First Time Chances (fingers crossed)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Ok, bear with me this is a somewhat long chances post but I'm trying to give you as much information as possible. </p>

<p>General Info:
African American
Male
Pennsylvania Resident</p>

<p>Academic Record:
3.0 Un-weighted GPA (I know, bad, but don't count me out yet)</p>

<p>Courses:
Mostly Honors Courses; AP's are listed below.</p>

<p>AP Courses:
AP World History, AP Biology, AP English Literature, AP Gov't & Politics</p>

<p>Special Courses:
Gifted</p>

<p>Testing:
SAT (took one time; will take again)
Critical Reading: 700
Math: 650
Writing: 660</p>

<p>SATII
Biology: 690
Literature: 700
Math: 680</p>

<p>AP
Biology 5/5
Literature 4/5</p>

<p>Special Awards:
Who's Who Among American High School Students
Ventures Scholar
Johns Hopkins Talent Search
National Achievement Semi-Finalist (Finalist status pending)</p>

<p>Extra-Curricular:
9 th Grade
Gifted Project: Engineered Role-Playing Computer Game</p>

<p>10 th Grade
Volunteered with the High School TV Studio to record/edit community events
Hosted Public TV Show (Weekly on Comcast Channel 27)
Gifted Project: Designed Academic Instruction Website</p>

<p>11 th Grade
Volunteered with the High School TV Studio to record/edit community events
Volunteered with AP Biology Program to conduct Forest/Stream study with youth
Sports Medicine Certified - American Red Cross
CPR Certified - American Red Cross
Gifted Project: Designed Virtual E-commerce Online Program</p>

<p>Church Youth Group
Awarded AWANA Achievement Award
Appointed Youth Group President</p>

<p>Future Business Leaders of America
10 th Grade
Placed 2 nd in Regional Competition in Microsoft Visual Basic Programming</p>

<p>11 th Grade
Placed 1 st in Regional Competition in Technology Concepts
Placed in Top 15 in State Competition in Technology Concepts</p>

<p>Pennsylvania Technology Fair
10 th Grade
Placed 3 rd in Chester County for Computer Animation</p>

<p>11 th Grade
Placed 1 st in Chester County for Information-Based Website</p>

<p>Please Chance Me on the Following Schools:</p>

<p>Villanova University
Wake Forest Univ.
Rollins College
TCNJ
Xavier University
University of Pittsburgh
Vanderbilt University
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Tulane University</p>

<p>Also if you could give me tips on other colleges that I should look into it would be great. Also anything I should try to accomplish in the near future.</p>

<p>P.S. I would just like to thank you guys for taking the time to actual read this (extremely long) chances thread. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!</p>

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<p>In Tulane, Pitt, Xavier, NJ, Rollins. Work on your SATs for the others. Your ECs are great.</p>

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<p>You actually did the Whos Who thing? Vanderbilt/JHU are reaches.</p>

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<p>Yep. It wasn't hard they just selected me and I accepted it. Yeah, but I heard that Vanderbilt really likes to admit National Achievement students. Maybe I'll get lucky?</p>

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<p>Just so you know, not to discredit your accomplishments, because being a National Achievement Semi-finalist is great - but the Who's Who program carries little, if any significance.</p>

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<p>Who's who is worth nothing. Colleges might even look down on you for doing it (although I doubt they'll go that far).</p>

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<p>Look down on you for accepting????</p>

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<p>Well, I don't think it will hurt my apps. I mean its an award; at worst they'll ignore it. Anyway, how about some chances? Thanks guys.</p>

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<p>Any reason your GPA is so low? Great profile apart from that.</p>

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<p>[bump] keep the college chances coming. Thanks alot guys.</p>

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<p>Anyone can be in Who's Who if they pay money. That's why colleges see it negatively.</p>

<p>Why do you have 2 scores next to your AP scores? Are they tentative, retaken, etc?</p>

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<p>It means I scored a 5 out of 5 in Biology, and a 4 out 5 in Literature. I did not pay any money to get in Who's Who.</p>

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<p>Oh, and can we please get off of the Who's Who subject? It really does not make that big of a difference.</p>

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<p>CC is a nitpicky place. Welcome!</p>

<p>Anyways, I'm only a mere senior (aka mortal), so take my words with a grain of salt. Your ECs are good, but also a bit widespread. Try condensing them into where your passions lie; focus is key (sniper rifle > shotgun long distance)</p>

<p>If you are instate for the NJ schools, you're in. No questions asked. If you're out-of-state, you're probably still in. </p>

<p>AA might help you with some of these schools, but to be honest these are not the uber-competitive ones that CC talks about all the time. SATs are in-range while GPA is certainly not. JHU might be a reach. Maybe Villanova too. Otherwise, I can't see why all of these aren't matches.</p>

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<p>thanks enderkin, always looking for more input!</p>