'Tis the season...for chancing poor ED applicants who are REALLY freaked out! =)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Basic Stuff:
Female, 17, Jewish, born in Israel (and am still an Israeli citizen), live in Ohio, three siblings</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.98 unweighed, 4.4 weighed
Rank: 20th out of about 600; top 3% of the class
Class schedule: mostly honors and AP classes except for graduation requirements (business, gym, languages, etc.)</p>

<p>Tests:
SAT:2250 V:800 M:720 W:730
ACT:34 E:35 R:34 M:34 S:33
Subject tests: US history:740 Lit:760 Math 1:750</p>

<p>AP:
US History: 5
English Language: 5
Statistics: 5
Planning to take English Lit, US Government, Physics (both of them), Calculus, Economics (Macro & Micro)</p>

<p>EC's:
Marching band: sophomore and junior year
Pep band: all four years
Literary magazine: all four years (literary editor for 3)
TEAMS (selective physics/engineering competition): my team placed 1st in state and 4th in the nation
Model UN: senior year
National Honor Society: senior year
I have others, but this is all I really had room for on my app, and these are the biggest most important ones.</p>

<p>Other activities/awards:
Have played piano for 7 years and flute for 6
Did ballet for 10 years
Went to Northwestern's CTD summer camp twice (took Psychology and Modern Political Theory)
Took online correspondence course from Northwestern (AP Psychology)
Legacy Heritage Internships for Young Scientists participant (spent 6 weeks doing physics research with professors at Hebrew University in Jerusalem)
National Merit Semifinalist, hopefully Finalist (PSAT: 224)
Won photography contest for Johns Hopkins' Imagine magazine
Entered Siemens and Intel competitions
AP Scholar Award
Won Americanism & Government Test at my school
Offered publication in Imagine magazine; I'm writing an article about marching band later this year
Offered publication in CAMERA on Campus (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America); my article will come out later this year
Write for a blog about Israeli news and culture called Oznia</p>

<p>Community service:</p>

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<p>Jobs:
Monthly columnist for local Jewish newspaper</p>

<p>Languages:
Fluent Russian
2 years of French
Have been learning Hebrew for the past 3 years</p>

<p>Other plans for senior year:
Complete 50-hour service project for NHS
Complete 40-hour Israel advocacy project for LHIYS (will probably involve writing)
Write for several pro-Israel publications</p>

<p>I applied Early Decision to Northwestern University's journalism program...</p>

<p>"Don't nobody bring me no bad news." =)</p>

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<p>Oy vey…if they don’t take you, who will they take? calm down… you will be fine…no, actually, you will be great even if you don’t get accepted to NU-Medill…where else are you applying?</p>

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<p>@rodney - Thanks!!</p>

<p>Let’s see…(I’m ranking these from safeties to reaches =))…</p>

<p>Ohio State, University of Illinois, Brandeis, NYU, Johns Hopkins, Brown, University of Chicago, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard.</p>

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<p>No other journalism schools? surprised not to see U-Missouri. or other strong ones…You should be fine…let us know how NU goes next week…good luck…</p>

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<p>Thank you; I appreciate it!</p>

<p>In case you were wondering, the reason I didn’t focus on journalism schools is because I’m planning on double-majoring in sociology, or having that as my only major for the schools that don’t offer an undergraduate journalism degree and doing graduate work with it later. It was more important to me to attend a school that’s generally considered very good. =)</p>