Chance me and I'll chance YOU!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I think this is a good idea, because of the number of threads of people trying to get others to chance them and not receiving any responses.</p>

<p>So, chance me thoroughly (chances, suggestions for changes, suggestions of schools) and I will do the same for you. Remember, you get what you give! </p>

<p>Asian female, junior </p>

<p>GPA: 4.85
Unweighted: 4.0
Class rank: top 1-2% out of 430</p>

<p>AP’s so far: US history, Environmental</p>

<p>Projected senior year:
AP European History
AP English 12
AP Government
AP Biology
AP Calculus
Honors Physics
Honors Spanish IV
Honors Chamber Orchestra
Honors Shakespeare II (online)</p>

<p>PSAT: 225
SAT I: (800/710/800)= 2310
SAT IIs: ? (planning on Literature, History, Biology)</p>

<p>EC</p>

<p>Debate
4 years
Captain 2 years
Random awards- 3rd place Districts, 3rd place Regionals, JMU semifinals, 5th place Speaker
Attended U of R camp in ’07, going again this year </p>

<p>Violin
8 years
School orchestra 8 years - Chamber Orchestra 3 years
All County Orchestra- ‘06
School musical
Played in numerous places (Children’s hospital, science museum, bank opening, library opening, nursing home, PSAT high scorers award ceremony, church, etc.)</p>

<p>Piano
4 years private lessons
~5 hours/week</p>

<p>Volunteering
100+ hours at local nursing home
40+ hours at ecology club (Will be VP next year)
20 hours tutoring
10+ hours on election days
Helped produce a list of resources for entrepreneurship class and a school handbook in Uganda with the VP of Rural Uganda Fund</p>

<p>Job
Courtesy clerk at Ukrop’s Grocers, 07- present, ~10 hours/week</p>

<p>Honors
National Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society
Music Honor Society
Math Honor Society (projected)</p>

<p>Summer ‘08
Hopefully internship, some college summer program</p>

<p>Awards</p>

<p>1st place FBLA Business Law Districts
1st place FBLA Business Law States
1st place FBLA Business Law Nationals
State Essay Contest Winner (sponsored by House of Delegates)
PSAT high scorer- 3 years
National Merit Finalist (hopefully)
Honor Roll- 7 years
English Department Award (2 freshman out of 500)
Science Scholar (1 out of 500)
Most Improved, MVP- Orchestra
5+ Perfect SOLs (state test)
3x team scorer VA math league (team scorer: one of top 5 scores from each school)
Outstanding Volunteer- Spring Arbor Nursing Home</p>

<p>Misc.</p>

<p>Pretty fluent in Chinese (9 years Chinese school)
Into Shakespeare (2 years online Shakespeare class) </p>

<p>Reaches:
Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Duke</p>

<p>Matches:
UVA? (in-state)
Georgetown?</p>

<p>Safeties:????? Maybe U of R?</p>

<p>Can anyone help me with this list of schools? I'm interested in IR, law, etc.</p>

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<p>You are so in at UVA. I too am a VA student, so I know where I am coming from. I think you will get in 1, possibly 2, of your reaches. What is your number one choice?</p>

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<p>if your in-state at virginia your for sure in. I think Duke could be a match instead of a reach as well.</p>

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<p>Thanks guys. If you want me to chance you, either post a link to your thread or post your stats.</p>

<p>Hmmm… not sure what my number one is right now. I know I don’t want to do EA or ED, so I guess I will apply to all of them and see what happens.</p>

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<p>Definitely in at UVA. I’d hardly consider duke a reach for you. It may be the Harvard of the south, but certain people, like you, can call it a match. I’d agree with georgetown as a low match. HYP is always hard to judge, but you definitely have a good shot into getting into at least one. Look at Cornell, Brown, and Columbia as schools that are match, and UPenn for a high match. You also need to look at safety and more match schools. I pretty much post the same list of schools for this in every thread, but why not. I’d look at UMich, NYU, WashU, Northwestern, College of William and Mary (you’re in state there too), UCLA, UC Berkeley (match but not as absolute as these other ones).</p>

<p>What are you looking to major in (or at least an idea of science vs liberal arts)? There are tons of liberal arts schools that are a match for you but judging by the size of the schools you have listed I doubt you’d be interested..</p>

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<p>haha ohhhh life</p>

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<p>Thanks, Titan! You’re very optimistic about my chances, so I can only hope that your predictions come true! </p>

<p>I’m not exactly sure what I want to major in, but basically my interests are law, international relations, social sciences, music, maybe environmental science. Yeah…kind of varied.</p>

<p>I looked at some of your chance threads and I think you are a very strong candidate, though I’m not too familiar with the schools you posted. It seems like you are very involved in extra-curriculars, but it would help to have a focus in one area. It seems like you are into sports/computers/ leadership/debate. So maybe just try to group everything that’s similar together.</p>

<p>Though your GPA isn’t the highest, it really helps that you go to a highly competitive school. Colleges will definitely take that into consideration.</p>

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<p>Haha you didn’t have to search for me. I’m sort of embarrassed to be honest haha. I don’t think I’m being overly optomistc about you to be honest. I know people with far worse credentials than you get into some of those schools, especially duke. You have high test scores and GPA< but you also have the honors and awards that ivies look for in order to distinguish yourself.</p>

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<p>Don’t be embarrassed! You really are a extremely well-rounded applicant. I’m sure you will find success where ever you decide to go (sorry, I know it sounds cheesy, but I’m serious).</p>

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<p>I think you stand a very gd chance at any of the Ivys..your SAT score certainly will stand you in good stead! honestly!</p>

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<p>Kwaldner, you seem like an amazing person! You’ve published papers and won so many awards. Don’t worry about the SAT score- its really high for only studying for one week. Besides, all your other achievements far make up for it.</p>

<p>You said that 50% of your classmates go to good U.S universities and ivies, so if you are in the top 10%, you have a very good chance.</p>

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<p>wow. go for harvard. it’d be almost a match.</p>

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<p>haha what a novel idea lol.
anyway’s, </p>

<p>Reaches:
Yale,
Princeton,
Harvard,
These 3 are reaches for everyone and I think due to your ec’s and GPA (stat consious universities) you have a very good chance of getting into at least one. </p>

<p>Duke since your east coast - match</p>

<p>Matches:
UVA - overqualified if not match because of instate
Georgetown? -GT for International Relations and Law???
um idk for sure but I think that Notre Dame or American are much better for IR. (high match)</p>

<p>Suggestions for schools:
UMich - i suggest this school to everyone, a good school with a crapload of opportunities.
NYU for IR and Prelaw - extremely notable for Prelaw and business.
Cornell - IR</p>

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<p>Lol, silvermotionz, I wish. I think my number of APs will hurt me though. I will only have at most seven by the end of senior year.</p>

<p>I think you have a great chance at all your schools. You seen to have a lot of school awards and leadership positions. Also, you have some sports too, which is good. Your summer/winter break activities sound really unique and show you don’t just slack off.</p>

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<p>Well you’ll only have 7 APs but how many does your school offer? How many honors will you tak? APs and honors tend to get grouped in the same category, you already have 9 when combines which is a lot. The benefit to AP is the college credit, but honors looks nearly as good. I wouldn’t worry about strength of your schedule, especially if you’re taking all the APs or most of the APs that your school offers.</p>

<p>Also, you have the “wow” credential that will make you stand out: namely the Uganda thing. This should give your app considerable strength at ivies.</p>

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<p>Hey, fuzzylogic. Thanks for suggesting more schools to me. I always though georgetown was good for IR? Guess not. I will look into those other schools. I never knew Cornell had a good IR program though. </p>

<p>It seems that you are really into business/economics, so its good that you are involved with BPA and have won many awards. I’m pretty sure the Intel award is a big deal too, right? (not too familiar with science stuff). So that will definitely help you. </p>

<p>How is you weighted GPA only a little higher than UW, if you have taken so many APs and honors? Maybe your school does it differently. Anyways, I think colleges will see that you have chosen the most rigorous courseload and that can help with your lower GPA.</p>

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<p>well to tell you the truth i’m not an expert at these things and i find these things off other posts so if you find out that Georgetown IS good for IR then please tell me so that I wont go around telling people wrong stuff lol. oh and my school doesn’t do a weighted scale off 5.0 they do it off a 4.0. lol yeah it’s ■■■■■■■■. And thanks for my chance.</p>

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<p>Well, by the end of senior year I will have 24 honors/AP classes. My school does offer some I did not take such as AP stats, chem, physics, french, and english 11. </p>

<p>Oh well, there were schedule conflicts but I think as long as my rank is up there I will be fine.</p>

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<p>Wait, you’re looking at International Relations? From my understanding Georgetown is one of the best schools in the country for it. And you have plenty of honors and APs. You definitely shouldn’t worry about not having too many APs with that many honors/APs. You have an amazingly strong app.</p>

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<p>Thanks, titan. It’s weird because I don’t really see my app as amazingly strong. I think all of us here at CC have skewed perspectives where we don’t think much of ourselves. Truly though, I have seen applicants that seem a lot stronger than myself. I mean, I haven’t really done anything extraordinary.</p>