Chance an IB student, please? Ivies and others...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Swiss citizen, permanent U.S. resident, low income (about 35K), first generation. Have to check on the GPA, I know it is about that though.</p>

<p>Academic
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[<em>]IB Student (Most rigorous course load all 4 years)
[</em>]Decile : 2nd (Not sure of class rank yet, will figure it out Monday)
[<em>]3.8 UW GPA
[</em>]4.7 W GPA
[<em>]2140 SAT (680 CR, 700 M, 760 W)
[</em>]30 ACT (31 Eng, 28 Math, 31 Rea, 28 Sci, Eng+Wri 28)
[<em>]Taking SAT IIs in November
[</em>]IBs - Math Studies 6, Environment 5 (4 more this year)
[<em>]APs - US History 4, English Lang 4 (Also a 1 on Physics, have reasons for this though)
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ECs/Service
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[li]12 yrs Travel/competitive soccer (Captain)[/li][</em>]3 yrs School soccer (1 yr JV Captain)
[<em>]2 yrs NHS
[</em>]2 yrs Political Science Club
[<em>]2 yrs Recycling Club
[</em>]2 yrs Chess Club
[<em>]175 hrs IB CAS hours community service hours
[</em>]30 NHS community service hours
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Honors
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[<em>]4.0+ GPA Honor Roll (9, 10, 11, 12)
[</em>]Young Playwrights Festival Recognition (9)
[<em>]Florida Studio Playwrighting Award Honorable Mention (9)
[</em>]Artwork displayed in local gallery's "Art in our Schools" show (10)
[<em>]Various sporting awards/trophies for soccer and golf (9, 10, 11)
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Work
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[li]Cashier/Busboy at gourmet food store (9, 10, 11) - About 8 hours a week, sporadic days/hours.[/li][</em>]Babysitting (9, 10) - Usually once a month.</p>

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<p>Applied
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[<em>]University of Florida
[</em>]University of South Florida
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Applying
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[<em>]Washington and Lee
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Considering
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[li]Cornell[/li][</em>]Columbia
[<em>]Yale
[</em>]Dartmouth
[<em>]Duke
[</em>]University of Chicago
[<em>]NYU
[</em>]Purdue
[<em>]Washington University in St. Louis
[</em>]Georgetown
[<em>]Swarthmore
[</em>]Amherst
[<em>]Harvey Mudd
[</em>]Vanderbilt
[li]University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Not expecting anyone to go through and chance me for all of them (though that'd be nice), but just tell me what to expect for whichever ones you can. Also, if anyone could tell me which ones I could expect good/bad financial aid from, or if I'd qualify for a school scholarship anywhere, then that'd be great!...Thanks!</p>

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<p>BUMP
Anyone?</p>

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<p>Bump. bump. Please help, I need to get an idea of this as soon as possible because my counselor is doing preliminary application stuff for all those applying out of state very soon.</p>

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<p>what are your HL and SL grades and total score including EE and TOK</p>

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<p>I’m currently in senior year, so I have only taken 2 one year SLs that I tested out of last year (they are listed above). I am testing in HL English, HL Info Tech, HL Visual Arts (Photo), and SL Spanish this year, along with TOK. My three other classes this year are Calculus Honors, Weightlifting, and Team Sports.</p>

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<p>people from my school entered cornell, columbia, chicago and duke with 40-43 points. that means mostly 7s and 6s with 2-3 bonus points on EE and TOK.</p>

<p>since i’m an international, im not sure how your IB scores count for you. just make sure you get 6s and 7s in your remaining papers and you should be safe. absolutely NO MORE 5s.</p>

<p>first six on your list are definitely high reaches.</p>

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<p>I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but I think I can get that. IB students at my school are required to take IB English because we have such a good success rate in it (last year only 10% were under 5), so I am confident I can get at least a 6. IB Info Tech shouldn’t be too hard, I am good with computers. Visual Arts could be tough, but we have a good, experienced teacher who has had like 8 straight years of 100% pass rates. SL Spanish shouldn’t be too difficult either, we took a paper 1 from 3 years ago the other day and I got everything right. Speaking another language definitely makes that easier. Thanks for your input.</p>

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<p>My initial list is probably too long, so here’s a condensed one of the main ones I am considering now…Please chance me! I’ll chance back if you leave a link.

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[<em>]University of Florida
[</em>]Cornell
[<em>]Columbia
[</em>]Carnegie Mellon
[<em>]Duke
[</em>]Purdue
[<em>]University of Michigan Ann Arbor
[</em>]Washington and Lee
[*]Vanderbilt[/ul]</p>