Chances for a brown girl from NJ!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey Everyone-
I’m a rising junior, and I just want to know if I’m on the right track for some ivies and other top schools. My only problem (okay…not only, but one major problem) is that my UW GPA is low-ish. But just take a look, and any advice will be greatly appreciated. Oh by the way, I’m VERY interested in science and engineering. Thanks in advance guys! :)</p>

<p>Background: Asian (Indian) girl from competitive public school in NJ
SAT I (Practice Test-Will be taking actual in Oct) Math 800 CR 710 Writing 800 Total 2310
PSAT (10th grade) 219
SAT II Chem 800 Math II 800 Math I 760 (ßyeah, I don’t know why I took it)( I’ll take more too)</p>

<p>GPA UW: 3.63 W: 4.69</p>

<p>No school rank</p>

<p>Courses:
Freshman year:
Honors Biology (actually summer before freshman year)
Honors Chemistry
LA 1 Honors
Spanish 3 Acc
Geometry Honors and Accelerated
World History
Orchestra
Sophomore Year:
Honors Physics
AP Chemistry
LA 2 Honors
Spanish 4 Honors
Precalculus Honors and Accelerated
American Studies 1 Honors
Junior Year:
Advanced Topics in Modern Physics (will be taking AP Physics B&C exams)
AP Language and Composition
AP Spanish Language
AP Calculus BC
Computer Programming 1 & 2
AP US History
Senior Year:
AP Biology
AP Literature and Composition
AP Spanish Literature
Multivariable Calculus
AP European History
AP Computer Science A
Alternate plan: Instead of CompSci senior year, I’m planning to take a course in either chemistry or physics at Princeton University, since our school has this program to do so (I can only do this if my schedule can accommodate this class)</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Chemistry: 5
Other AP Exams:
AP Physics B, AP Physics C, AP Lang, AP Spanish Lang, AP Calc BC, AP USH, AP Bio, AP Lit, AP Spanish Lit, AP Euro History, AP Comp Sci A, AP MacroEcon, AP MicroEcon</p>

<p>Total AP Exams before graduating: 14</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/Awards/Everything Else: in parentheses are the number of years I’ve done each of the activities. I plan to continue all of these activities until the end of my senior year. (btw…these aren’t in order of importance or anything)</p>

<p>Academic Decathlon - Honors Team for Regionals and States(few individual medals and honorable mentions)(2 years)
ARB Princeton Ballet School – performer/dancer (11 years)
Columbia University Science Honors Program – a rigorous science program that runs throughout the school year in NYC, with a tough entrance examination (1 year)
FPSPI – Scenario Writing (Top Ten in state both years)(2 years)
Science Bowl – On Varsity SciBowl team both years (4th place at regionals sophomore year), will be captain junior year (2 years)
Red Cross – In school Club, Community Services chairperson for Central Jersey chapter, member of Youth Council of Central Jersey (2 years)
Math Club – compete in a bunch of competitions (1 year)
NJ Science League – on team for Chem 1, Chem 2 and Physics 1 (2 years)
Science Olympiad – On Varsity Science Olympiad team, was on National team (won 6th place overall, freshman year), have 8 individual medals (2 years)
Waksman Student Scholars Program – Member (2 years)
Young Naturalists Awards- Semifinalist
Westminister Conservatory of Music – violin (2 years)
Local Soccer Assosciation – Big Brother Big Sister (pretty much help little kids play soccer) (1 year)
KUMON tutor (4 years)
JHU CTY- taken distance education courses for 6 years, gotten all A’s and A+’s
Local Hospital volunteer (2 years) (300+ hours)
Princeton Mathematics Competition – on school team (1 year)
Molecular Biology Internship at Princeton University – performing proteomics research, publishing first paper in journal in late August, will also be entering the Intel Sci Competition senior year, will be getting a VERY good letter of recommendation with this (1 year)
Davidson Institute of Talent Development- THINK Summer Institute – took two college level courses (Physics and Journalism) and receive A’s in both, and got college credit (1 summer, will not be continuing)
ACS Chemagination Competition- won 1st place at regional competition, 2nd at final competition, wrote essay on Health/Medicine topic (1 year)
NJ State Legislature Award for Science achievement</p>

<p>That’s all I can think of for now, but please chance me at the following schools. Keep in mind that I DO have safeties. These are just my (possible) reach/match schools. </p>

<p>Princeton
Yale (top choice)
UPenn
Brown (PLME)
MIT
Caltech
Duke
And other similar schools.</p>

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<p>ahh... i knew I forgot something.
ACT score: 32 (i've already taken it)</p>

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<p>You definitely have a great shot at top schools..keep up the good work and good luck!</p>

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<p>thanks ivyleague104!</p>

<p>ayudarme por favor (please help me)!</p>

<p>ANY comments will be appreciated!</p>

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<p>bump please :)</p>

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<p>please help me out guys!</p>

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<p>Wow, you have great chances for all the schools that you have listed. I see no flaws in any of the information you have posted about yourself. Your extracurriculars are excellent, and you have a shot of getting a 2400 on the SAT since you already got a 2310 on a practice test. Your grades and selection of courses are also exemplary. Keep up with all this progress, and I will appreciate it if you will chance me...<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/550826-chances-upenn-nyu-umich-others.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/550826-chances-upenn-nyu-umich-others.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Also, I was just wondering - how is your UW GPA so low but your W GPA is very high? Anyways, good luck, and please chance me!!</p>

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<p>My school weighs honors and aps, and we get more credits for aps, so if you get an "a" in an ap class, then your weighted gpa goes way up. And i'll be glad to help chance you (even though I'm probably younger than you)!</p>

<p>Thanks for the comment, sparkboy123!</p>

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<p>advise me please!</p>

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<p>oh, i just realized i messed up my gpas.
revised: UW-3.69
W-4.63
there we go...</p>

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<p>bumping again...</p>

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<p>wait... do you sleep? thats a lot of stuff u did. respect. decent shots at top privates and lower ivys. top ivys will be reach for almost everyone.</p>

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<p>haha yeahhh i sleep.
i see that you say "top ivys will be reach for almost everyone". almost everyone? what should i improve on to be out of the "almost" range?
thanks mashrur!</p>

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<p>You have a great shot at everywhere you're interested in, but, as always, they're huge reaches for anyone and everyone.</p>

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<p>thanks lilygraces!
does anyone have any realistic advice on how to make myself more competitive for these colleges?</p>

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<p>The only thing more you could really do to make yourself more competitive is do really well on the SAT and increase your unweighted GPA.</p>

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<p>Well, if I get a 4.0 UW GPA my junior year (which is possible), my final GPA, before applying for colleges, will be a 3.85. Is that alright for the schools I'm aiming for?
But thanks lilygraces (again)! :)</p>

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<p>Haha. Yea, it's fine. Schools like to see improvement and while it doesn't make a HUGE difference, it makes you more competitive.</p>

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<p>cool cool. anyone else??</p>