Chance me for my dream schools!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Please chance me for Dartmouth, UVA, Middlebury, and Yale (Eeek!)</p>

<p>The Basics:
-Female
-Rising senior
-Northeast
-Upper middle class
-Attended public for 9th and 10th, private for 11th and 12th</p>

<p>Course Rigor: By the end of my senior year, I will have taken 14 Honors courses and 7 AP courses.
UW GPA: 3.63 (Upward trend: B+ average in 9th and 10th grade, A average in 11th grade, will maintain straight-A's this year!)
UW Rank: Top 8%
ACT: 33
SAT II: Literature: 800, Bio: 800, Spanish: 780, World History: 760, U.S History: 770
APs: U.S History: 5, Bio: 5, Psych (self-study): 5, English Literature (self-study): 5, English Language (self-study): 5</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Writing: I devote at least 1 hour/day to writing, not including schoolwork.
**Literary Magazine <a href="10,%2011,%2012">/B</a>
-Short Story Editor (11)
-E.I.C (12)
**Newspaper<a href="10,%2011,%2012">/B</a>
-Co E.I.C (11, 12)</p>

<p>Environmental Activism
**Environmental NGO <a href="11,%2012">/B</a>
-Co-Outreach Coordinator & Member-at-Large (11)
-Media Relations Coordinator (12, though I did some media work in 11th grade as well)
-National and International Young Delegate (11, 12)
**Youth Environmental Activism Group <a href="11,%2012">/B</a>
-Founder & Chair
**City Waste/Recycling Department <a href="10,%2011,%2012">/B</a>
-Unpaid Intern
**Green Team<a href="9,%2010,%2011,%2012">/B</a>
-President (12)</p>

<p>Other: I dance, do photography, and play the guitar and piano. In terms of academics, besides writing and science, I also love history and linguistics. </p>

<p>Volunteer Work:
I will have accumulated roughly 500 hours of service by the time I apply.
-Environmental-related volunteer work (9, 10, 11, 12)
-Tutor to low-income children (11, 12)
-Friend to autistic children (10)</p>

<p>Awards & Achievements: (I only mention significant ones)
Wrote an award-winning children's book
Earned 2 Scholastic National Gold Writing Awards (Novel & Memoir)
Published in Scholastic's annual anthology, Best Teen Writers of 2010
Won a prestigious national writing competition (Creative Nonfiction)
Winner of the CT Young Writers Competition
2nd place in Siemens National Sustainability Challenge
Finalist in an international environmental project competition
Developed a composting program utilized by all of my district's schools and parks
Winner of the 2010 Green Cup Challenge
Winner of an environmental science paper competition - Presented at the U.N's Annual Commission on Sustainable Development</p>

<p>Summers:
Freshman: Unpaid intern at a local television and film production company
Sophomore: Unpaid intern with my city's waste and recycling department
Junior: Unpaid intern at the Museum of Natural History (I worked on a biological diversity project) and attended the Iowa Young Writers' Studio</p>

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<p>Oh, and I’d like to add that the lowest grade on my transcript is a B.</p>

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<p>I really hope that you pushed yourself to be this qualified for college, and not your parents.</p>

<p>Also, why did you take so many SATIIs?</p>

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<p>My parents actually tried to dissuade me from working so hard, so yes, everything that I have achieved is a result of my self-motivation.</p>

<p>I wanted to show colleges my ability in various subjects.</p>

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<p>I would guess that you would be accepted by UVA and rejected by the rest. GPA looks too low.</p>

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<p>I think you could probably get into UVA, Middlebury and probably Dartmouth, but the GPA is too low for Yale. And 7 APs in four years may not be enough, unless that is the most your school offers. Make sure you write a very interesting essay that doesn’t regurgitate this resum</p>

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<p>I would say Midd is a reach but doable as is UVA, but D and Y are very high reaches.</p>

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<p>Ninahalty: Yes, I’ve taken more APs than most students at my school. I was offered no APs in my freshman and sophomore years and the recommended maximum is 3 in one year.</p>

<p>Great, thanks for your replies. I wasn’t expecting Yale to be in my cards anyway…</p>

<p>Just wondering, is my only weakness my GPA?</p>

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<p>Rank is the most important factor in admissions. At Dartmouth for example, over 40% of admits were top 2 in their high school class. This is the majority of the unhooked. The 33 would be an acceptable score if everything else was stellar, but with a below top rank and coming from the NE, it won’t help.</p>

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<p>Okay. So, would you recommend that I work on raising my ACT score? </p>

<p>Also, would you recommend applying RD to my reach schools so that they can see my 1st semester senior year grades?</p>

<p>Oh, and I didn’t mention that my school is #60/100 on the feeder list. </p>

<p>My rank is UW - Does this matter? I mean, if it was weighted, my rank would be much higher.</p>

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<p>Most likely acceptance at UVA and Middlebury.</p>

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<p>Thank you for your opinion, rOadTo3b. </p>

<p>Anyone else? </p>

<p>An additional piece of info: My intended major is environmental studies.</p>

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<p>A higher ACT will help tip you into Midd and UVA, the ivies will remain tough with any score due to rank.</p>

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<p>Okay, thank you!</p>

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<p>What the heck, people?!
She wrote an AWARD-WINNING book!
Brainsparkle, you will get into Yale.
And no, 4.0-2400-obsessed nerd, you will NOT get into Yale.</p>