Chance me!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Senior from South Florida

Unweighted GPA: 3.97
Weighted GPA: 4.72
SAT Score: 1380
ACT Composite: 33
Top 10% of my class (76 out of 761)
Questbrigde Finalist
Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and German

Freshman and Sophomore Year course load:
AP World History, 4 AICE classes (AICE is a program from the university of Cambridge, considered harder than honors but not as difficult as AP’s), 7 honors classes, and yearbook

During my junior year, I studied abroad in Germany with the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange, a program jointly funded by Congress and the German Bundestag, and administered by the Department of State. In Germany, I went to a Waldorf School, which is an alternative type of school with big focus on hands-on education and stuff such as art, music, and crafts (for example I took a class in shoe-making, painting and sculpting). I got straight A’s in all of these classes in German (a language I didn’t speak before arriving in the country thank you very much) but the credits transferred as regular credits, which isn’t super for my weighted GPA

Senior course load:
AP European History
AP Biology
Calculus Honors
AP Micro/Macroeconomics and US Government
AP English Literature
Yearbook (student life and people editor)
Chemistry and Physics at the local community college

Extracurriculars:
2 years of yearbook, one year as the Student Life Editor
3 years of varsity Swimming (Girls Captain my senior year)
National Honor Society member
Spanish Honor Society member
International Quill and Scroll Honor Society member
Rho Kappa Honor Society (Social Studies)
Lifeguard and swim instructor at a regional water park and at the YMCA
100+ volunteer hours
Chorus in Germany

My exchange year:
I was selected as one of 250 finalists for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange, which is a merit-based State Department program that sends American high schoolers to spend a year in Germany living with a host family and German high schoolers to live in America. The program is funded equally by the U.S. Congress and the German Bundestag (Parliament) and as participants, we are expected to be youth ambassadors to our country, which includes doing an Ambassador Project to share our culture with our new community, and meeting both our Congress Representatives and our Bundestag Representatives. I was also one of four official bloggers for my program, in charge of documenting my year in order to advertise it to potential applicants and their parents.

Miscellaneous:
Did a land-survey and map-making internship while here in Germany
Participated in a bilingual Economics Camp while in Germany
Volunteer every summer at a pre-school for children with Disabilities
Participate in several yearbook and journalism workshops at home every year
Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and German

Hook:
Brazilian-American, first generation American and first generation college student, unorthodox learning path, passionate about writing, learning languages, and using communication in order to connect with people and build more relationships, and hope to pursue a career in international relations in order to combine those passions into a career that will make an impact on our global community.

Financial Status:
My parents make $39k a year combined, and my brother is heading to college this fall

Please chance me at the following schools:

  1. Barnard
  2. Duke
  3. Brown
  4. NYU
  5. University of Florida
  6. Tulane
  7. UNC Chapel Hill
  8. Wellesley
  9. Georgetown
  10. University of Southern California

Thanks a ton, and don’t be rude!!!

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Any ED or EA? Tulane or U of F shouldnt be hard for you to get into with your stats.

3

Your ACT is better than your SAT. Submit that. I am sure you will get into at least UF, but Tulane likes interest, so hopefully you have shown it. You might want to submit one more app to a safety school, where your stats put you above the 75th percentile and the accpetance rate is above 50 percent.

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Safety: University of Florida, Tulane
Match: Wellesley, Georgetown, University of Southern California, NYU
Reach: Barnard, Duke, Brown

5

I agree with the chancing above, and I would put UNC Chapel Hill as a high match/low reach. Good luck in getting into those schools!

6

I wouldn’t call Tulane a safety so fast. That thread is filed with disappointed applicants with high stats who did not make a good case that they had plans to take advantage of the school’s particular offerings, or had credentials that were in abundance in this year’s applicant pool. This blog post from the Director of Admissions should give you a flavor: http://tuadmissionjeff.blogspot.com/2015/12/its-going-to-be-okay.html.