PLEASE please chance me! ^^

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello everyone! I would really appreciate if you could suggest safety, matches or reaches. I'm getting a bit confused with all the universities since there are so many and I can't seem to choose. I would really love to know your opinion.</p>

<p>Spanish Female from low-income family</p>

<p>Major: Science, possibly biology or neuroscience</p>

<p>STATS:
GPA 3.73 unweighted, 4.2 weighted
SAT 2100
SAT II Chemistry 730, Biology 760, Spanish 800
AP Biology 5, Psychology 4, Art I 4, Art II 5</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULAR:
Volleyball 4 years (captain)
Ice Hockey 2 years
Art club</p>

<p>AWARDS in chemistry, math, foreign language, art (winning art competition with gold medals 2 years in a row)</p>

<p>I'm from Boston, Mass. I'm applying to Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern University, U. Michigan, U. Southern California, Santa Clara U., Villanova, with NYU and John Hopkins as high reaches. </p>

<p>Not much community service to be honest though I've been volunteering as a patient representative for about 12 weeks now one day per week and a couple of months/weeks work experience shadowing doctors and surgeons (I'm planning to become a doctor) but I don't think that will make much of a difference? Not sure.</p>

<p>Please let me know what you think and if you think some of these may be reaches for me! Suggestions for safeties, matches, reaches WELCOME! THANK YOU :)</p>

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<p>I forgot National Arts Honor Society :)</p>

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<p>BU - almost safety, low match
BC - match
NEU - low match
UMich - lowish reach
USC - low reach
Villanova - low match
NYU - high match
JHU - reach</p>

<p>Best of luck. It looks like you have some great factors to you application and it will certainly help that you are Spanish. Good luck, and seeing as you posted in my thread saying that we liked similar schools, maybe I’ll see you around in 2 years.</p>

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<p>BU: Low match
BC: Match
NEU: Low match
UMich: High Match
USC: Low reach
Villanova: Safety
NYU: High Match
JHU: Low reach</p>

<p>Chance me
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<p>BU: Safety
BC: Match
NEU: Safety
UMI: High match
USC: High match
Villanova: Low match
NYU: Match
JHU: Reach</p>

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<p>Thank you so much everyone! :slight_smile: Do you have suggestions for other universities that I should probably look into? Whether they are safeties, matches or reaches? Also, I didn’t put any Ivy League but do you think it would be good applying to at least one?</p>

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<p>I’d apply to Cornell if I were you.</p>

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<p>I would! However my first SAT went terribly (in no way Ivy league level) and Cornell requires ALL SAT scores to be sent to them :frowning:
Although not all of them are Ivy Leagues, the ones that only require the highest SAT scores are: Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, Duke, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Vanderbilt and John Hopkins.</p>

<p>Would you guys recommend any from the above? I know they’re all pretty much high reaches but I’ve been told to apply anyways (just in case) :)</p>

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<p>Ohh sorry, but before I forget what about Emory (reach?) and University of Miami (match?)? </p>

<p>I swear that’s my last question ^^</p>

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<p>…bump? :)</p>

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<p>Honestly, you shouldn’t bother including your Spanish scores because of your Hispanic background. My friend’s aunt works in the admissions office and says that she often entirely disregards SAT II/AP language scores when the student already comes from a strong background in that language.
In terms of match/reach schools, I think you have a great shot at Emory, and Columbia too!</p>