Getting Into Southern Schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a junior from Oregon, and am wondering what my chances are at these schools:</p>

<p>Rice
Emory
College of William and Mary
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
George Washington
University of Richmond</p>

<p>Interests: Business, Law</p>

<p>Location: Oregon
Gender: Female
Race: White</p>

<p>Top 4A Public School</p>

<p>GPA, unweighted: 4.0/4.0
Weighted Class Rank: top 1%</p>

<p>AP/Honors Classes: Honors English (9,10,11), Honors Chemistry (10), AP Calculus AB (11), AP Statistics (11), AP US History (11,12), AP Biology (11), AP European (12), AP Calculus BC (12), AP Chemistry (12), AP English (12), AP Spanish (12). Have also taken Physics, Pre Calculus.
(I will have taken every available AP class except AP Physics)</p>

<p>Scores: </p>

<p>PSAT: 80 M, 71 CR, 80 W (231 Composite)
NEW SAT: 710 M, 800 CR, 800 W (2310 Composite)</p>

<p>ECs: </p>

<p>Athletics: 4-Year Varsity Golf; we are 2003, 2004, and likely 2005 league champions, top-10 team finishes at state.</p>

<p>Speech and Debate: qualified for state 9 times in three years; top-8 finish at state for debate in 2004; qualified in debate for National Forensics Tournament in Philadelphia in June; various awards at colllege and high school tournaments. Attended University of Oregon Debate Institute Summer '03. </p>

<p>Volunteering: Started a email newletter called "The Grandparent Connection," helps grandparents connect to their grandchildren. Began in 2003; I have more than 1,000 subscribers across country. See <a href="http://www.thegrandparentconnection.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.thegrandparentconnection.org&lt;/a>. I also volunteer at a local women/children's shelter.</p>

<p>Member of Sweet 16 Magazine advisory board</p>

<p>Awards/Honors:</p>

<p>Student of Excellence (11)
2005 Optimist Club Essay Winner (11)
National Honor Society (10,11,12)
Spanish National Honor Society (10,11,12)
Will be National Merit Semifinalist/Finalist </p>

<p>Interned last summer at a Marketing Firm that specialized in Minority/Small Business marketing and communications. (All summer, about 35 hrs/week)</p>

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<p>I'm really only familiar with Emory and i would say you're practically guaranteed a spot there. I would suggest you apply for the Emory Scholar program to see if you can get some money out of them!</p>

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<p>Agree with slipstream. But make sure you express your interest there. "Rumor" going around that they are big on interest. So get in touch with them, order a video, etc if you want an additional boost.</p>