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Chances at Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Dartmouth, Princeton?
SAT I (breakdown): 2310 (one sitting) Math: 800 CR: 750 Writing: 760
ACT (breakdown): 35 (two tries) Math: 36 Reading: 36 English: 36 Science: 33
SAT II (place score in parentheses): Lit: 780 Math II: 780 Physics: 760 US History: 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): school only has weighted 4.46/4.5
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parentheses): AP World (5), AP Stat (5), AP Physics 1 (4), AP Lang (5), APUSH (5), AP Macro (5) AP Micro (5), AP Comp sci (5), AP BC (5), AP Chemistry (5)
IB (place score in parentheses): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: Multivariable calculus/differential equations, AP Gov, AP Lit, AP Bio, AP Enviro, Anatomy, Journalism
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, National Achievement Semifialist, National AP Scholar, Columbia Scholastic Press Award
[ b]Subjective:**
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Editor-in-Chief of school magazine, Feminist Club- first in the county, met Justice RBG (President and Founder), Amnesty International Chapter (President and Founder), Young Democrats Chapter (President and Founder), Muslim Student’s Association (President), NHS (President), Freshman Mentorship Program (Exec. officer), contributor for various online publications, Science Olympiad, Model UN
Honors: National, Math, History, Spanish, and English honor societies
Job/Work Experience: n/a
Volunteer/Community Service: TA at ESOL class in women’s shelter, food bank coordinator, tutor for at-risk youth
Summer Activities: 3-week intensive Arabic studies program, volunteering in Ethiopia
Essays: working on them now
Teacher Recommendations: 10/10 (AP Physics), 10/10 (AP Lang)
Counselor Rec: 9/10 she just came this fall so she doesn’t know me very well.
Additional Rec: 10/10 (Sponsor of Amnesty and Spanish teacher)
[ b]Other**
State (if domestic applicant): VA
Country (if international applicant): n/a
School Type: public high school
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 500k+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): ?
With those scores and those extracurriculars, I wouldn’t be surprised if you were accepted into all of your target schools, even though they are reach schools for nearly everyone else. How did you do it? I took thirteen APs in high school, and had almost no time for extracurriculars
Congratulations on your achievements. Clearly you are a brilliant girl and don’t need to come here and post a chances thread-you know your chances. I can’t imagine how you even have time for something this frivolous. Anyway the thing that really stands out in your post is that you state you are a National Achievement Semifinalist when the program has been discontinued. Listing that on your CA will be a head scratcher for admissions and they might question what other misstatements you have made? Also, when you hold too many leadership positions adcoms start to question your true contribution to the clubs-there are just so many ec hours available, so be careful with that. It just isn’t adding up for me.