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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Background
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Hispanic and Caucasian
Location: Small suburban town
High School: We send around 2-3 kids each year to Ivies. So... average?</p>

<p>Stats
GPA (weighted): 4.84
GPA (unweighted): 3.98
Rank: Top 1%
SAT:1820 (ahhhhhhhh my greatest weakness here, im definately gonna retake!!)
ACT: going to take
SAT IIs: prob US History, English, Math IIc, and/or World History
APs: AP Psych (4- Self studied)</p>

<p>Classes: I've taken all honors classes throughout high school.. my school doesn't offer many APs though, but I've taken as many as possible</p>

<p>Senior Year:
AP Calc AB
AP Macroeconomics
AP World History
AP Stats
AP English
AP Music Theory (Self study)
Advanced Spanish</p>

<p>Activities</p>

<p>I've been a big music geek for practically all of my life, and still love it. I've played piano for almost 12 years now, drums for 5 years, saxophone for 8 years and have picked up other instruments/singing in high school.Throughout high school, most of my activities are concentrated on music because its truly my passion. However, I don't know if concentrating in one area will help me or hurt me...</p>

<p>Marching Band- Drum Major
Academic Decathlon- Captain
National Honors Society- VP
Spanish Honors Society- Treasurer
Percussion Ensemble- Captain
Peer Support Group
National Honors Society
All State Chorus
All County Chorus
Select Choir
Woodwind Ensemble- 1st Chair
Jazz Band- 1st Chair
2nd Jazz Band
Pit Orchestra</p>

<p>Summer Work
Girl’s State 2009
Camp Counselor</p>

<p>Jobs
Church Musician/ Accompanist</p>

<p>Volunteer Work
Play instruments in elderly homes (This is a truly amazing experience btw)
Tutoring kids </p>

<p>Awards
Academic Decathlon- Two State Silver Medals in Music
Academic Decathlon- Regional Gold Medal in Music
Academic Decathlon- Regional Bronze Medal in Music
Academic Decathlon- Regional Silver Medal in Economics
Wesleyan Book Award
Distinguished Women of Honor
Citizenship Award
Psychology Award
English Award
Spanish Award
Biology Award
World History Award</p>

<p>Intended Majors
Psychology and Music</p>

<p>College List:</p>

<p>Boston College
UCLA
Fordham U.
TCNJ
NYU
Barnard
SUNY Stony Brook
Cornell U.
Columbia U.
U. Delaware
U. Central Florida</p>

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<p>Your SAT will hurt you. See if you can take it again and score higher. That will help you a lot. Other than that, your resume looks really good.</p>

<p>Boston College - match
UCLA - high match if CA resident; reach if not CA resident
Fordham U. - match
TCNJ - match or safety if NJ resident
NYU - high match
Barnard - high match
SUNY Stony Brook - safety
Cornell U. - reach
Columbia U. - reach
U. Delaware - match/safety
U. Central Florida - safety</p>

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<p>I agree with ^^^ and I can tell your from NY not CA because of Stony Brook only people from NY go there and I live in NY.</p>

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<p>Thanks for chancing me guys~!! Yeah I’ve been doing sat practice stuff like crazy this summer… hopefully it’ll go up a lot</p>

<p>Oh and I forgot to add under volunteer work that I’m a breast cancer awareness advocate during October</p>

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<p>i have a lot of matches and reaches, but not enough safeties i think. what do u all think would be some good safeties for me??</p>