What are my chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Okay so I'm a 3/4 Caucasian, 1/4 Hispanic female, a rising sophomore at a highly competitive, large (2000+ students), public, Northeastern high school, which is nationally respected, with my schedule set through senior year.</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 3.80
Unweighted GPA: 3.52</p>

<p>Courses (IB not offered)
8th grade: Algebra 1, Spanish 1, Earth Science</p>

<p>Freshman Year: Biology Honors (with lab unit), Science Research I, Geometry, Spanish 2 Honors, English 9 Honors, Dance, AP World History I</p>

<p>Sophomore Year: Chemistry (with lab unit), Algebra 2/Trig, Spanish 3 Honors, English 10 Honors, Lyrical Dance, AP World History II, AP Psychology, Athletic Training and Sports Medicine</p>

<p>Junior Year: Physics (with lab unit), College Precalculus, Spanish 4 Honors, AP English Language, Gym, Physiology of Exercise, AP U.S History, Child Study Lab, Community Health</p>

<p>Senior Year: AP Biology (with lab unit), AP Calculus AB, Syracuse Project Advanced Spanish or AP Spanish, Project Advanced English, AP European History, Gym, Forensic Science(with lab)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Cheerleading (2 seasons per year): 9th and 10th, will continue through 12th
Track and Field: 9th
Awareness Club: 9th and 10th, will continue through 12th
Interact Club: 10th, will continue through 12th
Volleyball (out of school): 10th, will continue through 12th
Competitive Cheerleading: 8th, 10th, will continue through 12th</p>

<p>Volunteer Work:
Coach for youth cheerleading (50 hrs per season): 9th and 10th, will continue through 12th
Crafts with kids that have cancer (4 hrs): 9th - it was a one-time thing
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Walk (5 hrs per walk): 9th and 10th, will continue through 12th
Red Cross Walk: 9th
Red Cross Supply Packaging: 9th
On Deck For the Cure: 9th (two times)
The Groove for St. Jude's: 10th
Organized a drive to collect clothing, books, school supplies, etc. and shipped the collected
items to Africa (60+ hrs): 10th, hope to be able to do it again</p>

<p>Leadership: At my school, a large, competitive Northeastern public school, leadership positions are only available to seniors, so I cannot hold a club leadership position until senior year.</p>

<p>Awards:
Presidential Active Lifestyle Award
Youth Cheerleading and Football League Community Service Awards</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT IIs:
Biology E: 690 (retaking in Oct.)
Will take world history, math level I in June</p>

<p>AP:
Will take world history, psychology in May
May self-study AP Human Geography(?)</p>

<p>PSAT: Will take in October (averaging a 2020 on practice tests)</p>

<p>State Exams:
86 on biology
85 on geometry</p>

<p>Schools I want to go to (no specific order):
University of Florida
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Boston University
Boston College
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Delaware
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Yale University
Stanford University
University of Notre Dame
SUNY Binghamton
University of Miami</p>

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<p>You just finished your freshman year, this is wayyyyy too early for a chance thread. The only advice anyone can give you is to work hard and make sure you get as close to a 4.0 (UW) as possible and as close to perfect on your standardized test scores as possible. Try to improve your GPA if possible, at least to 3.8 (UW) if you want to go to some of the better colleges on your list. Also make sure you get some leadership positions as well.</p>

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<p>Really? I didn’t think it was considering I’ve already received letters/emails from colleges asking me to visit, but I haven’t been interested in any of them (schools like UNCG, Miami U, AUR, etc.)</p>

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<p>Colleges send generic emails following SAT testing of any kind.</p>

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<p>They’re not generic emails and usually they come through my gc.</p>

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<p>Like one letter said based on your academic success and your athletic attributions to your school we are interested in having you visit. We would be honored if you would attend our university and choose to cheer along with our team. We have over 100 undergraduate programs and…
It just goes on talking about academics, organizations and athletics.</p>

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<p>Anyone else? Bump</p>

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<p>believe it or not, they are typical college letters and mail. I get letters and e-mails all the time about U of Chicago, Vanderbilt, etc talking about how I’m “a special kind of student”. It’s just mail to get you interested in the school, but they send that stuff to everyone. If you’re talking about actually being recruited by a school for a sport, then I’d think the scouts would contact you personally. All of my friends who are top in the state at football, wrestling, and so forth are actually approached by the scouts. I wouldn’t worry about colleges until at least the beginning of Junior year. Once you know how junior year grades and SAT scores and such pan out, you’ll have a better idea of what college you have a shot at getting in at and which ones would fit you. </p>

<p>Like the previous guy stated, you need to raise your unweighted GPA and score at least a 2100+ on the SAT in order to at least be competetive for schools like Notre Dame and Michigan. For Stanford and Yale, you really need 2300+. Just make sure you get all A’s in your core classes and study for SAT early. If you do that, you can be in good shape for those schools.</p>