CHANCE ME: UC's, Georgetown, NYU, USC, TUFTS, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>(repost because my other post got no replies, please help me!)
Hello!
I am applying for college in the upcoming months, and just received my october SAT scores.</p>

<p>I have a low GPA for a lot of these schools, but I'm hoping that my SAT makes up for it.</p>

<p>INFO:
GPA: (Unweighted on a 4.0 scale) 3.65</p>

<p>SAT:
Math: 770
Reading: 740
Writing: 660 (-___- 8 on essay)
Total: 2170</p>

<p>AP Scores:English Literature- 5 US History- 4 </p>

<p>SAT Subject: English Lit- 720, Math II- 660, US History- 630, Biology E- 640 (my sat subjects are pretty bad haha)</p>

<p>Courseload: Taking almost every honors and AP class my school provides, except for honors bio and honors chemistry my junior and sophomore year, but I am taking honors physics my senior year.</p>

<p>Highschool: One of the most rigorous private high schools in the area. From what I know colleges know that my school is more rigorous than most. </p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Girl Scout (just completed Gold Award)
Member of the Varsity Basketball Team for 3 Years
Member of the National Charity League (over 120 hours of charity work completed every year)
Vice President of a Charity Club at my High School
Held a Sales Associate job at a Retail Store Last Summer
Assistant Coach for my school's Middle School Basketball Team for 2 years</p>

<p>Other Awards:
Commended Scholar for PSAT
Silver Status for American Scholarship Federation</p>

<p>PHEW I made it, okay here are the Colleges I'm applying too (i'm listing the ones in the UK but if you don't know anything about them, then just disregard them. Thank you!!)</p>

<p>Colleges:
REACHES/MATCHES-
NYU- Stern
USC- Marshall (Legacy)
Boston University
Georgetown
Tufts
UK Schools: University of Saint Andrews, Warwick, Edinburgh, Kings College London
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC Irvine
SAFETIES:
Tulane
George Washington
American
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara</p>

<p>Let me know what you think, thank you!</p>

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<p>If you are applying to engineering, then your SAT Math2 score is surely going to affect you.</p>

<p>If for any major other than sciences and engineering, I think you stand a good chance to almost all those unis.</p>

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<p>I’m applying into Business or International Relations, so I am still considering retaking Math II to improve my chances for Business.</p>

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<p>BUMP BUMP BUMP</p>

<p>Please I need some more opinions!</p>

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<p>Any other opinions??</p>

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<p>If you have a low GPA, that might kill your chances at the UCs specially at Berkeley.</p>

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<p>@RML Yeah My GPA really doesnt cut it for UC Berkeley :/</p>

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<p>What’s your GPA?</p>

<p>In the UK, I’d recommend Warwick, King’s, Edinburgh then St A – in that order.</p>

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<p>3.65 on a 4.0 scale</p>

<p>I’ve already applied to all of those schools in the UK :slight_smile: should be hearing from them in a few weeks</p>

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<p>Also RML, why would you say Saint Andrews last? Its almost always in the top 5 on the league tables in the UK.</p>

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<p>GPA sort of low-ish (don’t know enough about school but determined off a glance) and few AP scores might hurt you. Try to raise that Writing score! A 2200 will push you over the top and will cement your spot in a lot of these schools…and WOW you are applying to a ton.</p>

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<p>My school offers very few AP courses, which is the reason for only two AP tests :/</p>

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<p>That’s true, but that’s because league tables in the UK included student satisfaction as one of the criteria, something that wasn’t before. But based on academics alone and employment success, it’s probably the least in your list of schools. StA is perhaps more popular in the USA than it is in the England, lol.</p>

<p>Please take note that the schools you listed (for UK) are all top schools, to begin with, and StA is definitely a top school(uni) too.</p>

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<p>hi, i’m from the uk so i can chance you for your uk unis :slight_smile: KCL and warwick are a bit ambitious (SATs are strong but they wont look at that), but your GPA should be JUST good enough, the other unis should be fine :)</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t place King’s above Edinburgh or St A’s. I’d say they were all at least equal (although King’s has been slipping in its rankings and does have lower average entry standards). The only potential advantage I see is its location. </p>

<p>The top schools in the UK – King’s, UCL, St. A, Edinburgh, Durham, LSE, Imperial and Warwick are all roughly equal. Some have particular strengths over others in certain departments. But top employers regularly attend each University for career events, dinners, etc.</p>

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<p>^^^ <a href=“http://www.highfliers.co.uk/download/GMReport12.pdf[/url]”>http://www.highfliers.co.uk/download/GMReport12.pdf&lt;/a&gt; - turn it to page 27, then …</p>

<p>show me where’s StA in the list.</p>

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<p>That’s not evidence that StA is somehow ‘less’ than the other schools or that it is less well regarded by employers. That merely says that employers may not go there as often, not that StA graduates are less well regarded. It may very well be that less lower ranked employers visit StA and therefore it has a lower number of total employer visits. </p>

<p>Academically, and for reputation, they are all roughly peer schools.</p>

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<p>If 3.65 is your UC GPA then UCB, UCLA and UCSD are reaches.</p>

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<p>For Edinburgh your test scores meet the basic criteria for acceptance. They’ll likely give you a Conditional Acceptance; and then based on what you want to major in, they’ll ask that you get a score of 4+ on at least one of the AP classes you’re taking in order to make the offer unconditional. This happened to me - I plan to study computer science/AI and I got a Conditional, with a requirement to get a 4+ on the AP Calc BC test I’m taking this year.</p>

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<p>I’m hoping to get at least one unconditional offer in the coming weeks. That would allow me to not have to apply to any of my safeties.
I applied to the UK schools for Business Management + Economics, so I might have to get a 4/5 on my Calculus AB AP test? Probably not in my other AP class which is art history.
Best case scenario is an unconditional from Saint Andrews or Edinburgh.</p>