Chance me? :) - Georgetown, Ivies, Lehigh, BU, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi, I’m currently stressing to the max because I’m not that great academically. I’m an Asian-American Junior.

My weighted GPA is a 4.2…
Taking the SAT in March, but more than confident that it’ll be at least a 1500.

Taking 4 AP’s this year, 4 next year (10 tests in total):

Junior:
-AP Language + Composition
-AP US History
-AP Physics 1
-AP Psychology

Senior:
-AP Macro and Micro Economics
-AP Government and Politics
-AP Literature + Composition
-AP Environmental Science

Confident in getting 4-5’s on all of them except for physics.

EC’s:

-Vice President of Debate
-Outreach Officer + Treasurer of an Equality Club
-Student Liaison for Township Council’s Economic Development Committee
-Student Intern at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
-Winner of Debate Camp (not giving name for privacy) last summer
-Varsity Debater, constantly breaking at local tournaments and most recently at the national Harvard Debate Tournament
-Just got accepted into an Economics program at Cornell this summer.
-Contributing author to school newspaper, editor for school’s literary magazine.
-In like 5 orchestras: normal school one, select ensemble, symphonic, pit orchestra (for school play), New Jersey Symphony Youth Orchestra.
-I coach/teach both forensics and violin at the middle school on a weekly basis.
-Into graphic design since 12, currently working on commission from an actual company + website while designing products
-Restaurant Hostess
-Played violin w/ a group at gigs such as weddings or just as volunteer
-Library mentor

Additional Notes:
-I’m pretty good at writing essays; that’s how I got into a prestigious economics program where others with much higher stats did not.
-I’m pretty bad at math.
-Been pretty much all over the world.
-NHS and NEHS

Mainly interested in economics or political science. Really into the social sciences. My grades are pretty average… any advice and what are my chances?

Looking primarily at:
Georgetown University (main one, probably applying ED)
Boston University
NYU
Rutgers
Lehigh
Cornell
UPenn

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What is your UW GPA? also hard to say without having an actual SAT score yet. I think if you manage to score 1500+ then all the schools on your list apart from the ivies would be matches.

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Around around 3.5 /:

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@Rosaellie oh then I d say the Ivies are ultra reaches, probably almost completely out of reach. What is your rank? Georgetown is also a reach with that GPA. The rest should be matches.

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What courses brought the gpa down?

You have an interesting array of ECs If you work to understand what Gtown, Cornell and Penn look for, you can make an interesting app/supp. A lot of kids have some sort of community liaison position. If yours is just show up and be there, you may want to add something that gives you some poli sci or advocacy experience in your community.

Also, you noted the AP courses but are you still getting foreign language and the rigorous math and other sciences? APES isn’t generally considered the same or as rigorous. Nor is AP psych.

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Geometry and Bio in freshman year were my lowest grades.

I take Spanish, but I’m probably dropping it next year. I get great grades in it though and already received the seal of biliteracy.