Help a Junior decide if she's good enough..

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>* ..for the colleges on her list. Sorry, but this is a bit lengthy. If you want the straight facts, most of my stats are at the top..ECs below. Thank you! *</p>

<p>White Female, PA
Junior</p>

<p>Weighed GPA: 4.174
UW GPA: N/A</p>

<p>SATs (taken for 1st time w/o studying): 1990
Math - 690
Writing - 680
Reading - 620
*I'm going to retake this to raise it. </p>

<p>APs: APUSH, *Euro, Eng Lang., *Eng Lit., *Bio
*Senior year</p>

<p>Honors: English (10), Spanish (12) -- my school only offers four/five</p>

<p>My HS Schedules:
Freshman year:
*<em>Special Integrated 2: B/B
*Gym: A+/A+
*</em>Academic Bio: A+/A+
*<em>Academic Spanish 1: A+/A+
*</em>Academic English: A+/A+
*Global studies (semester): A+
*U.S. History 2 (semester): A+
Visual Basic (semester): A+</p>

<p>Soph year:
Integrated 3: B+/B+ (A's on midterm and 1 nine weeks)
<em>Gym: A+/A+
*</em>Academic Chem: A+/A
*<em>Academic Spanish 2: A+/A+
*</em>Honors English 10: A+/A+
*Econ (semester): A
*Government (semester): A+
Anatomy and Physiology: A+/A</p>

<p>Junior year schedule:
Pre-Calculus
<em>Gym
Academic Physics
*</em>AP English Language and Comp.
*<em>AP US History
Psych (semester)(may self study AP psych)
*</em>Spanish 3
College Course: Anthropology 101</p>

<p><em>Required classes for my grade level
*</em>Highest level possible at my school
(can only take APs starting junior year at my school)</p>

<p>I know I'm definitely in the top 20% of my class, and not too too far from the top of about 250 students</p>

<p>ECs:
~Science Club (9/10/11)
~Spanish Club (9/10/11)
~Book/Teen Club (6 --> )
~Teen Advisory Board of Library (8 --> )
~Volunteer at library: at least 100 hours
~Newspaper (10/11) (Politics Editor (11))
~Spanish Honors Society member (since 10th...running for pos. senior year)
~NHS (11)
~Marching Band (Student Manager of Band) (10/11)
~Volunteer @ hospital (almost 50 hours)
~Charity Walks:
...Walk Now for Autism
...CF Walk
...Make a Wish Foundation Walk
~Was in the Gifted program from K --> 8 (whole span of program available, if it makes a difference at all).
~Was nominated by my school to the Congressional Page program (ended up not doing it, though.)
~participated in a Downtown Vibrancy Project (where our suggestions and evaluations led to changes in one of the most frequented areas of our city)
~attended Health Career Academy two summers ago
~attended a very good (local) university's Law and Forensics Science workshop (Summer 2010)
~attending an International Affairs Apprenticeship this fall</p>

<p>~Occasionally worked as waitress @ aunt's church functions and cleaning apartments
~Part time job at a restaurant: hostessing 9 - 12 hours a week</p>

<p>Leadership:
~Band: Student Manager
~Newspaper: one of the editors for 11th grade, running again for managing editor 12th grade
~planning on running for officer positions in Spanish/Science clubs next year</p>

<p>** COLLEGES **
~Georgetown University
~Northwestern University
~American University
~University of Pittsburgh
~William and Mary
~Chatham University/College (depending on who you ask lol)
~Mercyhurst College</p>

<p>Thank you so much for chancing me! Also, any advice is welcome! ;)</p>

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<p>Pitt is a yes. W&M looks good to, but tougher than Pitt. GTown and NW are reaches. The rest of them I dont know much about.</p>

<p>I’m a junior too! Let’s hope we both get into our colleges!!</p>

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<p>Thanks! I hope you do too!</p>

<p>Bump :)</p>

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<p>okay, NW and Georgetown are going to be tough, apply ED to one of them if they have such a program. Raise up your SAT to above 2100, 2250-2300+ would be optimal, and you’ve got a good shot. especially with the above SAT score, W&M should not be a problem. BEST OF LUCK.
(o and for SAT studying advice, I studied for 50 hours and got a 2240, and i’m working on getting a 2350, I’ve found the best way to raise your score is to just study every weekend constantly, that should do the trick. you’ll be able to recognize trend in the questions after a while…)</p>

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<p>Thanks! bump</p>

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<p>The ones I know about:</p>

<p>American- you’re in. If you raise your SAT some, you’ll probably get some very nice merit aid out of them, too.
William and Mary- match.
Georgetown- hard to predict. It’s a very high reach for you right now, but if you bring up your SAT and apply EA, your chances would be better.
Northwestern- not so bad as Georgetown, but for a chance, bring up your SAT. Applying ED would give you a reasonable shot.</p>

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<p>thanks!</p>

<p>bump :)</p>

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<p>I think Georgetown and Northwestern are reaches, you should probably get 2100+ on your SATs, but there is still a chance that you might get in. American University - I would bet that you’d get in. </p>

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