Chance Me- Vanderbilt EDI (Will chance back)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>GPA: 4.0 UW (school doesn't weight GPA)
ACT: 34
AP: Bio (3), Calc (4), Physics B (4), US History (3)
Classes: Freshman year- hardest classes offered, sophomore year- 3 advanced, 1 honors, 1 reg, junior year- 4 honors, 1 regular, senior year- 3 honors, 2 regular, 1 elective (psych)… also take journalism before school once a week (grade 11-12)
•tried to take Honors calc 2 and ceramics this year but they couldn't fit it into my schedule
•national spanish exam (silver medal freshman year, bronze medal sophomore year)</p>

<p>EC'S:
•over 200 hours of service
•close to 100 hours of service within my school, working to improve the community
•organize a group of students to volunteer at the homeless shelter every month- make and serve a meal
•4 year varsity soccer player, co-captian senior year, started every game
•all league and all district awards for high school soccer
•state runner ups for club soccer team (I play year round, around 8-10 hours a week 40 weeks per year)
•4 year service board member, part of service group called 'shapers' with hardest working volunteers in the high school
•taught younger kids to play soccer in a week long camp every summer (4 summers)
•biology trip to Belize with my school
•language immersion trip to Spain with my honors spanish program in school
•able to read and write in spanish, partially fluent
•co-founder of NAPS club in school (naturally alleviating pressure and stress)
•write for the school paper, journalism
•volunteer at homeless shelter every month for 4 years, also volunteer at animal shelter
•helped to found a Euchre club at school
•3 years of ceramics
•member of art society, naps club, euchre club
•lead many events around school, such as food drives, lower school fairs, fundraisers, clothing drive, etc</p>

<p>My essays are good and my rec's are also good… I'm a caucasion girl and I attend a small private college preparatory school in Ohio. We don't do class ranks.</p>

<p>What are my chances of getting in EDI? What could I do to improve my chances? Thank you!</p>

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<p>bump</p>

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<p>I would say it would be a match if you had better AP scores. Maybe reach?
My friend who got in Vanderbilt had similar GPA but he had way more AP courses and 12 5s in AP tests. </p>

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<p>One of the this forum’s purposes is to help the students find and apply to schools that they have good chances so that they can have happy college experiences. </p>

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<p>@ohioA15: Your objective stats are fine, as long as you have taken the hardest classes offered for all four years of high school. Don’t worry about AP scores–they are rarely, if ever, a factor in admissions.</p>

<p>Besides that, your extracurriculars are wide-ranging and can be vaguely sorted into three groups: (1) Spanish activities, (2) helping people, and (3) random stuff. Now, the trick is to convince Vanderbilt that your extensive volunteer work was driven by altruism and not a desire to look good on college applications; for this, you need to take advantage of your essays and letters of recommendation. I would suggest writing at least one essay about your motivations for volunteering, or at least how it has affected you.</p>

<p>If you do that, I’d say your chances are mid-to-high for Vanderbilt ED.</p>

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<p>Agree that AP scores are rarely ever used in the admission process. Paul thinks he is an expert chancing kids because he applied at these schools and is giving out a lot of bad advice. You are getting your info from a high school grad from this spring who has his own problems getting into a school that accepted him.</p>