chance me for my reaches - female URM skipped grade

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>if you are busy, just please chance me for STANFORD (TOP choice) thankyou</p>

<p>*GENERAL *</p>

<p>Graduation date: June 2010 (coll. class of 2014)
Demographics: Female, African-American
High School: Public, few HYPSM, middle class suburban
State: New Jersey
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>

<p>ACADEMICS</p>

<p>GPA: </p>

<p>-98.3/100 (weighted)
-92/100 (unweighted)</p>

<p>Courses Taken</p>

<p>-Sciences: Honors Biology - Honors Chem - Geophys CP - Honors Physics - AP Biology</p>

<p>-History: World History CP - US History CP - APUSH - Replaced Hist. w/ an extra elective senior year.</p>

<p>-English: Honors English I-III, AP Lang & Comp</p>

<p>-Math: Honors Geometry - Honors Algebra II - Honors Math Analysis - AP Calc AB</p>

<p>-Language: Latin 4 years (Isn't that unqiue?)</p>

<p>Scores</p>

<p>-SAT I: (CR-M-W) 800-660-640 (2100 total)</p>

<p>-AP Tests: APUSH (Probably a 3)
[Next year, May 2010, I'm taking: AP Bio, AP Calc AB]</p>

<p>-SAT Subject Tests: Math II, US History, Latin (All taking in June & October 09)</p>

<p>ECs</p>

<p>-Significant Extracurriculars: </p>

<p>**Volleyball 3 years including club, </p>

<p>NHS 2 years**, </p>

<p>Science Honors Society, </p>

<p>**Latin Honors Society, </p>

<p>Red Cross Club, </p>

<p>Viola 3 years**, </p>

<p>Student Council, Class Cabinet 3 years, Travel Club 2 years, Interact 1 year</p>

<p>-Leadership positions: </p>

<p>Peer Mentoring 2 years, </p>

<p>Red Cross Club VP 1 year, </p>

<p>A community program for african american teens 4 years (we dont know a name for it yet.), </p>

<p>Latin Honors Society (I'll be President or Vice President, it will be figured out in September.)</p>

<p>-Volunteering: </p>

<p>40 hours at local library, </p>

<p>At least 40 hours this summer helping autistic kids.</p>

<p>-Honors and Awards: </p>

<p>Paul Robeson Award in Renaissance 2008,</p>

<p>Maxima Cum Laude in 2007 National Latin Exam, </p>

<p>Magna Cum Laude in 2009 National Latin Exam</p>

<p>"hooks"
*URM
*first-generation immigrant
*i should be a HS sophomore, cuz i turned 16 in december.</p>

<p>chance me for
MY REACH SCHOOLS...
...
Stanford (TOP CHOICE)
Georgetown
Rice
Duke
Johns Hopkins
...
please?</p>

<p>peace, x's, o's,
junie</p>

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<p>I forgot to add:</p>

<p>The bolded ECs are my principal ECs, as in, I spend a lot of time on them.</p>

<p>Some additional criteria taken from <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/451582-how-improve-chances-chances-threads-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/451582-how-improve-chances-chances-threads-2.html&lt;/a&gt; :
Class Rank - It hasn’t been released yet, but I’m sure I’m in the top 20% out of 500 kids.
Senior Year Course Load: AP Biology, AP Lang & Comp, AP Calculus AB, String Orchestra II (skipping I), Latin IV
Talent - I am talented at volleyball or so I’d like to think. Or is that an EC?</p>

<p>Level of interest - Stanford, as I said before, is my TOP choice. it’s got volleyball, it’s got a great liberal education, its got an overseas campus in KYOTO, Japan, it’s got California sun.</p>

<p>Strengths: SAT Scores, Classes, Hooks, My essays (I am a persuasive essay writer)
Weaknesses: (possibly) Class Rank, GPA, ECs</p>

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<p>very strong candidate. to be honest, just dont screw anything up, keep up this work and you have a great shot at stanford. 800 CR is very impressive :)</p>

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<p>you will have a strong application if you have good essays and recommendations… just make sure you don’t say you are a URM on it (that would look very bad). … keep in mind your reaches have very low acceptance rates… the one thing I would do to improve it is to raise your SAT score… a 2100 is slightly at Stanford, but not impossible.</p>

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<p>You’re black, so you have a solid chance.</p>

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<p>thanks NW, myth, dave.</p>

<p>Myth - cool advice, thanks!</p>

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<p>its a bit shrewd but because you are African American with good grade, you have a great chance of being accepted to all the schools are you applying to.</p>