Chance my daughter for Princeton?

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<p>My daughter has set her sights high for some insanely exclusive schools. I'm not that great of a resource for "chancing" her. I had her list her accomplishments, so if you could help "chance" her that would be great. </p>

<p>Her highest "reach" is Princeton, as well as Stanford, and Columbia. She would also like to go to NYU, Vassar, and Georgetown, to name a few. Here are her accomplishments/stats; please bear with me as she hasn't taken the ACT or SAT yet!</p>

<p>GPA: 3.9
ACT Practice Test Score: 31
Top 8% in class of ~300
Taken every Honors class offered, plus APUSH this year</p>

<p>*1st Place, DECA Regional Competition
*3rd Place, DECA State Competition
*Top 20th Percentile Test Score at DECA Internationals
*Top Score (I think top 20) in Role Play at DECA Internationals
*DECA Chapter Secretary
*DECA Student of the Year last year</p>

<p>*2nd Place for Team Event at FBLA Regional Competition
*3rd Place for Individual Event at FBLA Regional Competition</p>

<p>*NHS Member throughout high school
*NHS Publicity Officer this year</p>

<p>*Member of school's "Elections & Eligibility Committee" throughout high school
*Youth City Council Service Committee Member this year
*Volunteered for a year at our local charity thrift store (roughly 200 hours)</p>

<p>*In addition to these, she has been president of her church's Young Women's Group for one year and Counselor for around 2 years, as well as earned her "Medallion" given for accomplishing 80+ hours worth of projects promoting growth as an individual. Should she include these in her apps?</p>

<p>Thank you all so much!</p>

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<p>Any information would be greatly appreciated!</p>

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<p>How many AP’s does your daughter’s school offer? Is APUSH her first AP?</p>

<p>Also, will she be applying regular decision? I assume so because she will also have to take two SAT Subject Tests.</p>

<p>I think she should focus on her accomplishments in DECA in her application because that seems to be her strongest extracurricular.</p>

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<p>For Juniors, her school offers 3. The others had filled up by the time she signed up; she is planning on taking more next year, including AP Lit and AP US Gov and maybe AP Psychology/AP Spanish. Yes, APUSH is her first AP; they are not offered for sophomores or freshmen in her school. I don’t know what regular decision means… sorry! If you could give me more information on that, that would be great. DECA is definitely her passion - she will almost certainly be President next year as well.</p>

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<p>What is DECA and FBLA?</p>

<p>Sorry to be ignorant!</p>

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<p>Also, what is she interested in majoring in? That is, what would be her SAT 2 tests?</p>

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<p>DECA and FBLA are both business clubs. In DECA she does “role plays” where she has 10 minutes to prepare a presentation on how to fix a given problem; she then presents these to a judge who acts as her boss. In FBLA, she just takes tests on subjects. Last year, she did Entrepreneurship and Word Processing. No worries, I didn’t even know what they were until she won!</p>

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<p>She is interested in Business, Writing/English, and Journalism but she’s not decided yet. SAT 2 tests? My turn to be the “ignorant” one!</p>

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<p>If she’s interested in business, she should look into the Woody Woo Program:</p>

<p>[Woodrow</a> Wilson School of Public and International Affairs | Academics](<a href=“http://wws.princeton.edu/academics/]Woodrow”>http://wws.princeton.edu/academics/)</p>

<p>As for SAT 2, based on her interests, it sounds like your D should take the LIT test and then a science or math. My D took LIT and BIO and is now majoring in Psychology.</p>

<p>Here’s the complete list of SAT 2 tests:</p>

<p>[SAT</a> Subject Test Dates](<a href=“The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board”>What were SAT Subject Tests? - College Board Blog)</p>

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<p>She has a friend who is majoring in journalism, and I will ask her which SAT2 tests she took and let you know. :)</p>

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<p>Princeton has a fantastic creative writing program as well:</p>

<p>[Creative</a> Writing at Lewis Center - Lewis Center for the Arts](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/arts/arts_at_princeton/creative_writing/about_the_program/]Creative”>Creative Writing - Lewis Center for the Arts)</p>

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<p>Wow thank you so much! This is so helpful. I appreciate it!</p>