Chance me for next year Reed?

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<p>Class Rank: 120/754
UW GPA: 3.5866
W GPA: 3.98 with very strong upward trend (went from an F freshman year to all A's in 4 AP's by Junior year)
Without Freshman year counting: 4.3066 W
SAT: 700M 800W 750 CR 2250 total
SAT II: 710 Lit 760 USH
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Income: ~50,000
State: TX
Single parent
Desired Major: English</p>

<p>ECs and Volunteering:
10 hour a week job tutoring at Kumon
I'm president of the recycling / humanitarian club at my school, 2 years and member for 1 year (adopted a house for habitat for humanity also)
I'm founder and president of my school's Gay Straight Alliance, 2 years, raised money for local LGBT homeless youth shelter
I've been a member of Young Democrats for 3 years, president for 1 and historian for another year.
I'm the Vice President of my school district's pilot team for a new district initiative that is in charge of making all energy conservation policies for my school and for the district overall. Changes we've made have saved the district about 1.25 million so far (2 years)
Volunteer hours are about 150, many at the downtown shelter for homeless Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender youth
Attended summer program run by U of H and Rice where I spent 6 weeks M-F 10-6 analyzing literature.
Member of Science National Honor Society 1 year
Member of National Honor Society 1 year
Member of our school's Peer to Peer tutoring program 2 years
French Club Vice President for 1 year, member for 3 years
Member of Spelling and Vocabulary UIL team (placed at regionals for individual)
Newspaper Copy Editor</p>

<p>Hooks (? possibly): LGBT with LGBT single parent</p>

<p>AP Scores and Courses:
WHAP - 4
APUSH - 5
English Lang - 5
Chemistry - 4
Human Geography - 5</p>

<p>Will be taking sr. year:</p>

<p>French IV AP
Gov / Eco AP
Newspaper
English Lit AP
Stat. AP
Euro History AP
P.E.</p>

<p>Here's my transcript.
Format (Semester 1, Semester 2)</p>

<p>Freshman Year
English Honors(B,A)
World Geography Honors (B,A)
French 1 (C,D)
PACE (required credit by state) (B)
Health (B)
Biology Honors (B,B)
Comp Sci Honors (C,F)
Algebra 1 (B,B)</p>

<p>Sophomore Year
English 2 Honors (B,A)
Geometry (B,B)
Chemistry 1 Honors (A,A)
Child Development (A)
Principles of Education and Training (A)
French 2 (A,A)
Photography (A,B)
World History AP (A,A)</p>

<p>Junior Year
English Lang (A,A)
APUSH (A,A)
Algebra 2 (A,A)
Chemistry AP (A,A)
French 3 Honors (A,A)
Human Geography AP (A,A)
Physics 1 Honors (B,B)</p>

<p>Not entirely sure how I should apply either. Does ED help my chances a lot?
Thank you!</p>

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<p>Applying ED does help (do this ONLY and ONLY if you know Reed is your top choice school. A visit would be helpful), but it’s OK to apply RD… you seem like a very strong applicant. GPA doesn’t matter to Reed. The transcript and the rigor of your courses, in the context of your school, do though. Just ensure your ‘Why Reed?’ essay is great. LGBT is not a hook.</p>

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<p>You look like a strong applicant! </p>

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<p>Ed does help your chances as well</p>

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<p>Reed is need aware, although they do meet full need.
First gen college would be a bigger hook than LGBT, as long as you could afford your EFC.
Texas is attractive though.</p>

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<p>Glad to see your French improved!</p>

<p>Chance me threads don’t really tell you anything, since Reed like many selective schools doesn’t have formulaic acceptance benchmarks (after a certain point, a point you’ll probably make). If you need a lot of FA that might hurt your chances, but yeah ED has a higher acceptance rate (though I don’t recommend applying ED just because you want to up your chances of getting in).</p>

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<p>Your record is very strong, but I see a red flag: “Comp Sci Honors (C,F)” What the holy cow did you do? If you just screwed up, that’s one thing. If you tried to hack the school’s computer and improve that D in French, you have another issue to deal with. If I’m looking at this record, I’m having honor code concerns, and I think you should be up front about where that F came from. </p>

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<p>@analogcadaver Why take AP Statistics as a senior with just Algebra 2? It would be much better to have precalculus so that you are sufficiently prepared to take calculus in college. Job prospects for English majors are not good. Many would-be college English majors choose instead economics or more practical majors and take literature electives to satisfy their interests. Without precalculus, you are eliminating possible majors such as economics or even chemistry, where you show strength. You can always pick up statistics in college at a higher level than a AP course. Precalculus is something to be completed in high school. In my opinion, having precalculus instead of statistics makes you a stronger candidate especially when you are applying for FA.</p>

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<p>I plan on taking Foreign Language at Reed to satisfy my math distribution. I want to go into English for sure, no doubts about it. I don’t plan on going anywhere near Chemistry after college. I don’t plan on taking Calculus in college.</p>