chances with an 1800 but excellent other stuff? REAL scared (specially for USC)! HELP

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>USC!</p>

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<p>USC
pepperdine
claremont
pitzer
northwestern
pomona
occidental
univ of san francisco
nyu
colgate univ
ucla
uci
ucsd or univ of san diego (which ones better)?
uc berkeley
uc sb</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULAR</p>

<p>-President of Care4kids Club, grades 11-12, 2-3 hours/week.
-Member of Interact Club, grade 10, 1 hour/week
-Big Brothers Big Sisters mentor, grades 9-12, 1 hour/week
-French Hospital Volunteer, grades 9-12, 2 hours/week
-Bishop's Peak School Carnival Volunteer, grades 10-12, 3 hours/year
-6th grade challenge, grades 10-12, 7 hours/year
-Cross Country, grades 11-12, 2 hours/week
-Garba (Indian form of dance-culture), grades 9-12, 30 hours/1 month
-National Honors Society, grades 11-12, 1 hour/month</p>

<p>WORK EXPERIENCE</p>

<p>certain hotel desk clerk, grade 9, when needed
hotel manager/co-founder, grades 10-12, 4-8 hours/weekend</p>

<p>SUMMER PROGRAMS</p>

<p>National Student Leadership Conference (Medicine & Health Care), Northwestern University</p>

<p>AWARDS (idk if i did this right, but i looked back in my school folder with all my awards and wrote the title)</p>

<p>here are the directions: Honors and awards received (list title), including National Merit Semi-Finalist, National Achievement, Westinghouse, Girls/Boys State, Alpha Gamma Sigma, etc.: </p>

<p>-CSF Scholorship
-Academic Excellence
-National Junior Classical League Latin Honor Society
-Community Service Acknowledgment Award
-Mayor's Award
-Labor Omnia Vincit MMIX Certificate of Merit
-National Society of Professional Surveyors(Trig Star Competition)
-Award of Excellence for French Hospital Medical Center Volunteen Program</p>

<p>SAT: 1800
reading: 580
math" 610
writing 610</p>

<p>GPA: 3.74, 4.16
College GPA: 4.2 or 4.3</p>

<p>oh and i've taken all honors and AP except for one english class freshman year</p>

<p>Freshman Year
-5 B's (4 in honors one in regular) the rest of all my grades are A's unless otherwise stated.</p>

<p>Sophmore Year
-3 B's</p>

<p>Junior Year
-4 B’s one in regular anatomy, one in AP english, and regular French 3, calc seminar</p>

<p>Senior Year
-hopefully only 1 or 2 B's if that.</p>

<p>CLASSES OF SENIOR YEAR</p>

<p>AP english
AP stats
AP chemistry
AP latin literature
reduced day- to take Calculus 2
environmental science
marine biology..
developmental psychology or cross country (my teacher my drop me from CC!)</p>

<p>major: undecided even tho im going to be a neurologist.</p>

<p>college classes ive taken:</p>

<p>Medical Terminology
Math 127
History 107A
English 156
Art 100
Economics 1A
Psychology 101
Chemistry 210
Global Public healthcare
Calculus 2
Calculus 3 maybe calculus 4
English 1A</p>

<p>all of u read all this and are about to respond...thank u SO much!</p>

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<p>Why didn’t you just retake the SATs? If you had 2000+ you’d be a match for most, but with 1800, some just fall under a reach. USC is probably a reach.</p>

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<p>SAT is the only thing holding you back from most of these schools</p>

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<p>There are way too many reaches on your list and not enough matches and safeties. While your GPA looks high, with all of those B’s I’m guessing your rank could not be very high. In all honesty, Pomona, CMC, USC, UCB, UCLA, Northwestern and Colgate would be enormous reaches with a 2000.</p>

<p>As even UCI and the other mid tier UCs are not safe with a 1900, that would pretty much leave USF as your only safety, so make sure it’s a financial safety as they don’t meet need.</p>

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<p>You founded a hotel?</p>

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<p>As you may already know, some very good schools, like Pitzer, do not require you to submit SAT scores. Here is something that ABC New published:</p>

<p>ABC News. Below are some of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges and universities that do not require students to submit SAT or ACT test scores, as compiled by U.S. News and World Report. </p>

<p>Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.* </p>

<p>Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine </p>

<p>Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.* </p>

<p>Bates College, Lewiston, Maine </p>

<p>Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. </p>

<p>College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass. </p>

<p>Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, N.Y. </p>

<p>Connecticut College, New London, Conn.* </p>

<p>Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.* </p>

<p>Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. </p>

<p>Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa. </p>

<p>Pitzer College, Claremont, Calif. </p>

<p>Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis. </p>

<p>Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill. </p>

<p>Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. </p>

<p>Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, N.Y. </p>

<p>Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa. </p>

<p>Drew University, Madison, N.J. </p>

<p>Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. </p>

<p>Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minn. </p>

<p>Knox College, Galesburg, Ill. </p>

<p>Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Ore. </p>

<p>Bennington Collge, Bennington, Vt. </p>

<p>Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass. </p>

<p>Juniata Collge, Huntingdon, Pa. </p>

<p>Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa. </p>

<p>Providence College, Providence, R.I.</p>

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<p>I’m confused by your UW GPA number. Assuming you’re taking 8 classes a year, which is what I gather from your senior schedule, through junior year you have 12 "B"s and 12 "A"s. That should work out to a 3.5. Secondly, most if not all colleges work on a 4.0 system, how can you have a 4.2 or 4.3 GPA?</p>

<p>As others have mentioned, your major stumbling block is the SAT score. Take it again or consider trying the ACT.</p>

<p>USC - reach
pepperdine - safety
claremont - reach
pitzer- match
northwestern - reach
pomona - reach
occidental - match/reach
univ of san francisco - safety
nyu -match/reach
colgate univ - match/reach
ucla - reach
uci - don’t know
ucsd or univ of san diego (which ones better)? - they are the same - match/reach
uc berkeley - reach
uc sb - don’t know</p>

<p>With better SATs many of the reaches will move toward matches, (assuming your GPA is 3.7 and not 3.5). Northwestern, Pomona, Claremont, UCB & UCLA are going to be reaches unless there is a big jump in your SATs.</p>

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<p>we have trimesters…so i have 15 classes. and that IS my gpa right now. even tho we’re on 4.0 system, there AP classes which gives the extra boost…which i think all schools do unless theyre private or boarding. i think the only improvement with sat’s will be 30-50 points soo probly 1850 at the most. although ppl HAVE gotten into USC with 1700 and above.</p>

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<p>Are you a minority? That would help a lot at USC.</p>

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<p>Lots of people get into USC with 1700s. but they play football, basketball…</p>

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<p>i think so…im asian indian</p>