Chances for U of Chicago, Northwestern, and Columbia!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi there! Here goes nothing - </p>

<p>Favourite schools:
Columbia (will probably apply ED)
U of Chicago
Northwestern
Middlebury
Swarthmore
NYU
Barnard
Smith
Mount Holyoke</p>

<p><em>International student</em>
Ethnicity: Trinidadian-Chinese
Income: 0 (we live on government subsidies and handouts)
Comes from single-parent family
Hooks: multiracial, first generation college student</p>

<p>School Type: quite famous public school
Unweighted GPA: 3.667
Class rank: school doesn’t calculate; top 10% at the very least
SAT I: first time 2140 (800 CR, 690 M, 650 W); second time 2010 (700 CR, 690 M, 620 W)
IELTS: 8.5 overall
SAT II Literature: 780
SAT II World History: 770 </p>

<p>Extracurricular Info:
*took courses at Coursera, MIT OpenCourse just for the hell of it
*wrote theses on cultural norms, immigration, religion, philosophy, etc as extra coursework – a paper actually won an international essay comp
*Literature Society; chairlady
*Editor-in-Chief of school magazine
*Designed language course in my own dialect, along with materials such as flashcards, for immigrants of ethnic minorities at a local community centre; volunteered 180+ hours
*Voluntary English tutoring for my immigrant neighbour; ~250 hours
*Project manager of a fundraising carnival; raised ~$2000
*Model United Nations Conference Team – Head Delegate; Leader of Delegations; won Best Delegate Awards and Honourable Mentions at all MUNs I went to
* Debate Team – co-founder and captain; adjudicated two debates under a national debate comp; best speaker in quite a few debate comps
* choir, drama, ballet, tennis (nothing special)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
*internship at major broadcasting company
*Tutor, 6 hours per week, 3 years now</p>

<p>Awards:
*Harvard Book Prize 2013
*2nd in national news commentary comp
*school awarded me the Outstanding Service Award and Subject Achievement Award twice
*Shakespearian monologue comp champion </p>

<p>Recommendations:
3 awesome recs -
1 from my literature teacher, who doubles as my counsellor
1 from my debate coach
1 from my maths/class teacher</p>

<p>Essays:
I'm guessing that I'll have pretty strong essays; I am, after all, a writer at heart.</p>

<p>Thank you for reading this - I'll try to chance back, though my knowledge regarding the intricacies of the admissions process is severely limited at best (hence this thread).</p>

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<p>Your uw GPA is low while your SAT score is at or below average for these schools. So they are likely low reach to reach for you.</p>