Chance me please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chance me for Columbia, Barnard, NYU, UPenn </p>

<p>GPA: 93 </p>

<p>All honors or AP classes for all four years of high school APs (all that are offered in school):</p>

<p>AP Calculus
AP Language and Composition
AP US History
(junior year) </p>

<p>AP Literature
AP European European History
AP Calculus BC (self study bc school doesn't offer)
AP Biology
(tentative senior year) </p>

<p>I go to a religious school so I take 3 religious classes as well. </p>

<p>Live in New England, Caucasian, Female, middle class income, no legacy </p>

<p>Planned Major: Neuroscience </p>

<p>SAT II: Chemistry 720, Planning to take one or two more </p>

<p>SAT: Will take in a few.months, expecting around a 2200+ </p>

<p>ECs: (2 most important categories first) </p>

<ol>
<li><p>Neuroscience related
Intern at neuroscience lab this coming summer
Finalist in essay contest about mental illness
Started a blog for high school neuroscience enthusiasts
Will participate in Brain Bee competition, currently self-studying neuroscience material
Hopefully will spend some time volunteering with neurodevelopmentally disabled kids </p></li>
<li><p>Bnei Akiva (youth group)
Summer camp for 5 years with this youth group, and will work there next summer as a counselor
Started a chapter of it in my area this year (11th grade)
12th grade leadership program run by it next year
President of local chapter
Weekend retreats a few times a year, community service projects, etc.
Will hopefully be going on a gap year program run by it before entering college </p></li>
</ol>

<p>Litmag all 4 years
Drama club all 4 years
Social Action Club founder and director- last year (gr 10)
Edited parts of a few books Helped with website for various community organizations
Library volunteer summer after 9th grade
Student Ambassador for school- all 4 years
Participant in Art Club-9th grade
Hip Hop Club- 10th grade
Various poetry awards
Heart Mind and Soul youth organization participant
Ran fundraise for Tay Sachs Cure foundation in school last year
Various other community service pursuits
Director of PR for JSA (a student run organization).
National Honor Society- 11th and 12th grades</p>

<p>Sent from my iPod</p>

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<p>First of all, I commend you on writing this post on an iPod. Those little keyboards kill me…</p>

<p>Anyhow, I think your chances for Barnard are pretty good (I’d say a match!), as well as NYU, which I also think is a match for you. Your ecs look like you love to do them, which is key. I will say that Columbia is a reach, but that’s true for everyone, so keep hope alive! I’d say that UPenn is probably a low reach, but don’t quote me on that because I’m not too familiar with their stats. Take a look at:
<a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Common%20Data%20Set/UPenn%20Common%20Data%20Set%202010-11.pdf[/url]”>http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Common%20Data%20Set/UPenn%20Common%20Data%20Set%202010-11.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
The above link is UPenn’s common data set; scroll down to section C to view admissions info. Hope this helped! Good luck! :)</p>

<p>Chance me back?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1426641-my-final-chance-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1426641-my-final-chance-thread.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks!
Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Your chances at Columbia are actually good, though it is a bit of a reach. I would recommend applying ED, though, just because an extra high chance of acceptance wouldn’t hurt anyone, right? :slight_smile: (Scrap that if Columbia is not your top school). UPenn is in the range for you, definitely, so you have a good chance, and at this point, NYU is pretty much a safety. I’m not so sure about Barnard, though, because I’m not familiar with their acceptance rates or what they look at. Good luck, though, you look like an impressive candidate! :slight_smile: </p>

<p>Chance me? </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1428588-northwestern-columbia-swarthmore-carnegie-m-hopkins-upenn-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1428588-northwestern-columbia-swarthmore-carnegie-m-hopkins-upenn-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Anyone else?</p>