Chance me please :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I will be applying for the class of 2015. I am a Caucasian female from New Jersey from a family who will be able to pay for me to go to pretty much any school, but I do have a sister who is also in college.</p>

<p>SAT: 1470/2230. CR 710 M 760 W 760
SAT II: Math II 750, Lit 730, US History 710
ACT: 33 (E 35, M 34, R 32, S 29)
GPA, unweighted: 3.95 out of 4.3
Weighted GPA: 5.21
AP Tests: English Language (5), US History (4), Statistics (4), BC Calculus (3)
I'm an IB diploma candidate.
My school doesn't rank.</p>

<p>Freshman and sophomore year I took all my required courses at the honors/pre-IB level (highest level my school offered) and my electives were choir, study hall, cooking, photography, and a computer applications class.
Junior year courses: IB English, IB Psychology, IB Spanish 4, AP/IB BC Calculus HL, AP Statistics, IB Physics, AP US History.
Senior year courses: IB English 4, IB Psychology HL, IB Spanish 5, IB Environmental Science, AP Biology, IB European History, AP US Government and Politics.
*I've exhausted my school's math curriculum (they dropped my class for next year due to budget cuts) so I'm doubling on science to replace math next year. My counselor promised to explain this in my recommendation</p>

<p>Extra curriculars: Winter and Spring track (4 years), Service club (4 years, secretary junior year, president senior year), youth group at my church (3 years, leader 2 years), peer leader (2 years), peer tutoring (2 years), steering committee (4 years), Relay for Life (4 years, committee member sophomore year, committee chair junior and senior year), National Honor Society (Most likely a leadership position, but won't know until like October)</p>

<p>Work or volunteer: Summer camp counselor (1 year), volunteer bible school teacher (1 year), volunteer youth track coach (3 years), volunteer organizing church retreats for children (3 years), volunteer at various races/triathlons (5 years).</p>

<p>I also attended a Leadership course at Brown last summer.</p>

<p>I don't know if there's anything else I should include...ask if there's something I forgot.</p>

<p>Schools I'm applying to:
Amherst
Brown
Georgetown
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Princeton
Swarthmore
William & Mary</p>

<p>Am I dreaming by applying to these schools, or do I have a good chance of getting into at least one of them?</p>

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<p>you’re definitely not dreaming but they will be reaches. i recommend the obvious. write an essay which makes you stand out in comparison to the rest of hte applicant. also you are goign to need to show some focus in your applicatoin. for instance you scored well on your SAT I math section yet you got a 3 on the ap test. what are you passionate about? they won’t take a scattered person, they want someone with drive</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’m good at math, but I don’t have a passion for it at all. And calculus is sort of where I got stuck with math. I want to major in like political science or international relations, something of that sort. So nothing math related.</p>

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<p>ALl those are great schools, you will get into a couple. Just too hard to predict.</p>

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<p>NJ is an incredibly competitive state to apply from. Most competitive schools there send a lot of candidates to top colleges. Look at your school’s Naviance if avaailable to see what it has taken to get in.</p>

<p>Michigan early sounds like a good approach. Adding a few more schools where your stats are strong would be a good plan. I’d say too many big reaches here.</p>