Slacker friend with SERIOUSLY low stats (not by CC standards)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Ok, my friend is going to try to get into some decent schools. Here are his stats & schools -- please, please, please chance him!</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Male</p>

<p>WGPA: 3.187
Rank: 252/538
SAT I: 1880 (530CR, 700M, 650W) <--- retaking in Dec, but he's not studying.
SAT II: 730 Math 2, 780 Chem
AP: Calc AB - 5, Chem - 5 </p>

<p>Senior Year Grades (Q1)</p>

<p>AP Psychology - F
AP Statistics - D
Honors Physics 1 - C
Journalism - W (was failing as of time of withdrawal) </p>

<p>EC's: </p>

<ul>
<li>VP of science club</li>
<li>Math Team </li>
</ul>

<p>Schools:
University of New Hampshire
Ithaca College
Boston University
University of Massachusetts
University of Maryland, College Park</p>

<p>Is there hope for him? If his SAT scores go to, say, 2150+, would it dramatically improve his chances?</p>

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<p>i think maryland will be a little difficult, but in at the others.</p>

<p>chance back?
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/603590-i-just-found-out-i-f-d-up-last-thread-damn.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/603590-i-just-found-out-i-f-d-up-last-thread-damn.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Ithaca- Probably In/ Waitlisted?
Boston U- Reach
U Maryland- Little Reach... my friend with a 3.14 GPA and 1900 SAT got in.</p>

<p>U Massachussetts Amherst or Boston?</p>

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<p>i have a 3.25 W GPA and basically the same SAT scores and i got into bard college (27% rate)
so i cant imagine you should have too much trouble getting into ithaca (applying there too)
just make sure to raise you grades a lot in the second quarter!!!</p>

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<p>Unless he does something about those first quarter grades, your friend is going to have problems even graduating from high school.</p>

<p>As far as acceptance at the other schools, I would have said:</p>

<p>Ithaca--match
Boston Univ--slight reach
Maryland (College Park)--reach
University of Mass at Boston--match</p>

<p>But unless those 1st quarter grades go up, then Ithaca will also be a reject.</p>

<p>Best of luck to your friend in improving things during the remainder of this school year.</p>

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<p>Unless he improves on those grades, he's gonna have trouble getting into any of the schools listed.</p>

<p>Otherwise, UMass Boston would be a match.</p>