very unsure NEED HELP with chances!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a junior in high school, and I am starting to look for college/university options. I am thinking about NYU, Fordham and Barnard as idealistic reaches-- Babson, American U and UVM as targets. Is this reasonable?</p>

<p>PSAT: 63 math and CR 63 and CW 63 (total: 189)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.5</p>

<p>Will have taken (upon graduation): AP English, AP Biology, AP Statistics, AP Human Geography, and AP Economics, as well as 2 years of Arabic and 2 years of French</p>

<p>Varsity Field Hockey and Lacrosse-- state awards for field hockey. </p>

<p>4 volunteer-based extracurriculars, officer's position in two. </p>

<p>Doing a volunteer project with local hospital for under-privileged community/ immigrant workers. </p>

<p>NHS member, as well as Junior NHS.</p>

<p>Full-time job.</p>

<p>Teacher recommendations should (hopefully!) be solid, one of my teachers has alredy appoached me offering to write one.</p>

<p>My mom was an NYU graduate, and many family members have graduated from Barnard.
Is there hope??</p>

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<p>**** I should have mentioned: GPA is unweighted and I plan on majoring in Political Science. (if that changes anything)</p>

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<p>American will be pretty difficult with a 3.5, and you’ll need to score better than a 1890 on the SAT. NYU and Fordham shouldn’t be a problem. I’m not sure with the others.</p>

<p>Do you know what field of PoliSci you want? If international relations/comparative politics is your thing, focus on getting into NYU. If you’re more interested in American political behavior Fordham and American are the stronger choices.</p>

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<p>don’t stress too much yet you’ve got some time. your course load and extracurriculars look good and your gpa isn’t terrible, but i would mainly focus on bringing up your sat scores since there isn’t a ton you can do to bring up your gpa senior fall. take time this summer to study for the sats. i had around there at the end of junior year and by studying over the summer i was able to bring them all up to the 7 and 8’s.</p>