<p>GPA: uw 3.9 (currently a Junior, so can be raised) w: didn't tell us yet
SAT: N/A (didn't take yet, likely 2200+)
ACT: N/A (didn't take yet)
SATII: N/A (didn't take yet)
School: Private jewish school (Dual Curriculum)
Financial Aid? No
ED? Yes (Princeton, and everything else is EA)
Intended Major: Political Science and Psychology
Hooks: Dual curriculum I guess? I also take Spanish
Income Bracket: ~750k-1M (so no financial aid lol)
Gender: M
State: NY
School type: Small private, very competitive (86 students)
Rank: school doesn't rank, but i'd say ~5/86 (bad i know but the students are really competitive)</p>
<p>I am in the highest classes offered at my school, which unfortunately consists of only one AP (Calculus AB)</p>
<p>EC's
Varsity Tennis (9, 10, 11, captain 12)
Varsity Skiing (9, 10, captain 11, 12)
Varsity Debate (founder: 10, 11, 12)
Member of SAG and AFTRA, acting agencies
Compete and won awards for multiple skiing competitions
Co-head of Model UN
Co-head of Voices for Israel
Founder and president of Key Club (10, 11, 12)
Mock Trial (10, 11, maybe head 12)
Newspaper (9, 10, editor 11, 12)
Played tennis in the Maccabi Games (2 years)
Part of tennis match-play league (Ranked 10th out of 48 meh)</p>
<p>Community Service:
Selective hospital program- 300+ hours
Tutor- 100+ hours</p>
<p>Summer:
After 10th: Studied at Cambridge University in England
After 11th: Teen tour to Israel, Maccabi Games
After 12th: Intern at law office</p>
<p>Princeton would be SCEA, so you wouldn’t be able to EA at any other school.
Dual Curriculum isn’t a hook, and your chances are slim because your unhooked and just another kid in the crowd with good (projected) stats. Probably around a 5% chance for Princeton.</p>
<p>^unless your recruitable at tennis, then chances go up. Your EC’s are good, but not great, thats why your chances aren’t that high.</p>
<p>so it doesn’t count for anything if i take hebrew for 16 years and spanish for 4?</p>
<p>what about the others?</p>
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<p>Not really – 16 years of Swahili and 4 of Mandarin Chinese, maybe, for the novelty factor. You have a huge hill to climb: you have to fight to distinguish yourself from all the other Jewish New Yorker students with similar or better stats – rest assured dozens if not hundreds of them will have #1 class ranks, 2350+ SATs and multiple leadership roles in various ECs (frankly it’s not hard to get traditional leadership roles in a class with only 86 students!).</p>
<p>You’ll probably need to intern with a Senator, raise $500,000 for charity, win some national awards or do something else distinctive to get a edge. You could, alternately, try moving to Wyoming and taking up vegan Buddhism – that might get you noticed.</p>
<p>For Princeton, I mean, of course. Emory should be a piece of cake; Northwestern, UChicago and UPenn reasonable matches. I would, in fact, look beyond the New England region to places like Stanford and Rice where you won’t be part of as large a crowd of candidates with similar backgrounds and qualifications.</p>
<p>Thanks for the opinion!
Also, I might intern at my dad’s office. He works at a very successful stock trading firm, in addition to my internship at a law office</p>
<p>I think your stats are good, but probably not good enough for an Ivy. Like they said, you should like hundreds of other Jewish New Yorkers whose dad’s are lawyers. There is nothing… distinctive about you. Good luck anyway :)</p>
<p>Chance me?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1072869-what-do-you-think-my-chances.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1072869-what-do-you-think-my-chances.html</a></p>
<p>Dartmouth- Reach
Vandy- High Match
Berkeley- Low Reach
Emory- Match
UPenn - Low Reach
Princeton- High Reach
UChicago- Low Reach
Norhwestern- High Match</p>