Chance Me, please

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<p>Class: 2011
Race: Caucasian
GPA(Unweighted/4.0): 3.83
GPA(Weighted 4.5 honors, 6 for AP): 4.95
SAT: Math:610 Reading: 690 Writing: 640(redoing...don't know how i did this bad and doing ACT)
SAT IIs: Literature 730 US History: 750 World History 720
Schedule:
Finance Academy for 4 yrs (all honors courses in the academy)
AP Classes:
Fresh: AP Human-4
Soph: AP Macroecon-4, AP World-3, AP Environmental-2, AP Psych-3
Jun: AP USH-5, AP Chem-1, AP Stats-3, AP Microecon-4, AP Euro-5, AP US Gov-5, AP Eng Lang-4
Sen: AP Art History, AP Eng. Literature, AP Calculus, AP Physics B, AP Biology</p>

<p>3 yrs Spanish, 1 yr Latin, 1 yr French, </p>

<p>Summers:
dual enrollment courses at Community college during summers of Soph and Jun year
road trip visiting some of TIME 100 places to see before you die
Law and Society program at Georgetown
internship in Accuonting department of small oil company
volunteering </p>

<p>Extra-curriculars: Academic Games: Founder and President 4 yrs: Runner-up in Nation and 1st in STate and REgionals
Academic WorldQuest: Founder/President 2 yrs
Euro Challenge: Founder/President 2 yrs
FBLA: 4 yrs, Vice President and Parlimentarian for 1 yr, State-level Economics competitor
World Affairs Council(outside of school): Member
Varsity Bowling: Member 3 yrs
Model UN: 2 yrs, President 1 yr
Chess Club: 4 yrs, President 3 yrs
Newspaper Club: 2 yrs
History Club: 1 yr
National Technical Honor Society: 2 yrs
Political Debate Club: Founder and President 1 yr
Regional Political organization for young conservatives: founder 1 yr</p>

<p>Volunteering Work: 500 hrs
-Church Youth Group
-Tutoring children with mental disabilities
-tutoring/mentoring children of young age
-helping teachers
-tutoring high school students
-founded community service program for ESOL elementary-aged, under-privelaged children
-volunteered on several political campaigns for Republican candidates in Florida
-interned/volunteered at County Elections Office</p>

<p>Other: founded three websites about politics and the Constitution and volunteering</p>

<p>Will applying ED help my chances?</p>

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<p>Good ECs, mediocre GPA for this applicant pool, bad SAT I.
Work on SAT I instead of applying ED. You need to do significantly better to stand a real chance.</p>

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<p>Yeah decent EC’s but your scores and grades are lacking greatly.
If you apply ED like this, you face an early rejection; instead, bring up the scores and apply RD for a better chance.</p>

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<p>I think you have a pretty good GPA considering your course load, but that SAT score really does need to be brought up.</p>

<p>And don’t phrase your journalistic career as “Newspaper Club.” It sounds pedestrian and doesn’t quite rank up to the fact that many high school newspapers are classes and after-school activities.</p>