Chance a URM Engineer!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Background
Ethnicity: African-American
Sex: Male
Residence: VA
Graduation Year: 2009
Major interests: Biomedical Engineering
School: Highly Competitive
Class Size: About 600
Hooks:African American Engineer, In state(most schools)</p>

<p>GPA:
4.0 Scale
Had a 2.75 UW freshman year which put my GPA in a hole, then turned it up Sophomore-Junior Years with a combined 3.5 in my schools AP/Honors program. My counselor will talk about my great turnaround in her recommendation.
UW:3.2 W:3.3
Had only one C after freshman year in 11th grade AP Macroeconomics which isn't offered by my school.
GPA's arent weighted much at my school.
The valedictorian of my class has only a 4.06 weighted GPA.
Senior Year First Semester GPA W:3.9</p>

<p>SAT/SATII
SAT: 1800 {Math-670, Cr-560, Wr-570}</p>

<p>Rank: School Doesn't Rank</p>

<p>Course Rigor:
Most Rigorous
9th-12th:7 APs, 7 Honors, 4 years of Spanish, 4 years of Business Classes
11th:3 AP's Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, English Language
12th:4 AP's Calculus BC, Biology, English Literature, US Government</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
1. (9-12)Future Business Leaders of America (President)
2. (9)Freshman Basketball Team (Co-Captain)
3. (10) JV Basketball (Co-Captain)
4. (10-12)National Business Honor Society
5. (9-10) JV Winter/Spring Track
6. (10-12) Varsity Track Team
7. (11-12) Science Honor Society
8. (9-10) Junior Math Team
9. (11-12) Senior Math Team</p>

<p>Volunteer Experience
Many Hours in:
1. Local Church Helping First Graders
2. Library Helping Librarians
3. Cleaning local Neighborhoods</p>

<p>Other
Recommendations:Amazing rec from my physics honors teacher who graduated from UVA in mechanical engineering.
Counselor Recommendation: Great explaining how I've matured in four years
Essays: Great</p>

<p>The Schools
University of Virginia
William and Mary
Virginia Tech
Maryland-College Park
University of Pittsburgh
James Madison
George Mason
Virginia Commonwealth University</p>

<p>Suggest another school if you think I should add to the list. Thanks</p>

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<p>bump!!!!!!</p>

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<p>Excellent chances at JMU, VCU, GMU and VT. Maybe for UMD and Pitt. Best of luck!</p>

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<p>thanks for the chances, any other opinions</p>

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<p>UVA or UMD should be only hiccups. But ur in state and a URM, i think you'll get in.</p>

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<p>bump!!!!!!</p>

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<p>Va tech may also be a bit hard. None of them are real reaches for you though, you should get into a few.</p>

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<p>Good for like all of them, a very slight reach for VT, mid reach for UVA.</p>

<p>I know someone from my school who had the same stats as you and lower SAT's and got into william and mary. He was also an African American so I think you got a mid chance at UVA.</p>

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<p>thanks bump</p>

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<p>anyone????</p>

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<p>University of Virginia(reach)
William and Mary(reach)
Virginia Tech(match)
Maryland-College Park(maybe)
University of Pittsburgh(maybe)
James Madison(match)
George Mason(match)
Virginia Commonwealth University(match)</p>

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<p>thanks i need any and all opinions, chance me</p>

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<p>bump!!!!!!</p>

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<p>You have excellent chances at VTech, James Madison, Virginia Commonwealth, George Mason, and to some extent Pitt. Maryland is closer to a match, and UVA and W&M are reaches.</p>