CHANCE ME: average student edition

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Caucasian Female, senior, From Maryland
Interested in Health sciene/pre-med/biomedical sciences majors

Stats:
GPA UW: 3.4 W: 4.25
SAT Superscore: 1250
Math: 620 Reading: 630
ACT: (still have to take)
Rank: top 20% of my approx. 260 class

AP Classes:
10th grade: WHAP (2)
11th grade: APUSH,(2) ENG COMP (3)
12th grade (plan on taking): ECON

I also have been in all honors/GT classes

Struggled with grades freshman and sophomore year… i had a 3.15 GPA at the end of sophomore year but got a 3.9ish junior year.

EC:
Steady part time job at local snowball stand al 4 years of high school (25+ hrs a week)
NHS (11-12)
Science national honor society (11-12)
JV soccer (9)
JV Softball (9)
Varsity Softball (10-12)
Participated in the “Point Pride 5k” to raise money for my school
Went to a leadership based summer camp for 9 summers
Participated in christmas gift wrapping for foster kids.
Tutored middle schoolers at my school (my school is a combined middle and high school)
Volunteering at the Maryland SPCA being a dog deputy (12)
Theres more but i cant not think

I plan on doing extensive volunteering over the summer, as well as trying to find an internship.

HERES MY COLLEGE LIST AFTER NARROWING:

SAFTIES:

  • West Virginia University (Can get a recommendation from a man on the alumni committee)
    -Towson University (in-state)
  • Old Dominion University

GOOD MATCHES:

  • Penn State University
    -James Madison University
  • East Carolina University
    -Virginia CommonWealth University
  • Elon University

REACHES:

  • Clemson
  • UMD(in-state)
  • UCF
  • University Of Delaware

I would like to stay in the east, preferably south.
If there are any schools i should consider or some that are too far out of reach please let me know!!! Thank you!

**** MY DREAM SCHOOL IS UNIVERSITY OF MD****

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Your safeties look good as long as your family can afford them.

I think Penn State and Elon are reaches, not matches. That leaves a lot of reaches, unless you knock the ACT out of the park. Understanding that you love UMD, I might remove Clemson and/or UCF from the list entirely.

Any interest in UMBC as another match? Or maybe UNC WiImington?

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Thank you so much for your response! Its pretty hard for me to find safties/matches that I like, but im really working on it. I have looked into UMBC but i would really like to go out of state unless ofcourse its UMD. Money is also not really an issue since i get half off tuition anywhere in the country. UNC wilmington was on my initial list but it didnt intrerst me that much. I will try looking into it again though!

If you have any other recommendations i would love to hear them!! Thank you !