Chance please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>For my daughter.</p>

<p>GPA: 3.49/4. Ranking somewhere above 25/1,200. Valedictorian has 3.6 GPA, 25 has 3.3...so I suspect my daughter will be closer to #1 than #25. She will find out for sure at the end of the week.</p>

<p>SAT: 740 on each of the three sections. I would think this evenness would make her stand out.</p>

<p>SAT II: unknown. Just took Bio and U.S. history. Signed up to retake bio just in casrice, and English.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: more quality than quantity. Heavy theater tech--since 6th grade. She was Assistant Crew chief on last production last year and PropMaster on the first production this year. In line to be Crew chief for a production later this year. Has also done lighting, set design, etc. Has done a little volunteer stuff but not a lot.</p>

<p>Summers: John Hopkins/CTY for three years, including a program on marine life, living on a boat. This past year, she took two courses at City College Macaulay Honors Program in bioinformatics and something else (I forget what)...related. A- in one and A in the other. </p>

<p>Most challenging program: AP courses in Western Civ, U.S., AB Calculus, Economics, Environmental, English Lit., Intel Social Science Research, othan honors courses Freshman and sophmore years, always took more courses than required (except this year--budget cuts).
Colleges applying to: Harvard, Yale, Swarthmore, Haverford, Brandeis, University of Rochester, SUNY Geneseo and Binghamton, Stony Brook, Syracuse, Brown, Macaulay Honors Program (CUNY)...I know I am missing one...</p>

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<p>Apparently there’s tough grading at your daughters school.
In at: University of Rochester, SUNY Geneseo and Binghamton, Stony Brook, Syracuse
Most likely in at Brandeis</p>

<p>Reaches at Harvard, Yale, Swarthmore, Haverford</p>

<p>I don’t know CUNY</p>

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<p>The grading system is such that it is extremely difficult to get above a 3.5. There are letter grades: E, G, N and F. E is equivalent to 3.5. AP courses and independent study courses get higher points toward grades-4.5…so the only way you can get above a 3.5 is to take those courses and do well. Judging from my friend’s son who is at Brandeis, I would be surprised if he didn’t get in there (his SATs were quite a bit lower and so were his grades but the courses might have tougher because of the nature of the program).</p>

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<p>I forgot Washington-St. Louis…</p>

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<p>In terms of specific grades: Straight Es in all science, all but three E’s in social sciences (the other three grades were Gs), all but one E in English (again the other grade was G), and I two G’s in math; the rest E’s. This is for quarters…not semesters. She got 5 on the Western Civ AP test and 4 on U.S. and Calculus.</p>

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<p>Anyone out there?</p>

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<p>Correction…she is not applying to Brown and is applying to Oberlin instead.</p>

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<p>Bump…bump</p>

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<p>Bumpity bump.</p>

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<p>Harvard and Yale seem difficult since she has a few Gs on her transcript (im assuming G = B) and all of the other applicants applying there will have straight A’s and stunning ECs
Haverford/Swarthmore will be low-mid reaches
The rest are targets/safeties</p>

<p>The theater tech looks intense and will help but the lack of other ecs will hurt a bit
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<p>G equals 85…so I think between a B and an A.</p>

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<p>Bump…again, really?</p>