Do I have a shot at Barnard?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Barnard College
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<p>Originally I had no intention of applying to Barnard because I didn’t think my chances of getting in were very good, but last minute I decided to give it a shot. I really love NYC and Barnard definately seems like a place I would fit in, but I don’t want to get my hopes up. </p>

<p>GPA: freshman and sophomore year- UW 3.8 W 4.1
junior year- UW 4.0 W 4.5 </p>

<p>SAT: 2100 (superscored)
cr- 720
w- 730
m- 650</p>

<p>*SAT II’s
Literature- 650
U.S. History- 640</p>

<p>Rank: ~1/272 (huge upward trend in my rank, as well as in my gpa)</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
President and Founder of the Young Democrats Club
Vice President of the Diversity Club
Literary Magazine Staff (and contributor)
Newspaper Book Review Columnist
varsity tennis team (9,10,11)
volunteer all the time at church
volunteer at the library twice a week (10 hrs. a week approx)
College Misericordia Diversity Camp
I’m also heavily involved in the Obama campaign.
I organized a voter registration drive at my school. </p>

<p>Awards and Achievments: (pretty weak)
AP scholar
2nd place in a poetry slam (sophomore year)
honorable mention in a poetry slam (junior year)
ambassador for change (it went along with the diversity camp thing)
member of the national honor society
High Honor roll (every quarter freshman and sophomore year)
Principal’s Honor roll (every quarter junior year)</p>

<p>Summer Activities:
volunteering at the library
I also took 2 college courses at wilkes univeristy:
Pschology (I got a 4.0)
Governments of the World (4.0 as well)</p>

<p>Course load- I took two out of the three AP’s that my school offers, pretty much the “hardest” courseload I could… even thought it’s not that difficult.</p>

<p>Senior year (with first quarter grades):
AP Spanish- A
Physics- A
Economics- A
Shakespeare and the Novel (I took on an extra elective)- A
Pre-Calc (dual enrollment)- 4.0
Calc I (dual enrollment, next semester)
Composition 101 (dual enrollment)- 4.0
American Lit (dual enrollment, next semester)</p>

<p>AP grades:
euro- 3
us- 3
gov’t and politics- 4
Not so great, but two I self studied for. </p>

<p>Essay: good. </p>

<p>Rec’s will also be very positive, except I’m not sure how good the quality of the writing will be. I’m getting one from on of the college professors I had during my summer courses. He’s head of the political science program and I want to major in political science.</p>

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<p>And why did you think you had no shot?
I think you have a great shot.</p>

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<p>decent shot</p>

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<p>I too am curious as to why you did not think you had a good chance for admissions. Given all you have told us here and with good answers to the questions on the app....I think your chances are good.</p>

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<p>^Well when I was looking at Barnard a few months ago I had a 1940 SAT score and a lower class rank. Only in the past 2 month or so my rank improved as well as my SAT scores. I also didn't interview, which I feel might hurt me.</p>

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<p>Also low SAT II's and AP scores.</p>

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<p>D got accepted with 2130 SAT and 640 and 670 SAT 2's. She never sent her AP scores to any of her colleges (2's - 4's) until she was accepted at NYU and needed them for actual credit. Not one school asked for AP's and she was accepted at every college she applied (Brandeis, GW, American, Muhlenberg, SUNY Bing, Barnard and NYU.)</p>

<p>You definitely have a real shot at Barnard...good luck!</p>

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<p>thank you uskoolfish!</p>

<p>I have a question about SAT scores, anyone feel free to answer this. I'm sending my SAT scores tomorrow. Will they get to Barnard on time?</p>

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<p>I think we discussed this in a previous post. I rushed my scores for ED, but others did not and everything turned out well.</p>

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<p>yay young democrats!
Your scores might not get to barnard "on time" but they're really lenient on the date of reception in terms of SAT scores</p>

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<p>okay great, then i don't think i'm going to rush them only because it's $27 to rush them opposed to $9.</p>