Chance Me - Senior 09 in PA

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>GPA: 91 (How do you know what this is out of 4.0?)
Rank: 86 / 462 (18%)
SAT: Test 1
M - 590
CR - 640
W - 620
= 1850</p>

<pre><code> Test 2
M - 540
CR: 630
W: 640
= 1810

Best Combined
CR - 640
M - 590
W - 640
= 1870 (CR + M = 1230)
</code></pre>

<p>EC: - Varsity Tennis Team for 3 yrs
- Spanish Club Member for 3 yrs
- Vice President of Interact Club for 2 yrs (basically lots of volunteering)
- Volunteer at Hospital 40+ Hours
- Active Red Cross Volunteer for 5+ years
- National Honor Society
- Honor Roll Every Quarter of High School
- Work at Starbucks Cafe in Barnes & Noble
- Member of Junior Statesmen of American for 1 yr</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Indian (female) - born in Saudi Arabia moved here at age 2</p>

<p>Applied To:</p>

<p>Penn State University Park
University of Pittsburgh - Already Accepted :]]
New York University (reach, i know, but one of my favorites)
Boston University (heard alot about grade deflation :/)
Northeastern University (my #1 I think, love the co-op)
Drexel University (dont like it much, applied because they let me do it for free)</p>

<p>Please tell me my chances, especially for Northeastern and NYU</p>

<p>I live in Reading, PA but Im pretty sure I dont want to go to a state school. I want a big city (NYC or Boston) and lots of diversity, as I am Indian and PA is full of...white pennsylvanians (same goes for PSU and Pitt). Not that it is a bad thing, I would just like different types of ethnicities and lots of diversity!</p>

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<p>Also, I applied for the Business School in most of those universities except NYU, where I applied undecided.</p>

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<p>Your SAT is low for NYU and you would have to raise it a bit to be qualified for Penn State as well. There was a chart I saw before but I don't have the link to it right now.</p>

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<p>Well, it depends on which campus you go to for Penn State. My boyfriend was accepted to Penn State and they didn't even ask for his SAT scores.</p>

<p>Also, to find your GPA out of 4.0 you would use a proportion.</p>

<p>x/4.0*91/100</p>

<p>so you would take 4.0 x 91 and then divide by 100.</p>

<p>So your GPA is approximately a 3.64, but it might go up if the college recalculates it.</p>

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<p>Penn State University park is a very good school and I found the link: <a href="http://admissions.psu.edu/info/counselors/bubble_chart06.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://admissions.psu.edu/info/counselors/bubble_chart06.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Yeah Ive seen that chart before, but I know so many people who have gotten accepted to Penn State with MUCH lower scores....i wonder why that is?</p>

<p>also, does it help to be of a different ethnicity?
ive heard that schools often accept someone of a different race/religion over someone who isnt if they both have the exact same credentials, etc. just so they can have diversity.</p>

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<p>Farha, you should be fine for Penn State, especially when so many from our school go to Penn State. It's basically Penn State, Pitt, and now Temple with some exceptions.</p>