Chance me?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Grade: Junior
Gender: Male
School: Large, public school, urban setting
GPA: Unweighted: 3.918
Class Rank: 4th out of 154 students
ACT: 30
Race/Ethnicity: African-American
AP/IB Classes: (Just this year, not including MYP) IB Physics, IB Visual Arts, IB French, IB World History, IB Theory of Knowledge, IB World Literature, IB Trigonometry/Pre-Calculus </p>

<p>Extracurriculars+Volunteer Work:
-Student Government (9th grade Rep, 10th grade President)
- Quiz Bowl Co-Captain (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th)
- Upward Bound (College predatory organization for inner city youth, provides tutoring and study time)
- Model UN (Great Lakes Invitational Model United Nations conference, 9th, 10th, 11th, & 12th grade) (Michigan State MUN, 9th & 10th) Prime delegate (Vice-President) of group 2012-2013, Head delegate (President) 2013-2014
- St. Michael's Breakfast Program (throughout the year, 30 hours) (basically a soup kitchen; providing food to the needy every Saturday, I help around twice a month)
- Alpha-Montessori (sporadically) (40 hours, An early childhood school, I helped with various projects, as well as did a self-initiated project of painting flags with the kids and displaying their work at their yearly art show)
- HCOP/SMA (year-round) (HCOP is a summer program that introduces students to various health careers and aids them in their pursuit of college; SMA is Saturday Morning Academy, a program that helps students prepare for the ACT)
-Volunteer work at Lockwood of Davison (elderly apartment building, 30 hours)
-Flint Youth Theatre, 9th & 12th grades (Performed in a performance of Great Expectations, ensemble) (several different acting classes through the theatre)
-Varsity Tennis (one year, 11th) (played on the varsity team for a year, considering playing again this year; we didn't place very highly, except for receiving an award as one of the best average GPAs for a team in our region)</p>

<p>Teacher Recs: Will be very strong. All my teachers love me and say they will be working hard on these.
Essay: Hopefully very strong, will be seeking help from certain teachers.
Interview: Interviewing with UChicago on Friday</p>

<p>My schools that I'm applying to are:</p>

<p>-UChicago
-Columbia
-George Washington
-Vassar
-UMich Ann Arbor
-MSU</p>

<p>Fields of interest:
International Relations
Journalism
Foreign Languages (French, German)</p>

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<p>You’re a junior? If you improve that ACT score, you’ll have a great shot, especially with your race, strong E.C’s, GPA and rank</p>

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<p>Sorry, but without your junior year grades, we won’t be able to adequately chance you. I can say with confidence, though, that you’re definitely on the right track. Just try to bump up your a ACT score ~3 points. </p>

<p>Good luck! :)</p>

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<p>I won’t be a junior when school resumes next week. I forgot to add that. I’ll be applying this fall.</p>

<p>I’ve already retaken the ACT once and got my 30. I just don’t feel that retaking again is in my best interest, considering the stress that comes with it and the fact that this will be my senior year.</p>

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<p>If you want a legitimate shot at the schools on your list, you’ll have to take it again.</p>

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<p>MSU: low match
UMich: Match for in state, high match for oos assuming for LSA.</p>

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<p>I live in Michigan so they are both in-state.</p>

<p>Taking it a third time has crossed my mind but I just don’t think I’ll do much better. I studied for the second one (30) more than the first (28). The next testing date is late September, which doesn’t give me much time between now and then to study considering the school year is starting. I just don’t know if it would actually help in the long run.</p>

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<p>Being URM with these credential, you should have no problem getting into MSU and UMich. You school list look fine too.</p>

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<p>Thanks billcsho and jibler, you’ve both been very helpful.</p>

<p>I think I may retake the ACT next month, choose not to score report when signing up, and then decide on whether or not to keep it when I get my scores. Then at least I can say that I tried, ya know?</p>

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<p>Yeah, that’s a good plan. Even if you might not improve, you still have a chance. Hope things work out!</p>