Chance me! I will chance back!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Race: Middle-Eastern (Kurdish)
Gender: Female
I go to a International School (Private school - very small, 250+ students)
Prospective Majors: Neuroscience </p>

<p>GPA: 4.27</p>

<p>All IB Clases:
(IB Diploma Candidate)</p>

<p>Not going to list 9th and 10th grade classes</p>

<p>Junior year:</p>

<p>HL Chemistry
HL Biology
HL Math
SL Anthropology
SL French A
SL English A</p>

<p>ACT: 30 (first time taking with no practice)
but have gotten 33-35 on practice tests afterwards</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:</p>

<p>Bio M: 760
French (reading only): 770
Chem: 710
Literature (probably not going to send): 690</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<ul>
<li>Active member of the United Way Board of Directors - youth intern (9th-11th), have organized fundraiser around my school for it ($1000+), participated in important board decisions</li>
<li>MUN (9th-11th) (President) - Best Delegate Award and Distinguished Delegate</li>
<li>Timmy Club (9th-11th) (President) - community and service club that raises money for kids in South America - I'm one of the leaders of the club; help to arrange most of the events, very active --> I got to go on a 2 week service to the Dominican Republic to help communities</li>
<li>Technical Director of Crew for 2 musicals and 1 play (9th-10th grade)</li>
<li>VEX Robotics Club (10th -11th) - co-president; we won city championships last year and went to the world competitions</li>
<li>GSA Club (10th -11th grade)</li>
<li>WorldQuest Club (President) </li>
<li>Volunteered and raised money for TEDxIndianapolis and TEDxYouth ($5,000), helped with decision making</li>
<li>Worked in a neurology lab this summer that specializes in panic disorder, and I will work there again this summer. Next year, I will submit my paper to Siemens. The paper we published is going to be in Nature Medicine, I will be listed in the acknowledgements</li>
<li>I've done a lot of selective summer programs: Nanotechnology Camp at IUPUI, GERI (Gifted Education Resource Institute) Camp at Purdue, EDGE Camp at Purdue (Girls Engineering Camp)</li>
<li>School on Wheels - (10th) Tutoring homeless children</li>
<li>I have over 1,200 hours of community service (for real)</li>
</ul>

<p>Awards (excluding the ones I mentioned above)
- Indiana Federation of Music Club Junior Festival 2012 – Regionals for Piano: Superior (Playing Test), Superior (Theory Test)
- Invited to Indiana State Honors Recital 2012 for Piano
- Community and Service Award – 9th grade
- High Honor Roll and High Honor Board 9th-10th-11th grade (each semester)
- Carson Scholarship recipient
- French and Humanities Award at my school
- Siemens Semi-finalist</p>

<p>And I'm fluent in 4 languages (French, Spanish, English, Turkish)</p>

<p>These are the school I'm thinking about applying to:</p>

<p>Harvard
Brown
Pomona
UC Berkley
BU
Purdue
Northeastern
UChicago
UCLA
Stanford
John Hopkins</p>

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<p>Harvard: Reach
Brown: Reach
Pomona: Reach
UC Berkley: Reach
BU: Low match/Match
Purdue: Low match
Northeastern: Match/High match
UChicago: Reach
UCLA: High match
Stanford: Reach
John Hopkins: Reach</p>

<p>Is your safety in your home country?</p>

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<p>The US is my home country @Catria‌ </p>

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<p>Also, should I take Math II as a subject test? </p>

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<p>Harvard: reach
Brown : reach
Pomona : reach
Berkley : match
BU: match
Purdue: match
Northeastern :match
UChicago : reach
UCLA: match
Stanford: reach
JHU : reach </p>

<p>Chance me back <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1671552-chance-for-a-few-schools.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1671552-chance-for-a-few-schools.html#latest&lt;/a&gt; </p>

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<p>Do not listen to ^ U CHICAGO is not a safety for anyone. It’s a reach for u and everyone else</p>

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<p>Yikes typo my bad </p>

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<p>All reaches except pomona, purdue, bu, UCLA and MAYBE berkeley (might be high match), fairly ambitious list.</p>

<p>Pomona, Purdue, BU are very solid matches/safeties though!</p>

<p>You have strong EC’s and a compelling background (international, middle-eastern) that could work in your favor if you play your cards right. You’re academics are passable (esp with that ACT score) but some of your awards make up for it (Siemens). Have you looked at Liberal Arts? </p>

<p>Please chance me back!
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1671578-chance-an-unspectacular-asian.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1671578-chance-an-unspectacular-asian.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Once you raise your ACT score, I think you’re going to have an even better chance at all these schools!
All of the Ivies are hard to chance because they are reaches for everyone, but you are definitely a competitive applicant. Best of luck to you!</p>

<p>Harvard: Reach
Brown: Reach
Pomona: Match
UC Berkley: High Match
BU: Low Match
Purdue: Low Match
Northeastern: Match
UChicago: Reach/High Match
UCLA: High match
Stanford: Reach
John Hopkins: Reach</p>

<p>Chance back? <a href=“http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1670335-chance-me.html#latest”>http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1670335-chance-me.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Also I forgot:</p>

<p>I won the Best Poster (and a $100) at the Indiana Physiological Society Conference </p>

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<p>And I took the AP French Language test and I got a 5</p>

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<p>@dreamer1997 You seem to confuse Pomona and Cal Poly Pomona; Cal Poly Pomona is, yes, a safety, but Pomona is a reach much like Stanford is.</p>

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<p>Hello? Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Harvard: reach
Brown : reach
Pomona : reach
Berkley : match
BU: safety
Purdue: safety
Northeastern :match
UChicago : reach
UCLA: match
Stanford: reach
JHU : high match</p>

<p>chance back on this thread please!!! im on the bottom of page 107
<a href=“***The official University of Michigan Chances Thread:*** - #1591 by billcsho - University of Michigan - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/439792-the-official-university-of-michigan-chances-thread-p107.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Harvard:high reach
Brown :high reach
Pomona : match
Berkley : low reach
BU: match
Purdue: match
Northeastern :match
UChicago : low reach
UCLA: match
Stanford: high reach
JHU : high reach
You might want to try taking the SAT as well as the ACT. The fact that you do go to an international school could help you and your ECs are great. I think if you have a reflective personal statement it would really boost you past people with higher test scores and AP/IB classes.
Chance me back <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1671686-chance-me-for-a-chance-back.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1671686-chance-me-for-a-chance-back.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>@oystershelleatme: could you clarify

  1. are you a US citizen/permanent resident (this greatly affects your chances)
  2. what is your unweighted GPA?</p>

<p>My initial impression, assuming

  • your unweighted GPA is strong (which I cannot conclude from the stats you posted)
  • you are not applying as an international student
  • you follow through on improving your ACT score
  • your recommendations, essays, and interviews are strong
    is that you would have an excellent chance at any of these schools, including Harvard. Don’t overlook the last one - interviews, recommendations, and essays often go unmentioned in so many these threads but are critical to a successful application.</p>
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<p>@BldrDad‌

  1. I am a dual citizen with both Turkish and US citizenship, so no I am not an international student
  2. My school is an all IB school, so our GPA scale is very different and there’s no definite maximum or minimum because it depends on the difficulty of classes you take</p>

<p>I think my essays will be pretty good, and I’m comfortable in interviews.
I’m just worried about my test scores that I know will improve but still…</p>