"Oh! This is where I give you advice and pretend you're gonna listen to it."

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>EDIT: If you recognise the quote, you get a cookie</p>

<p>So this is basically Version 2.0 since I didn't really get any responses, and I've deleted some colleges...</p>

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<p>General
Ethnicity: Hispanic (1/2 Cuban)
Gender: F
Location: Florida
Intended Major: Psychology
I have a stregnth in the arts, and will be sending in supplemental slides of my work to schools that allow it</p>

<p>Grades
Highschool: Private, Roman Catholic, All Girl HS, Competitive (Sends some grads to top schools... Many have high GPAs, but most have SAT < 1300 (1600), usually below 1200)
UW GPA: 3.15
W GPA: 3.65
85 students in my class
School does not rank (and I really have no idea)</p>

<p>Scores
SAT I
700 CR
650 M
760 W
(will retake to improve M, and hopefully CR)
SAT II
720 Lit
660 US H</p>

<p>Awards:
- National Hispanic Recognition Programme Honourable Mention**
- Recognition in “Next Generation & 11th Congressional District High School
Art Exhibition” (competitive art competition)**
- 2007 Fiestaval Invitational Music Festival - 3rd Place Show Choir Category
- High School Letters in Drama* & Track
- Ventures Scholar
- National Forensics League Degree of Merit</p>

<p>In School ECs
- School Show Choir**
- School Plays/Musicals**
- National Art Honour Society**
- Art Club*
- School Worship Band (Vocalist)
- Set Design for Plays/Musicals
- Media & Technology Club*
- Math Club*
- Mu Alpha Theta
- National Beta Club</p>

<p>Out of School ECs
- Piano Lessons (since age 7)*
- Volunteer at Assisted Living Facility
- Member of Youth Volunteer Group (help with environmental things, and holiday events)
- Teen Court</p>

<p>Employment
- Babysit very week (for neighbours)
- Secretary at a law Firm (summer)</p>

<p>Leadership/Initiative
- Initated, rallied support for, and led the “Day of Silence” (Nation-Wide Annual Student-Led Day of Silent Protest against Harassment of LGBT Persons)<strong>+
- Initiating a Recycling Programme at my school</strong>
- Media & Tech. Club Treasurer</p>

<p><em>Important to me. (in other words, I enjoy all my ECs very much, and find them a valuable use of my time... But these are the ones I'm really invested in)
*</em>Very important to me (the <em>most</em> invested in)
+Wrote my essay about it</p>

<p>Subjective
Essay - I've been told it's very good by everyone who reads it. I've had 25+ read it so far.
Recs - Amazing:
- My GC loves me, and knows me fairly personally. I stop by and talk to her sometimes. She was a moderator on a class trip to NYC, and I dragged her along to a musical and play (Spring Awakening and Inherit the Wind), so she knows my tastes, hobbies, etc.
- My 2 teacher recs will also be amazing. I am very close to one of the teachers (talk to her everyday in school, out of class, about personal aspirations/problems/hobbies/daily life/etc... I was gonna go see HP5 with her and her husband, dressed up, but then I found out I'm gonna be outta town )
- My other teacher rec is a teacher I had in 7th, 8th, Soph, and Junior year. She has seen me grow, and I have conversations with her outside of class. She knows my basic aspirations. She knows my strengths/weaknesses, likes my sense of humour, and likes me as a student.</p>

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<p>Ok, now for the colleges. The ones with *s are the ones I really need an opinion on. The others I'm pretty sure I'm in. (In order of preference: )</p>

<p>Eugene Lang College
Columbia University (CC)*
Marymount Manhattan College
Fordham University*
City University of New York (Honours College at Hunter College<em>)
Case Western Reserve University</em>
New College of Florida*</p>

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<p>Columbia is going to be a BIG reach for you. Your SATs are OK. But they're not very competitive. And your GPA is the same way. And you don't go to a competitive school, so that makes it worse.</p>

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<p>/<em>chance me please</em>/</p>

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<p>bump /<em>common app is online</em>/</p>

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<p>With a 3.15 UW GPA, Columbia is highly unlikely. But you know what, if this is your dream, go for it. I say apply and if you end up at a different college and still want Columbia, apply for transfer (albeit transfer acceptance rate is around ~6%).</p>

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<p>bump /<em>thanks for responses so far ^^</em>/</p>

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<p>Since your school doesn't rank your SAT/SAT2 scores become even more important. Try and raise your scores.</p>

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<p>/<em>bumpbump</em>/</p>

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<p>i honestly think Columbia is out of the question unless you improve your GPA and SAT scores...but you should still go for it</p>

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<p>bump /<em>bored</em>/</p>

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<p>reject by columbia</p>

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<p>I understand Columbia is a far reach, but I want opinions on the others. Thank you. :)</p>

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<p>/<em>bumpbump</em>/</p>

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<p>waitlist and then in at columbia, in at the rest.</p>

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<p>I'd say almost definitely in at Fordham, especially if you bump up your scores a bit. Best of luck! (btw, three cheers for initiating Day of Silence at Catholic schools! My favorite part is the look on the English teacher's face when I have my speaking ally explain why I'm not talking. :D)</p>

<p>Oh, and WILSON! YAY! "It IS a juicy piece of gossip. You know what happened? I got all focused on his cancer and lost perspective..." <3 x infinity</p>

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<p><3 House.</p>

<p>"What could make a guy start drooling? Chase! Were you wearing your short shorts?"</p>

<p>Sorry, I really don't know much about the colleges you listed except Columbia (I just love House), which is going to be a reach.</p>

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<p>Do you go to the Academy of the Holy Names? Barely anyone ever gets into Columbia from there. I think 1 person in like the last 5 years. Connections to Columbia suck from there. Plus your GPA is wayyyyyy too low for Columbia. Even an unweighted GPA of 3.8 or 3.9 is too low. Columbia's admissions is REDIC. so don't feel let down. Good luck applying.</p>

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<p>shes also urm......3.15 and sat is good for urm</p>

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Do you go to the Academy of the Holy Names?

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<p>Yeah, I do <em>shifty eyes</em>. I'm guessing you're from Tampa?</p>

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<p>Hahah yeah I'm from Tampa, I know the person who went to Columbia from AHN. Anyways, I've heard AHN has connections with like Notre Dame and NYU, you should try your luck there.</p>