chances me with my college choices plz !!

Applying to College
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<p>African American [Female]
-UW GPA: 3.6
- W GPA :3.9
-SAT score:2000
-Community service hours [up until this point]: over 700 hours
-my school doesn't rank :/
- received a 4 on the US History AP exam & English and Language Composition AP Exam
- received a 2 on the French Language AP exam
- currently the President of my debate team
- involved in numerous clubs [3]
- has had only one summer job [Mr. Goodcents]
- Kansas residency
- school: private, catholic high school [competitive]
grading scale a lil different --> 93-100 = A 85-92 = B, etc </p>

<p>I love community service and always want to advocate for the common good so I would love to major in legal studies or history. To be evident to my passion, I volunteer for an organization called Youth Court in which the volunteers are attorneys for teens who've committed first-time misdemeanor crimes, I’ve been apart of this program for about 4 years now. Also, I am organizing and collecting books from local libraries to send to deprived children in Awlaw, Nigeria as well as organizing "Jammin for Joplin" inorder to help raise money for the tornado disaster in Joplin, MO. also both my parents have english as their second language, but i wouldn't be the first one to go to college.
Some special awards I've gotten include a Presidential Service award [bronze] and two other Presidential Service Awards [silver]. My school also offers academic awards based on a GPA greater than 3.65 throughout the school year so I've received numerous of those.
-Vice President of the NAACP youth council in my area.
And then for debate:
-me and my partner placed 6th for the regional KCPLD tournament
- i placed 9th place for Top Speakers of the Year
-I received a bar as well as a Degree of Distinction from the National Forensic League
I'm also planning to retake the SAT in october and score higher! :]
but here's the list of other AP's:
AP US History
AP English Language & Composition
AP French Language
AP English Literature [for senior year]
AP European History [for senior year]</p>

<p>the schools i'm really aiming for are:
NYU (New York University)
University of California - Berkeley
University of California - Santa Cruz
Pepperdine University
University of California - Los Angelos
Boston University
Georgetown University </p>

<p>i appreciate all advice !! [both bad & good]</p>

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<p>do you mean 13 when you said numerous clubs? because 3 isn’t that many… :X
but regardless, I think you have a decent shot, not a good one, but still worthy of applying to those colleges. bring up that SAT score, your GPA, and i think your community service will help you out a lot in the college process. good luck!</p>

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<p>WoW! Your EC are really amazing. I think you can definitley get into NYU, BU, and Pepperdine. Your GPA is a little too low for the UC schools and Georgetown. You might wanna try calculation your UC GPA
<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/q-and-a/calculating-gpa/index.html[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/q-and-a/calculating-gpa/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Other than that I think your a great canidate. Start working on those essays!</p>

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<p>I agree with the above poster! NYU BU and Pepperdine you have a really good shot at . also UC santa cruz you could probably get into!</p>