Chance for Columbia, Haverford, Brown, Emory, Macalester

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a white male from rural Georgia. I'm applying via Questbridge — I'm first generation and my single mom makes about 25k a year.</p>

<p>SAT:
Critical Reading: 770
Math: 680
Writing: 750</p>

<p>SAT II:
U.S. History - 790
Literature - 750
Biology - 720</p>

<p>Class rank - 3/250
GPA - UW - 3.93, W - 4.3</p>

<p>Schedule:
Freshman year</p>

<p>Newspaper
Honors World History
Honors Math I
Honors Biology</p>

<p>Newspaper
AP Human Geo
Honors Freshman English
Business Essentials</p>

<p>Sophomore year</p>

<p>APUSH
Honors Sophomore English
PE/Health
Yearbook</p>

<p>Honors Math II
Chemistry
APUSH
Yearbook</p>

<p>Junior year</p>

<p>AP Lang
Honors Precalculus
Yearbook
Spanish I</p>

<p>AP Lang
Spanish II
Yearbook
AP Econ
AP Gov online</p>

<p>Senior year</p>

<p>AP Lit
Spanish III
Yearbook
AP Bio
Physics online</p>

<p>AP Lit
AP Stats (I don't have room in my schedule for AP Calc)
Yearbook
AP Bio</p>

<p>AP Human (4), APUSH (5), AP Lang (5), AP Macroeconomics (5), AP Gov (5)</p>

<p>ECs: Editor of the yearbook, founder and editor of literary magazine, President of Gavel Club (public speaking), secretary of Anchor Club, Youth Advocacy Board, tutoring underprivileged children, part-time job in retail</p>

<p>Summer activities: Georgia Governor's Honors Program (Communicative Arts), GA Journalism Academy, editorial intern at the UGA Press, volunteering, working</p>

<p>I won a Gold Key in Poetry from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. I write for Huffington Post Teen occasionally.</p>

<p>Intended major: Creative Writing, English, maybe PoliSci/history</p>

<p>I plan on applying to Columbia ED, but can you also chance me for Haverford, Brown, Macalester, and Emory?</p>

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<p>Admitted to all, no problem.
P.S. Throw a Havard and a Princeton app in the pile as well.</p>

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<p>You’re a shoo-in for QuestBridge finalist! I’d say these are all match schools (and also encourage you to throw some riskier schools into the mix). Best of luck!</p>

<p>Chance back?
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<p>Buuuuuuuuuump</p>