<p>I'm a white Jewish female from the Philadelphia area. I attend a public high school, have taken 5 AP classes, and have taken mostly honors/AP all of high school except for some maths and sciences. Because i'm not very good at math and had some bad teachers, my GPA is a 3.2 unweighted(but i hear most colleges re-weigh them? so it should go up). In top 25% of my class. My highest scores on the SAT were 660 math, 700 reading, 740 writing. I don't do a ton of extracurriculars but I'm involved/have been involved in a few things. This is my list of schools I'm looking at, please let me know if you know any specifics about their admissions and how good of a chance you think I have of getting in.</p>
<p>Hi,
You haven’t posted a list of your colleges.</p>
<p>Sorry, i copied this from a post on the “chances” forum. but this is on the colgate forum to see if i have a chance at colgate specifically. here are my ECs also:</p>
<p>School:
Students Advancing International Awareness, grades 9-10: Educated the student body about world issues and raised money to donate to some of those causes.
Volleyball team, 10-11
School newspaper, 12
Tutoring once or twice a week after school at the elementary school, 11-12
Blood Drive Committee, 12</p>
<p>Out of school:
Jewish Community High School of Gratz College- religious school, did a lot of community service projects through them, will recieve a teaching certificate at the end of the year that can be used to teach hebrew school
Habonim Dror (jewish youth movement)- junior counselor at overnight camp this summer, organize and run events during the school year for the kids
USY, 9-10: board member for my synagogue in 10th grade</p>
<p>Id say Colgate would be a Target/Reach for you.
I have a 2280 SAT with a B+ avg at a very difficult private school (mostly APs) and Colgate is a target for me according to my college counselor. </p>
<p>Your EC’s are good, do you do sports?</p>
<p>I’m not really qualified to have an opinion on this i just figured id respond since no one else did. You should definitely apply, no one can realistically predict their chances.</p>
<p>yea i played volleyball for 2 years, it’s on the list. from what i know about colgate it looks like you have a pretty good chance too</p>
<p>Being Jewish isn’t going to do you any good- Colgate has plenty of nice (disaffiliated) Jewish girls. However, if you highlight your experiences in the Jewish community and connect them with opportunities in the community at Colgate (like Colgate Jewish Union, American Jewish Committee, etc), you could look pretty good. They’re definitely always looking for new leaders and people to add perspective! Have you thought of contacting Rabbi Dave Levy?</p>