Chance for Barnard :) will chance back

Colleges and Universities A-Z Barnard College
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<p>I will be applying to:
Wellesley (first choice…not applying ED)
Smith(3rd choice)
Mount Holyoke
URichmond
Syracuse
Tufts (2nd choice)
Carnegie Mellon</p>

<p>African American female
Moderately competitive Texas public school
Top 25% Class rank</p>

<p>My best SAT 1 scores are:
670 CR
630 W
610 M</p>

<p>SAT II: </p>

<p>670 Chem
planning on taking literature and scoring similiarly</p>

<p>GPA: 3.21 out of 4
(I know my GPA is low, but I did take some difficult courses.)</p>

<p>E.C.:</p>

<p>Theatre (all four years): Participated in 11 out of 13 shows including UIL
Director (Junior)
House Manager (Junior)
Historian
Ready Writing
Tutored English 1 and Algebra 1 (freshman)
Participated in community theatre show…performed about 20 shows, inclluding one on the steps of city hall for a crowd of hundreds</p>

<p>Community Service:
Volunteered at hospital for two summers and completed 90+ hrs(fresh and soph)
in Surgery Waiting area (assisted families to recovery, doctors visits…etc.) and Cyber Center (assisted patients and families with fax and computer use
Volunteered at library (freshman)</p>

<p>Awards: </p>

<p>Academic Excellence Plaques
Outstanding Biology </p>

<p>Senior Courseload:</p>

<p>AP English 4
AP Calculus AB
AP Govn’t/Econ
Chemisty 3 H (Course after AP Chem 2, no AP available)
AP Comp Sci…and required regular courses: Comm apps, health, foundations, dance…</p>

<p>All comments and advice are much appreciated</p>

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<p>AND Barnard, a recent addition :)</p>

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<p>your SAT and SAT II score is a bit low. try getting your SAT up to somewhere between a 2000-2100.</p>

<p>chance me as well, </p>

<p>here are my stats:
Asian female from NJ</p>

<p>GPA/Class Rank: Not sure of my class rank
Un-weighted—≈3.75
Weighted—≈4.10</p>

<p>SAT I: Retaking it this October and hoped for something close to a 2100
Total—1970
Math—700
Crit. Reading—600
Writing—670</p>

<p>SAT II’s:
Math Level II—740
Biology M—790
Chemistry—780</p>

<p>Honors taken since 9th grade + the ones I will be taking in 12th grade:
Honors Geometry w/ Trig, Algebra II, and Pre-calculus w/ Limits
Honors English 9, American Literature, and English Composition I
Honors Biology, Chemistry, and Physics</p>

<p>AP’s taken + the ones I will be taking in 12th grade:
AP Biology—5
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus AB
AP History of Art</p>

<p>EC’s/Awards/Other: I know I don’t have much EC’s
Silver and Gold Honor Roll—9, 10, 11, 12
National Merit Scholarship Program Commended Student—September 2009</p>

<p>Orchestra—9, 10, 11, 12
Newspaper Club—10, 11, 12 (entertainment section editor for 12th)
National Honor Society—12
Mu Alpha Theta, Math Honor Society—12 </p>

<p>65+ volunteer hours at a soup kitchen—11, 12
Internship with a pharmacology professor at Rutgers’ Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy—Summer 2009</p>

<p>I have also traveled to many foreign countries:
Canada, France , England, Italy, Pakistan, Singapore, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE</p>