<p>Hi. I'm sorry to make one of these, but I am going crazy.
Please chance me for the following schools and I will try to chance you back:</p>
<p>Georgetown University (Applied Early, deferred)
Columbia University
Barnard College
Boston University
Washington University in St. Louis
George Washington University
Colgate University
University of Arizona</p>
<p>SAT I: 680 CR, 750 M, 710 W (2140 Composite)- Didn't send in
SAT II: 750 US History, 750 Math II, 710 Spanish Reading
ACT: 34
GPA: 3.95 UW
AP: BC Calc (5), US History (5)
Current: Psychology, Spanish Language, Statistics
Rigorous Course Schedule for my school</p>
<p>EC's:
12 years: Bharatanatyam Dancer- Indian Classical Dancer- Spent all high school summers traveling to learn dances.
1 year: JV Swimming (Sophomore Year)
1/2 year: Freshman Class Secretary- Student Council
2 years: Key Club Member
1 year: Invisible Children Club Secretary</p>
<p>Community Service/Work Experience:
2.5 years: Peer Tutor in Math, Spanish, and Physics
1 year: Teacher's Aide- Graded Papers
1.5 year: Volunteer in Senior Center
1 summer: Worked as preschool teacher's aide in local preschool
I have earned many hours through my dance school- organized events and performed for charities</p>
<p>Others:
Teacher Rec: I think they were pretty good, I didn't read them, but the teachers writing mine are really respected in our community
Counselor Rec: I didn't see it, but she said she wrote a good one
Essays: On a scale of 1 to 10, I would say about a 8 to and 8.5</p>
<p>Country: US
State: CA
School Type: Public- Really Competitive
Ethnicity: South Asian (Indian)</p>
<p>Thanks so much! And I will be sure to return the favor.</p>
<p>You have a shot at all of those schools, but I would guess that Columbia is the least likely, followed by GU and WUSTL.</p>
<p>bump. Please chance me!</p>
<p>Well, alright. If I’m an admissions officer, I wonder about the short amount of time you’ve been involved in most of those activities. The 12 years in dance are impressive, but the other ones that are 2 years or less don’t impress unfortunately.</p>
<p>Academically, the GPA is in the right place and the AP scores are good, but I wonder why no AP science and why not AP English. The ACT score is good, but what’s the breakdown? If you lost the points on English, then even given the high overall score, an admissions officer may start to see a troubling pattern: no AP English, lower (though still good) score on the English section of the ACT, and if the essay’s not great that could really add to those worries. More than anything, most schools you listed want an applicant who can read and write well. </p>
<p>Then there’s your SAT issue. To me personally, for an applicant from California, submitting an ACT score and SAT II scores just screams: I did really horribly on the SAT. I really don’t know if this is something that an admissions committee takes into consideration, but you have to think it enters their minds. </p>
<p>The fact that you got deferred at Georgetown tends to confirm that at least some of these things are worries in real life, and confirms my suspicion that you don’t jump off the page to committees, as they say, but it’s nothing to get disheartened about. I’d say you have a reasonable shot at Georgetown, Columbia, and WUSTL (I’d call them all plausible reaches) and very good to certain chances at the others. On a closing note, it surprises me that I don’t see Berkeley, UCSD, or UCLA on the list, but I guess it’s late now to be advising you on where to apply.</p>
<p>^^I completely agree on the ECs that appear to be of short duration.
Don’t think I concur on the absence of an SATI score. Most schools mean it when they say you can take your pick between the SAT and ACT.</p>
<p>Also I’m sure Georgetown won’t be able to tell, but as far as I know sending in your SAT iis without your SAT i is totally going against their decision to opt out of score choice. I had a similar SAT i score just with better CR than Math and still sent it in along with my ACT score at a 34 because well that is what their policy calls for. I was accepted EA with those scores. Another thing to note is that although a lot of times duration of an activity is a red flag, if you have a reason for when and why you started these activities I’m not sure they could hinder you that much. I personally switched to a new school for my junior year due to certain circumstances and picked up extracurricular activities that were not offered at my old school. Therefore, some of my activities that I chose as my favorite had only been a part of my life for 1 year.</p>
<p>I probably should have noted in the original post, but I moved from Arizona during freshman year, and the curriculum is really different. I spent most of my time in sophomore and junior year making up classes that I should have taken freshman year. On that note, AP English at my school is either a joke or a ridiculously large amount of reading. Therefore, I thought I could better choose my English class by taking the required class and then a creative writing class. In my opinion, I think I am a decent writer. The move also affected my EC’s because I only really began to learn about opportunities during my junior year.</p>
<p>I did apply to the UC’s, but I didn’t really feel like posting them on my list because they are not really predictable in their decision.</p>
<p>Every person in our school (5 of us) that applied to Georgetown EA got deferred, so our administration thought it had something to do with the school and not the individual students.</p>