Chances for NYU, Georgetown, Barnard, Sarah Lawrence, Boston College?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Also chances for UMich, UMD, American U, GW, Fordham, UCLA, USC, Berkeley, Penn State, Northeastern, Boston College?

Junior c/o 2017
From Maryland
Race/Ethnicity: African American/Latina (Puerto Rican)
Hooks besides race: only one parent with college degree, attend low income school (but also the best school in my county which is mainly African American)

GPA: 3.9
Rank: Top 10/25% (not exactly sure but class size is around 650 students and the average gpa is lower than 3.5)
Class Rigor: 9 APs by the time I graduate and Dual enrollment at local state university, all honors since 9th grade (over 20 honors/ap/college classes from dual enrollment combined), also in a rigorous Magnet STEM program that you have to test into with year-long science research practicum senior year (weighted class b/c it is intense)
Two Honors English/ 2 English AP
4 Honors Science(Bio, Chem, Physics, Research Prac.)/ 2 AP Science (Bio, Chem)
1 Honors Social Studies/ 4 AP Social Studies (Gov, World, Psych, and Human Geo)
3 Honors Math/ 1 AP Math (Statistics)
Electives: Art, TV Productions, Japanese 1&2, Spanish 1&2, Forensics

Tests:
ACT: 32
SAT: 1400
(will also be taking SAT World History, Literature, and Biology [E]/M)

ECs:
Art Club (9th)
Honors Film Association (9th & 10th)
Founder and President of my school’s Social Justice Club (11&12)
National Honor Society (11&12)
National Japanese Honor Society (11&12)
Part Time Job at Smoothie Shop (11&12, working 20 hours per week)
Mentored incoming STEM 9th graders 2 years in a row
Drama Tech (10th)
Helped with spirit week events (10, 11, 12)
Track & Field with local Boys and Girls Club (11,12)
Volunteer at 3 non-profits involved in social justice issues (part of my passion/future college major besides neuroscience) with Us Helping Us (targets Black men with aids), 100 Fathers (helps Black men become better fathers), and also another that helps homeless minority LGBT youth find homes, and I also organized a supply drive for a battered women’s shelter through my social justice club

During my junior year I have about 20-30 hours of extracurricular activities per week and my gpa for just junior year is 3.875

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also have over 150 hours of community service

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Can someone please chance me? :slight_smile:

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You’re good for UMD (you’ll get into the honors college) and George Washington. But I couldn’t really say for any of the others. Hope this helps at least.

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I’m currently in Cambridge and applied to a several of your schools and got in.
You have an amazing portfolio and good scores.
Honestly, you should have no problem getting into ALL of your choices. Considering your ethnicity, you have a pretty good chance.

Your only trouble is for places like Berkeley and Georgetown. I would give Berkeley a chance of like 20% of you getting in. It is really competitive. Georgetown on the other hand is also quite competitive.Good luck.
And yeah, try to improve your SAT/ACT. It would be beneficial.

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I think you have an amazing shot at all your schools? You have a great GPA - some of these schools might even be on the lower end of the caliber that you could actually get into. I’d say you should have a look at some competitive almost IVY schools like Tufts, NE, etc. The only schools that are not fits / safeties for you are UMich, UCLA, BC, and Berkeley. But I’d say these are low-reaches for you. Basically, you have strong ECs, scores, and a solid GPA - I’d say you have at least a 50 - 90% chance for all of these, which is pretty high! (Is your SAT 1400/1600 btw?) You might even be able to apply to a few IVYs, if thats your thing. Also, assuming you are a female, not many girls want to go into STEM so that automatically places you at an adv. for colleges. :slight_smile:

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You are a strong candidate in many, many ways. The schools you listed are all good schools, and you are pretty likely at all of them-- of course Georgetown and those California schools are tougher to predict. My only word of guidance for your future applications-- and I’ve said this on a number of these “chance me” threads-- is this: do not confuse volume of ECs with quality (leadership, passion, hard work, commitment). Schools would rather see fewer but deeper more meaningful commitments than a long list of things that include one- or two-year stints like 9th grade Art Club and 10th grade Drama Tech. Those are fine, but they create a more crowded space where your impressive stories (your social justice commitment as reflected in the 3 excellent non-profits combined with founding the Social Justice Club; Maintaining a 20-hour-a-week part time job through junior and senior year) really need to stand out. I think it’s great you “helped with spirit week events” and spent 9th and 10th grade in “honors film association”, but please don’t put those on the same plane as your social justice work, which is clearly a deeply-held passion of yours. That passion by the way, along with the achievements you’ve undoubtedly managed in this area, will likely make for great applications to schools that will really care about this (Barnard, Sarah Lawrence, Berkeley, NYU especially). Good luck with this adventure. You are going to have some great choices. You might want to add Wesleyan and Penn in there, by the way.

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