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Ashley Gore is poised to graduate from high school with a 4.6 grade point average. She's taken multiple advancement placement classes, ranks sixth in her class, and has some pretty nice SAT scores.
But the senior at Poly High School in Riverside, California, has two B's, which bug her. And she has only two service projects to put on her college applications, when most applications have room for 10.
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