Last Chance Thread EVER

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I said that last time, but this is the real McCoy.</p>

<p>-Female, Micronesian/Asian
-Location: N. Mariana Islands (U.S.)
-GPA: 4.0 W, 4.5 UW
-Rank: Top 2% ~ 160ish
-SAT Reasoning: 2040 [CR: 640, M: 680, W: 720]
-Taking Math I and II in October, aiming for at least a 730 on both
-Intended major: Mathematics w/ Pre-med path</p>

<p>Senior Courseload*:
-NMI History
-Honors British Literature
-AP Calculus AB
-AP Physics B
-AP World History
-AP Psychology
-AP English Language and Composition</p>

<p>*My school doesn't offer AP. All my APs will be taken either online, with another school on island, or independently. I've already spoken to my principal about my plans, and he approves.</p>

<p>Other Advanced Courses:
-Advanced Bio
-Honors Chemistry
-Honors Business/Technical Writing
-Honors American Literature
-AP U.S. Government [JSA]
-PreCalculus</p>

<p>Most Significant Extracurriculars:
-National Honor Society, 2 years; Current President; 80+ volunteer hrs. done for various organizations and individuals; Currently collaborating with the NHS chapter of a local Catholic school to raise money for a local cancer association</p>

<p>-Student Gov't: Class President Freshman and Junior Year; spent approx. 16hrs/wk for 12 weeks last year in preparation for an island-wide pep rally, which my class won</p>

<p>-Summer Health Careers Program - 10hrs of job shadowing @hospital; A+P and Chemistry crash courses; Lessons in taking vital signs; Problem-based learning, etc...</p>

<p>-Girls' Varsity Soccer, 3yrs: 2nd place twice in a row, last year's pennant champs. I was assigned to be "head defender" last year, and may very well be the next team captain.</p>

<p>-MATH STUFF!: 2yrs Math Court, won 1st in Geometry Division; 2week Algebra2 summer class before Soph. year, equivalent to a quarter's worth of work; 2010 AP Summer Institute in Calculus AB, 26.0 contact hours</p>

<p>-JSA Georgetown Summer School 2010 -- obtained a full scholarship from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Insular Affairs</p>

<p>Others:
-Volunteerism: currently an official volunteer for the Commonwealth Cancer Association and Kilili for Congress</p>

<p>-Work Experience: 2yrs as a Polynesian cultural dancer in jr. high, just got back into the biz last month after losing 50lbs.</p>

<p>-CPR and AED certified as of June 4, 2010 (Idk if this even helps, but I think it's cool)</p>

<p>Schools (not necessariliy going to apply, just interested):</p>

<p>Georgetown
UC - Berkeley, Los Angeles, Irvine
U Illinois Urbana-Champaign
U Minn Twin Cities
U Texas Austin
Case Western [PPSP in Medicine]
Johns Hopkins
Oberlin College
Wash. Univ. in St. Louis
American Univ.</p>

<p>Those were definitely not in order of difficulty. Haha.</p>

<p>There are a lot of other insignificant nothings that I shouldn't mention, so I won't even bother. This is the 3rd AND last chance thread I'll be starting, since college applications are already being released. So bear with me! Thanks =)</p>

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<p>What schools are you currently interested in?</p>

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<p>@jshain: I accidentally left my schools out when I first posted, but I just edited the post and now they’re up there. Thnx for opening my thread.</p>

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<p>Schools (not necessariliy going to apply, just interested):</p>

<p>Georgetown- reach, and somewhat unpredictable
UC - Berkeley- low reach, Los Angeles- low reach, Irvine- match
U Illinois Urbana-Champaign- high match
U Minn Twin Cities- match
U Texas Austin- high match
Case Western [PPSP in Medicine]- match
Johns Hopkins- reach
Oberlin College- low reach
Wash. Univ. in St. Louis- reach
American Univ.- safety</p>

<p>You have a very ambitious list of schools on your list. Your GPA is obviously great but your SAT scores will need to come up 200 points if you want to be competitive at some of the more selective schools on your list, such as WUStL, JHU, and GU. If you were in-state you would still be a high match and maybe even a low reach at UCB and UCLA with your current SAT score. I think you get in at UCI and I would also encourage you to apply to UCSan Diego and UCDavis- it is not more work just a little more money, for the application fee- IF you decide to apply to the UC’s. If you would like to go to school in DC and it appears so, I would add George Washington University to your list as well.</p>

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<p>Thanks! So I knew a bunch of those would be reaches considering my SAT scores and whatnot. I just needed to know how much of a reach they were exactly. Even though most of them are matches and reaches (you only labeled one safety! :P) I would be fine if I got rejected to all except one. If that should ever be the case I’d still be fine because I like them all equally. Some of them just have more prestige than the others I guess.</p>

<p>Again, thanks a lot for your help. I really appreciate it.</p>

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<p>Wash. Univ. in St. Louis- reach</p>

<p>Berkeley - low reach to reach
JHU - low reach to reach</p>

<p>UCLA - high match to low reach</p>

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<p>BUMPBUMPBUMP. This is the last time I’m going to decide which schools I’m going to apply to so it would be really nice if you all could contribute your two cents :slight_smile: thnx.</p>