chances for a slightly above average student at slightly above average schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Grade: 12
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Black
State: Virginia</p>

<p>GPA:3.96 (w), 3.6 (uw)
Rank: 96/494 (81% percentile)
SAT I: 1270/1600 or 1850/2400. plan to retake, along with SAT II's</p>

<p>EC's</p>

<p>Spanish Club (9,10,12)
Student Organization for Helping Others (9,10,11,12)
Film Club (10,11,12)
Astronomy Club (11)
Ecology Club (11)
Beta Honor Society (11,12)
Eagles Combination Choir (11)
Men's Choir (11)
Church Youth Choir (9,10)
Symphonic Band (9,10,11)
Wind Ensemble (12)
Marching Band (9,10,11,12)
-Trumpet Section Leader (12)
Homeroom Representative (12)</p>

<p>Part Time Jobs
Chickfila- 7/05-present. 20 hrs/schoolweek
Little Caesars 7/07- present. 10 hrs/schoolweek</p>

<p>Summer activities
-Chosen by guidance counselor out of 490 students to participate in a statewide science/ math camp (10)
-Vacation Bible School Crew Leader (9)</p>

<p>Community Service
-tutoring elementary schoolers, helping teachers with classroom tasks (60 hrs)</p>

<p>Other
-Participated in National Chemistry Olympiad- 2007
-Perfect Attendence (9,10)
-Honor Roll (9,10,11,12)</p>

<p>10 honors/2 aps over course of high school</p>

<p>Interested schools
Cornell
UVA
Virginia TEch
U Wisconsin
JMU
U. Maryland
U Delaware
Rutgers
Penn State
UConn
NC State
Old Dominion University</p>

<p>so what do you guys think?</p>

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<p>you seem to have a lotof clubs, yet no leadership positions in any of them. which ends up making them seem like a laundry list</p>

<p>your ranking isnt too hot either, and your sats are great</p>

<p>however, your urm helps you somewhat, not as much as people claim it does</p>

<p>but, id have to say cornell is still a reach for you. the rest, id say youre in/slight match</p>

<p>raise your sats to at last 2000 and u have a decent standing at cornell</p>

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<p>i do have SOME leadership, with the section leader and the homeroom representative thing. I know its not much but it looks better than nothing, right?</p>

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<p>im pathetic</p>

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<p>You're stats look great except for your EC. Like the above poster, appears you just joined a lot of stuff but didn't take an active role in many. So I would cut down on some of the minor EC's to avoid the laundry list appearance. I think Cornell && UVA are reach school for you, but could see you in the Scholars program at UMD.</p>

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<p>so should i just not include some of the ec's?</p>

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<p>UVA is not a reach for a URM with his stats.</p>