Chance me for my favorite schools.... I will chance back.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Race: Asian
Gender: Female
Location: Alabama
SAT: 2040 (630 CR, 730 M, 680 W) on first time; will take again
haven't taken SATIIs yet</p>

<p>GPA: 3.67 unweighted, 4.5 weighted (hardest course load)
Rank: 1/~400 (my school ranks everyone with 4.0+ GPA as number 1)
Hook: unique extracurriculars?</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
~ 4 years of policy debate-- first in the district in 2008, National tournament qualified (competed in Las Vegas), Quarter finalist and octafinalist at 2 national tournaments, First place at the Samford Institute tournament, several speaker awards</p>

<p>~ In 2008, I single handedly founded an international literary and art magazine which has published works from people from all across the US, Sweden, Canada, etc. It has received around 10,000 readers. I'm also currently the editor-in-chief. I've also designed and maintained the website for the magazine.</p>

<p>~ In late 2008/ 2009, single handedly founded an online organization that encourages people of all ages to engage in hobbies that will make their lives more meaningful. It has members who's shared their success stories from all across the U.S. I've designed and maintained the website for the organization.</p>

<p>~ 10 poems/photography published in 8 international literary and art magazines. Each have about a 20% acceptance rate.
~ Established website where I sell my photography, and have had pretty good income in place of a job.</p>

<p>~ Co-president of the AI club in our high school for 3 years. During my co-president years, the club has won the "best interest club" award from our high school.
~ I helped establish another club in our school during Sophomore and Junior year. I'm currently the co-vice president of that club, and it has more than 100 members.</p>

<p>~ Piano for 6 years-- state champion in 2007, honorable mention in state in 2008, district winner for 3 years (fresh-junior), winner of sonata competition in 2007, consistently invited to play in private recitals, etc.</p>

<p>~ I've volunteered at a selective Science center, the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America. I have over 500 hours of community service.
~ I've worked in a lab at a state university over the summer.
~ I've attended 2 national debate institutes over the summer
~Attended a selective Youth Leadership camp during summer 2008</p>

<p>~National Merit Commendable 2008
~Member of the Spanish Honor Society
~Member of National Honor Society
~Member of Mu Alpha Theta, a national mathematics honor society.</p>

<p>Schools I'm applying to:
UChicago
Duke (ED)
UMiami
UPittsburgh (out of state)
UWisconsin-Madison (out of state)
Wake Forest
Oxford at Emory
Tulane
Washington University in St. Louis
Northwestern</p>

<p>Do you think I have enough safeties/matches? Or should I add some "easier" schools to my list? Thanks!</p>

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<p>I think that you would have enough matches if you brought up your SAT a little, but your ECs are phenomenal. Maybe a 100-200 point boost overall will make all of these schools between matches and safeties. In order of easiest to hardest:</p>

<p>UMiami
Pitt
Tulane
Wisconsin
Oxford at Emory
Wake
Duke ED
Northwestern
UChicago
WashU</p>

<p>Note that probably several people will make their own corrections to that list in due time.</p>

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<p>Wow. Those ECs are impressive. In at Miami, Pitt, Wisconsin, and Tulane. Don’t know much about Oxford at Emory. Wake is a match/ high match. The rest are low/mid reaches. Chicago puts a ton of weight on the essays, so you will have a good shot there with a good essay.</p>

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<p>Also-- do you think my out-of-state status will make admissions harder for me when applying to UPitt and UWisconsin-Madison?</p>

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<p>truly amazed at your ECs, i think theyll really help you for those private colleges</p>

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<p>Thanks! anyone else?</p>

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<p>Are you a junior?? If so, try to raise your scores ad you will have a much better chance of acceptance at your schools. </p>

<p>UChicago- high match (due to your literary magazine and if you write a KILLER essay)
Duke (ED)- reach (raise your scores and it may be a low reach)
UMiami- match
UPittsburgh (out of state)- match
UWisconsin-Madison (out of state)- match
Wake Forest- high match
Oxford at Emory- match
Tulane- match
Washington University in St. Louis- reach
Northwestern- reach (raise your scores–low reach)</p>

<p>If you raise your scores, you have a great shot of acceptance everywhere.</p>

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<p>You’ll have no problem at Pittsburgh.</p>

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<p>hey , those EC’s are just amazing…
I think they will put you in good position to get in at some of those schools</p>

<p>Out of all those, Northwestern will be the toughest</p>

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<p>Hopefully you’re doing a liberal arts major that involves writing?</p>

<p>If you are, you already have a good shot at most all of these schools. Also, unlike the other forumers, I think that Wake forest is a match, not a reach, due to their SAT policy.</p>

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<p>youll probably get into all of those because of your ECs, but you should get more safeties just to be sure you go somewhere cuz those are all pretty selective schools</p>

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<p>Wow. Very Impressive with the ECs.
Very competitive schools, but you’ve got a very good chance with all of them.
The only thing I can suggest is that you try and bring up your SAT in CR just a bit.</p>

<p>Duke- Low Reach
Chicago- Low Reach</p>

<p>The others are all matches.</p>

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<p>Actually, I’m going into biology… Photography/journalism will be my minor though.</p>

<p>Will that hurt my chances?</p>

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<p>you’re probably in at all of them, including u of chicago
duke will be a reach as it is for everyone else!
your lack of sat2s and a strong UW GPA might make it harder to get into Duke, but your ECs might help you get over the edge!
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<p>I think you have a strong chance at most if not all of your choices. Good luck!</p>

<p>I’m curious. what makes a piano “state champion”?</p>

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<p>bdl108,
My state has a state competition every year. There is first a districts round, where they pick those with potential to go on to state. From the state level, they will pick a few people in each division as winners.</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>Also, I have to add that I’ve received all (except one) of my Bs during sophomore year. It’s because my dad got into a lawsuit and that nearly tore my family apart. My mom fell into depression, and I was so stressed out about the whole thing that all I wanted to do was escape from the world, so I started to majorly focus on photography and literature to release stress. Naturally, my grades were horrible.</p>

<p>I’m toying with the idea of basing my essay on how literature and photography was a venue of emotional release for my family problems in addition to asking my school counselor to make a not of it. Is this a good idea, or will that make me sound too whiny? Or should a counselor’s note alone take care of it?</p>

<p>Also, do you think it’ll let colleges look at my sophomore year grades less harshly (I received 5 Bs in a row and only 2 As)? Thanks!</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>UChicago- very slight reach
Duke (ED)- normal reach
UMiami- match
UPittsburgh (out of state)- match
UWisconsin-Madison (out of state)- match
Wake Forest- match
Oxford at Emory- match
Tulane- match
Washington University in St. Louis- reach
Northwestern- reach</p>