I'm not begging....but would you please chance me? (last one, I swear)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I've done this before, but now that I have a good idea of my senior year grades, could u chance me with the schools that will see them?</p>

<p>One of the top public high schools (I think its in the top 500ish nationally) in the south. Recent graduates have gone onto the likes of Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Emory, Vandy, several public ivies, etc...</p>

<p>Possible majors:History, English, or Political Science
Possible minors:Spanish, Latin American Studies, Economics</p>

<p>GPA: 3.73 (unweighted)/4.1 (weighted) (through junior year)
GPA: 3.9-4.0 (unweighted)/4.72 (weighted) (projected senior year only)</p>

<p>Class rank: don't know yet, in or very close to top 10% (my class rank is only calculated once after junior year, so it won't change with my senior year grades even though it would go up)</p>

<p>I'm in the most competitive class my hs has ever seen and my counselor will explain this in her recommendation</p>

<p>I will have taken 9 AP classes, 6 honors classes, and 4 years of foreign language.</p>

<p>ACT: 30 (33 reading/30 math/29 english/26 science)</p>

<p>high school schedule:
freshman
Orchestra-A
Geometry Honors-B
English Honors-A
Health Class-A
Biology-A
Spanish 1-A</p>

<p>sophomore (definately weakest part of my application)
Spanish 2-B
Alg 2/Trig-A
Orchestra Honors-A
English Honors-A
World History honors-B
Chemistry-B
english/history is a team-taught class that is arguably the hardest at my
high school including AP classes</p>

<p>junior year
AP US History-A
AP Physics B-B
Pre-Calculus-A
AP Junior English-A
US Government-A
AP Micro Economics-A
Spanish 3-A</p>

<p>senior year schedule (w/ first quarter grades & probable 2nd quater grades)
AP Senior English- A
AP Calculus AB- A
Gym(required to graduate)- A
AP Environmental Science- A
AP Modern European History- A
Spanish 4, Honors- A
next semester I'm taking AP Macro Economics</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Karate (1996-present)
training for 12 years
Second degree black belt:10/06
Nationally Certified Assistant Instructor Certification: 12/04
I teach both children/adults every week
Presidents Vision Tour Committee senior member
Head of 117th Regional Black Belt testing committee
2006 National Championship:
2nd place in two divisions
scoring/timekeeping committee
2005 Regional Championships:
3rd place in one division
Judging committee</p>

<p>Rotaract (2004-present)
Treasurer-2007
Section leader-2007
Head of Habitat for Humanity project chair-2006/2007
Relay for Life project chair-2006
RYLA nominated leadership conference participant-2006
Project Committee member-2005
tons of other projects I've participated in</p>

<p>Student Council(2005-present)
Head of a committee, member of another committee
Homeroom Representative
Orientation tour guide since sophomore year</p>

<p>School Newspaper(2004-2005)-it was a class, could only fit it in one year
Sports Editor
TN HS Press Association award for feature article</p>

<p>National Honor Society member & tutoring/speaker committee member</p>

<p>400+ hours of volunter work by time of graduate (Presidents Gold Award)
Girls Club for two summers,then Animal Shelter,then juvy law group
Distinguished Spanish 1 Student award</p>

<p>Schools:</p>

<p>Emory University (Early Decision II)
Georgetown University
Northwestern University
Vanderbilt University (still not sure if I'm going to apply)
Boston College
Macalester College
Xavier University (w/ honors program)</p>

<p>any others I should look at?</p>

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<p>Holy Cross is similar to Boston College-both are Jesuit schools. HC is a little more liberal and is also SAT otional.</p>

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<p>add University of Virginia to the list please....and yeah ive been looking into holy cross...</p>

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<p>Holy Cross is a small Georgetown. In fact it was founded by the Georgetwon Jesuits. It is the only Jesuit school in the country that is strictly undergraduate which means your professors are all PhDs and no grad students teaching. There was an article yesterday in the Globe about Harvard students complaining about having little to no access to professors and only interacting with the graduate assistants.</p>

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<p>bump...id really appreciate it....</p>

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<p>bump 10 char</p>

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<p>My sister goes to Emory. She applied ED (but round I) and I would say overall you are a stronger candidate than she was. If you are serious about Emory, you should definitely visit the school and do anything you can to show you are interested. If you do that, I'd say you have a good shot.</p>

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<p>Should i even bother w/ Georgetown??</p>

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<p>Why not? I would just apply early action to increase your chances if I were you.</p>

<p>For the record, we have very similar stats, including the screw up year (except mine was junior year... I shun mononucleosis forever) and the projected GPA increase with senior year grades haha. Everyone tells me I wouldn't have a problem getting into Emory, which is why I say the same to you. Just go visit, and if they visit your school/ have some sort of information session in your area, go to that too. </p>

<p>Oh, and if you are worried about being a little outside of the top 10% of your class (which I bet you are because I was too haha), my sister was in that position as well (which is actually quite depressing to me, because if I had her GPA in my class now, I would be ranked a lot lower). Regardless, as long as you are close to the top 10% and they know you come from a competitive high school, you should be fine.</p>

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<p>I only applied to Boston College from you list
but we have similar stats, except you have a much stronger EC record
so I think BC is a good match</p>

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<p>bump 10 char</p>

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<p>okay....i know im resurrecting an old thread of mine but i really would like to know my chances at northwestern regular decision...if it helps i was talking to my counselor who says that my teacher wrote me one of the better rec letters she read this year recommendatin letter...</p>

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<p>whoever said apply EA to georgetown, its restrictive.. meaning if you apply there you can't apply ED anywhere else, i dk if you were even planning to do that though.. hm i think northwestern is a reach but would be less of a reach if you decided to apply ED</p>