What are my chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey everyone, i just wanted to know what you all though of my chances @ the following colleges:</p>

<p>-UMD-CP
-UMD-BC
-SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
-UNC-CHAPEL HILL
-PENN STATE - UNIVERSITY PARK
-OHIO STATE - COLUMBUS
-UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
-UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI </p>

<p>I'm an Asian male and a resident of Maryland.</p>

<p>Following Stats:</p>

<p>*GPA:
3.77 UW
4.45 W</p>

<p>*Class Rank: Top 5%</p>

<p>*SAT'S: 1840
M: 610
V: 580
W: 650 w/ a 10 on the essay</p>

<p>*Planning to retake SAT's in October and recent prep suggests a projected score around 2000.</p>

<p>*AP's:
- AP Statistics (4)
- AP Calc BC
- AP Chem
- AP Lang</p>

<p>**2 or 3 more AP's for senior year</p>

<p>*All honors courses in math, english, science, history throughout high school.</p>

<p>*4 years of foreign language (Spanish)</p>

<p>*EC's:
Devoted most of my time to:
- Speech team
- Writer for school paper </p>

<p>*Significant Achievements:
- County finalist for speech team tournament in extemp. speaking
- First place award in county technology challenge competition
- National honor society member
- Honor roll all throughout high school
- Various awards attained throughout hs</p>

<p>*Community Service:
- Approximately 150 Hours throughout HS </p>

<p>*First class essay and letters or rec.</p>

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<p>UMDCP - Match/Safety
UMDBC - Safety
Syracuse - Match/Safety
UNC - Reach
Penn State - Safety*
Ohio - Safety
Florida - Match/Safety
Miami - Match</p>

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<li>University Park has a minimum SAT in order to be considered for admission. I'm not quite sure what it is, but it's close to your score. If you beat it, though, you're in.</li>
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<p>thanks a lot for the insight, yeah it is definately borderline with penn state min. SAT requirements (whatever that truly does mean)</p>

<p>fortunately prep is showing improvements regarding SAT scores</p>

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<p>Good luck :).</p>

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<p>lol, the response time to that was only a minute.</p>

<p>I really appreciate the responses, btw do you think i should add some "reach" colleges to my list....guess i'm being cautious with my selections.</p>

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<p>Depends what you want to go into</p>

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<p>Well it looks like you want to go into communications or something like that. Maybe Northwestern and Columbia? I'd recommend GW as another match.</p>

<p>If you're even vaguely interested in politics I would recommend GW's Political Communications major. My sister is doing it - she was originally interested in communications, and then decided to go to GW for the opportunities and all, and ended up falling for politics. Political Communications is a combination of Political Science, Electronic Media (I think?), and Journalism.</p>