This One's A Shocker!!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>It's another what are my chances thread!!</p>

<p>ok, i'm starting to think about what schools i should apply to (saftey, match, and reach), so where do you think i stand with schools like UVA, W&M, harvard, yale, any other ivy league</p>

<p>Female, Alexandria, VA (northern VA)
SAT: 2050 -- i'm going to take them again
SAT II: Math1: 720 -- i'm going to also take 2 more, maybe lit and physics
GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.3 weighted -- full IB candidate
Course load: most challenging</p>

<p>Freshman:
Band-A
P.E.-A
Pre IB English-A
Pre IB World History-A
Film-A
Pre IB Bio-A
Pre IB Geomtry-A
Spanish 2-A</p>

<p>Sophomore:
Journalism 2-A
P.E.-A
Spanish 3- A
Pre IB Algebra 2-A
Pre IB Gov't-A
IB Chem-A
Pre IB English-A
Psychology-A</p>

<p>Junior:
IB Physics-A
IB Psych-A
IB Math SL1-A
IB Spanish1-A
Journalism 3-A
IB English-A
IB HOA-A
TOK-A</p>

<p>What I hate is that my non-IB classes actually pulled my GPA down even though I got As in them. If I hadn't taken them I would have a 4.5. Is that good or bad???</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
IB Physics 2 HL
IB English 2
IB Topics
TOK
IB Math SL2
IB Spanish 2
Journalism 4</p>

<p>Rank: school doesn't rank, but I'm in the top 1% out of 500
EC: newspaper (managing editor- 2 years), lit mag, spanish club, spanish honor society, key club, NHS (president), tutoring kids weekly, creating a newsletter for a company, tons of volunteering (ex. working for a company w/o pay, working with animal rescue, etc.), volleyball, band in 9th grade
Summer activities throughout high school: photography class, hollins u. summer program, boston u. summer program, writing for an animal newsletter
Honors: Academic Excellence in Sports- 9th grade, Excellence in English Award- 3 years and running, Excellence in Journalism- 11th grade, Quill & Scroll- 11th grade, 1st chair flute- 9th grade, article published in local news magazine</p>

<p>SO . . . where do i stand???</p>

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<p>you will have to raise SATs to 2200 or higher for the ivies considering youre from NoVa, perhaps the most competitive area in the country for college admissions. You should be good for UVA and W&M now, but SAT above 2100 would make it more of a sure thing. Dont know if the ivies are really worth it when you can go to one of those for much much cheaper.</p>

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<p>yeah, i've been working on raising my SATs. I suck at the CR section; i got a 630 :(. It's strange because I'm great at english, but I dont work well under the pressure of reading the long passages. Do you have any tips for improving the CR???</p>

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<p>i only got a 710, but i usually dont read the whole passage before trying to answer the questions. ill read the opening paragraph to get the idea of the passage, then read all of the questions, and then go back and look for where the answers might be, read those sections closely. Most of the passage is just there to waste your time, and you can usually skim if you know what you are looking for.</p>

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<p>I also suggest ckmets method. I was able to go from 710 to 800 using it. Also, knowing your greek and latin roots is very helpful with the vocab.</p>

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<p>I see you're taking Ib spanish 2, you can try to use your spanish knowledge to work out some of the vocab, at least thats what I did and it worked very well.</p>

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<p>I'm from NoVa too. I haven't mentioned it in my chances threads, but do you think that will make it slightly harder for me?</p>

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<p>What is ckmets method?</p>

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<p>it does make it slightly harder being from such a competitive area. For example, NoVa has out of state acceptance rates to UVA. Colleges cant take so many from one area, so consequently areas with more applicants per capita to top schools will see acceptance rates decline.</p>

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<p>OOS acceptance rates?
that really killed my chances</p>

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<p>Even with the supposedly OOS rates, TJ has sent 531 kids to UVA over the past four years</p>

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<p>yeah, but that's TJ! my school has only sent like 35ish in the last 4 years.</p>

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<p>Is Fredericksburg considered NoVA?</p>

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<p>Fredricksburg isn't really NoVA; I don't think. What county are you in???</p>

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<p>any more opinions??</p>