Chance me Washington and Lee

Colleges and Universities A-Z Washington & Lee University
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<p>Planning to E.D or R.D at either Vassar, Carleton, Haverford and Washington and Lee split between all and hoping I could get into all. I am going to one of the best public high schools in NJ.
-African american student that wont need financial aid. Both my parents were born in Ethiopia </p>

<p>-Unweighted GPA is 3.7 and weighted 4.1</p>

<p>-SAT math-760 reading-700 writing-700</p>

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<li><p>SAT 2 math c1- 720 US History- 720 Chem- 700 I'm planning on taking math c2 soon. </p></li>
<li><p>ap chem-4 </p></li>
<li><p>ap bio-4</p></li>
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<p>-ap us history2-4</p>

<p>Senior year: AP CALC, AP ECON, Honors physics, cpe english and history</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
Varsity basketball and lacrosse- goalie for lacrosse </p>

<p>Witness for mock trial</p>

<p>spanish club</p>

<p>Envirmental club</p>

<p>Chem team</p>

<p>Voluntter</p>

<p>200 plus hours tutoring under privalage kids </p>

<p>Peer tutuor at high school</p>

<p>Holiday festival </p>

<p>Boys and girls club</p>

<p>Started a lacrosse program at boys and girls club</p>

<p>Working on opening up a Boys and girls club in Africa</p>

<p>Certified with CERT, CPR and hospital training</p>

<p>Spent one summer at Center of talented development and another summer in Center of talented youth </p>

<p>Essays on being one of the only African Americans in my school and lacrosse program and my other essay is about my help in opening up a boys in girls club in Ethiopia </p>

<p>Will get great recommendations from my teachers</p>

<p>Any advice is helpful, please be honest and thank you.</p>

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<p>Pretty good shot.</p>

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<p>R most students at w&l in a faternity or in a dorm.</p>

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<p>Your chances are not good if you can’t spell correctly.</p>

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<p>Seriously according to my stats.</p>

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<p>All are great schools. W&L is somewhat differnt than the others, more traditional with things like its Honor System, the Speaking Tradition and Fraternities/Sororities (80% join and there is a place for every personilty type). The others might be a bit more “intellectual-ly” feeling. W&L has very strong students with interest in the professions primarily, but not so much things like going into academia (of which the other schools have a much higher percentage).</p>

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<p>How do I look for admission/Johnson? Thank you!
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 780 Math 740 (1520) CR 780 Writing (2300)
SAT II: 800 chemistry, 780 Math II, 790 History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top of the class probs?
AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (5), AB Calc (5), Chemistry (5), Lang (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Italian, AP Econ, AP BC Calc, AP Physics, Honors English, Honors Western Civ, Fine Arts
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, Women’s Society of Engineers Math and Science, other little science and history things, NHS
Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): National Italian Honor Society (President), Cross Country (Varsity Letter and a couple of awards), Track, Newspaper (editor, illustrator), Jersey Shore Science League (captain), Math team, History Bowl Team, Art Club at Library
Job/Work Experience: nada!
Volunteer/Community service: thrift shop that donates to charity (120 hrs), tutoring (30+ hours), farm/park volunteer (30+ hrs), Library Midterm Tutor (3 hrs lol)
Summer Activities: volunteering, cross country, architecture design camp at NJIT
Essays: probably good, common app essay about how I was a mediocre close minded student hiding from reality and met someone who changed me and allowed me to find myself, a little corny but I connected it to my career calling (econ/poli sci)
Teacher Recommendation: probably fantastic </p>

<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female</p>

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<p>also classical pianist for 7 yrs but didnt compete or anything</p>

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<p>where ever you want. throw in a couple higher end schools too…especially ones that give away financial aid in buckets…go to [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.questbridge.org%5DQuestBridge”&gt;http://www.questbridge.org]QuestBridge</a> Home<a href=“com?”>/url</a> to partner colleges for a list to apply, and Carleton is on the list. Hope my son sees you there. He’s white, but poor - a good thing it seems nowadays. His scores are much higher than yours , but MR. selfish did little for others lately, did in past but not htis past year and this may keep him out of all but the local public landgrant school.</p>

<p>say, being from Ethiopia parents, you probably can’t find any american Indian inyou. It’s absolutely the best to be for getting into college these days. due to white people genociding almost the entire race, there are very few left and they’ve been dealt a raw deal …trail of tears, reservations…</p>

<p>I digress. sounds like you’ll do great. Being Black is the next best thing. I’d play down the first generation from Etheopia though. Admissions are alikely to smile more kindly on you if they think you’re from slave ancestors.</p>

<p>sorry to be so calculating,but college admissions and paying for it has become a major circus/industry.</p>

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<p>it’ll break my heart you don’t get into your dream school. you certainly deserve it. so sad it’s so horribly competitive out there. wishing you all the success for your focused, goal oriented dedication and hard work.</p>

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<p>Based on your numbers, you’ll definitely be a finalist. Unfortunately, none of your numbers are seen by the interview panel that makes a majority of the calls. If you interview well, you stand a good chance, and your numbers give you hope even if you should bomb the interview. Interviewers do see your resume and essays. Finally, a good portion of the “non-winning” finalists get a full-tuition scholarship, and almost all of them get half-tuition awards.</p>