Chance please!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Santa Clara University
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<p>Junior year of High School completed (Male Student, white)- Planning to Major in Political Science. California Resident</p>

<p>Overall unweighted HS GPA: 3.36 Upward trend from a 2.8 freshman year. Class rank is a horrible 38 of 68.</p>

<p>Senior classes: (With grades, but those grades are not included in the 3.36 average unfortuately)</p>

<p>Jazz Band - A
English 4 - A
Chemistry - A
Physics - A
Christian Living/Bible- A
Trig/Precalc - B
PE - A
Academic Decathlon - A</p>

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<p>SAT Reasoning Scores: Critical Reading- 690 Math- 650 Writing- 640
Overall- 1980/2400
or 1340/1600</p>

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<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Jazz Band 9th grade, 12th grade (first chair tenor saxophone.</p>

<p>Varsity Golf- Junior year, Senior year</p>

<p>Varsity Soccer- Sophomore year</p>

<p>National Honor Society Member</p>

<p>CSF Member</p>

<p>Journalism/Publications for two years, and continuing senior year and throughout college. High school online newspaper won the NSPA national Pacemaker award for high school newspapers while I was a staff writer. Pacemaker finalist my junior year. Featured on the High School Journalism "National Edition" junior year for a published article (meaning I have an article published on a national medium, and many published pieces of writing on my high school's online and print edition newspapers). One of my articles recieved Honorable Mention at the NSPA competition.</p>

<p>Opinions Editor of above mentioned award-winning high school newspaper</p>

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<p>Refs:</p>

<p>Excellent refs from English teacher and councilor stating that "my GPA in no way reflects by academic ability."</p>

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<p>Essay: Very good essay</p>

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<p>I think you have a better than 50/50 chance. Your GPA is definitely pulling you down, but you show great improvement going from a B- to an A average over the past few years. And even with the bad freshman year, you're not that far from the average for SCU's enrolled students (3.5).</p>

<p>Your standardized test scores are excellent for SCU, putting you near the top 25%. And SCU's decision process is very holistic so the varsity sports and journalism ECs, good refs and essay will also help you out.</p>

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<p>Did you apply early app? If so, will you let me know when you hear from them?</p>

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<p>I did not apply EA. Anyone else's opinion?</p>

<p>thanks, also- for the above response.</p>