too much of a reach?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello,</p>

<p>trying to figure out how to get into a good school for IR but afraid that all choices are too much of a reach</p>

<p>here are my stats:</p>

<p>top 30% of high school class of <140
gpa 3.45 (93-100) unweighted 3.9 weighted
sat cr570 m560 (taking again in fall)\
act 24 (") /not a "strong test taker"
many honors/CIHS/ap classes (avg. grade 90ish)</p>

<p>started model un at school, sec. gen.
editor of school newspaper
president of jr. laoh (irish org.), 2009 hibernian of the year
student council head of spirit comm.
Pittsburgh mayor's youth council
lots of community service (200+ hrs.), Pgh Tribune-Review outstanding young citizen award 2009 (local newspaper's award)
service club
varsity tennis 3 yrs.
yearbook comm.
tech. and media club
pro life org.
forensics (speech and debate)
work experience
bible school instructor
2009 bishop's medallion ball candidate
people to people student ambassador </p>

<p>looking at:
GWU
Johns Hopkins?
American
Pitt </p>

<p>do i have any chance? do the personal qualities make up for the lower test score? i don't want to end up at a small no-name college.</p>

<p>help and advice are appreciated</p>

<p>will check back VERY soon</p>

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<p>Don’t post 2 of the same topic, especially less than an hour apart. It’s extremely annoying and spammy and results in cluttering the forum.</p>

<p>NO CHANCE AT JOHN HOPKINS!</p>

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<p>You definitely need to raise your SAT/ACT up.
For JHU since I’m applying there as well: since it is one of the upper tier schools, you are going to have people who scored higher than you on SATs/ACTs, higher GPA + better EC’s, but you really need to focus on the essay more than anything else (After you get your test scores up). That essay, how you write it, either makes you stand out in the crowd, or one of the couple of thousands of people that seem to write the same essays over and over again.</p>