Chance this URM!!! Don't just VEIW, POST too! PLEASE!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Wellesley College
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<p>Chance me for Wellesley!!! I'll chance you back ASAP) </p>

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<p>I will be applying to:
Wellesley (first choice...not applying ED)
Smith(3rd choice)
Mount Holyoke
URichmond
Syracuse
Tufts (2nd choice)
Carnegie Mellon</p>

<p>African American female
Moderately competitive Texas public school
Top 25% Class rank</p>

<p>My best SAT 1 scores are:
670 CR
630 W
610 M</p>

<p>SAT II: </p>

<p>670 Chem
planning on taking literature and scoring similiarly</p>

<p>GPA: 3.21 out of 4
(I know my GPA is low, but I did take some difficult courses.)</p>

<p>E.C.:</p>

<p>Theatre (all four years): Participated in 11 out of 13 shows including UIL
Director (Junior)
House Manager (Junior)
Historian
Ready Writing
Tutored English 1 and Algebra 1 (freshman)
Participated in community theatre show...performed about 20 shows, inclluding one on the steps of city hall for a crowd of hundreds</p>

<p>Community Service:
Volunteered at hospital for two summers and completed 90+ hrs(fresh and soph)
in Surgery Waiting area (assisted families to recovery, doctors visits...etc.) and Cyber Center (assisted patients and families with fax and computer use
Volunteered at library (freshman)</p>

<p>Awards: </p>

<p>Academic Excellence Plaques
Outstanding Biology </p>

<p>Senior Courseload:</p>

<p>AP English 4
AP Calculus AB
AP Govn't/Econ
Chemisty 3 H (Course after AP Chem 2, no AP available)
AP Comp Sci...and required regular courses: Comm apps, health, foundations, dance...</p>

<p>All comments and advice are much appreciated</p>

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<p>It’s hard to figure out exactly how much your URM status will help you overcome your GPA which is a bit below average for all the schools you’re looking at, especially since your SATs are a tad bit low as well. Your dedication to theater, however, gives you a nice edge, and it complements your resume very nicely. Hopefully it will sway some of the adcoms in your favor. I would give you around a 50% chance at Wellesly and Smith, maybe 40% at Tufts and Carnegie Mellon, and I would say you’re probably in at most/all of the others. I would just make sure that you do really well he first half of your senior year so colleges know you truly care about your academics. Good Luck!</p>

<p>Here’s my chance thread if you can chance back
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/746059-why-did-i-only-fall-love-my-reaches.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/746059-why-did-i-only-fall-love-my-reaches.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;