A Fun Activity: Predict acceptances/rejections at the schools at which I applied

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My stats, briefly:
Ranked 1/111 at a small parochial school with block scheduling
National Merit Semifinalist, hopefully will be a Finalist soon
IB Diploma Candidate (it's apparently like taking 6 APs in one year, then doing 150+ hours of service, writing a 4000 word research paper, etc. for junior and senior year)
SAT I 1460 (790 V, 670 M)
ACT composite 33
SAT IIs: Writing 800, Molecular Biology 770, Math IIc 650
300+ community service hours including time at a local cultural museum, children's hospital, church choir
A lot of random school-related awards and honors
Good extracurriculars - Editor-in-chief and humor columnist of school paper, captain of math team, active member in many other clubs and organizations</p>

<p>Other possible assets:
- I haven't seen my recommendations, but I think they're all very positive.<br>
- My essays are supposedly quite creative and well-written.
- I interview well.
- My dad's an immigrant from Italy who received very little schooling and is living proof of "The American Dream" - I played that up a lot in my applications</p>

<p>Schools I applied to:
- Rice University, Interim Decision (my first choice, where I put my National Merit preference, had a very good interview)
- Davidson College, Regular Decision
- Washington and Lee University, Regular Decision (applied for Honors Scholarship)
- University of Chicago, Regular Decision (had pretty good interview)
- Yale University, Regular Decision
- Princeton University, Regular Decision (had good interview)
- College of William and Mary, Regular Decision</p>

<p>I know you all are fine experts at the whole what-are-my-chances game....so what are my chances, or more accurately, what are your predictions of which individual schools at which I will be accepted, rejected, and/or deferred? Go on, you won't hurt my feelings...</p>

<p>And for those who are super-experts, what do you think are my chances at getting merit-based aid or scholarships at schools in which you think I will be accepted?</p>

<p>Thanks for your attention :D.</p>

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<p>Nobody here has any clue about accurate chances of getting in, you will just worry yourself even more about it. That said, I'm not going to waste my time saying "well you have a 21% chance here and 86% chance there..."</p>

<p>You have a shot at them all.</p>

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<p>Well I wish you the best. So you're an Italian babe? I"m Italian.</p>

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<p>Thanks you two. I'm more of a general European mixed breed person, though 50% Italian. ;)</p>

<p>I know there's no definite formula or percentages for predicting acceptances, etc., but if anyone "for fun" wants to predict what acceptances/rejection/deferrals they guess I'll get based on their opinions, I'd really appreciate their time and effort and not hold it against them either way ;).</p>

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<p>sure why not.
- Rice University-hmmm, since you really wanna go there, yes.
- Davidson College-yes
- Washington and Lee University-yes
- University of Chicago-I'll reluctantly say yes
- Yale University-no (does anybody get in here?)
- Princeton University-same as Yale
- College of William and Mary-yes</p>

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<p>You have a 97% shot at Yale. If you somehow get rejected, tough luck :/</p>

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<p>I agree with FishS. Rice, Davidson, Chicago, W&L, and W&M are all very achievable schools for you. Princeton and Yale are absolutely insane...both have RD acceptance rates in the 6-8% range.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the optimistic replies, FishS and cavalier....anyone else?</p>