Chance Me!!!! Georgetown, Princeton, Yale, UPenn, Brown, Amherst

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi everyone! I am a senior in high school hoping to get into a competitive school this spring. I listed the colleges that I applied RD to (not including back ups) and I wanted to hear what you guys think my chances are? I’m really nervous! I ESPECIALLY want to go to Georgetown, Yale, or UPenn. I visited all of them at least once or twice and really loved it! Thanks for ANY comments to give me! I really appreciate it!!! :wink:

Chance me—Georgetown, Princeton, Yale, UPenn, Brown, Amherst

My prospective major International Relations/Political science

Demographics:

  • White female
  • reputable private school on east coast
  • need financial aid for college and high school
  • Upper middle class

Academics:

  • GPA Unweighted: 3.9
  • GPA Weighted: 4.4
  • SAT 1400 superscore—taken 2x
  • Gov SAT subject test–790, English SAT test-780, Math 2-770
  • All possible honors classes 9-12th grade— most rigorous course load possible
  • 11th grade APs: AP world history, AP Chem, ( score: 5 and 4)
  • 12th grade APs: AP Spanish, AP Lit , AP AB Calc, AP Gov ( score 4, 5, 4, 5)
    (I could only take AP classes 11th and 12th grade)
  • My school doesn’t have a ranking system but I am definitely in the top 5% of a 150 student class

Extracurriculars:
4 years- Robotics team: I do coding for the team and the team has made worlds 2x, has won a couple awards
4 years- Mentoring deaf children in robotics through a school program
2 years- Drone operator for the robotics team
4 years- Model UN member (captain for 2), went to national competition x4
4 years- Newspaper (editor for 3)
Worked on two local political campaigns
Worked at a camp for homeless children for 5 summers
Worked at a camp teaching robotics to kids for 4 summers
Service trip to Honduras with my church one time
Two of my articles were published in my local newspaper
I am a beginner in Russian through summer programs
Tennis team for 3 years (JV for 2, V for 1)
4 years- Attended Mid Atlantic Regional Diversity Conference (student facilitator for 2 years)
3 years- Attended Diversity conference at my school (student facilitator for 3 years)

Awards:

  • around 5 school issued (4 academic and 1 sport)
  • 2 scholastic writing awards (silver key at regional level and 1 bronze at national level)
  • 2 model UN awards at national conference and 2 at school conference

Recommendations:

  • very good recommendations from my AP world history teacher,
  • Very good recommendation from my Dean of Students,
  • Good recommendation from the local congressman I volunteered for
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You have a very low SAT score for the colleges you applied to. However, everything else seems fine.

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I don’t think there is a subject test for US Government. USH yes-perhaps you meant that.

Also I’m assuming that those 12th grade AP scores are hypothetical.

GPA is fine but SAT 1 is too low. Subject scores if correct look good.

Should have tried some less reach schools such as American and George Washington.

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Hi! Thanks for the comments! I would like to clear up a couple mistakes I made in my post. The AP scores are what I got on practice tests so yes they are hypothetical but I am pretty confident in them. Sorry!

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Extracurriculars are great, very diverse and respectable.
Decent amount of awards, SAT is low, good GPA
Overall looks fine except for SAT.