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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Please give me a safety/match/reach evaluation and any comments</p>

<p>here's my stats.</p>

<p>Currently: Junior in VA
Ethnicity: Indian</p>

<p>Colleges I'm pondering: UVA (want this the most), William and Mary, VaTech, Georgia Tech, JMU, etc, and anything else you can recommend.</p>

<p>Majors: maybe Computer Science or Engineering but I would like to keep other fields of study open. I'll be more sure about that senior year.</p>

<p>possible GPA by end of junior year: 3.7 weighted, 3.66 unweighted
SAT: Math-710, CR-730, Writing-660, total-2100, or 1440 traditionally
SAT II's: MathIIC: 700, USHIST: 660, ENGLISH: 670
AP's and possible scores: US History - 4/5, English Lang. - 5, Chemistry - 4/5
planned AP's for next year: Comp Sci (is A or AB the more difficult one?), Calc BC, Physics C, Literature, and possibly US Government.
Other classes: I'll be taking Spanish all 4 years - levels 1-4, the rest are honors except for history for two years, and other electives (Band, Comp Sci)</p>

<p>EC's :
Debate Team - I've won a few medals, mostly 4th or 5th at tournaments
Cross Country (only freshman year)
Science Honor Society - maybe a leadership position next year
National Honor Society
maybe Model UN if our team can get together and plan to go to an actual conference</p>

<p>Others:
I'm currently a tutor at a library, I volunteered at a hospital for a summer, and I'll be doing an internship this summer at Naval Research Lab in DC</p>

<p>I know my SATII's aren't very good and I was wondering about early applying to UVA if it will increase my chances. However, I can't raise those scores if I early apply. Basically, would it be better to apply regularly with at least 50 point higher scores on each or should I apply early with those scores? I also think I could get a better SAT score to make up for my low gpa if I apply regularly.</p>

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<p>EDIT:
Please give me a safety/match/reach evaluation and any comments</p>

<p>here's my stats.</p>

<p>Currently: Junior in VA
Ethnicity: Indian</p>

<p>Colleges I'm pondering: UVA (want this the most), William and Mary, VaTech, Georgia Tech, JMU, etc, and anything else you can recommend.</p>

<p>Majors: maybe Computer Science or Engineering but I would like to keep other fields of study open. I'll be more sure about that senior year.</p>

<p>possible GPA by end of junior year: 3.7 weighted, 3.66 unweighted
SAT: Math-710, CR-730, Writing-660, total-2100, or 1440 traditionally
SAT II's: MathIIC: 700, USHIST: 660, ENGLISH: 670
AP's and possible scores: US History - 4/5, English Lang. - 5, Chemistry - 4/5
planned AP's for next year: Comp Sci (is A or AB the more difficult one?), Calc BC, Physics C, Literature, and possibly US Government.
Other classes: I'll be taking Spanish all 4 years - levels 1-4, the rest are honors except for history for two years, and other electives (Band, Comp Sci)</p>

<p>EC's :
Debate Team - I've won a few medals, mostly 4th or 5th at tournaments, I also got a school letter for it.
Cross Country (only freshman year)
Science Honor Society - webmaster (officer position)
National Honor Society
maybe Model UN if our team can get together and plan to go to an actual conference</p>

<p>Others:
I'm currently a tutor at a library, I volunteered at a hospital for a summer, and I'll be doing an internship this summer at Naval Research Lab in DC</p>

<p>I know my SATII's aren't very good and I was wondering about early applying to UVA if it will increase my chances. However, I can't raise those scores if I early apply. Basically, would it be better to apply regularly with at least 50 point higher scores on each or should I apply early with those scores? I also think I could get a better SAT score to make up for my low gpa if I apply regularly.</p>

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<p>anyone there?</p>

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<p>Double post, noob.</p>

<p>So unless you're an American Indian (Native American), I'd say all of those schools listed are far reaches.</p>

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<p>The thing that will hurt you the most isn't so much your SAT II scores as you lack of tough courses.</p>

<p>Look at what you wrote--"possible GPA by end of junior year: 3.7 weighted, 3.66 unweighted"</p>

<p>This means you are taking exactly one--one--honors, AP, or IB course.</p>

<p>If you don't try to take tougher courses, then Gumball is correct--you have no chance at any of these schools (except James Madison--and even that is iffy).</p>

<p>Sign up and challenge yourself at least a little. Try to get your W GPA up to around 3.8 to 3.85 with a 3.63 to 3.65 GPA--and then your GPA coupled with the test scores gives you at least a minor chance at UVa and William and Mary (whose W GPA averages are around 4.0, but whose average SAT I scores are below yours). And then you would pretty much be a match for Georgia Tech and a safe match for Virginia Tech. Otherwise, like I already said, James Madison is the only one of these you have any chance at.</p>

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<p>I am taking challenging courses. Junior year was AP Chem, AP US Hist, AP Lang, and all honors for the remaining core courses. That is the most anyone takes at my school junior year and AP US Hist and AP Chem are considered the two hardest APs offered there. My school doesnt give us much credit though, the only reason my weighted/unweighted gap is so small is b/c the only credit we get is that our AP class final grades are just bumped up one letter grade (+.5 to just that class, not to gpa). Our highest gpa last year was 4.15, and that's in the whole school.</p>

<p>I am always surprised by such high W gpas on this site. My gpa is considered pretty good at my school, not great, but good considering my schedule.</p>

<p>"This means you are taking exactly one--one--honors, AP, or IB course."
W gpa scales change from county to county, I live in northern Virginia, and we have one of the hardest scales, even within our state.</p>

<p>And it wasn't exactly a double post, I wanted to make a few revisions.</p>

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<p>can I get a reply please?</p>

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<p>did I mention how much I value your opinions?</p>