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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Rising Senior
Female-Caucasian
Rank 2/196 (GPA:99.875)
IB Diploma Candidate
SAT: 1930 (650cr, 620m, 660w)
ACT: 28
SAT2s: 600 Math1, 640 Bio M
Ecs:
President of NHS
Emmaus Leader
Co-President of School
Student Council
Swimming Team
Job at Ice Cream Shoppe </p>

<p>Recs: should be phenomenal
Essay:should be great as well</p>

<p>Schools:
Brown
Columbia
William & Mary
Duke
JHU
UNC-Chapel Hill
UVa
Binghamton
Stony Brook
& other suggestions for a pre-med route</p>

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<p>Your friend’s test scores are rather unimpressive, especially considering her extraordinarily high GPA, which calls to attention questions of her school’s rigor. Her ECs are nice but not great, and they don’t seem to really indicate a passion for or focus on anything in particular. Ultimately, I’d say that Stony Brook, Binghamton, and maybe UVa, UNC, and W&M are plausible depending on her state of residence. Brown, Columbia, Duke, and JHU are probably longshots though, or at least pretty high reaches. I’d recommend adding more safety schools.</p>

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<p>SAT isn’t high enough for any top 20 schools. Top 20-50 schools are more in your friends range.</p>

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<p>Typically kids with ~1500-1600 in our school go to Bing…
the average sat in our school is well below 1400 (between all 3) so in our school anything 1800+ is considered “impressive” as only 5 or so kids out of 196 will get that in a given year</p>

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<p>SAT is not really high enough, neither are your friend’s subject tests … Any grade inflation at your school, or is she just a bad test taker? Brown, Columbia, Duke, and JHU are going to be pretty high reaches … Good luck!</p>

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<p>Pretty low sat act, but impressive GPA and Class Rank (although your stats call your schools rigor into question). You will have most favorable outcomes at stonybrook and binghamton. Get those sats up 2100+ and you will be more competitive at top schools. Good Luck!</p>

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<p>SAT scores could be higher especially compared to her GPA. Also SAT 2 scores could be much higher. Probably high reach for all of those schools. Please chance me back <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1208785-chance-me-official-list-colleges-im-going-apply.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1208785-chance-me-official-list-colleges-im-going-apply.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>There is some pretty good grade inflation at my school…If you take full IB, it is so easy to have a high gpa; yeah, she took the ACT today and said she thinks she did better (~31); thanks for the opinions, I’m going to tell her to sign up to retake the Sat Subject tests…</p>

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<p>Test scores are extremely low, and her EC’s do not make up for that at all. The only way she’d have a chance at Brown/Columbia is if she was poor + URM, but seeing as that isn’t so… I don’t think she has chances at those two.</p>

<p>The rest, I can’t say.</p>

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<p>She kind of has a sticky family situation, as her mom passed away…so she will definitely pay homage to her mom in her essay.</p>

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<p>its pretty obvious from your description of the school that it isn’t very competitive, so that GPA doesn’t really translate well… SATs and ACTs low too, im sorry but i don’t think your friend has that much of a shot at
Brown
Columbia
Duke</p>

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<p>The fact about her mother is interesting, and will probably make for a pretty darn good essay, but I don’t know if it’ll help her as far as admissions go. I’m not sure on that, though. But yes, if she can get her test scores up she’ll be in decent shape, because as amazing as her GPA is, it doesn’t mean much if she didn’t have to work hard to earn it. </p>

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<p>Be wary of essays about a loved one passing away. I don’t mean don’t write it, but they aren’t always effective and may be cliche, sadly.</p>

<p>Also, that’s not going to make up for the test scores, as she can always retake them.</p>

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<p>As it stands, I’d say its pretty much impossible for the top 20 schools. Tell her to re-take all the tests and see where she stands after. As for the essays, I’d recommend focusing on something else for her main essay and talking about her mom in an additional essay (in the common app where it asks if you would like to say anything else). </p>

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