not another chance thread.....

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>well maybe....</p>

<p>State or Country: Fairfax County, VA
School Type: Large, Public
Ethnicity: Sudanese (African-American) but US citizen
Gender: F</p>

<p>SAT I: 690 M 710 V 730 W
SAT IIs: 680 Biology 670 French 720 Lit
GPA: 3.7 UW, (All grades are A's and B+'s with the exception of 2 B's)
Rank: School doesn't rank</p>

<p>All Classes have been AP/Honors since freshman year
In addition, I am taking a french literature course at George Mason University (dual-enrollment) because I have finished all the french courses available at my school
I am fluent in Arabic (wanted to take an SAT II in that but too bad they dont even offer it!!)</p>

<p>Extracuriculars:
- I Co-founded a not-for profit organization for human rights called Teens 4 Peace
- Under Teens 4 Peace I was able to help organize a huge rally in order to stop the genocide occuring in Darfur, Sudan. It was a huge success, mostly becuase it was organized in Washington D.C.'s popular Dupont Circle. I worked with Amnesty International, Save Darfur, STAND, and the Genocide Intervention Fund
- STAND (students taking action now: darfur), International High School Coordinator
-STAND Education Outreach Committee, Executive Board Memeber
- INOVA Fairfax Hospital's Blood Bank, intern
- Amnesty International (Washington DC), volunteer
- Time Kaine's Campaign for Governor 2005, Volunteer
- Public Library, Volunteer
- I attended the Boston Area Darfur Activism Conference at Harvard University last Winter
- I taught English after school to high school girls in Sudan while I was there last summer (My aunt is the headmistress of an all girl's school there)
- I shaddowed a member of the Sudanese Parliament for two weeks this summer
- Sudanese Youth Group, president
- French Honor Society, president
- People Around the World, officer
- Young Democrats, president</p>

<p>I plan on making my work and passion for the Crisis in Darfur the main point of my essays/personal statements and how I have realized that I want to spend my life doing humanitarian work. I will also be writing about how I first got involved in it.. which is a long story that traces back to my first ever trip to Sudan... way before the disaster even began.</p>

<p>Schools:
Harvard, Georgetown (Walsh School for Foreign Service), Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Cornell, UC Berkeley, NYU, Yale, William & Mary, Tufts, Duke, University of Pennsylvania, Boston University</p>

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<p>bump...................</p>

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<p>anyone care to share?</p>

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<p>see my response on the other thread you made with all of htis stuff.</p>

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<p>sudaneya4ever:</p>

<p>UCB: Reach (out of state)</p>

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<p>Your SATs need to improve, a lot. If they do, then this is what I would think are your chances in this best-case scenario:</p>

<p>TOO HARD, DON'T WASTE YORU TIME:
Harvard
Princeton
Yale</p>

<p>HIGH REACHES:
,Georgetown (Walsh School for Foreign Service)
Columbia
Brown
Cornell
UC Berkeley
Duke
Tufts
UPenn</p>

<p>MATCHES:
NYU
William & Mary</p>

<p>SAFETY:
Boston University</p>

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<p>HYP won't be too hard if she gets those sat's up. it would be a reach yes, but everyone's a reach, and hers isn't an unreasonable reach.</p>