Chance a pretty generic student for Ivies

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>GPA: 3.99 UW - have been taking 5-6 "college-level" (read: AICE) classes each year
ACT - 32
SAT - 2250 (M 800, CR 750, W 700), but just took it again, expecting better scores</p>

<p>My school has the British A-levels, and I did pretty well on the GCSE (basically high school exit exams) exams:
English Language: A, Biology: A, English Lit: A* (was top in the USA), Math: A*, Chem: B, US History: A - expecting similar scores this year when I take the A levels this year (taking 6 AICE classes, Art/Design, Bio, Literature, Spanish, Math, US history)</p>

<p>ECs: 5 clubs, all pretty minimal 2 hour a week time commitments
Speech and Debate - won over 20 awards this past season, 3rd in State for both of my events.
Also, I play piano and have competed in several minor competitions, but I doubt this will play that much into my application.</p>

<p>My community service is probably my weakest aspect as I'm only involved in two major commitments. I am a mentor for struggling freshmen at my school (we're extremely poor, have something like >70% on free/reduced lunch) and tutoring math - both of which are basically 6-7 hour time commitments per week.</p>

<p>My teachers have commented that I'm a really strong writer (not that good at the grammar stuff the SAT focuses on, unfortunately), so I'm expecting the essay to be a strength of my application.</p>

<p>My fear is that I'm going to seem pretty generic as a candidate for some these selective schools:</p>

<p>Harvard/Stanford/Yale
Brown
Columbia
University of Pennsylvania
Northwestern
University of Chicago
UC Berkeley
USC</p>

<p>I'll probably apply to most of them anyways, but I'd just like to see whether or not I should get my hopes up (considering I already have a couple fallback schools lined up).</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>If it makes you feel any better, I know several students who were accepted at Penn, Northwestern, and USC with similar stats (I don’t know about the others), and I got into Northwestern with a slightly higher GPA but slightly lower SAT scores as well. In general, collge admissions are a crapshoot, so you can’t really predict them, but I’d say you’re a good candidate.</p>

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<p>Lots of key info missing. Where you are from, where you rank, how competitive your school is. Are you international, do you need aid?</p>

<p>In all honesty, without national achievements plus a 2350, HYS just won’t happen for 99%. Brown and Columbia are pretty much the same now. The others are more plausible with very high rank/unusual state/great ECs that don’t include Olympic medals and being able to pay.</p>

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<p>Harvard/Stanford/Yale - these are hard to tell for everyone, but you do have the basic qualifications for them!</p>

<p>Brown
Columbia
University of Pennsylvania
Northwestern
University of Chicago
UC Berkeley
USC
I don’t know which of these you would most likely get into, but a good chance at all!
Listen, all your numbers are high enough to get into all of these, but from here on, all depends on your essay/recommendations… if your essay sucks, then you probs won’t get in, but if it’s stellar, I think you can get into all of these</p>

<p>Please chance me!
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