<p>Hi all... I'm going into my senior year and want to know if my list looks reasonable. I'll chance back if you give a link!</p>
<p>School Type: top boarding (very competitive)
IB Predicted: 40.5/42 (~3.95 UW GPA)
SAT I: 800 M, 800 CR, 760 W
SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 Literature, 770 US History
Senior Courses: IB Maths HL, IB English HL, IB History HL, IB Economics HL, IB Physics SL
APs: 5 English Literature, 5 Statistics, 5 Government, 5 Computer Science (self-study), 4 World History (self-study)</p>
<p>ECs:
Founding Captain of Speech & Debate Club (state awards)
President of Model UN
Founding President of Computer Science Club
Student Council (elected representative and representative to district technology committee)
Wilderness: group leader and certified in search & rescue
Founder of my own web development company with 5+ employees
General manager of investment fund with international equity of ~40k
(and various other things)</p>
<p>Please chance me for:
Amherst College
Brown University
Claremont McKenna College
Colgate University
Connecticut College
Dartmouth College
Hamilton College
Haverford College
New York University - Abu Dhabi
Pomona College
Swarthmore College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Princeton University</p>
<p>How’d you get your AP scores already? Also, I know you’re varied, but you don’t show a focus here. You start an S&D club then you go and found a comp sci club too. Which one is your passion? Believe it or not colleges look at that.</p>
<p>Amherst College: match
Brown University: reach
Claremont McKenna College: don’t know enough
Colgate University: match
Connecticut College: is this Uconn?
Dartmouth College: reach
Hamilton College: match
Haverford College: match
New York University - Abu Dhabi: sorry don’t know enough here
Pomona College: Pomona looks a lot at ECs. I don’t think you’ve done enough to solidify your chances. low/midreach
Swarthmore College: match
Wesleyan University: match
Williams College: dont know enough
Princeton University : high reach (ECs hurt you here too. this is a scientific research school/liberal arts school mix. They want people that are “out there”)</p>
<p>Still, you have tremendous scores. Great job!</p>
<p>Your stats look great. You’re definitely well qualified, but it hard to predict admission in to the top schools. With good essays and teacher recommendations I think you’d have a pretty good shot at getting into some of the schools on your list.</p>
I probably didn’t do an adequate job of describing… I am very committed to all my activities (backed up with awards & time). How could it be seen as a bad thing to have multiple passions?</p>
<p>Oh, and the AP scores are from sophomore year.</p>
<p>In that case, that’s fine. Make sure to mention the awards, otherwise you’ll seem like a resume padder.</p>
<p>There’s nothing bad that you did with multiple passions. For schools like Princeton, they expect you to be well rounded of course, but they also want to see your talents. they want to improve their school by adding multifaceted students who are also great at what they are doing specifically (math, humanities, science).</p>
<p>Amherst College: Low reach
Brown University: low reach
Claremont McKenna College: match
Colgate University: match
Connecticut College: match/safety
Dartmouth College: low reach
Hamilton College: match
Haverford College: match
New York University - Abu Dhabi: no idea, sorry
Pomona College: match/low reach
Swarthmore College: low reach
Wesleyan University: match
Williams College: low reach
Princeton University: reach</p>
<p>Separated into two factions:
Amherst College: low reach 40-50%
Claremont McKenna: match 60+% Claremont is very into leadership, and by founding two teams, a web development company, and being president of MUN (like me :)) you display it very well.
Colgate University: low match 70+%
Connecticut College: safety 80+%
Hamilton College: match 60+%
Haverford College: high match 50%
Pomona College: low reach 30-40%
Swarthmore College: low reach 30-40%
Wesleyan University: mid reach 30%
Williams College: mid reach 30%</p>
<p>Universities:
Brown University: high reach 15-20%
Dartmouth University: high reach 15-20%
NYU-Abu Dhabi: mid reach 30%
Princeton University: high reach 10-15%</p>
<p>Are you international? If you are, not only will it be harder, but finding financial aid will make it worse. Abu Dhabi is even harder to get into than NYU in America. Z_Z</p>
Because it’s a program which I am very interested in, with my values. My school also has had quite a few students get in during the past couple of years.</p>
<p>Amherst College - 65%
Brown University - 50% (apply Early Decision to increase this)
Claremont McKenna College - 80%
Colgate University - 100%
Connecticut College - 100%
Dartmouth College - 50% (apply EA to increase)
Hamilton College - 100%
Haverford College - 70%
New York University - Abu Dhabi - 70%
Pomona College - 65%
Swarthmore College - 65%
Wesleyan University - 70%
Williams College - 60%
Princeton University - 40% (maybe better if you apply single choice EA) </p>
<p>if you raised that investment money yourself and it wasn’t your daddy who gave it to you, then I’d say that is !@#%ing impressive! I was being pretty harsh too, so you might have even better chances then I said. What people need to realize at this forum is that you probably go to some NE Ivy Feeder where everyone gets in. e.g. choate: 42 kids to yale. that’s right, FORTY TWO! so I’m assuming you’ve got a pretty great shot at wherever you choose</p>
Haha, hardly. My parents are very poor and I’m on a full scholarship at my current school. The money was raised from 10 different investors on 4 continents.
<p>Amherst College: Low reach
Brown University: low/mid reach
Claremont McKenna College: match
Colgate University: match
Connecticut College: match/safety
Dartmouth College: mid reach
Hamilton College: match
Haverford College: match
New York University - Abu Dhabi: math
Pomona College: low reach
Swarthmore College: low reach
Wesleyan University: match
Williams College: reach
Princeton University: high reach</p>
<p>you have excellent stats like every other person on cc. the only thing you can do now is focus on your essay which shows the administration what makes you more unique than anyone else. i think the stellar resume you have so far is like a layer of icing that showcases your intelligence. what you have to do is to allow them to get the real you now and once you know what you are passionately writing about then you’ll be a winner and get accepted to at least many of these fine schools listed about. best of luck!</p>
<p>I think Princeton might be the only thats a reach for you since its more of a science-type/liberal arts type school. The others are mostly perfect matches. Dont screw up your essay and you should be fine.</p>
<p>Amherst College: match
Brown University: reach
Claremont McKenna College: can’t say
Colgate University: match
Connecticut College: can’t say
Dartmouth College: reach
Hamilton College: match
Haverford College: 50/50
New York University - Abu Dhabi: can’t say, but I hear it’s very selective
Pomona College: can’t say
Swarthmore College: match
Wesleyan University: match
Williams College: match
Princeton University : reach</p>
<p>DANG! Nice GPA, amazing test scores, amazing leadership/ec’s. </p>
<p>If you’re interested you might wanna look at some ivies and top schools like HYPS though you have P there already</p>
<p>Match for all schools on your list except P, Dartmouth, Brown. High match for Williams, Swarthmore… I don’t know much about LAC’s though… I go for the big schools</p>
<p>Amherst College: match
Brown University: mid reach… it’s Brown!
Claremont McKenna College: high match
Colgate University: match
Connecticut College: safety
Dartmouth College: low reach
Hamilton College: not sure
Haverford College: not sure
New York University - Abu Dhabi: match
Pomona College: low reach
Swarthmore College: low reach
Wesleyan University: match
Williams College: not sure
Princeton University: mid to high reach (easily the most difficult school you’re applying to)</p>
<p>You have strong stats and some very solid ECs. There isn’t anything super spectacular, but I’d say they are better than a good chunk of other applicants’. I think if you write some killer essays, you’ll have pretty solid chances across the board.</p>
