Chance this average guy. =P

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Ethnicity-East Asian<--before you judge, take into consideration this fact that will inevitably lower my chances, Grade-11, Gender-Male, State-Oregon </p>

<p>PSAT -- 210 CR 55 (<-- talk about below averageness!!), WR 80, M 75</p>

<p>SAT I -- CR 680 WR-780 (11 Essay) M-800</p>

<p>AP courses taken -- World History, 5</p>

<p>AP courses taken this year and will be taking next year -- Calculus BC, English Lang, English Lit., Biology, Spanish, Chemistry, Physics C</p>

<p>SAT IIs to be taken -- World History, Math 2, Chemistry, Biology, and Physics
ACTs will be taken</p>

<p>GPA--3.99, top 5% in competitive public school of 256 per class, most likely Salutatorian </p>

<p>Extracurriculars--Eagle Scout, Cross Country, Track, Piano (6 yrs), Alto Saxophonist, a bunch of clubs... </p>

<p>Leadership positions--young men secretary at church, chess club co-president, math team treasurer, class representative</p>

<p>Work & Volunteer Experience--local chemical plant as an intern, summer hospital intern, red cross blood drive volunteer, tutor at school</p>

<p>Awards--local and regional competitions in academics and performing arts usually 3rd or 4th place...</p>

<p>Colleges -- UW, UC Berkeley, Portland U, Oregon U, Boston U, U Chicago</p>

<p>Dream Colleges (aka places I'll never get in) -- any of the ivies, stanford, duke... basically top 20 schools =P</p>

<p>Reply in this format please before making any comments...</p>

<p>Safety --
Match --
Reach --</p>

<p>(your comments and why you chose as you did)</p>

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<p>These are the colleges I feel like I know enough about:</p>

<p>Reach -- Ivies, Stanford, Duke
Slight Reach -- Berkeley, Chicago</p>

<p>Ultimately I feel like your application thus far is certainly not bad but unfortunately very average in the applicant pools for selective schools. I assume you are a rising junior and not a junior this year? If so you might consider retaking the SAT's if that was your first go although it's certainly not bad at all. Make sure you get 4-5's on AP's and 700+ on SAT II's and keep up on the good grades. Trying to develop a hook on your EC's would help a lot.</p>

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<p>bump..bump</p>

<p>I'm a Junior to be senior who will graduate in 2009, the sat score was from my first test... however, I don't think I'll take the test again because my CR sucks and it might drop the next time I take it :(</p>

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<p>^Your CR score does not suck. If you prepare and do some rigorous prep, then i'm sure you can get that 680 to above a 700. You're very close...and I don't see why it would drop the next time you took it.</p>

<p>Basically all of your dream schools are reaches. Berkeley and UChicago are probably slight reaches or high matches...and the rest you're likely to get into.</p>

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<p>I'll keep you all posted on my subject tests and AP scores in the following months! Keep posting! :)</p>

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<p>AP Scores came back and also an SAT II score--</p>

<p>Junior--
AP English Lang 5
AP Biology 5
AP Calculus BC/AB Subscore 5/5
AP Physics C: Mechanics 5
AP Physics C: E & M 4--very surprising because I studied for this one :P
SAT II World History -- 780 -- 94 percentile</p>

<p>btw, my SAT score percentiles are as follows for CR/M/W --> 93%/99%/99%</p>

<p>PLEASE RE-CHANCE ME!!!</p>

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<p>bump </p>

<p>10char</p>

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<p>very impressive stats.. especially the sats and gpa. the extracurriculars are good as well. I think you have a good chance at berkeley but the ivies are a reach.. but they are a reach for every one.. you need to emphasize a few extracurriculars in your essay i think so that it shows you have a passion for something.</p>

<p>hit me back please with some chances.. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/542887-chances-ucla.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/542887-chances-ucla.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>