Brown and others Chance Me

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi</p>

<p>I'm looking at: Cornell, Brown, BU, NYU, Rochester, Williams, Carnegie, UVA, Tufts, UMass Amherst, WPI, Northeastern, UIUC. Looking to do something with math as of right now... Applying to the Arts and Sciences (Liberal Arts) colleges for most of these schools.</p>

<p>I attend a well-renowed, private Catholic HS in MA</p>

<p>3.7 GPA unweighted
2160 SAT - 690 CR, 720 MATH, 750 WRITING, 31 ACT - TAKING THE SAT ONCE MORE AND MY SECOND ACT RESULTS ARE YET TO BE DETERMINED</p>

<p>SAT SUBJECT TESTS:
750 MATH II
670 PHYSICS
660 US HISTORY</p>

<p>AP Scholar with Honor - 9 AP classes
National Honor Society
Honor Roll</p>

<p>Varsity Rower - Winner of a team trophy, a bronze medal, and a silver medal (Hoping this helps)
National Honor Society
Varsity Math Team
105 Hospital Volunteer Hours and another 20 from the Library
I work at Kumon - I have teaching/tutoring experience in Math and English
Investment Club -Co-Founder
Chess Club
I play guitar and piano
I raised money and participated in a Boston Heart Walk this fall
I attended a leadership institute, I led retreats for underclassmen and I helped incoming freshman adjust to life in HS
Led a Kairos retreat as a senior </p>

<p>My writing skills are well above par; I've been told that my essay is very good so I'm not too worried about that aspect of my resume. I'm getting recommendations from my Calc teacher and a teacher of mine who was a BU Trustee Scholar.</p>

<p>I'm hoping my successes in crew and relatively solid test scores can help shadow my GPA a bit... Although I'll have taken 9 APs and this GPA is unweighted... I have a quirky essay that I think will be memorable to most. Likely not to receive financial aid...</p>

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<p>I WILL CHANCE BACK</p>

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<p>Please give me an idea at my schools</p>

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<p>You are on the bubble. But if you are recruitable in crew that is a game changer.</p>

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<p>@BrownParent I’m not good enough to get recruited… I do intend on writing about crew and displaying what it has brought to my life. I am an accomplished rower so I’m hoping that this helps a lot </p>

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<p>You have a chance but I haven’t read your essays or letters of rec.</p>

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<p>@hadeelrm what are your thoughts based on what I’ve presented above? SAT, GPA, EC’s, etc…</p>

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<p>For Brown, Cornell and Williams, you are on the outer edge. That said, if you have a compelling statement to present, it might have some legs. My daughter got into Yale, Brown and Dartmouth, with just a slightly lower SAT, higher GPA and rank, but also a stated ranked cross-country athlete and a URM female, from an area of the country that does not tend to yield many applicants. One of your big hurdles, is that regionally, your are from a highly competitive, over-represented area.</p>

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<p>Cornell, Brown. Williams are reaches
BU, NYU, Rochester, Tufts are matches
\Carnegie, UVA, are high matches</p>

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<p>Thanks guys, any other thoughts???</p>

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<p>UVA is a very very very high reach. They take the majority of their class in state and only take extremely qualified applicants out of state. Pretty good chances at other schools</p>

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<p>@ucladude I didn’t know that about UVA, thanks for the info</p>

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<p>I think that it would be a reach for you at williams, brown, and cornell. However, I believe that you should get into at least one or more schools in the NYU UVA category. It think you are in for the rest of the schools.</p>

<p>Chance Back:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1705702-wharton-ed-chances-will-chance-back.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1705702-wharton-ed-chances-will-chance-back.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>thanks for your thoughts! @xgarrison96 </p>

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<p>chance back?</p>

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<p>any other thoughts/opinions?</p>

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<p>If your new SATs for CR and Math come closer to 750, your chances increase. However, the crew EC will not have a significant impact since you indicate you are not recruitable. Agree with above posters that Brown, Cornell, Williams, UVA are big reaches. Others seem within reach—good luck.</p>

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<p>thanks for the opinion @fauve</p>

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<p>brown, williams, cornell -> mid-high reaches
tufts, uva,carnegie->low/mid reaches
nyu, rochester->target
BU, UMass, WPI, Northeastern, UIUC->safety
^^based on my (in some cases) limited knowledge</p>

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<p>Thanks for opinions anyone else?</p>