A penny for your thoughts? Chances for Yale, Brown, Tufts, Georgetown + more!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Basics
• caucasian junior female from California
• well-regarded public school (perhaps 15-20 kids to Ivy League out of 225)</p>

<p>Academics
• 4.0 UW; 4.46 W junior year
• Taking a difficult course load, skipped a grade in maths so I'm in Calculus this year.
• School doesn't rank, but I assume I'd have a decent rank if it did.</p>

<p>Scores
SAT I: 2290
• CR: 740, M: 760, W: 790 (essay 11)
SAT II:
• Lit: 720
• USH: 780
• taking Chem in June
AP:
• Took three tests this year (APUSH, Calc AB, English Lang (self studied)); I think I should do decently on them all.</p>

<p>Awards
• probably National Merit Semifinalist (222 PSAT)
• 4 year scholar athlete, community service awards, honor society, English Dept. awards</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
• Newspaper (9,10,11,12)
Staff writer freshman year, page editor sophomore and junior year, Editor-in-Chief senior year
• Varsity Soccer (9,10,11,12)
I've played club soccer for 10 years in addition to school soccer.
• Volunteer work
Obama campaign, local political involvement, Peer tutoring, other assorted stints
• Beatles Club president
• worked for local newspaper for a summer
• help job at local market for several months at start of junior year</p>

<p>Schools
Yale (probably SCEA)
Brown
Tufts
Georgetown
Claremont McKenna
UC Berkeley
Colgate
Columbia
Stanford (legacy)</p>

<p>As you can see, I need more match/safeties. I'd be thrilled if anyone had ideas. I'd like a medium/small school (maybe 3,000-8,000ish), preferably on a coast.</p>

<p>THANK YOU! Let me know if you need any more information.</p>

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<p>A Beatles club? I’m jealous…I think you should get into all those schools because of that lol…Yale, Stanford, and Columbia are no guarantee but you’re in everywhere else you listed.</p>

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<p>Yale (probably SCEA) - Low chance
Brown - Semilow chance
Tufts - Semilow chance
Georgetown - Semilow chance
Claremont McKenna -Pretty good chance
UC Berkeley - Higher than semi-low probably
Colgate - Pretty good chance
Columbia - Semilow chance
Stanford (legacy) - Low chance (I think that’s the last thing they look at)</p>

<p>I’m harsh in this stuff so this is probably the minimum threshold, don’t worry. :)</p>

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<p>DMOC does no know what he is talking about ( As we are sitting by each other in our school library laughing lol)</p>

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<p>;)
…</p>

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<p>Haha well thank you.
And yes, I quite like my Beatles Club.</p>

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<p>Yale (probably SCEA) - reach
Brown - mid reach
Tufts - High chance
Georgetown - high chance
Claremont McKenna -High chance
UC Berkeley - High chance
Colgate - High chance
Columbia -mid reach
Stanford (legacy) - REach</p>

<p>Chance me back
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/720681-chance-me-hypms-other-top-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/720681-chance-me-hypms-other-top-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I just checked online, and it seems like legacies have no influence for Stanford.</p>

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<p>"I just checked online, and it seems like legacies have no influence for Stanford. "
No official influence, but subtle especially if you are well qualified, related to a celeb, and/or wealthy.</p>

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<p>^^^^To the above poster: Well, I think that it depends on the celeb.</p>

<p>I mean if Luke Walton is your uncle, they won’t care at all (no offense).
If Kobe Bryant is your uncle, you’re in at every school in the USA!!! </p>

<p>I hope that you realized that this was all in good fun! :)</p>

<p>To the OP:</p>

<p>You are definitely on the right track, as your GPA and SATs are great (Congrats)! Getting into Yale SCEA is a long shot for like everybody, but you seem more Humanities-oriented (please tell me if i’m wrong) and aren’t most Yale applicants the same way? </p>

<p>I read somewhere that it’s more beneficial to apply to Yale for engineering because they want top talent in that area. Sure, this only gives you like a 0.5% increase in possible admission, but take what you get! ;)</p>

<p>Yale and Stanford are reaches, and Brown & Columbia are mids reaches. You have a good shot at all of the schools on your list, and best wishes! :)</p>

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<p>Thank you all so much!
And as for legacies, I think they carry a fair amount of weight, actually. Perhaps it’s coincidence, but the only four seniors from my school who got in were legacies.</p>

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<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Any takers?
Sorry to bump this, but I don’t want to make another ever so I was hoping to get a few more opinions. Oh and today I won my school’s Harvard Book Award! I don’t really know what that means or if it’s prestigious, but I’m happy and thought I’d mention it.</p>

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<p>If Luke Walton is your uncle, you’d have a great shot at UCLA…</p>