Can you chance me for Wash U?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a female soon-to-be high school senior and I just visited Wash U. I liked it a lot, and have decided that it is my first choice, but I don't know if it's a good idea to apply ED because it's so hard to get into and my family has a connection at Georgetown. I would really appreciate your opinion! :)
SAT score-2100
Math-670
CR-690
Writing-740
GPA-3.5 (very competitive Boston, MA area high school)
4 APs by graduation, school doesn't let you take them sophomore year and makes it hard to take more than 2 for junior and senior year
4 Honors courses
Hispanic and White
Native Spanish speaker and have been studying Chinese in school for 4 years
ECs- New England Rowing Champion, came in 7th place at USRowing Youth Nationals
-involved in Church Youth Group and give away toiletries, food, etc once a month to the homeless, also use Spanish skills to talk to non-English speaking homeless
-Sister has special needs, help with Church program for kids with special needs
-Founded salsa group at school, meet once a week, dance and talk about culture
Essay-talking about my name and the amount of culture in my life, why I want to live in a bunch of different places in the world, I think it's really good
Recommendation letters-should be fantastic</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>WUSTL: Reach</p>

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<p>WUSTL: reach</p>

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<p>Er… I’m hesitant to call Wash U a reach for you because it seems like you’ve exhausted every opportunity to increase your course rigor as much as possible. Additionally, if you’re even part-Hispanic, it makes you a URM and colleges would be clawing over you to get you to come there.</p>

<p>Nevertheless, the fact that your GPA UW is a 3.5 means that, while you could definitely keep up with the rigor, had you increased it to, say, 5 APs in a year, you might not have been able to handle it. That’s what colleges talk about when they say they consider you “within the context of your high school”. </p>

<p>So, I’ll step away from the detractors… </p>

<p>WUSTL: LOW reach if and only if you apply ED… otherwise, it becomes a Reach</p>

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<p>Apply ED if you really like it. Your UW GPA is a little low, but if that still puts you in the top 10% of your class, you’ll be fine (but it’ll still be a low reach).</p>