do i have a chance?

<p>GPA: 3.45 (i am a softmore and it is possible to change it to a 3.9 if it is nessesary)
I havent taken the sats of the acts but i should be ok, 1300 i think and 30 I hope.</p>

<p>I am willing to do whatever it takes to get into this school, I have imagened myself as a smithie since I was 5 years old, I have to get in to this school.</p>

<p>Clubs and activities:
Peer Educator- Moving to end sexual assault (MASA)
Coordinator - Eating disorder awareness group (BYBA)
Peer Educator - BYBA
Head of drop-in group - BYBA
Aria Choir
Private singing lessons</p>

<p>Volunteer work:
Sunflower preschool
Hospital, cardiac unit
Boulder Democratics (2004 election)</p>

<p>Research:
Research assistant University of Colorado professor, Linda Craighead, specializing in A.A.T. for eating disorders in high school aged subjects (150hrs)
*I will be studying the neurological effects of eating disorders through the summer and through my junior year, aswell as my current reaserch.</p>

<p>Jobs:
Biology Tutor
Child Caregiver</p>

<p>Special Programs:
Young women in Science summer program (marine biology) - Wrigley institute for Environmental Studies of USC. Catalina Island, CA. (115 hrs)
Women in science and engineering: Smith College
Genetic focus</p>

<p>*there is no AP or IB courses at my school and out grades are mixed in our classes, but I have taken the most difficult corses i can.</p>

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<li>I will be taking courses at the university of colorado all my senor year.</li>
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<p>do you think I have a chance? what do I need to work on?</p>

<p>hello, can you pleases help me, leeve a post even if i'm not here i'll get it. please :)</p>

<p>ne1 out there? hello? :)</p>

<p>I think you have a reasonably good chance. Your EC profile is good and you can almost always stand to improve grades/scores. With your research background, something to consider: each year Smith gives out 5 Zollman and 35 or so STRIDE scholarships, both of which include research assistant positions for your first and second years. But they're offered to pretty much the top applicants in the class.</p>

<p>I'm curious: I was wowed with Smith from when we first visited and my D chose it over Wellesley and Barnard...but what has made Smith such an attractive target for you since you were 5? I had to get over the notion of it being a white-gloves-and-pearls school for rich girls.</p>

<p>Btw, please be patient about responses. Many people check the boards only once a day, sometimes once a week. Also, the moderators take a dim view of people bumping posts for feedback more than once a day.</p>

<p>thanks so much
when I was 4 my mother read a book on the life of a previous smith presedent. From that point on she always talked about smith, she ordered the lit. from the school and put it in to my room. I used to stare at the pictures of the buildings, at that age I didn't know what the pictures were of or what the information booklet was about, but that place looked pretty. That was all that mattered. At that time I wished to be a geologist when I grew up so science was a big thing for me. At the age of six I was determent to go to MIT of one of those fance school, but smith never lost it's allure. One day when I was about 10 I was going through my things and came accros that catalog, so I reserched the school. Ever since my mother saw the price of what it would take to get there she has stopped hinting at it. It still has a speacial spark for me and even if I have to spend my entire life working to pay the expences off I will do it. I am going to be a smithie.</p>

<p>wow I just read my message, that was very tutching. o ok sry I just had to comment on myself</p>

<p>That book - "A Woman's Education" by Jill Ker Conway -- is absolutely terrific. </p>

<p>I would have been a Smithie since I was 5, too, but darn that Y chromosome....</p>

<p>lol- those Y's will do that to ya.</p>

<p>Thanks I look into that book.</p>