Chance Me Please?

Colleges and Universities A-Z American University
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<p>Here are my stats:</p>

<p>If I apply I will apply as an international relations major.</p>

<p>Gpa: 3.5 unweighted 4.25 weighted
ACT : 35 English 32 math 31 reading 26 science Composite :31</p>

<p>rank Top 15% out of 800 students</p>

<p>school is nationally ranked.</p>

<p>I know my gpa is awful but I have gottten straight As the past 3 semesters( I didn’t really try my best freshman/ beggining of sophomore year)</p>

<p>Junior year schedule:</p>

<p>Spanish
AP CALC
AP PSYCH
PHYSICS
AP ENGLISH
AP USH
AP COMP SCI</p>

<p>ANTICIPATED SENIOR YEAR SCEHDULE:
AP SPANISH
AP CALC
AP ENGLISH
AP GOV/AP ECON
AP BIO
Chinese </p>

<p>Extracurriculars</p>

<p>Model UN (president) member since sophomore year
Class executive board member since sophomore year
-responsible for planning prom ,graduation, and other school functions</p>

<p>Internship with Senator
-worked for Senator, and worked an event for Mitt Romeny.</p>

<p>After school tutoring with kids in low income</p>

<p>Peace builder initiative program

  • selected from church to serve the archdiocese of Chicago. Learned about principles of social justice.</p>

<p>Volunteered at a center for high risk teenagers on west side of chicago( kids who are likely to join gangs). During that time i helped built a memorial for a hit and run victim and was part of the first ever planted memorial in a city and was in a doccumentry for my participation.</p>

<p>Peer Jury
Part of a jury made up of teenagers that questioned offenders about their crime and determined an appropriate punishment.</p>

<p>Republican committee
Volunteered and fundraised for various politicians including republican presidential nominee Newt Gingrich</p>

<p>Peer minister
Taught a group of 15 or 20 kids catholic faith each week.</p>

<p>Teddy bears
-created a Program at my church in which I single handedly raised over $1,500 to provide children of deployed troops a teddy bear accompined by a message of support.</p>

<p>Church social justic program leader

  • created various social justice projects with a group of other teenagers at my church .</p>

<p>Awards:
Recieved a grant from my community to help keep charity going.
National honors society
AP SCHOLAR</p>

<p>I also have a letter of Rec. from the senator I interned for. </p>

<p>Caucasian
Male</p>

<p>Please be honest. I would really like to know if i should even bother applying.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>You’re just starting junior year and you have already taken the ACT and scored a 35?</p>

<p>Check out Table 15
<a href=“http://www.american.edu/provost/oira/upload/ADRB-2011-12.pdf[/url]”>http://www.american.edu/provost/oira/upload/ADRB-2011-12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
AU admitted 74% of applicants with GPA 4.0 or higher (that’s either weighted or unweighted, however it’s reported, if I understand correctly).</p>

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<p>I’ll be honest about this: That statement looks like either:

  1. Disingenous false modesty
  2. Unattractive self-deprecation or
    (and this is what I think it is)
  3. A failure to research this school on your own to determine who is normally in the applicant pool and whom they normally admit. This information is available from many sources, such as Collegeboard.org, the school’s own website, etc. You are very early in the college search process if you are just starting junior year, and the best advice I can give is for you to become familiar with these sources of information and to take advantage of them.</p>

<p>If you read the VERY NEXT POST on this board, the AU databook was linked there and you could have answered this question for yourself.</p>

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<p>Hey sorry I didn’t mean to up shoul I even bother applying … I just copied and pasted a previous post from one of my reach schools</p>

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<p>P.S I’m a senior and have a 31 composite act</p>

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<p>Ah, I see. I was confused because you described your senior year schedule as “anticipated,” and most students would know what their schedule is by now, so I thought you were projecting what you might take. I didn’t notice you’d put the composite score at the end of the ACT scores–mistook your first sub-score for your composite.</p>

<p>Either way, your chances at American are excellent, but you have to demonstrate your interest to them and not give them the impression they are your safety if you don’t get into Georgetown, KWIM?</p>

<p>If you have a 4.0 your junior year with all those APs, I think your application is very strong. Keep up the good work and show American the love. Do the online chats if you can’t visit.</p>