Chance me for Georgetown, Stanford, Upenn... with bad freshman grades

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chance me for: Georgetown (MSB), Stanford, Upenn (Wharton), Northwestern, American (Kogod), GWU, UF, UVA, UMich, UM (University of Miami), and Duke</p>

<p>Grade: 10
Race: Hispanic, URM
State: FL</p>

<p>GPA (unweighted is out of 4.25)</p>

<p>GPA (UW/W) Freshman: 3.42/4.03
GPA (UW/W) Sophomore: ~4.15/~4.88</p>

<p>Courses-Grades</p>

<p>Freshman:
Spanish IV - A
AP World History - B
Health - A+
Honors English 9 - B+
Honors Geometry - B
Theology - B+
Biology - B+</p>

<p>Sophomore (so far):
AP Environmental Science - A
Honors US History - B+/A ( B+ but can raise it to an A)
Spanish V - A
Honors Algebra 2/Trig. - A
Chemistry - A+
AP English Language - B+
Theology - A+</p>

<p>Junior (what I plan on taking):
AP Statistics
AP US Govt
AP Art History
Honors Physics
Economics
Theology
Honors Pre-Calculus</p>

<p>Senior (what I plan on taking):
AP US Comparative Govt and Politics
AP Economics (Macro)
AP Calculus AB
AP English Literature
Honors Philosophy
Honors Latin American History
Theology</p>

<p>EC's</p>

<p>In School:
Forensics- (everybody receives medals in this club) position in future
Business Club- running for president
Creative Writing Club- president
Key Club- was in it last year, not this year, but I will be back in it next year
NHS
Math Honor Society- high position in future
Athletes for Charity- will run for president senior year
FBLA- my school doesn't have it, but should I start it since the business club in my school s nothing like it and is disorganized?
Bike Club- starting this year, will be president</p>

<p>Out of School:
Plan on starting charity for Haiti</p>

<p>Intern/Class at Gibraltar Bank, learned about investment banking (which is what I want to do)</p>

<p>Attending the Georgetown Summer Program for Entrepreneurship this summer</p>

<p>Will do the LEAD Business Program (HOPEFULLY AT WHARTON)</p>

<p>Hook: For Georgetown, My Great Grandfather worked at the Hospital and is well known on campus.</p>

<p>My 3 DREAM SCHOOLS are GEORGETOWN, STANFORD, AND WHARTON</p>

<p>I have gone on tours at Georgetown and met with an admissions officer. I plan on doing the same thing this summer for Stanford.</p>

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<p>I got a bad PSAT but a mediocre Plan predicted score (25-29). However, this is due to my problem with time which I am getting tested for this month. In both the Plan and PSAT i left at least 4 answers in each section incomplete.</p>

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<p>Just because you didn’t have enough time on a standardized test, does not mean that you deserve extra time, it just means that you have to step up your game… Decent grades and scores aren’t good enough for Ivies and their equivalents…</p>

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<p>I plan on taking a SAT Prep course and I just signed up for the SAT question of the day.</p>

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<p>you’re on the right track. that is for sure.</p>