about my experience living in the Western Sahara of Morocco.</p>

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<p>And why do you consider yourself as somewhat weak?</p>

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<p>I think you’re a pretty good candidate for Smith. I had pretty similar stats (3.8UW/4.4W) and a 2160 SAT. I didn’t nearly have that many activities. Write a strong essay, keep those grades up, and take challenging senior year classes (I’m assuming AP Calc AB or BC, AP Lit, etc.)</p>

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<p>Preamble1776 – Your rank (plus GPA), SAT’s, and EC’s look quite good. The only item you can probably enhance is the SAT, and you intend to sit for a second testing (the first scores are solid). I’m not much of an EC sort of person, but yours seem impressive and “real.” You are not “weak…” Good luck kid!</p>

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<p>David</p>