Chances? I'm a little worried.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am currently a HS Junior. </p>

<p>Preferred colleges: GMU, Penn State UPark, UF, Wesleyan University, Rutgers, NYU, Boston College, Boston University, and Wheaton College in MA. </p>

<p>Ranked 19 in my class of 498</p>

<p>GPA(Unweighted): 3.67
GPA(Weighted): 4.6585</p>

<p>SAT: 1590 (Retaking in June)
ACT: 22 Composite (Retaking in June)</p>

<p>AP Classes taken and will take in 2013-2014:
Human Geo, World History, Environmental Science, U.S. History, Stats, Euro, Lit, Gov/Econ</p>

<p>Dual-Enrollment Classes
Public Speaking
Anthropology
Gen/Social Psychology</p>

<p>Senior workload
AP Euro, AP Literature, AP Government, AP Macroeconomics, AP Statistics, Dual-Enrollment Gen/Social Psychology, Dual-Enrollment in Anthropology, Debate V Honors, Spanish II, Marketing Applications. </p>

<p>3 Years of Debate honors (One more year for senior year)
Won several in state tournaments, Nationally ranked in top 32 in all of U.S., Placed 5th in state of Florida.
Placed in top 16 a the University of Florida Blue Key speech and debate tournament.
DECA Honors as well, made it to state level competition.</p>

<p>Leadership positions and extra curricular:
Captain of my debate team
President of DECA club chapter
Secretary of Jewish Student Connection club.
National Honor Society member
National English Honor Society member
100+ Service hours (More to come)
Finalist for Broward County Public Speaking Competition.</p>

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<p>In order to have a shot at the schools that you mentioned, it is necessary that you improve your ACT about 8 points, or your SAT by about 500. Both will be challenging tasks, but they can be done. With either improvement, none of those schools will be more than a low reach.</p>

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<p>Are there any safeties you could think of with scores like this?</p>

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<p>debater1996, more than half of those colleges would accept him with those scores. what you are suggesting makes him eligible for almost ivy leagues and other higher schools.</p>

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<p>Really? How so? @otmurphy</p>

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<p>@otmurhpy</p>

<p>You are correct with that. Do note that I said “with either improvement, none of those schools would be more than a low reach”. I never said that some wouldn’t accept the OP. I just saw schools such as NYU, BC, and BU, and realized that such the high improvement I mentioned would put those as good possibilities. Also, a 30 isn’t Ivy League level. A 30 is NYU/BU/BC level, which is what the OP wants to apply to.</p>