Chance me for: Brown, USC, URochester, UW Seattle, Columbia, BU, NYU

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, my friend is applying to Brown, USC, URochester, Columbia, BU and NYU. She is applying to UW honors program as her safety school. She realizes that Brown, USC, and Columbia are all reach schools. Can you chance her?</p>

<p>GPA (unweighted): 4.0/4.0
Class Rank: 1/295
SAT: 2090 (800 CR, 640 M, 650 W, 8 Essay)
Going to take again in December to bring up the other two scores.
SAT II: 770 CHEM, 710 USH, 600 MATH II
ACT: 31 (30 E, 32 M, 33 R, 27 S, 6 Essay)</p>

<p>AP Classes
AP Euro (3)
AP Chem (5)
AP USH (5)
AP Lang (5)
AP Span. Lang. (4)
AP Bio
AP Calc AB
AP Gov
AP Lit
AP Psych</p>

<p>EC
Key Club member - 4 years, held an officer position as a junior
Knowledge Bowl - 3 years, captain 2 years, secretary as a junior, VP as a senior
Tennis - 3 years, first JV, swung with Varsity
JSA member - 2 years, going to Fall State and probably Mock Congress in the spring
Band - 5 years, quit during sophomore year to take harder classes
Volunteer at the Rescue Mission and for March of Dimes</p>

<p>Honors
AP Scholar with Distinction
Questbridge Finalist
Second Place in Knowledge Bowl City Tournament
Second Place at state science fair</p>

<p>Other stuff
State: WA
School type: Public
Gender: Female
Income bracket: <40,000
Ethnicity: Vietnamese
Hook: First generation </p>

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<p>Brown and Columbia will be a long reach, with SC a reach in the competition and scores of her similar demographics. I would caution about using UW as safety school, applying out of state, the have really transformed themselves the last 10-15 years. In fact, their endowment is only behind SC and Stanford on the west coast. Science and technology departments are first rate and very competitive…and they have a very competitive Asian applicant pool.</p>

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<p>@boolaHI, would you mind clarifying what you meant in your last two sentences?</p>

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<p>To clarify, U of Washington has the 3rd largest endowment on the west coast and thus in terms of financial aid, can offer, in some instances, very competitive packages relative to other institutions. The school is becoming increasing popular in Asia, and moreover the a Seattle area has a growing Asian population–that is to say, it is a very competitive place to gain admission from an Asian applicant perspective.</p>