Chance me for EA University of Chicago and Georgetown

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm interested in going into a pre-law course. My undergraduate major is still undecided but my best subjects are history and the sciences. Business law or patent law is where I want to end up at.</p>

<p>I'm doing early action to University of Chicago and Georgetown.
Note: APPS ARE ALREADY IN! NO TURNING BACK NOW.</p>

<p>I have a 3.82 GPA, top 10%, in an incredibly competitive public school in Oregon. 4.14 weighted GPA.</p>

<p>My school only offers AP courses for juniors and seniors.</p>

<p>AP Results
US History: 5
Physics C: Mech: 4
Calc AB: 5
Chemistry: 5</p>

<p>AP Classes senior year: AP English Lit, AP Government, AP Biology, AP Calc BC</p>

<p>SAT I Score (second and last sit-in, same superscore)
Composite: 2260
Math: 730
Reading: 750
Writing: 780
(Lol @ math being lowest)</p>

<p>SAT II Scores
US History: 770
MathII: 770
Chemisty: 800</p>

<p>EC:
1. Key Club President (Junior-Senior)
- Holds bi-weekly meetings, organizes weekly volunteering events, assists over fifty students in finding community service opportunities. Key Club member since Sophomore year.
- Raised $2000 dollars for Transition Projects, a Portland city-funded homelessness program
2. Young Republicans Club VP (Junior-Senior)
- Holds weekly meetings
- Campaigned with a political action committee earlier this year for Republican candidates in the local election, 3 of our 4 candidates won
- Held 3 public forums at our high school this year, one for local leader candidates (mayor, council members), one for school board candidates, and one for major Republican politicans (Republican US Representative Greg Walden and several State Representatives)
- Raised over $1000 dollars last year due to massive upsurge in activity with political groups
3. Interned for a financial firm during this summer (Junior-Senior)
- Mostly acted as a front desk receptionist/filer
- Learned crucial information on the federal/state tax code
- Assisted with financial research on clients
4. School Orchestra (Freshman-Senior)
- Primary second violinist, woo.
5. National Honors Society Secretary (Senior)
- Organizes everyone's community service hours
- Utilizes Key Club experience to organize volunteering programs for NHS members
6. Chinese Club VP (Junior-Senior)
- Organized two fundraisers
- Honors Society
- Helped encourage a ton of junior-high students to enroll into Chinese classes, which isn't popular at our school, which in effect, forced the school to create more classes for Chinese
7. Campaigner (Sophomore-Junior-Possibly Senior?)
- Campaigned for local election candidates (grassroots), door-to-door fliers, fundraising
- Campaigned for school board candidates (grassroots)
8. Speech and Debate (Freshman-Senior)
- Promoted to Debate captain for next year
- Won two district titles for Public Forum debate, one for Cross Examination debate, one for Radio speech</p>

<p>Upper-middle class Asian American male in a conservative suburb in Portland. I do not qualify for financial aid.</p>

<p>Thanks guys!</p>

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<p>U Chicago: Reach
Georgetown: Reach (high match if you declared certain STEM majors)</p>

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<p>UChicago:reach
GTown: low reach</p>

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<p>Alright. Can I get a little more feedback then just “reaches”.</p>

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<p>Chicago likes the asian … 20% but Chicago is a reach for everyone. Good luck.</p>

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<p>I think your gonna be good for gtown, chicago is always a crapshoot but you might get in who knows!
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1571620-will-i-get-into-any-these-transfer.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1571620-will-i-get-into-any-these-transfer.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I think you have a really strong chance at both, your stats are great. It will mainly come down to your recs and your essay because these schools are so competitive and they can end up rejecting nearly perfect kids.</p>

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<p>thanks wow!</p>

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<p>How were your UChicago essays?</p>

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<p>I chose the mantis shrimp prompt. I spent approx 4 weeks on them.</p>

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<p>Just out of curiosity, did you get into at least one of them? My final decision was between these two, but I’ll be heading to UChicago next year!</p>