Chance a student who's come a loooong, loong way.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Stats:</p>

<p>Middle Eastern (Iranian)
Top 200 Nationally Ranked High School
New Jersey
Speak Fluent Farsi, English, Arabic. French in School</p>

<p>GPA: 3.9 UW/4.3-4.5W (Scores got better every year, and our school doesn't tell us exact)
Rank: Top 10%
SAT II's : US History 800 Chem 720; World Hist 800
AP tests:
5 on US and
European History;
5 on Statistics;
5 on Enviornment
5 on Lang
5 on Physics
5 Gov/Econ</p>

<p>Courseload: Most rigorous that the school allowed; but I didn’t take anything but 2 honors my freshman year, then all APs and honors in subsequent years. </p>

<p>School EC's:</p>

<p>-School newspaper (9-12) – Sectional Editor and Leader
-Speech and Debate team (9-12): Here is how I ranked at national tournaments
3rd at NFL Nations
6th at CFL Nationals
1st at Yale Invitational
Finals at Harvard University
1st at GMU Tournament</p>

<ul>
<li>President of Political Participation (campaign for local officers), Secretary of History Club, Treasurer in French Club, Officer in Amnesty International, President of a Microfinance Organization that gives loans to African nations</li>
<li>Interned with Congressman Frelinghuysen for two weeks in DC – learned a lot and met Robert Gates
-Interned w/ a prestigious law firm for a month
-Countless courses including Georgetown and Columbia (INT. Relations and Law and Ethics.)
-National Honor Society (treasurer)</li>
<li>Member of different clubs</li>
</ul>

<p>Community/Volunteering/Entrepreneurship
- 150+ hours at the Retirement Home + Soup Kitchens</p>

<p>Recs:
Two pretty good recs
Two from teachers who liked me alot, counseler gave good wrecks</p>

<p>Essay: I was born in Iran: I talked about how I was born in Iran – the social stigma with being an Iranian and how going to college helps lift that
I also talked about my future to apply my practices to Iran
Also – the importance of elite schools to the world</p>

<p>Both essays, I thought, were really really good
Schools:
UVA
UNC (OOS)
Harvard
Cornell
NYU
Uchicago
Duke
UPENN
Georgetown (FAVORITE - SFS)
Northwestern
Rutgers
John Hopkins</p>

<p>I’ll chance back if needed</p>

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<p>Where are your SAT/ACT scores?</p>

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<p>SAT is a 2290, sorry, I didn’t take ACT though.</p>

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<p>Harvard, UPenn and Cornell- low reaches/high target (in my opinion ivy leagues are pretty much reaches by default unless your rory gilmore or whatever), NYU, UChicago, Duke, JHU- target/match. idk enough about the rest of the schools to chance lol. good luck!</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>