Chances for a Junior, Please?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Stats:
SAT: 1950 (Retook this weekend after doing 7 full-length practice tests, getting above 2000 consistently)
SAT IIs: will take Physics, US History, Math I
ACT: 28 (will be retaking)
GPA: 3.4/3.5 UW
Rank: School Doesn't Rank (strong highschool <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=331850%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=331850&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: Hawaii/USA
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Korean (1st Generation born, parents emigrated as children)
Gender: Male</p>

<p>ECs:
• Worked on Campaigns for Governor/Mayor.
• Junior Statesmen Chapter Founder
• Junior Statesmen Summer School Alumni (Stanford)
• Presidential Classroom Scholar
• Student Body Senator
• Reishaur Scholar (run through Stanford, around 30 scholars a year)
• Community Service Project in Vietnam
• EPGY Beijing Summer Program (taught by Stanford profs, focused on International Relations and Business)</p>

<p>I am looking to major in Political Science, and most of my ECs are related to either Politics or International relations. I've lived in many states/countries, and have studied Spanish, Japanese and Korean. Anyways I have my college conference soon but just seeing how you guys would chance me.</p>

<p>• Middlebury
• Colgate
• Bowdoin
• Haverford
• McGill
• Northwestern
• Vanderbilt
• Georgetown
• Notre Dame
• Tufts</p>

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<p>I think you have pretty strong ECs that focus on what you're interested in, which is a good sign. However, I would bring up your stats SAT/GPA wise for a higher chance at all of those schools. What about volunteer hours?</p>

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<p>You definitely need to bring up your SATs and/or ACT as well as your GPA. Right now, none of those sure bets. You should compile a list of safeties you'd be happy at, too.</p>

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<p>I just retook the SAT this weekend and I'm pretty confident I brought it up a considerable ammount. I did something like 7 full practice SATs in the 2 weeks before the test. Thats like 28 hours of practice :P</p>

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<p>a couple safeties im looking at are American, Bucknell, University of Washington. if any1 has any other ideas of schools that might be good fits for me i'd be happy to have your suggestions.</p>

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<p>Holy Cross a top30 LAC is SAT optional and is similar to Notre Dame and Colgate. Holy Cross has nice campus 1 hour from Boston.</p>

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<p>how about Amherst, or BU, Lafayette, Wake Forest? just some suggestions =) and you'd probably have a good shot at the UC's I think. keep up the hard work!</p>

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<p>your EC's are great, nice and focused. I agree with previous post, add more safeties.</p>

<p>Definetly keep up with the relationships from Ec's, they will make great recommendations.</p>

<p>Keep taking practice exams to get those SAT's up.</p>

<p>Take language SAT II's in your 3 languages</p>

<p>You are very diverse, yet obviously focused and passionate about what you love.</p>

<p>Good Luck, will post again with additional school opts.</p>

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<p>Also look at michigan state , ohio state, university of colordo as these are all greated ranked poli sci programs.</p>

<p>Go to search tool, type poli sci programs and read those threads, go info:D</p>

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<p>you might also want to GW</p>