UPDATE>>>chance a junior in need

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Black Female (Jamaican born)
Lower-Middle Class
Atlanta
School: Public, Charter, Magnet Program. Top 200 in US</p>

<p>GPA: 4.02 weighted; 3.8
Class Rank: top 10
SAT: 2030 720cr 680m 630w
SAT II: US History-720, Math 2: 670</p>

<p>Recs should be pretty amazing
Essays: I'm a good writer so I'll probably have that covered; planning to write about the migration experience(pretty tough for my family)</p>

<p>ECs:
-National Society of Black Engineers: 9th, 10th- Parlimentarian, 11th- Co-VP, 12th- VP
-National Honor Society- 10,11,12
-National Beta Club- 10,11,12
-Teen Court- 12(has no leadership positions), trial by peers kinda thing
-Mock Trial- 11,12
-We the People-12
-School Newspaper- 11, 12-news editor
-I work at Taco Bell
-Telluride Association Sophomore Seminars-Dartmouth Bound</p>

<p>Honors:
-Cox Communications Outstanding Student
-Honor Roll-throughout scool</p>

<p>Courses:
core classes are all magnet or APs
9th- the regular no APs allowed at my school
10th- World. Lit, Alg. 2, AP World(5), APStat(4), Comp. App, Chemistry
11th- AP Chem, AP Physics B, Anaylsis, APUSH, Am. Lit, Span. 3, Journalism I
12th- AP Lit, AP Calc. AB, AP Gov, AP Econ.(Macro and Micro required), Journalism II, AP Spanish, and programming</p>

<p>Colleges:
BU
Yale
Dartmouth
UMich
UGA
Amherst
any suggestions???</p>

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<p>anyone??? </p>

<p>10char.</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>bump
10char</p>

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<p>You have a solid GPA and your SAT score seems average, but a little on the low side for schools like Yale. Also, get those SAT II scores up especially Math II, try and break 700 if you can because a 670 will really not get you far. Your ECs are great- show leadership and passion, have you won any awards on a national level or anything?
Being black and Jamaican helps you, which I think your chances at Yale go up dramatically.
Low reach at UMich, UGA, Amherst and BU. Reach for Yale and Dartmouth…
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<p>I think your TASS experience, URM status, and enrollment in a highly-regarded public school helps counterbalance your relatively low scores (which aren’t low except by Ivy League standards). Hard to say about Amherst, Yale, and Dartmouth, but I’m sure you’ll be in at UGA and BU, and decent chances at UMich. Just don’t list Honor Roll on your app as an award.</p>

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<p>thnx so much
i’ll have think about retaking math II</p>

<p>bump</p>

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<p>bump…
i’m thinking about applying to Yale SCEA…it’s my dream school…but i really want to know if I have a chance
am i being realistic?</p>

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<p>well this sounds absolutely atrocious but its my honest opinion: being a black female and writing about your family’s migration is going to help you alot and i think you have a pretty good resume so you should get into 3 of the 6 mentioned, i cant be specific as to which 3 because with admissions standards that high those schools can be unpredictable but you should get into 3</p>

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<p>I think you’d have a better chance at Amherst and Dartmouth, where there isn’t THAT much diversity, so they need more URM applicsnts. But you still have as much of a chance as anyone at Yale if you bring up your SAT II’s and write excellent essays.</p>