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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My stats are:
~3.55 College GPA after 3 semesters/42 credits. Had 3.85 before. (Just went down due to a personal reason, will tell them about it.)
Hoping to get it to about 3.7 by transfer time/60 credits.</p>

<p>Major Biology and possibly minoring in Business or double majoring.
Go to Hawaii Pacific University.</p>

<p>I have an 'A' average High School GPA from Sweden where I am from.</p>

<p>SAT/ACT : Not taken</p>

<p>'Unusual things':
International student, currently going to college in US.
Parents from India, I'm born and raised in Sweden.
Fluent in 3 languages. (Swedish, English and Hindi)
Also speak a bit of norwegian, as well as basic spanish and german.
Traveled a lot, seen every country in Europe and a lot of other countries around the world.</p>

<p>Financial aid NOT needed.</p>

<p>Dean's List 3 semesters at current university.</p>

<p>EC's:
-A little bit of Community Service in US.
-Worked last summer at a home for patients with mental retardation, taking care of them etc.
-Soccer for 15 years in which I've had a lot of success.
- Been a Soccer coach for children in underprivileged neighborhoods in Sweden, 4h/week during all of 12th grade.
- Been a volunteer tutor/teacher in underprivileged neighborhoods in Sweden in 11th grade.
-Tennis for about 12 years. A lot of tournaments, and placed very good/won several.
-Will work as a volunteer at a prestigious hospital(not that it matters i guess) this semester.</p>

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<li>Mentioned working at soccer camps and soccer tournaments.</li>
<li>Done a bit of modeling but had to turn down contracts one time due to moving and one time because I was not allowed to work off campus.
-Other sports like surfing, snowboarding, golfing.. Will not be mentioned much.</li>
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<p>Big things:(in my opinion)
- Started a clothes drive in Sweden for poor families in India, collected several hundred pieces of clothing.</p>

<ul>
<li>Started a fundraiser in Sweden to help pay for medicine and medical supplies for poor families in India. Collected over $10 000! </li>
</ul>

<p>Recomendations:
2 that are good.
One talks about me as a nice person and being persistent and motivated.
One is from my CHEM teacher, he says im good etc, top 2-3% of his students ever.</p>

<p>Another one that I havent seen and will not see either. Probably will be good.</p>

<p>Chance me for these ones please:
USC already applied
vanderbilt<br>
tufts 1
utexas austin
uflorida<br>
bc<br>
johns hopkins
notre dame<br>
urochester<br>
rice
emory
cornell(not sure if ill even try, im guessing i wont make it.</p>

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<p>btw, where it says big things:( its not supposed to be a sad face, it was supposed to be,</p>

<p>big things: (in my opinion)</p>

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<p>come on people! :) please give it a try and you can feel good all day that you helped me out :)</p>

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<p>USC - slight reach
vanderbilt - reach
tufts - reach
utexas austin - maybe match, not sure how much oos hurts you
uflorida - see above
bc - slight reach
johns hopkins -reach
notre dame -reach
urochester -reach
rice -reach
emory -reach
cornell -reach</p>

<p>Those are all tough schools to get into, but since you said you have good essays and recs I bet you'll get into 2 or 3.</p>

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<p>Hey LogicWarrior,
What is "oos"? I've seen that abb. around and I'm not following what it stands for.</p>

<p>As for the question, I think all of the schools fall in "reach" for you. Are there any safeties?</p>

<p>Chance me back?
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/652085-chances-following-schools-asian-pa-resident-first-gen-junior-hs.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/652085-chances-following-schools-asian-pa-resident-first-gen-junior-hs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Out of state. Some schools accept fewer out of state students, some more.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the clarification on what "oos" stands for-- never heard of the abb. elsewhere, other then collegeconfidential.</p>

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<p>hmm ok thanks, gives me a clearer picture of it all :) im feeling pretty confident that i can make it to utexas, and that is one of my top 3 choices, so ill cross my fingers :)
just sucks cuz i had all A's(2 A-'s) and a B+ before this semester, and now it all went down the crapper :P</p>

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<p>bump :) anyone else wanna share their views?</p>