Chance me! Low GPA decent SATs, no Ivy Leagues or anything.....check it out!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi everybody.
I am a senior, female, from California but live in North Carolina and attend a New England Boarding school....</p>

<p>GPA: 2.9, upward trend....it's that low because of my freshman year grades from public school, after transferring to my more difficult but more supportive boarding school I have well above a 3.0.
I'm applying as an English major, not really a math person. My grades in humanities courses are mostly A's and a couple of B's since freshman year. </p>

<p>SATs: 1990 (I just retook them to score higher in math but don't have my scores back yet)
CR: 800
Math: 490
Writing: 700</p>

<p>SAT II (I only took one, pretty dumb of me)
Literature: 800</p>

<p>School: Private, boarding, big focus on sustainability and community, very good education and very little grade inflation</p>

<p>Recs: excellent recs from 3 teachers and 1 college counselor who know me very well.</p>

<p>ECs:
soccer for four years, varsity for three
National Honor Society
Lots of international community service-travelled to vietnam, cambodia, and thailand to work with clusterbomb and landmine victims and worked on a documentary film crew there, went to Norway to do PR for the film and attend an international conference on cluster munitions.
Lots of local community service as well, mostly with preschool age children
Worked at a preschool in the summer
Student Body Secretary
Founded a Student run Literary Magazine at my school
Accepted to and attended New England Young Writer's conference at Breadloaf
Lots of random clubs--China Care Club (I will be running it when the real president leaves to do a senior project in March), Multi-cultural diversity club, fencing club, blah blah blah....
Tons of outdoorsy athletic stuff through my school, hiking, camping rockclimbing all that sort of stuff, also some community service trips. </p>

<p>Essay: Pretty good, I think. Writing is one of my strong points. </p>

<p>Schools (lots of reaches, don't laugh! haha)
Boston U
U Vermont
UNC Asheville
Beloit
Earlham (Had a good interview here!)
Mount Holyoke (good interview)
Washington College (good interview, alumni relationship)
Wheaton College MA
Saint Michael's in Vermont
Lewis and Clark
Emmanuel College MA
Bennington
University of Redlands</p>

<p>Chance me for a couple of those--please!! Thank you very much, I'll chance back if you give me the link.</p>

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<p>ohh pff and I forgot that I've been doing movie reviews on the radio since I was 12, and a (bad) poem of mine got published in something called Teen Ink....</p>

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<p>oh, and my school doesn't offer AP or honors courses (all courses are up to 'honors' standards so they say) but I am planning to take the AP english test in may.</p>

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<p>Please chance, I will chance back for sure.</p>

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<p>You have SICK NASTY literature and reading scores!! GOOD JOB :)
I don't know ALL your schools, but I'd say
BU: considerable chance. only thing would be GPA
Wheaton: reach
U Vermont: taregt
UNC: target
Washington College: could go either way because of alumni relationships. They can play a big role sometimes.</p>

<p>I don't really know much about the other schools. GOOD LUCK THOUGH!!!</p>

<p>chance me back?</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot! Do you have a link to your thread?</p>