Chance Me/ Safety Advice

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Year: Junior
GPA: 4.875 Weighted, 3.95 UW. All A's so far this year.
Class Rank: 11/746
SAT scores: 2240, Math 770, CR 760, W 710, Essay 10
SAT 2: not yet
ACT: 33 on the PLAN, should be getting actual scores back in 3-5 weeks- I feel as if I killed it (in the good way).
Classes this year: AP Spanish 5, AP English 3, AP Statistics, Honors PLTW Intro to Engineering design (it counts as an AP in NC), Honors Wind Ensemble 3, Honors Chemistry</p>

<p>Next year: AP Human Geography, AP Spanish Literature, AP English 4, AP Calculus AB/BC, AP US History(APUSH), AP Computer Science, Honors Wind Ensemble 4</p>

<p>Extra-Curriculars:
Tennis team, for four years of high school tennis and many hours of outside clinics and playing, including finalist standings in multiple tournaments. Varsity.
Interact Club- organized playing for Peru- activity where we let kids pay to skip fourth period ($5 times the 1250 kids who payed!) and donated money to a battered women's shelter in Peru.
National Honors Society
National Spanish Honors Society- Doing multiple activities through these guys, actually trying tto educate the uneducated about South American/ Mexican/ Spanish culture.
National Math Honors Society
National Science Honors Society
Tri-M Music Honors Society
Environmental Club- attempting to start up a composting thing. Also state Envirothon (local environmental issues Quiz Bowl) next week.</p>

<p>My jobs:
I catered the Charlotte DNC- I was at the heart of the political turmoil.
I cater parties (just a server) at nights on the weekend.
I worked at the local children's museum as a baker.</p>

<p>Additionally:
North Carolina Governor's School Nominee/ Finalist. Just found out yesterday about denial :(
National Merit Semifinalist/Finalist? PSAT score of 223, so at least SF. Corresponding SAT scores.
Band for 7 years, if you were to include next year, on the clarinet and the tenor saxophone. A runner-up all district player for every year (so far), except for eighth grade, when I was 6th chair all district.
Spanish for 13 years, including 6 high school Spanish courses and 3 AP Spanish courses. Through language immersion. I'm only in year 12 and my first AP Spanish course as of now.
I organized a "Carnaval" thing at my school for charity, earning $600 for a local student in need.</p>

<p>Schools:
@Princeton-Computer Science
@Duke- where do I apply? CS or CE?
@NC State- engineering
@UNC Chapel Hill-computer science
@Carnegie Mellon-computer science
@Umass-computer engineering and computer science, (both?)
@Franklin w Olin.
@@@@@@Northwestern University. I really would like to hear about this one.</p>

<p>Also, would you recommend adding more safeties to this list?</p>

<p>Thanks! I'll be happy to chance back per your request.</p>

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<p>Princeton: high reach (but it always is)
Duke: High match
NC State: probably safety
Unc chapel hill: match
Carnegie mellon: low reach(the cs program is very hard to get into)
Umass: safety
Northwestern: high match
you have a great GPA and very strong test scores coupled with decent ecs (especially the peru fundraiser), so you have a great shot at your schools!
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<p>Your SATs and GPA are about the same as my kid’s were last year, but your ECs are much better.</p>

<p>Princeton: high reach
Duke: high match
NC State: safety
UNC Chapel Hill: match
Carnegie Mellon: high match
Umass: safety
Olin: high reach (it is very difficult to get into)
Northwestern: low reach (last year, they cut back on freshman admissions to allow for more transfers - not sure what they’ll do this or next year)</p>

<p>Case Western wouldn’t be exactly a safety but a low match, especially if you showed interest. My kid is there now and likes it.</p>