Sorry, "chance me?" as it's called

Colleges and Universities A-Z Amherst College
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<p>White female
Texas
UW GPA: 3.75 (chem really killed me…and still no one in the class passed the exam)
rank: 7/351
SAT: CR 800 M 620 ( :frowning: ) WR 720
SAT BIO E: 750
SAT USH: 750</p>

<p>Freshman courses:
PAP ALG I (8th grade)
AP Human Geography
PAP Spanish I
PAP Geometry
PAP English I
PAP Biology
Theatre
Gym</p>

<p>Sophomore courses:
AP biology
AP World history
PAP Spanish II
PAP English II
PAP Chemistry
PAP Algebra II
PAP Comp Sci</p>

<p>Junior courses:
AP Chem
AP English L&C
PAP Pre-Cal
AP Environmental Science
AP US History
PAP Physics
Gym
Art</p>

<p>Senior courses:
AP Statistics
AP English Lit
PAP Spanish 3
AP Econ
AP Govt
IB Psychology
Web Design @ Community College
AP Euro History
Creative Writing</p>

<p>Exams: AP Human (5), AP World History (5), AP US History (5), AP Eng L&C (5), AP Environmental Science (3), AP biology (3), AP Chem (1)
AP Scholar, AP Scholar w/ Distinction
NMS Commended (score 218)</p>

<p>4 years- Junior Varsity Debate Captain (Soph year), Varsity debate Captain (Jr & Sr)
2 years (Jr & Sr)- GSA External Activities & Events Officer (Sr year)
2 years (Jr & Sr)- Model UN Captain (Sr year)
2 years (Fr & So)- Rowing, Varsity Coxswain (So year)
1 year (Sr)- President & Founder of alumni volunteer committee for elementary school
3 years- NHS (92 hours)
3 years- StuCo (40smg hours)
1 year- Volunteer @ Retirement home, 20 hours
2 years- Sunday School volunteer (108 hours)
1 year- Pines Catholic Camp Service volunteer (36 hours)
Summer Intern @ Affiliated Computer Services, Fortune 500 Company
Model for local business
Job @ Ice cream shop 20 hrs/week Sr year
Attended 2 debate institutes on full scholarship
Jr favorites, smartest
Girls leadership institute graduate
National cx debate champion
1st in statewide rowing competition as coxswain
Proposals selected by Economic + Financial Committee to be presented at General Assembly at Minnesota Model UN Conference 2010 (first ever attended)
Won several district-wide debate tournament
placed in top 3 speakers IDK how many times
Qualified for state UIL debate competition
Letters of Rec I think will be OK, and I feel pretty good about my essays.</p>

<p>Sorry for the length…</p>

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<p>You seem to have really good stats and a certain amount diversity in your courses…given the over all feel of everything you’ve mentioned I think you stand a really good chance :slight_smile:
but then again Im just another prospective student waiting for my ED decision.
GOOD LUCK!!!</p>

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<p>I agree that you have a decent shot–being from Texas should help! Did you apply ED or RD?</p>

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<p>@mineoafrau Ha, I hope so. No one in my school goes anywhere except UT Austin. I applied RD. I don’t know if we’ll be able to afford it, otherwise I would have applied ED. Amherst is definitely my #1.</p>

<p>Thanks blindsided, good luck and let me know how it goes!</p>

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<p>@duration: Thank You ! btw amherst meets the 100% demonstrated need…so u really shouldnt worry about it!</p>

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<p>Our “demonstrated need” is probably pretty low, as our family makes about $260,000 a year. All of our savings got wiped out by medical things and the recession, though. So we’ll see.</p>

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<p>Im sure they will take everything into account :slight_smile: GOOD LUCK!!!</p>

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<p>Wait you just throw in you are National Champion in CX? Does this mean you won NAtionals for CX? If this is the case, I am very impressed (I am a PF Debater myself, top 40 at Nationals last year)</p>

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<p>Ha, yeah. We’re only encouraged to compete in the Urban Debate Leagues though, where the caliber of competition is woefully lacking for the most part. Got judge ****ed in the 4th round by this horrible woman that didn’t even write anything on the ballot and wore a South Pole sweatshirt, so we broke to the finals that are 3 years or younger part of the national competition and won that easily. Hit some team that ran a racism performance aff from California.</p>