will i get accepted to my top choices?

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<p>Ok so I'm currently a junior at High School. I have traveled the world for most of my life. I have lived in Tunisia, Indonesia, and Italy prior to living here in New York. I speak 4 languages fluently(English, French, Italian, and Arabic) and took courses in 3 others (latin, Indonesian, and Spanish). </p>

<p>My stats are not too good GPA: 3.7, SAT: 1930 (i took it in May and did alot worse than i expected. Assume I got over a 2000 because I'm re-taking it and i know i could do alot better.), AP French (5), AP US History (expecting a 4). Most of my other classes are honors. My GPA is not too good because I didn't do too good when i first moved here but this year i have a 95 average). </p>

<p>I did alot of community work, most with my school (such as seasonal volunteer for the elderly shoveling snow and raking leaves depending on the season), helped build a playground in an elementary school, among others. I volunteer every wednesday to help out with autistic kids and am planing to volunteer a month with some UN or SOS program abroad. </p>

<p>Last summer I interned at the a major newspaper for a month and received an outstanding recommendation from them.</p>

<p>Awards i have received include the Rutgers Book award, 7th place in the National french contest in 2005 and 4th place in 2006, Bronze in the Annapolis Music Festival in 2005. I received a couple of MUN awards. I also got nominated to represent my school at the Youth Leadership conference thing, and am a member of the NAtional Society of High school scholars.</p>

<p>School Activities: french club, yearbook (maybe editor in chief next year), debate club, student council (president this year), newspaper (writer and photo editor), and the young democrats club.</p>

<p>So out of everything i've told you, do you think i could get into an IVy league school of even a top school? I plan to be an ambassador or a reporter for CNN when i grow up so my top choices are Georgetown University, Northwestern, Washington University in St. Louis, Boston College, Dartmouth, and Swarthmore. </p>

<p>Please let me know what you think and if u have any advice or colleges matching my situation and goals.</p>

<p>Thank you :]</p>

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<p>retake your SATS or take the ACT if you want to get into ivys. If you do good on those and write killer essays you can get it. Given your current stats</p>

<p>its quite possible to get into</p>

<p>georgetown
northwestern
washU
BC</p>

<p>just write good essays. :) thats where its at.</p>

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<p>G-Town..good school. My son was thinking of applying to G-Town and GW in the fall for business. He has decent stats,..4.6(w), 15 of 575, 1450 / 2230, good ecs.... I think GW might be do-able for my S; I figured that G-Town was somewhat of a reach. Might give it a shot anyway...still looking for some other good private universities...</p>

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<p>MBJ no school is impossible with his stats. He can pretty much get into any school if he writes good essays because thats where decisions are made and broken even harvard if you havent considered it.</p>

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<p>Pardon my corrections, but if you want to be a journalist please learn to say "didn't do very well" instead of "didn't do too good". And "a lot" is two words. I am wondering if your command of English might be suffering from all those languages. You might benefit from taking the ACT which has a more straightforward reading section.</p>

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<p>No. sorry not with ur current sats. bc is plausible. dont be fooled georgetown is extremely selective.</p>

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<p>ricegal. f.u.</p>

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<p>Don't be rude-I noticed the same error ricegal pointed out, though I wasn't planning on saying anything about it as I don't think people write their best on cc. Anyway, the main point I wanted to make is that I think your four languages make you stand out a lot more than stellar SATs would, and I think your languages and life experiences will make you attractive to many colleges, including Georgetown.</p>