Finished applying, Please Chance me!

Applying to College
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<p>State or Country: VA
School Type: Large, Public
Ethnicity: Sudanese (African-American) but US citizen
Gender: F</p>

<p>SAT I: 630 M 680 V 730 W
SAT IIs: 690 Biology 670 French 640 Lit
GPA: 3.7 UW, 3.8 W
Rank: School doesn't rank, somehwere in top 15%, 603 students</p>

<p>All Classes have been AP/Honors since freshman year</p>

<p>Extracuriculars:
- I Co-founded a not-for profit organization for human rights called Teens 4 Peace
- Under Teens 4 Peace I was able to help organize a huge rally in order to stop the genocide occuring in Darfur, Sudan. It was a huge success, mostly becuase it was organized in Washington D.C.'s popular Dupont Circle. I worked with Amnesty International, Save Darfur, STAND, and the Genocide Intervention Fund
- STAND (students taking action now: darfur), International High School Coordinator
-STAND Education Outreach Committee, Executive Board Memeber
- INOVA Fairfax Hospital's Blood Bank, intern
- Time Kaine's Campaign for Governor 2005, Volunteer
- Public Library, Volunteer
- I attended the Boston Area Darfur Activism Conference at Harvard University last Winter
- I taught English after school to high school girls in Sudan while I was there last summer (My aunt is the headmistress of an all girl's school there)
- Sudanese Youth Group, president
- French Honor Society, president
- People Around the World, officer
- Young Democrats, president</p>

<p>I really made passion for the crisis in Darfur the main point of my essays/personal statements.. plus all my teacher recommendations were excellent and really focused on my humanitarian work. </p>

<p>This is where I applied
-Harvard U.
-Yale U.
-Princeton U.
-Columbia U.
-Georgetown U.
-Tufts U.
-NYU
-Berkeley
-William and Mary
-U Penn
-Duke
-Northwestern
-Brown U.
-Cornell U.</p>

<p>Thank you in advance!</p>

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<p>-Harvard U. - Reach
-Yale U. - Reach
-Princeton U. - Reach
-Columbia U. - Reach
-Georgetown U. - Reach
-Tufts U. - Slight Reach
-NYU - Match
-Berkeley - Slight Reach
-William and Mary - Match
-U Penn - Reach
-Duke - Reach
-Northwestern - Reach
-Brown U. - Reach
-Cornell U. - Slight Reach</p>

<p>You should choose some more matches/safeties...it's way too top-heavy</p>

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<p>There's a whole board for this type of topic...</p>

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<p>you applied to every ivy except dartmouth? why not just throw that one in, haha there's no extra essay</p>

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<p>sudaneya4ever:</p>

<p>UCB: Reach (out of state)</p>

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<p>senior yr classes: ap english lit, physics honors, ap euro, ap pysc, ap calc AB, adv. composition</p>

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<p>All of them are reaches except for Georgetown, Tufts, NYU, Northwestern and Cornell. You have a lot of leadership positions but fairly low SATs for Ivy colleges. And yeah, why not Dartmouth?</p>

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<p>i dont know.. a) Dartmouth is sort of obscure.. i never met anyone who went there and have never been to an info session for them.. and b) i got letters urging me to apply from all the other ivy league schools.. which i realize doesnt mean i would get accepted but they came into my radar</p>

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<p>i figure if you're going for prestige, might as well make a clean sweep for all the ivies... then again i guess it doesnt matter, but would you really choose cornell over dartmouth?</p>

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<p>i wouldnt choose cornell over anything if i have a choice, to be honest.. i mainly applied to it out of pananoia about the rest of the schools</p>

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<p>What's so bad about Cornell?</p>

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<p>do you have any back ups</p>

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<p>cornell is amazing, just as other schools on your list are</p>

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<p>I think Cornell is a great school.. it's just not high on my list because of it's location and it's strength in what i want to pursue is pretty weak</p>

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<p>i think you should consider applying to Virginia Tech, as it's a pretty good school, and you're instate. i definitely think you need more safeties on your list. perhaps you should apply to James Madison, but that would be an extreme safety for you.</p>

<p>i'd say you're probably in at William and Mary, and definitely Virginia Tech (if you choose to apply, and maybe with some merit aid) for sure. NYU is is a match. the rest are slight reaches to reaches. it would've been better if you had 700+'s in all your SATs. however, i think your ECs are pretty dedicated and concentrated, but that won't make up for your SATs. </p>

<p>what school/county in virginia do you come from?
i'm from Robinson Secondary in Fairfax County</p>

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<p>Dartmouth probably doesn't have the name recognition you seem to be after.</p>

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<p>I think Dartmouth has more name recognition that william and mary.. a school that i actually would really like to get intl</p>

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<p>am i really going to be rejected everywhere?</p>

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<p>no, you have an extremely good change and William and Mary. Since you applied to so many schools, and you are a good student i'd say you have to get into at least two of the schools you applied to. However i wouldn't be surprised if u faced a total shut out from the ivies.</p>

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<p>In my opinion, you should apply to at least a definite safety based on the responses so far. Maybe you should try a local one like University of Virginia? You would fare well in their applicant pool.</p>