Chance me for colleges, please? :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi!!! I am a new member of this site, and...I hope this is how it works? hahaha</p>

<p>I was wondering what my chances would be for the following schools...It would be great if I had your help, seeing that I am a little bit all over the place.
Thank you so much for reading this!</p>

<p>Colleges of Interest:</p>

<p>Boston University
Penn State University Park
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Case Western Reserve University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Rochester
Lehigh University
Carnegie Mellon University
Vanderbilt University
Wellesley College
University of Toronto
McGill University</p>

<p>*Would like to apply for a college with a good Engineering and Music Program. I am still undecided on which one I lean towards. Maybe I want to minor in music and major Engineering?</p>

<p>Gender: F
Ethnicity: Asian
College Class Year: 2015
High School: Public
Will apply for financial aid</p>

<p>ACADEMICS:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.35 out of 4
GPA - Weighted: 6.10 out of 7
Class Rank: top 25%
Class Size: 553</p>

<p>my GPA is low due to a personal issue that happened in my sophomore year that caused my grades to go downhill dramatically. Excuses are not very appealing, but I guess I thought I should add a reason behind it :[ </p>

<p>SCORES:</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 710
SAT I Critical Reading: 560
SAT I Writing: 790
ACT: 30
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 760
SAT II Chinese with Listening: 700
Waiting on Physics SAT II</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:</p>

<p>Significant Extras:</p>

<p>Youth Orchestra since freshman year
Amateur Chinese Dance Group for 10 years
FOP Holiday Committee at School
Model UN at School for 2 years
Chemistry Society
Christian Fellowship Club
High School Symphony Orchestra
Will be in Pit Orchestra next year
String Quartets freshman and junior year; performed outside of school at gigs at invitation of special events around the area</p>

<p>Leadership positions: </p>

<p>President and Founder of an Engineers Club at School (for 3 years)
President of the School event Multicultural Day (for 2 years)</p>

<p>Athletic Status High School Starter on the Freshman team and 2 years of starter on the JV Soccer Team, will be on the Varsity team next year. </p>

<p>Volunteer/Service Work:</p>

<p>Volunteer at the Franklin Institute
Taught Chinese to Newly Immigrants during the summer into freshman and sophomore year. </p>

<p>Honors and Awards: </p>

<p>Full Scholarship to the Kimmel Center Teen Summer Arts Camp (which i'm attending this summer)
Best Novice in A Model UN Conference
Was in the local magazine for an article discussing about feminism, they featured me and my Engineers Club.</p>

<p>College Summer programs: </p>

<p>Duke Young Writers Camp summer into sophomore year
Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute in Hobart & William Smith College summer into junior year
The Academy at Rutgers for Girls in Engineering and Technology summer into freshman year and summer into sophomore year</p>

<p>hmm</p>

<p>What do you guys think? </p>

<p>Again, thanks so much for reading it!!! ><</p>

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<p>bump :[ pleaseplease.</p>

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<p>I’m not familiar with a lot of the universities you listed, but for CMU, Vanderbilt and Wellesley, I’m pretty sure you’ll need to raise your stats. The 560 on your CR doesn’t look good. You should try to get a 700+ on it, and optimally get at least a 750 on all three sections, just to be on some solid ground. Extracurrics are looking fine, imho, but I’m no judge of those things.</p>

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<p>safe bet for Boston university, case western university, and university of toronto. Those three schools are great matches. vandy, rochester, illinois, lehigh and carnegie are reach schools meaning your chances are not that great. plus as an asian, you’re expected to score higher so critical reading needs to go up. there are hundreds of people just like you with better stats. you need to work on a higher gpa but it’s definitely not all about stats. if you can show improvement throughout high school that indicates a sense of maturity to admission officers. penn state seems like another great match too</p>

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<p>thank you very muchh guys!!! and yeah my gpa is really shaky sigh. I’m retaking the SAT’s for math and CR to bump them up alot in Oct, so im crossing my fingers :slight_smile: thank youuu</p>

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<p>bumppp this shizzz :slight_smile: help pleaseplease?</p>

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<p>cmu/vandy/Wells/mcgill are very unlikely due to your GPA and SAT reading score (very unlikely reach)</p>

<p>Penn state/BU/Rutgers and the likes are pretty much guaranteed entry given your credentials (safety).</p>

<p>Everything else is a good match.</p>

<p>if your primary interest is in music, schools will look for musical ability (your audition tapes) rather than your grades.</p>

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<p>hey, thank you so much! :slight_smile: yeah im gonna try to bump my reading and math SAT scores to at least give me a slim chance haha? which one of those 4 do you think i can put up for ED?
haha, music is a strong interest for me, but it wont be a primary interest :confused: i’m going for engineering as a major, and music as a minor. thanks for the advice!</p>

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<p>bumpbumpbump ? :)</p>

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<p>Pleasee note that when needing aid, the schools need to also be financial safeties. Getting in, and getting in with aid, are vey different things. Many schools will only offer aid to their top candidates.</p>

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<p>ohhhhh that’s really true, thanks for the input!</p>

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<p>For Rutgers and Penn State you should be in no problem and for Boston U I think with a slight GPA raise you’ll be fine as well. Your GPA is just a little weak for the others but the rest of your resume looks great! (aside from the CR SAT score) </p>

<p>Have you looked at Virginia Tech at all? I think that would be a great match.</p>

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<p>Have you looked into Temple? They have good engineering and an amazing music program. I know that they also give out a half scholarship if you get into their honors program. I know people with similar stats than yours who have been accepted into Honors</p>

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<p>ahhh thank you very much! :slight_smile: no i have not looked at Vtech, but I’ll take your advice and look it up!</p>

<p>ahaha yes i’ve heard of that program, I actually live 20 minutes away from temple! :slight_smile: the school is not for me, because of its close proximity to home, but i’ll take note of the advice, thank you!!!</p>

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<p>bumpppppppp</p>

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<p>Looking at your stats I felt like I was looking in a mirror… 3.3 GPA, 30 ACT, and I’m Asian as well. Then I saw your ECs and once again was asking myself what exactly I’ve been doing the last few years, aside from playing video games of course :P.</p>

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<p>HAHA oh wow. looks like we’re on the same page? :slight_smile: get some EC’s then! what schools are you looking at?</p>

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<p>U of T, really? Well, yeah, it’s a lot cheaper than pretty much all the American universities, but I live in Toronto and have friends who went to U of T… and know only a few who are really happy with the school.
(Hell, I’m living in Toronto and I’m not even going to apply there).</p>

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<p>oh wow…really? hmm since you live in canada, do you know anything about mcgill? haha.</p>

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<p>bumping ? :slight_smile: haha…</p>