HALP! Chance me? Will be greatly appreciated.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Background:
Location: New York State
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
School Type: Public, sends many grads to top schools</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.79 uw
SAT: 1350/2060 (730 math 620 reading 710 writing)
SAT IIs: 730 Math Level 1, 730 Spanish</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/Volunteer/Work Experience:
1. Nanny for a 2 and 4 year old (Grade 9-12)
2. Math Team co-captain
3. President and Founder of Chinese Language and Culture Club
4. Vice President of Strong Women in Society Club
5. Tiddlywinks Club President (I'm not even kidding. Easily the best club of all time. We have interscholastic matches and everything.)
6. Varsity swimmer and year round club swimmer (grades 7-9, hurt my shoulders and had to stop)
7. Freshman student advisor (Grades 11-12)
8. Varsity Lacrosse player (Grades 10-12)
9. Varsity Ice hockey player (Grade 10 - once again, got hurt)
10. T.A. in Honors Algebra 2 senior year
11. Took Chinese Calligraphy lessons with a local "guru" and was his apprentice this summer. I got really into painting and doing chinese calligraphy art. </p>

<p>-I have taken Mandarin for 2 years, going on 3. I speak pretty decent Chinese haha. It's awesome. I will definitely tie this experience in on my essays
-I have always opted for all honors courses throughout high school.</p>

<p>Junior Year workload:
Honors Precalculus AB
Honors English 11
Honors Spanish Lang 4
Chinese 2
AP Environmental Science (4 on AP exam)
Honors US history
Health</p>

<p>Senior year workload:
AP lit
AP spanish
AP calculus AB
Zoology
Government
Honors Economics</p>

<p>Honors/Awards:
Senior Captain of the Varsity Lacrosse team this coming season
High honor roll
Precalculus honor roll (junior year)
Nominated for youth leadership forum on medicine (sophomore year)</p>

<p>Essays/Recommendations:
Essays: Will be super unique and a bit quirky. I'm almost done with them.
Teachers Recs: Will be from two teachers who really believe in me and have a record of writing incredible recs
Guidance Counselor Rec: She digs me and knows me really well. It'll be good.</p>

<p>I am considering applying ED to NYU (any advice on this based on the information above would be openly accepted), but here is my list:</p>

<p>Upenn (my biiig reach, you have to have one!)
NYU
Uchicago
Northwestern
Colorado at Boulder
UVA
Maryland at College Park
Villanova
OSU</p>

<p>Major major thanks to anyone who reads all of this.</p>

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<p>Anyone??</p>

<p>I will for sure chance back</p>

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<p>Upenn: lol obviously a reach for anyone
NYU: if u early u deff get in
Uchicago: uh all depends on how good ur essays are but if they are good match/ low reach
Northwestern: mid reach
Colorado at Boulder:idk prob safety?
UVA: out of state so low/midish reach
Maryland at College Park: u mean umcp right? hm out of state prob match/ low reach
Villanova: match
OSU: idk</p>

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<p>Thank you so much for your time.
I’m somewhat certain that umcp is quite easy to get into even out of state? Not sure about that though.</p>

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<p>yea prob im in state
so haha im sorta clueless bout chances out of state</p>

<p>but y wud u choose umcp over nyu? nyu>umcp imo</p>

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<p>If NYU doesn’t work out Early Decision (aka i get rejected… dun dun dunnnn), UMCP is on my list of schools I would apply to regular decision.</p>

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<p>Anyone else? I’ll definitely chance back.</p>

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<p>Bummmmmmmmmp!</p>