Cliched but need constructive criticism

Transfer Students
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<p>I am a California Community College student from L.A. and I was wondering what my chances are for transferring to these schools with BOTH my high school and community college records... </p>

<p>Schools: Duke, Vassar, Swarthmore, Georgetown, UPenn, Brown, Amherst, UCLA, UCSD, UC Berkeley, USC, Sarah Lawrence, Brandeis.</p>

<p>HS: GPA: 3.8 unweighted, (old) SAT I: 750 verbal, 670 math. SAT II US History 800, Spanish 800, Math IC 650, Writing 720. President of Latinos Unidos, Secretary for Speech and Debate (also historian), ASB Secretary and 11th grade Rep for Leadership (student gov't), Secretary of California Scholarship Federation, ESL Tutor for Hispanic-populated elementary school. </p>

<p>CC: GPA: 3.8 also (weird) as of Winter 2006. Working as part-time cashier at Border's for 30 hours a week. Judges for old Speech team on weekends as community service. (Don't have a lot of time being fulltime student and working so no EC's)</p>

<p>Thank you for your time</p>

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<p>Your chances for UCLA and Berkeley are pretty good, I'd say; I don't know anything about the others.</p>

<p>Man, I hated working at Borders.</p>

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<p>i like my co-workers but I hate the whole corporation thing... totally sucks ass... how long did you work there for?</p>

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<p>I'd say you have good chances at Vassar, Sarah Lawrence and Brandeis. Apart from the California schools, the others like Brown, Amherst, Georgetown are reaches for everyone, although you might have a good shot at (at least) one of these--I'd tend to think Brown would find your background attractive for "diversity".</p>

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<p>I'd say Duke isn't worth applying too, but Brown is.</p>