Chance me: Emory, Colgate, Richmond etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Demographics:
White female
High school junior
Florida public magnet high school (title 1, very low income area)

Applying to:
Florida State University
University of Florida (sister attends)
Boston College
University of Richmond
Colgate University
Emory University
Georgetown University

Interests:
Political Science
International Relations
Environmental Studies

GPA: Unweighted: 3.6 Weighted 4.5
Rank: 40/433 (top 10%)

Classes: (school has AICE curriculum, comparable to IB)
Freshman:
Honors English I
Honors Algebra I
Honors World History
Honors Biology
Honors Spanish I
Several Dance classes (center for the arts)

Sophomore:
AICE European History
AICE General Paper
Honors Chemistry
Honors Geometry
Honors English II
Honors Spanish II
Dual Enrollment Psychology and Human Growth
Dance classes

Junior:
AICE US History
AICE English Language
AICE Travel & Tourism
AICE Marine Biology
Honors Algebra II
Honors Spanish III
Dual Enrollment:
Chemistry & Chem lab
Macroeconomics
Intro to Philosophy
(So far doing very well, GPA should increase with weight of classes.)

Tentative Senior:
AICE English Literature
AP Calculus A/B
AICE Environmental Science
AICE Global Perspectives
AICE Spanish Language
Dance Classes
Dual Enrollment: American Government

Scores:
SAT: 1400
ACT: 31 (without studying, can probably do better)
I will take SAT Subjects in June in Math 1, US History, English

Activites:
JV Cheer, 1 year
Competitive Dance at regional and national level, 3 years
AICE Student Union Class Representative, will be 4 years
Will complete dance curriculum, all 4 years
Member of All-County dance team, 4 years
National Honor Society for Dance Arts member, 2 years
NHSDA Treasurer, 1 year
NHSDA President, 1 year
Community Service at local elementary school
School Musical, 2 year
Intentions of getting a job senior year

I expect my essays to be very good, writing is my strong suit. I took the best courses available to me, which was not much. however I’m considering taking some APs online my senior year and through the summer. Would that be a good plan or are my classes competitive enough? I know my gpa is weak but I am hoping my test scores will improve and be competitive enough?

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I think you have really well-rounded stats, especially considering you have taken the most challenging courses available to you (that goes a long way)! Your ECs, knowing how much time Dance encompasses, are excellent. It shows passion and commitment. I agree a job senior year will definitely help and additional community service/volunteerism will also help…look into other opportunities over the summer when you have some time to commit to volunteering. Your SAT/ACT are both good for most major universities/colleges and if you can bump either one a bit you will be even that much more competitive. My suggestion would be to spend time brushing up on SAT over the summer and take it again late summer/early fall bc I think your best shot is to bump your SAT since ACT has more trig and the SAT is much more Alg 2 which you just finished. I can’t chance you 100% on all of your options but my thoughts as of right now you are a good match for U Richmond (I loved the campus and their post-grad employment rate is phenomenal), Florida St and U. Florida are both great matches and should be very economical for you. BC, Colgate and Emory aretougher but depending on the X-factor items such as Essay you are still in the running, especially if you can gain some points on your standardized tests. I am not overly familiar with Georgetown lately but I’d think they are in the same category. Work on bumping your test scores a bit and you have a good shot. Make sure you keep a few of those safeties in the mix…and stay positive and focused. Good luck!

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Florida State University - safety
University of Florida - low match
Boston College - high match
University of Richmond - match
Colgate University - high match/low reach
Emory University - reach
Georgetown University - reach

As long as you stay in the top 10% of your class you have a good shot at the first five. Emory and Gtown are reaches for pretty much everybody, so I wouldn’t discourage applying either, we all need our reaches just to see what would happen.

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Florida State University - safety
University of Florida - safety
Boston College - High Match/ Low reach
University of Richmond - High match/Low reach
Colgate University - High match/ Low reach
Emory University - High Reach
Georgetown University - High Reach
I’m assuming you are applying RD to get the best financial Aid possible. Increase your ACT score try for a 33.