Chances Please (Just Got SAT Scores)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Stats:
SAT: 2050 (700 Math/690 Reading/660 Writing)
SAT IIs: US History/Literature (predict above 700 for both)
ACT: 28 (will be retaking)
GPA: 3.4/3.5 UW
Rank: School Doesn't Rank (strong highschool <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=331850%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=331850&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: Hawaii/USA
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Korean-American (1st Generation born, parents emigrated as children)
Gender: Male</p>

<p>ECs:
• Worked on Campaigns for Governor/Mayor.
• Junior Statesmen Chapter Founder
• Junior Statesmen Summer School Alumni (Stanford)
• Presidential Classroom Scholar
• Student Body Senator
• Reishaur Scholar (run through Stanford, around 30 scholars a year)
• Community Service Project in Vietnam
• EPGY Beijing Summer Program (taught by Stanford profs, focused on International Relations and Business)</p>

<p>I am looking to major in Political Science, and most of my ECs are related to either Politics or International relations. I've lived in many states/countries, and have studied Spanish, Japanese and Korean. Anyways I have my college conference soon but just seeing how you guys would chance me.</p>

<p>• Middlebury
• Colgate
• Hamilton
• Bowdoin
• Haverford
• McGill
• Northwestern
• Vanderbilt
• Georgetown
• Notre Dame
• Tufts</p>

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<p>I'm no expert, first of all, as a disclaimer of any possible bad advice*</p>

<p>I'd say you have a very themed ECs passion about politics and you obviously commit. Retaking your ACTs and getting 32+, I would think that you'd have a slight reach-->reach at most of the schools, what with the GPA. If your GPA is below 3.75, most selective schools only accept around 20% of those applicants, as I've read through several college profiles. </p>

<p>At this point, however, your ACT scores and GPA aren't looking so good.
I won't say "reach/match/slight match" or w/e on them because I honestly can't give you professional advice. :)</p>

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<p>I most likely won't send my ACT score. And without Freshman year I actually have more of a 3.66 unweighted, 3.8 weighted.</p>

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<p>Naturally I am guessing these are all reaches and will go ED to one of them. I'm looking at a couple of safeties and more likely schools as well but figuired I wouldn't list those.</p>

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<p>Being from Hawaii may work to your advantage. Every school loves to claim how it has kids from all 50 states. Hawaii is a tougher state to find applicants from, so you may get lucky.</p>

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<p>Geographic diversity is important to a lot of private colleges. You'll get into at least one. I wouldn't be surprised if you got into most of them.</p>