Realistic chance?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Black Female
GPA: 3.81 UW, 4.14 W
School doesn't rank until February in senior year, but estimate that I would be in top 25% because it is a very competitive school
Senior Year: AP Calc AB, AP GOV, AP ENGLISH 12, AP BIO, Honors Physics (required), Photography II, Leadership II
Will NOT take AP Physics, Stats, Art History, Spanish, French, or Chem in my high school career</p>

<p>SEMESTER GRADES
I used to get straight A's as a freshman and sophomore, but because of transferring to another school that has a very different grade system and difficult transition, my grades went down in my junior year.
(On 7-point scale with no plus or minus)
Leadership A/A
Honors Math Analysis B/B
Study Resources III A/A
Honors English 11 B/B
AP Psych B/A
Honors Chemistry B/B (.2 away from an A)
AP USH B/B
Photography A/A
I am making a progress throughout the year, and I hope I would get A's in senior year.</p>

<p>TEST RESULTS
PSAT: 161
SAT: 1670 (610M 570W 490V)- will retake
SAT II: 610 History, 660 Math IIC (will retake), 560 Chemistry (will retake)</p>

<p>WORK EXPERIENCE
Sharing and Caring Hands (food programfor the homeless) for two years
Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Student volunteer) for three months
Habitat for Humanity (Built houses for unfortunate families) for a year
Mentoring a deaf elementary student for two years
Research in the lab this summer (40 hours each week)</p>

<p>ACTIVITIES
Club Youth Extending Service (a school volunteering organization) (9, 10)
National Karate (9, 10)
Chess Club (During lunch- 11)
Science Club (During lunch- 11)
Psychology Association (During lunch- 11)
Health Science Academy (After school- 11)
University of Virginia Mini-Medical School (After school- 11)
Made National Honor Society for next year (teacher selection)</p>

<p>HONORS
Academic Honor Roll for three years
National Karate Summer Program Award
President's Student Service Gold Award (volunteering 100+ hours)
National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine (a scam but considered a scholarship to me because I was given $8,000)
A Venture Scholar</p>

<p>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-I was born in Canada, and my parents both went to an elite college in Canada and are now very successful financially. So, in my whole family, I will be the first one to go to a college in United States, and I am a little excited about it.
-Will include my research publication in my application
-Will write the essay about my deafness, the obtacles I faced, how I overcame them, and how it contributes to my success today
-Will get excellent recommendations from my GC and my research mentor, but I don't think I will get outstanding recommendations from my teachers because I just moved to the area and I don't know them as long as other students
-I transferred from #1 public school in one state with a very good SAT average score (by the way, I was top 10% in my class) to a VERY competitive but smaller public school in another state. In fact, so many seniors from my new school were accepted into prestigious colleges (MIT, Harvard, Brown, Yale, Princeton, Columbia).</p>

<p>Sorry for the long post. What are my chances in Princeton, Duke, UVA, and William and Mary?</p>

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<p>idk man...your SAT is reaally below the average for all those schools. In my opinion, everything on your app is great but i think your SAT is the only thing hurting you. Im no expert, but im not sure if you have a good shot at these schools because of your SAT. But who knows, maybe the rest of your app will supplement, give it a shot. I know for UVA though you have a very small chance just because they accept such a small amount of students out state. You really need to raise your SAT's to like 2100+ to be an all around competative candidate for these schools</p>

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<p>even though you have urm status, your sats are too low. and since you come from a privilaged background (both parents went to college), i'm not even sure whether your eligible for urm status. right now, all your colleges are pretty high reaches entirely becasue of teh sat scores. and do u have any leadership positions?</p>

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<p>I live in VA</p>

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<p>And what is URM status?</p>

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<p>oo nevermind thought u lived in canada...hmm</p>

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<p>urm is under represented minority. You'll have a slight at advantages at all those schools because your black but you'd have a much larger advantage if you weren't so well off financially. Personally, i agree with the others who say your SAT scores are too low for those colleges. SATs aren't everything, but they do count for a lot. Unless the scores come way up, they're all reaches. Except for maybe UVA, i'm not really sure how competitive it is if you live in-state. My advice would be to definitely re-take the SATs.</p>

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<p>Give it a try, but you need to add some safer schools.</p>