Please help chancing me? It would mean the world! (:

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Alright, so I'm a junior in high school in North Carolina right now so it's fast approaching crunch time for college. Regarding my GPA, I know it's low, but my freshman year is weighing me down so badly, and I'm hoping that colleges see through this, because I really bounced back after that year. I heard certain colleges ignore freshman year like the UC schools, Michigan, Princeton etc.</p>

<p>Colleges I want to apply to (I know it's a lot, will narrow down later): Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Washington at St. Louis, UC Berkeley, UNC Chapel Hill, Georgia Tech, Case Western, Michigan at Ann Arbor, NC State, Boston University, UConn, Ohio State.</p>

<p>School Type: Charter (so public?) **The school I go to, Raleigh Charter, is a very academically challenging school compared to public schools, and does not offer classes lower than Honors level. I'm not using this as an excuse for my low grades freshman year, but just pointing it out.
Location: North Carolina
Race/Gender: Indian
Prospective Major: Biology
Unweighted GPA: Freshman - 3.1 (All honors classes, horrendous I know)
Sophomore - 3.6
Junior (so far) - 3.7
Weighted GPA: Freshman - 4
Sophomore - 4.72
Junior - 5.2
Class rank: School doesn't rank</p>

<p>SAT I Scores: 2270
SAT I Math: 780
SAT I Critical Reading: 730
SAT I Writing: 760 </p>

<p>SAT II Scores (so far, planning on taking many more the end of this school year)
SAT II Math Level 1: 720
SAT II Bio (M):750</p>

<p>AP Scores: (same note as SAT 2s)
Gov't US: 5
Bio: 5 </p>

<p>Long-form Info</p>

<p>Extracurricular Info
*Writer for Bleacher Report
*200+ hours of volunteering at WakeMed Hospitals
*250+ hours of volunteering at religious school
*Top Regional Quiz Bowl player, captain for team, on Quiz Bowl's leadership council
*Key Club for 3 years
*German Club for 3 years
*SLA (Student Legislative Assembly) for 1 year
*Varsity Basketball for one year
*Varsity Tennis for two years
*Took two online courses: "Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life"
"Social Psychology" on Coursera and received certificates acknowledging successful completion of the courses.</p>

<p>Awards
*National Merit Commended Scholar
*Won a recreational basketball league championship
*Commended Short Story Submission to the Raleigh Fine Arts Literary Contest</p>

<p>Essays:
*I'm a strong writer, so I'm sure it will show.</p>

<p>Recommendations:
*I have GREAT relationships with all my teachers, and keep up with even my freshman year teachers after school. All my teachers love me guaranteed.</p>

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<p>OHHH sorry I forgot to add: *** I attended the Shelton Leadership Challenge Summer Camp, NC State Biomedical Engineering Camp, and the WakeMed Prospective Health Careers Summer Camp</p>

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<p>1.) Your ECs are a little cookie cutter. But most peoples are.
2.) NC State and UNC you are most likely in, because you are in state and regardless of your freshman year, your grades are good.
3.)I’d say your in at most, but keep your GPA up this year.
4.) Keep up the good work!
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<p>Good Luck!</p>