Chance Me? PLEASE.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>GPA: UW: 2.44 W: 2.52 (went through A LOT of personal troubles throughout 9th/10th grade that will go into my essays)
Also, there was a problem with my transcript not having a grade for another course I had taken. My GPA is probably actually around a 2.7-2.8 because I got an A+ in another course.</p>

<p>ACT: Not taken yet, but will probably have a 25-28 due to prep class.
SAT: taken early junior year before I had any practice or preparation.
1300 (Math: 460 Writing: 460 Reading: 380) terrible, I know.
the next time i take it, i will hopefully get a 1700-1800+</p>

<p>Classes Taken:</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
Math I (Algebra I)
Physics
Multimedia
Music I
Spanish I
World Cultures & Geography
English I</p>

<p>Sophmore Year:
Math II (Geography)
Chemistry
English II
Modern World History
Music II
Spanish II</p>

<p>Junior Year:
Honors Biology
Honors American Literature
English III
US History
Math III (Algebra 2/Trigonometry)
Music II (They made us take it again, idk why)
Spanish III
Internship (They required us to intern anywhere that we would see ourselves in the future)</p>

<p>To be Senior Year:
Math IV (Pre-Calculus)
English IV
Art
Engineering
Multimedia
Externship (Similar to internship)</p>

<p>Sports:
Soccer (Senior year: aiming for Varsity, might play JV)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (Including Senior Year):
Sigma Pi Phi "Boyz to Menz" Mentoring Program (5 years)
Phi Delta Kappa "Kudos" Educational Program (2 years)
Internship at Las Vegas Review-Journal (Wrote 20+ articles in a month, also helped the videographer at CES 2013)
I write for an online music review website
Volunteer yearly at YMCA Christmas events
GSA Club (Attended few meetings junior year, will attend all senior year)
Bible Club (Attended few meetings junior year, will attend all senior year)
Key Club (Hope to attend meetings in senior year)</p>

<p>Live in San Diego, California
Race: African-American
School type: Somewhat competitive 400 student charter school
Journalism or Communications major
School offers no AP classes and 3 honors classes
Will have amazing recommendations from teachers/counselor
I'm an excellent essay writer, so my essays will be superb!</p>

<p>What do you think? Those are all of the ECs I can think of :/</p>

<p>Schools I am going to apply to:
Syracuse (1st Choice/Dream school; applying Early Decision"
University of Texas at Austin
SFSU
Ball State
Indiana University Bloomington
ASU
American University
Miami University
DePaul
CSU Fullerton
CSU Northridge
Cal Poly Pomona
UNLV
UMass
Humboldt</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>Prepare to face loads of rejections…</p>

<p>What’s your GPA without freshman year? This is the number that matters for CSUs.</p>

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<p>my csu gpa is a 2.64</p>

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<p>Cal Poly, UT Austin, UMass and Syracuse are all schools that I’m familiar with and if you aren’t in state they’re already difficult, unless you can score a 2200+ on the SATs your next try you might as well not bother. It would be better if your weighted was a lot higher than your unweighted, because they would show that you took a lot of honors/AP classes, but its not because I’m guessing you didn’t.</p>

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<p>You have way too many high reaches…</p>

<p>UT-Austin: High reach
American: High reach
Miami: High reach
Syracuse: High reach (ED won’t save you)
UMass Amherst: High reach
IUB: Reach
ASU: Match
DePaul: Reach
CSUF: High reach
Cal Poly Pomona: High reach
CSUN: High match
UNLV: Reach
Humboldt: High match
SFSU: Reach (pay attention to impaction)
Ball State: Reach</p>

<p>It’s very hard to get even one safety with you…</p>

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<p>ASU is a high match.
The rest are reaches or high reaches.</p>

<p>You need to make your grades great, higher SAT scores, and kick butt essays.</p>