I messed up junior year...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi</p>

<p>I'm a rising senior (class 2007) and I was just wondering what my chances were for some urban schools. I kind of messed up 2nd semester junior year and really slacked off due to some mental health stuff that I plan to NOT talk about it any essay etc. Other than that, I don't have much of an excuse besides being lazy. Here are my stats:</p>

<p>White female, competitive public hs in CO, 1st generation</p>

<p>GPA: 3.85uw
SAT: 690cr, 620m, 640w <-- i KNOW i can do a lot better, i've been scoring 2100-2200ish on practice tests
PSAT (i know it doesn't really matter): 215
no subject tests yet...</p>

<p>Courses:</p>

<p>Freshman Year
pAP english A/A
Integrated 3 Math A/A
pAP History A/A
Spanish 1b A/A
pAP Biology A/A
Orchestra A/A
Explorations in Tech. A/A
Yearbook (Sr. Editor) A/A
Computer Applications A/A</p>

<p>Sophmore Year
Orchestra A/A
IB World History A/A
Pre-Calc B/A
IB English A/A
Health A
IB Drama A
IB Chemistry A/B
Spanish 2 A/A</p>

<p>Junior Year :(
Orchestra A/A
AP Calc BC A/B
IB SL Psych A/A
IB HL History of the Americas A/B
IB Student Council A/A
IB/AP HL Biology A/B
IB HL World Authors A/A
Spanish 3 A/B</p>

<p>Senior Courses (I know I can pull straight A's 1st semester)
Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra
IB SL Math Studies
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB HL 20th Cent Politics
IB Student Council
IB HL Biology
IB HL Contemp. Lit.
Spanish 4
*Should I drop Orchestra for physics?</p>

<p>EC's:
Science Olympiad participant: 9
Science Olympiad volunteer: 10,11,12
Violin
-Lessons 11yrs
-Pit Orchestra 10,11,12
-Honor Orchestra 9
Golf 10,11,12
Student Community Involvment Team 11,12
Local Radio Station volunteer/tech person/DJ (have my own show) 10,11,12
Discovery Science Center volunteer 10,11,12
CSU English conversation class volunteer 11, 12
FBLA 11,12
Forensics 11,12
El Pomar 11,12
Part-time deli job 11
Paid Internship at Washington Mutual 12</p>

<p>Awards/etc:
Intel Science Fair Special Recog.
Intel Science Fair US Army Award
Honor Orchs
FBLA 3rd place public speaking regionals
Colorado College Summer Scholarship recipient (am taking a class this summer)
Music/Academic V Letters
Outstanding Junior Orchestra Student
A few random essay contests
Maybe something for PSATs?</p>

<p>Schools I'm Interested in:
NYU (CAS)
Boston University
University of Washington (Seattle)
Seattle University
CU Boulder (major safety- guaranteed acceptance)
Fordham (Lincoln Center)
Will prob. apply to Columbia/Barnard for kicks and giggles</p>

<p>Thanks for any opinions.</p>

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<p>You should consider my school, the Cal & even UCLA to apply to. You have what it takes with those ECs, infinitely better than mine (I had none).</p>

<p>Those 4 Bs won't hurt that much, even if you are OOS, your GPA owns my HS GPA.</p>

<p>UofW is a safe match for you unless they don't think you're serious in enrolling by means of a crappy application.</p>

<p>Also, as real serious advice, take the ACTs. You'll either do amazingly better on them than the SAT I, or amazingly worse. However, if the ACTs fit your skill set, i see no problem of getting a 99% Composite score, which is 32+.</p>

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<p>Still pretty good.... at least compared to 99% of the people... You should be looking at cal, john hopkins, or maybe ivies if you bring those sat scores up...</p>

<p>Why haven't you taken any SAT IIs? and you still have to cram your SAT I...</p>

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<p>I really like to put things off. However yeah, I should have taken the subject tests this year.</p>

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<p>you might have some trouble taking the test and submitting the scores to colleges in time :o</p>

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<p>I just think you need to focus yourself again, establish your goals, and I'm certain that you will do well. Your PSAT was a 215, so you should be able to crack 2250+</p>

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<p>I'm not applying EA or ED to anything, so I should have my scores in time</p>

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<p>Any other opinions on reaches/matches/safety or other schools I should apply to?</p>

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<p>MIT/Caltech, maybe?</p>

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<p>you sound a lot like me. i had my own issues 2nd semester junior year and my grades ended up worse than yours. you really have nothing to worry about as long as you bring up your sat's and i would recommend taking at least 3 sat II's. schools really like seeing an upward trend senior year, so if you can get straight a's, you're set.</p>