Chance Me!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My list of colleges so far - not ranked in any preferential order </p>

<p>1) University of Chicago
2) Brown University
3) University of Pittsburgh
4) University of Michigan
5) Penn State
6) New York University
7) Boston University
8) University of Toronto
9) Harvard University
10) Carnegie Mellon (Humanities and Social Sciences, NOT the engineering school)
11) George Washington University</p>

<p>SAT I - Critical Reading 650, Math 740, Writing 660 (I'm taking them again in November and my last practice test I got CR - 720, M - 760, W - got a raw score of 43/49 and last time I got my essay graded I got a 12)</p>

<p>SAT II - Chemistry 670, (I'm taking Math I and US History on Saturday and I should get 700+ on both)</p>

<p>GPA - 3.73 NW (will be ~3.75 at end of semester), 4.07 W (will be 4.17 at end of semester)
I would have a 3.95 NW and 4.3 W if my school did 90-100 as an A instead of 93-100 as an A (will my chances be higher if I send in percentages, not letter grades)</p>

<p>Class Rank - Top 15% of my class (and I go to a really competitive public school)</p>

<p>Schedule Rigor - I took 8 AP classes and 8 honors classes, my schedule is not the most rigorous, but in terms of the classes available to me it is pretty rigorous</p>

<p>EC (in and out of school) -
-Model United Nations/Forensics for 4 years, multiple awards
-Future Business Leaders of America for 2 years
-Stock Market Club for 4 years, President and have placed 5th place in the region
-Soccer and Track for one year, but I've done recreational soccer since I've been in kindergarten
-Soccer Referee since 7th grade
-Counselor at a Summer Camp for 3 summers
-Written for the school newspaper and arts magazine (poetry)
-Was the speaker for the freshman class in student government (was on student government for 2 years)
-Technology Student Association for 2 years</p>

<p>Additional Info - I've been told I'm a good writer so I'm <em>hoping</em> that my essay will be a plus for me, I was born in Israel and can speak Hebrew (I dunno if that helps at all)</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for your help!</p>

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<p>bump :(</p>

<p>10 char</p>

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<p>I think you have pretty good chances- better than mine anyway. Your sat could be a little higher but I’ve heard about U of chicago it all depends on the essays. GW: you are definitiely in- that school is easy, university of pittsburg, university of Michigan, Penn State and BU. I live near two of those schools and for those i think you are in good shape probably in. Anyway, thanks for chancing me. Bye, I wish you good luck tell what happened to you.
nilly</p>

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<p>1) University of Chicago - match/reach
2) Brown University - reach
3) University of Pittsburgh - in/match (nut sure)
4) University of Michigan - match/reach
5) Penn State - in/match
6) New York University - match
7) Boston University - in/match
8) University of Toronto - in? (not sure)
9) Harvard University - huge reach
10) Carnegie Mellon (Humanities and Social Sciences, NOT the engineering school) - high match
11) George Washington University - in</p>

<p>Strong profile (great ECs) but the scores are lacking. I wouldn’t waste the Ivy applications, to be honest. You have a strong shot at all except Chicago, Carnegie Mellon and Ivies in my opinion. If you can raise the SAT score to what you say, maybe you have a better shot!</p>

<p>Good luck</p>

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<p>I think I should be fine for CMU (I just went and visited them a few weeks back and had the ability to ask the admissions officer a few questions), but do you think that I should have a decent shot for the other schools if I get up to around a 2150?</p>

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<p>anyone???</p>

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<p>I don’t know…</p>

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<p>Someone plz :(</p>

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<p>great responses. :(</p>

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<p>honestly…can someone answer me</p>

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<p>anyone at all?</p>

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<p>can someone PLEASE help me out here.</p>

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<p>Your chances increase but by how much, I don’t know. How does talking to an AO at CMU improve your chances?</p>

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<p>Talking to the AO doesn’t, but from what he told me my numbers should be fine for getting into H&SS at CMU. That’s what I meant (sorry for the vagueness there)</p>

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<p>can someone PLEASE help me…■■■■</p>

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<p>um. calm down… theres more bumps on this post than there replies ^_^</p>

<p>okay heres the thing about adcoms. they want as many people as possible to apply to their schools. that way they can 1) get a better pool and 2) increase their selectivity by rejecting more people. so heres the straight up truth: your target score, 2150, is IN the range for Carnegie Mellon but isn’t going to help you significantly. there are other applicants who have muuch better scores.</p>

<p>huuge reach at all the Ivies + GW + CMU. your GPA is decent, but not outstanding and nothing really jumps out.</p>

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<p>The ranges are supposed to represent the range of the scores of the students that were admitted last year. If I’m in the range, especially in the upper part of the range (adding up all the 75% numbers brings a 2180), then how is it a huge reach? My GPA is also above the average and my EC’s and essay aren’t going to be horrible enough for them to overlook me because of them. Obviously some people will have higher scores than me, but using the admission statistics from last year I would have above the average of the people who got in. How on earth would that lead to it being a huge reach for me (and how is GW a huge reach for me at all?)?</p>

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<p>I’d say you could get in at all except Brown and Harvard. </p>

<p>Only Chicago though if you can pull of awesome essays. </p>

<p>As for Brown and Harvard, thats more of a crapshoot. Harvard is probably out simply because of the SAT, but make something interesting about yourself stand out. Maybe the Israel/Hebrew thing</p>

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<p>Yea, to have a shot at those I’m going to need to well on the SATs in November.</p>