Chances...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>What are my chances at the following?</p>

<p>Applying to:</p>

<p>University of Washington
Whitman College
Carleton College
Middlebury College
Haverford College
Pomona College
Stanford University</p>

<p>Immigrated from Russia with family when I was 2</p>

<p>Attend very prestigious private high school, best in state of washington (school bill gates went to)</p>

<p>3.65 uw gpa as of three years (first quarter of class)</p>

<p>SAT I : 800 W, 790 M, 750 CR</p>

<p>SAT II : 760 Math II C
740 Physics
730 US history</p>

<p>AP: World History 5
US History 5
Chemistry 5</p>

<p>Planning on taking a couple more AP's senior year (havent decided)</p>

<p>Assume to have quite good recommendations, solid essays (one ive written is about my dual cultural identity)</p>

<p>first generation student in the US (parents attended schools in Russia)</p>

<p>Sports:</p>

<p>4 years school soccer team
4 years school cross country team
played with the uw table tennis team/club</p>

<p>other:</p>

<p>Science Olympiad Team for three years (awards at regionals and at state)
Member of outdoor club 1 year
Member of Student Awareness Council, participated in a local student diversity leadership conference 1 year
participated with Earth Corps club 1 year
badminton club 1 year
might help start table tennis club senior year</p>

<p>Community service</p>

<p>80 hours with animal shelter
54 hours with city summer camps and outdoor projects
a few side projects with earth corps</p>

<p>my ec's are probably my weak point, hopefully it isn't gonna hurt my chances too much</p>

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<p>bump, any comment?</p>

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<p>University of Washington-in
Whitman College-in
Carleton College-55/45
Middlebury College-50/50
Haverford College-60/40
Pomona College-45/55
Stanford University-35/65...</p>

<p>you're GPA is by far the scariest thing for you; even if you go to a great school, most kids applying from top private schools to schools have 3.9's+.</p>

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<p>my gpa is like that because my school is really, really competetive. The UW actually gives us like .3 point bump in order to compare us to applicants from other high schools. We have a graduating class of 115, and everybody is a college bound student, really smart, and i would assume that being in the top quarter is pretty good. also, our school doesn't rank. I was looking at records actually of students from our school making it into stanford, and in the past year there actually was a student with a 3.65 that was accepted as well as a student with a 3.67. My SAT scores were much better than the one with the 3.65, 1460 on the old SAT, so well yeah at least i've got a chance compared to that.</p>