<p>SAT: 1920 ACT: 27 (Awaiting new scores, just took the October exam)</p>
<p>By the end of senior year I will have taken 12 AP classes, 12 honors classes, and 1 dual enrollment course.</p>
<p>Senior Year Courses:
Journalism (Required)
AP Calculus AB
AP English Lit
AP Government/AP Macroeconomics
Personal Financial Planning, Honors (Required, I'm a Business student at my school)
AP Statistics </p>
<p>Awards/Achievements:
Business Honor Society
FBLA - 1st Accounting I and II @ District Level
FBLA - Top 10 Accounting I @ State Level
AP Scholar
Girls State Delegate 2012
Intern @ U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
AP Scholar with Honor
National Honor Society
Treasurer of FBLA Chapter</p>
<p>I also have around 700 community service hours.</p>
<p>If you could chance me for any of the following:
University of Washington - Seattle
University of Puget Sound
Seattle University
University of Portland
Carleton College
Macalester College
University of Miami</p>
<p>UWA: Reach
U Puget Sound: Low match
Seattle U: Low match
U Portland: Match
Carleton College: Reach
Macalester College: Reach
U Miami: High match</p>
<p>I think that University of Miami gets so many applications for Miami area students it may put you behind the eight ball. I believe the fact that your other schools are so far from your home state it may work in your favor. I believe the strength of your essay wil make puget and seattle more feasible.</p>
<p>Cindysellsindy noticed that I am in fact from FL and like she said perhaps it will help me in my Midwest/Pacific Northwest college selections. Anyone else who can add input to that?</p>
<p>I’m also multiethnic (White/African American) and pretty confident that I have amazing and memorable essays.</p>
<p>I don’t know if any of this information raises my chances?</p>
<p>For the most part, I agree with Catria. However, I believe that UWA is a mid to high match, but not a reach. It had an acceptance rate of 58% in 2011, so I believe you can get into it, especially considering you are a URM. In addition, you have clearly taken a difficult course load and have an acceptable amount of EC’s. </p>
<p>Your community service hours are fantastic! If you haven’t written your personal statement yet, I’d choose a topic related to your community service. It’d be a great way to draw attention to it!
In my opinion, you have a good chance of getting into all of these schools. Your standardized test scores could be a bit better. Just make sure you present yourself well in the essays, and you should be fine!
Your GPA could also be an important factor (I don’t think you have it listed), but you’ve taken difficult classes, so I’m sure that will be taken into account.</p>
<p>Low reaches at Carleton and Macalester? Really?! How so?</p>
<p>I’ve already written my personal statement. It’s a very unique experience that I’m almost positive not many people will have though it isn’t about my community service. It’s very personal and I worked on it for around 6 months, I think it’s the selling point of my application. For UW I will be using a few community service projects for my Journal of Activities. </p>
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<p>If admitted I am guaranteed 100% tuition. Would that hurt me because they want someone else’s money?</p>
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<p>Not sure what they consider a high income? One parent is unemployed, the other makes between $60,000-$80,000. How does that look to them?</p>
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<p>It is listed, but it is very low. </p>
<p>I’ve chanced back everyone who had a thread!</p>
<p>University of Washington - Seattle: High match if you can pay for everything because they need money!
University of Puget Sound- I’d say this is borderline low match/match, you’ll probably be in
Seattle University- Same with Puget Sound
University of Portland-Not sure
Carleton College-Not sure
Macalester College-Reach
University of Miami- Borderline low reach/high match. Heavily depends on what your new act score will be!</p>
