Chance My Daughter, Please...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Female DOB 10/1990
3.6 (unweighted) GPA
Top 10% (weighted rank)
8 Honors Classes (only available)
AP Calculus, Physics, Literature
University (dual enrolled) Calculus 2, Sociology, Political Science
5 years Math and Lab Science, 4 years English, Social Science, Fine Art, 3 years Spanish, 2 years Computer Science
SAT: 720 Math, 670 Reading, 720 Writing
ACT: 30 (34 English, 32 Math)
SAT II: 680 Math 2, 560 Physics</p>

<p>3 years Key Club, 1 year class representative
NHS
2 years Spanish Club, Secretary 1 year
2 years Academic Boosters
1 year Science Olympiad
3 years Women's Ensemble (audition choir)
3 years Regional Honor Choir
1 year School Newspaper</p>

<p>Performed with choir at Carnegie Hall
Played powder puff football 1 year
Perfomed in HS talent show</p>

<p>Babysit 2 to 10 hours per week for four years</p>

<p>Applying (in engineering) to:</p>

<p>Columbia University Fu Foundation for Engineering and Applied Science (Early Decision)
Barnard College
UCLA (out of state)
UCSD (out of state)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Case Western Reserve University
Northeastern University
Illinois Institute of Technology</p>

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<p>Also:</p>

<p>Most Rigorous Coursework (exhausted math options at HS and is commuting 2 hours twice a week to take Calc 2 and 2 others)</p>

<p>Rural HS in midwest</p>

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<p>low SAT II scores for engineer/science major
Low GPA.
ECs, aside from maybe her singing committment, are weak.</p>

<p>She may have a chance at columbia if she let's her passion for singing shine through and if she retakes those SAT IIs. Everythink else looks remarkable!</p>

<p>everywhere else, she'll get in. (except maybe barnard)</p>

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<p>Getting into UCLA oos is very hard. Probably won't get in there.</p>

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<p>Thanks for your thoughts, Eating. She just retook the SAT II's...posted scores are not actuals but (hopefully, conservative) estimates.</p>

<p>Incidentally, she (we) did visit all schools as well as attend an info session on Columbia and interview at RPI, Northeastern and IIT.</p>

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<p>Also:</p>

<p>GPA when recalculated for UC system is 4.12</p>

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<p>Bump bump bump</p>

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<p>Again with the bump. More input, please....</p>

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<p>Anyone care to comment...please?</p>

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<p>Reject at Columbia. Big reach UCLA.</p>

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<p>Trojan, you are probably right about Columbia, but it's in her heart and maybe that will come through in her essays (if she ever writes them!). UCLA: Really? "Big" reach? Maybe...</p>

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<p>good match for RPI</p>

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<p>low SAT 2 scores...for engineering, especially for out of state. If she raises them, then has a chance for UCSD, maybe not UCLA</p>

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<p>If it's in her heart, then she needs to apply. It never hurts, but make sure the essays are amazing!</p>

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<p>What is her ethnicity?</p>

<p>You don't know her retake Math II and Physics scores, but right now, they are abysmal.</p>

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<p>although universities emphasize "unique ECs, personal essays," the main measures in admissions still reside in one's GPA and SAT/ACT scores. Those are the two pre-conditions for admissions at every college in the nation, and particularly the top-25. </p>

<p>Lots of people i know got in not because of their very mediocre ECs, but most likely because of their outstanding SAT scores and GPAs.</p>

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<p>i'm confused. you say she's a '90 baby. is she a year ahead or is she a junior and you're just testing things out?</p>

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<p>nah 90 would be right for seniors im a junior and i was born in 91</p>

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<p>While 680 isn't the best score on Math II, it definitely isn't "abysmal." A 560 is a pretty low, but, like Gaffe said, hopefully the retake helps.</p>

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<p>Kah - You noticed! She is among the youngest in her class--turned 17 Saturday. She also began taking classes (honors geometry, honors biology and honors computer science) at the high school (half day) as an eighth grader.</p>

<p>Gaffe - She's white...with lots of freckles...does that help??? ;) Abysmal indeed. She didn't think she did very well on the retakes...because she skipped six questions on the Math 2 and skipped "a lot" on Physics. It turns out that if she's right (and she usually is, so she's probably not real far off) on Math, she will have garnered the lowest possible scaled score for an 800 (if I'm reading the chart in the prep book right) and she could still do less-than-abysmal on the Physics. There apparently is some hope.</p>

<p>Jimmy - I realize Columbia is a loooong shot. Her UC choices may be also. You trivialize EC's and essays; having visited every one of my daughter's choices and eleven more, I can confidently say the colleges do not. They do publish their mid 50% SAT scores--the SAT II's are a problem for my D, the SAT I's are not, nor is her GPA except at Columbia. I acknowledge she is on shakey ground with her EC's and I have full confidence in her ability to write an acceptable essay. Only time will tell.</p>