Aiming too high?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hello! I was wondering if anyone could please provide some input on whether or not my college list is reasonable for a student of my caliber? I'm so nervous that I'm going to get rejected from every college and end up with nowhere to go.</p>

<p>This is my list:
Georgetown (Early Action)
Cornell
UPenn
USC
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC Santa Barbara
UVa
NYU
Carnegie Mellon
Northwestern
Boston College</p>

<p>My stats:
3.88 unweighted GPA
2320 SAT - 770 math, 760 reading, 790 writing
SAT IIs: 770 math II, 720 Lit, 760 Chinese
9 AP classes at a pretty well-respected international high school. (5s in AP Lang, Stats, Psych, and Chinese. 3 in APUSH. rest to be determined by end of senior year)
not very many extra-curriculars (only leadership roles in 2 clubs)
3 good teacher recommendations</p>

<p>I'm nervous that I'm aiming too high... especially considering that I'm applying to the business or economics programs in each college, and they tend to have lower acceptance rates than other fields. I don't seem to have any real safeties, as all these schools are very selective and I'm applying out of state since I've been living abroad for the past 7 years. </p>

<p>I find out my admission status from Georgetown in a few days, but I'm fairly certain I'm going to be deferred because I procrastinated on the application and was too nervous during the interview. (How heavily do admission officers weigh interviewer reports?)</p>

<p>Please provide some honest opinions. Should I re-evaluate my college list, or do I have a fairly good chance of getting accepted somewhere? I don't want to end up with nowhere to go next year.</p>

<p>Thanks so much!!</p>

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<p>Dont worry. Everything will turn out fine. Everyone has this nervousness. :)… especially when the results are near. Your Stats are pretty good, and you have reach in many of the colleges of your list!. Don’t worry just work hard! :slight_smile:
cheers</p>

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<p>Ahhh I sure hope so. :frowning: Thanks!</p>

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<p>I’m fairly sure you’ll be accepted by BC and NYU</p>

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<p>yup I agree with snore on BC but not sure about NYU. Anyway best of luck!</p>

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<p>Snorlaxative, I just thought you’d like to know your screen name just made my day hahaha.</p>

<p>Thanks for the input. :slight_smile: BC would be great.</p>

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<p>While I’d be shocked if you didn’t get accepted by at least several of the schools, it might not be a bad idea to have a safety or two…like U of Wisconsin, Miami (Ohio), Indiana.</p>

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<p>No, I don’t think you’re aiming too high. Many applicants with similar stats apply to all or most of HYPSM, you aren’t. </p>

<p>Add like one safety, maybe. You’ve mentioned you live abroad and are applying OOS for all these schools, are you international?</p>

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<p>Are you from SAS, by any chance?</p>

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<p>No, not international. Lived in the states until I was ten, then moved to Germany, then Switzerland, and now China. Yeah, I think I might add Boston University? Not sure.</p>

<p>oceanangel, yeah I am! Hahaha, are you!?</p>

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<p>You are a very strong candidate.
This should all be over when Georgetown welcomes you to their next class.</p>

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<p>ure nto aiming too high</p>

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<p>Thanks for the encouragement; I really appreciate it. :)</p>

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<p>Looks good to me :slight_smile: I’m sure you’ll at least get into NYU. But if you want to be on the safe side, add a safety.</p>

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<p>Since you’re not an int’l, you’ll likely get accepted to several/many on your list. If you can’t pay “full freight” and you won’t qualify for great FA (NYU is bad with FA), then you need a couple of financial safeties. But, if money is no object, then you’re good!!! :)</p>

<p>USC - for sure</p>

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<p>you have a good list, you’ll probably get into AT LEAST 3 schools, if luck isn’t with you.</p>