IB Student Chances Please? ILL CHANCE BACK

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I am a high school IB junior, I am a white female. I am technically the first generation to do this american college app process (my mom did a foreign student program at UF). I am a US citizen and Serbian citizen (is that interesting to include?). I speak English, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and French.

GPA: UW 3.9 / W 4.7 (went in an upward trend from freshman year to now)
ACT: 27 (will try to get this up to a 32 minimum, not a good test taker)
HLs: Psychology, Biology, French
SLs: Chemistry, English, Math
Writing my EE in chemistry

EC’s (assuming ill do these in senior year)

JV school soccer (9+10)
Club soccer since age 6 to junior year
Club/school LAX (11+12)
Mu Alpha Theta (10-12)
National Honors Society (11+12)
Science Honors Society (10-12)
French Honors Society (9-12) (liaison junior year) (VP senior year hopefully)
Varsity Letter in soccer senior year (hopefully)
Junior Rotary (11+12)
environmental club
All Children’s Hospital Medical Explorers (11+12)

AWARDS/LEADERSHIP (will be applying to some)

co-captain of JV soccer team in freshman and sophomore year

WORK (looking for a job currently)

-DIshwasher/Host at a Resteraunt
-internship
-summer job as front desk in dental office

VOLUNTEERING

Teaching kids at my old preschool how to paint by making a mural with them (~50 hours)
Peer Tutor
Tutored elementary school
Volunteered at a nursing home for children with downs syndrome
Halloween Half-A-Thon 5k (5 hours)
Cycle for Life Cystic Fibrosis Event (4 hours)
Jingle Bell Run 5k (4 hours)
Lakeview Carnival Volunteer (3 hours)
Fish Broil and Mullet Festival (2 hours)
WeeRead Literacy Program Float @ Martin Luther King Day Parade (3 hours)

should i not include all these little independent volunteer activities and focus on bigger things like the first one?

Major: premed or something science related
Schools: UF, FSU, Georgetown, UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Duke

Anything lacking? Improvements to be made or things to leave out? Thanks!!

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Leave out the length of your volunteer events! Your application is excellent, but you should take the SATs and bump up your ACTs a bit, but I’m not good with tests either. UF and FSU should be low matches or safety schools depending on your final ACT/SAT score. Other than that, your schools are low reaches, especially Brown, which is a reach. You’re doing very well though!

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  1. Generally, you are not a "First Gen" if either of your parents attended a college or university, regardless of the location.
  2. For Duke, your 27 ACT Composite score is (as you know) noncompetitive; if you are successful in improving your results to a 32 (a 33 would be better), you have a shot.
  3. Your essays and recommendations will be critical; your multicultural background "might" be an interesting topic (although dual citizenship is irrelevant).
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What’s your predicted grade? Your ECs and volunteer works are amazing, but yes, your ACT does have to go up for you to have a fair chance. Assuming your essays are good:
UF - low match
FSU - low match
Georgetown - low reach
UPenn - Low Reach
Cornell - Reach
Duke - Reach

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