have i got a shot

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>hi, im about to go into my senior year and I feel im a pretty good student. Im in the IB Program and think I have taken rigorous courses, but i'll let you be the judge of that. i currently have a 3.6 unweighted GPA, and a 4.31 weighted GPA, am african-american varsity swimmer for 4 years, club swim team member for 4 years, have 500 community service hours, Editor in Chief as well as a member of many clubs including NHS. I have also been accpetied into J-Camp which is a prestigious journalism camp which selects 30 of the nations best journalists for a program in different cities. I am also involved in helping to build schools in nations that dont have very good education systems, and have helped fund raise and get the word out to the public. The only set back about my resume is that my SAT's are not good, only a 1740. I really like those schools, and some have EA, some SCEA, and all RD, and i just cannot find a way to apply to them where my chances are good of getting into the school. Some schools i know are easier to get in early, while others are hard, and if someone could help me out with explaining on my chances, and what i need to do to ensure my success. I plan on double majoring in journalism as well as medicine. i am from maryland</p>

<p>Schedule</p>

<p>Sophomore</p>

<p>Pre-IB English 10
Pre-IB Chemistry
IB Pre-Calculus
Journalism 1
Honors Spanish 3
Computer Programming
IB/AP Government</p>

<p>Junior</p>

<p>IB English
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB Calculus
IB Spanish 5
Journalism 2
IB History
IB Biology</p>

<p>Senior- I will take
Honors Law
AP Statistics
IB Psychology
IB English
IB History
Journalism 2
IB Biology
Honors Health</p>

<p>The schools that i am most likley applying to are Maryland- College park, UVA, UNC-Chapel, Gtown, Upenn, Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, Wash U St. Louis, Michigan, Vanderbilt and UCLA.</p>

<p>What do you think, too hard of a list? would i get into any of these schools?</p>

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<p>hey…i can’t really be of any use chancing you (i dont think i am experienced enough to do that) …but i had a question…how do you convert your ib grades into gpa? (or do you?)</p>

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<p>no problem but im not sure if you can covert those scores to your gpa i think they are separate</p>

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<p>hey man, thanks for chancing me. Do you have any SAT II’s? If you retake the SAT’s do you think you would improve? Because I think schools like Stanford would be really hard to get into with a 1740. but I might not really know what I’m talking about</p>

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<p>no problem dude and yeah im retaking the sat at least twice more and ive been practicing. and ive got my subject tests to take still, but im confident.</p>

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<p>If you can pull up your SAT, you are set.</p>