Chances Please :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys, I'm a rising senior and was wondering if you guys would be willing to chance me. It'd also be great if you guys can point out things that I could/should improve on. Thanks!</p>

<p>Gender: Male
Race: Korean
Location: very competitive public high school in Texas
Intended Major: Government</p>

<p>GPA: 3.93 unweighted, rank 41/588 (top 10%) [may change in senior year] [somewhat of an upward trend- bad grades in freshman year]
SAT I:
1st sitting: 680R 650M 780W (2110)
2nd sitting: 790R 740M 700W (2230)
SUPERSCORED: 790R 740M 780W (2310)</p>

<p>SAT IIs: World History: 790 US History: 770 Korean: 800 (may take math I or II in Oct)</p>

<p>Awards:
-2nd place in Academic WorldQuest San Antionio Regionals (2009)
-UIL district finalist for extemporaneous speaking (2009)
-UIL Division I Band Soloist (2007, 2008)
-qualified for UIL State Band Solo Contest (2008)
-Finalist in University of Texas Spanish Poetry Declamation Contest (2009)
-A winner of the Austin International Poetry Festival Youth Contest (2008) & published poet</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
-STAND Anti-Genocide Coalition (President: 2009)
-World Affairs Club (Co-President: 2008-2009, Academic WorldQuest Team Captain: 2009)
-Politics, Economics, and Philosophy Club (Secretary: 2008-2009)
-Varsity Extemporaenous Speaking/Debate (2007-2008)
-Citizen Journalist writing about politics and IR (2008-2009)
-Marching/Concert Band (Band Librarian: 2008-2009)
-volunteer counselor at a camp for disabled children (891 hours, 2008-2009)</p>

<p>College Programs:
Attend the 2008 Georgetown University International Relations Summer Program for High School Students
Essays/Recs: hopefully both will be good. Obviously it wouldn’t mean anything for me to say that my essays are great or whatnot.</p>

<p>Please chance me for the following schools (this isn't my collegelist, I just want to see where I stand amongst the reaches that I may decide to apply to): </p>

<p>Cornell University
University of Chicago
Carnegie-Mellon
Northwestern
Brown
Princeton
NYU
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
Stanford
UPenn
Boston College
USC</p>

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<p>*My major would be polisci or international relations depending on the school.</p>

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<p>You should have a real good chance at UCs but since its not under your list of colleges, I say you have a good chance at USC at at least 1/2 of the colleges you listed. Sry I’m not that helpful because I’m only applying to UCs XD. </p>

<p>P.S Might be helpful stating your classes, so people would be aware of how your classes show you want to do government. Oh and state your weighted GPA too :)</p>

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<p>Sry Double Posting but dont do Math 1, because many good colleges dont count it and think you may be a slacker. Also Most just look at Math 2.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the response! More responses would be great!</p>

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<p>bump 10 char</p>

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<p>Cornell University in
University of Chicago reach
Carnegie-Mellon in
Northwestern in
Brown reach
Princeton reach
NYU in
Johns Hopkins reach
Georgetown reach
Stanford reach
UPenn reach
Boston College in
USC in
try to take another sat 2 cuz most colleges dont like applicants taking a language test in their native language, otherwise your pretty much in good standing
can u chance back plz? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/739962-plz-chance-overachiever-rice-u-maryland-duke-caltech-5-ucs.html#post1062841319[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/739962-plz-chance-overachiever-rice-u-maryland-duke-caltech-5-ucs.html#post1062841319&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks for the reply! Any others?</p>

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<p>certain schools do not honor score choice and thus do not accept super score. If they truly look at the highest scores, why the hell would they not honor score choice?
Screwed on colleges that do not honor score choice.
In for U of C.</p>

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<p>Aren’t the schools that utilize super scoring (like Cornell) typically the ones that are choosing to ignore score choice? It wouldn’t make sense for a school that ignores score choice to automatically deny super scoring, because the two things are completely different, especially since score choice only allows you to choose tests per sitting, not by section.</p>