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@Jillsfein

Your boards are a bit low for the schools you’re looking at (You’ll want to break 2200/31 at least). Grades are good. ECs are bad, for the types of schools you want you have to stand out, which you dont.
Your AP score of a 3 indicates that your school may not be as competitive as some others (if you’re ranked that high in your class and you’re only getting a 3… well that’s not a good sign).
Harvard- No shot in hell
Princeton- No chance
Stanford- Not a prayer
Brown- Rejected
Columbia- No chance
UChicago- If you write good essays and show interest, maybe wait-listed
MIT- Not a chance
UPenn- No
Rice- No
Cornell- Unlikely</p>

<p>If you like NYU (even just in theory) know that they’re pretty sub par with finaid.
Try schools like Union, American, GW (expensive, but gives everyone at least 10K in scholarship money), BU, Lehigh, Lafayette, Northeastern, Uwisconsin, Penn State.</p>

<p>Maybe William and Mary or Wash U in St. Louis as some reaches.

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<p>Thanks for the response. Any suggestions perhaps as to how I can make it EA into Uchicago? That is one of the ones that has especially caught my interest so you gave me some hope when you differentiated it from the rest.</p>