Please Chance Me, Need all the help I can get! Thank you for the advice!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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Gpa: UW 3.85, W 4.25 Rank 12/495
SAT: 2100 (could retake it a 3rd time lol because of June 6th travesty)
(Haven’t taken subjects yet)
I take alot of AP and honor classes. My senior course load is all honor classes except speech and debate (and if I take journalism senior year, that included)
All My AP tests taken so far: AP Physics, AP English Lit, AP World, AP US History

Speech and Debate: numerous tournament finalist awards, top 12 in Prose at State competition(will aim for better coming year)
Most Improved Team Award(went from 50 speech points to 380+ speech points)
DECA- few tournament finalist awards
Inspire Leader
Chinese School: numerous volunteer hours over a span of 5 years, help coordinate many festivals
Selected For Girls State(could not actually go to the family issue, should I include still?)
Youth Group,
Founder/President of UNICEF Club, VP of European Club (raised over $600 dollars in first year for UNICEF)
Newspaper( Big chance will become Senior Editor of it next year, but its weird as school newspaper got cancelled my sophomore year, junior year I was a guest writer (class was there but didn’t take it), so should I include it?)
NHS
Save The Family Volunteer, Many hours
Mayor’s Citizenship Award

Summer: Internship at ASU for biological physics, ALOT of chinese school activities, church trip to foreign country.

Race: Biracial (White and Asian)
Income Bracket: 40,000 (Just my mom)

I know I am not completely stellar. I’m probably pretty average, but I just want a good enough spark to get me in there.

other schools I am applying to: Georgetown(probably a reach), George Washington University, in-state schools (very secure in) Emory University, Rice(should I? or should I not?), Boston College, was also thinking about Syracuse due to great business connections…

I’m more career-focused than the name tbh. I want to end up becoming a forensics pathologist, which requires med school, so I don’t know if I should be tearing my hair out now…orrrrrrrrrrrrrr I want to do finance/international relations.

I did get one C junior year (BC Calc) which I am retaking and will be done with around October.

Sorry for the bad format!

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So how many aps did u take in total? How many hours? Act score? Ap exam scores? Clubs exactly?

Don’t apply as Asian, apply as white. The Asian pool is EXTREMELY competitive

Georgetown is a very hard school to get into. My school has a lot of trouble getting students in. We had 1 this year.

Bc is easy to get into, you will get in. My cousin got accepted and she is average(btw, you r not average, the average American gets a 1500 on sat

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8 or 9 AP’s, probably 300+ for Chinese School, 150+ for UNICEF Club, and maybe 20 hours for Save the Children? And I have gotten a 4 on AP world, don’t know about the rest yet. But I know for sure I passed AP English with at least a 4 and AP US with a 5. AP Physics was very difficult. And I did not take the ACT. Clubs are whatever is listed. Can you also give me some advice about Emory?

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sorry sorry. I have only taken 4 AP tests so far, the 8 or 9 are alll the AP classes that I will have taken by senior year.

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http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/1558825-what-are-my-chances-read-this-first-p1.html

You have some very very competitive schools on your list, good to have reaches, but you have to have safeties that you can see yourself attending. Don’t get your heart set on any one school, admissions is too unpredictable when it is holistic, as it is at most privates.

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@ryan2000 Lol. I got accepted to UGA, UCLA, USC, UMich, and NYU this past spring and got rejected from BC. I definitely wouldn’t say it’s “easy” to get into…