chance for top schools?? final list due friday! will chance back

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a rising senior at a top urban independent school (we send about 25% of the senior class to Ivy Leagues every year). I want to major in Classics; my other interests include philosophy, music theory/history, and English. I'm a white middle class female.</p>

<p>GPA: 94.8
Rank: we don't rank, but avg GPA is about a 91
SAT I: 2340 (m/cr/w is 740/800/800)
SAT II: 750 in Latin, taking Lit in November
PSAT: 224
APs: 5 in Latin, 5 in English Lang</p>

<p>All classes are at least honors-level, and we offer very few APs (for example, we don't have APUSH or any AP English courses).</p>

<p>Freshman/Sophomore Grades: Mostly A's, some A-'s, straight A+'s in Latin, straight B+'s in math until this year...</p>

<p>Junior Grades
AP Latin: A+
US History: A
Precalculus: A
Physics: A
English: A-
Theater Production: A+
Chorus: A</p>

<p>Senior Grades
Latin V: A+
Philosophy: A-
James Joyce's Ulysses: A
AP Music Theory: A+
AB Calc: B+
Internal Medicine: A</p>

<p>ECs
-Assistant Stage Manager for professional production company (4 wks/yr, 25 hrs/wk)
-Stage Manager (2 yrs, at least 15 hrs/wk) for 5 high school productions
-props crew for multiple high school productions (4 yrs)
-piano for 10+ years; selective chamber music camp for 3
-Mock Trial (3 yrs, 6 hrs/wk), team has done quite well
-President of RAPSD (play-reading club)
-founding member of Tea Club</p>

<p>Awards, Etc
-National Merit Semi-Finalist
-one National Scholastic Writing Award
-multiple Regional Scholastic Writing Awards
-top NLE award this year (gold medal 4 yrs in a row)</p>

<p>Essays: I think they're fine -- I'm a pretty good writer. CommonApp is about how I view family tragedy through literature.</p>

<p>Recs
English teacher: Probably outstanding. I've had him for 3 years, done fantastically in his classes, and he knows me very well.
Latin teacher: Quite good. I've had her for 3 years as well and she likes me a lot.
Supplemental: From theater teacher. Probably quite good as well. I've stage managed for her a lot over the years and she relies on me to get things done (even when they're not technically part of my job...)
Counselor: She doesn't really come into her office ever, so who knows.... I'm sure it's decent. </p>

<p>COLLEGES:
UChicago (EA)
Oberlin (double legacy)
Swarthmore
Wesleyan
Tufts
St. John's College
Bryn Mawr
Brown
Columbia
Barnard
UMichigan
McGill
SUNY Geneseo</p>

<p>Note: I'm only allowed to apply to 8 private schools, so I'll be cutting 2. (I'm def applying to the first 6, though.) Advice would be welcome! Am I well balanced in terms of safeties/matches/reaches? Should I apply to Brown or Columbia or both? I'm dying here...</p>

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<p>I think you should be fine… for the most part. If your your school sends 25% to Ivies then your school should be known to alot of them meaning GPA stats should be pretty good for them. But in general, all ivies are practically un predicatable but i would say you get into atleast one of your top schools.
chance me: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1424564-please-chance-top-colleges-really-need-advice.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1424564-please-chance-top-colleges-really-need-advice.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You look like a great applicant. Why are you only allowed to apply to 8 schools? Get rid of McGill if you need room.</p>

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<p>McGill doesn’t count as a private, unfortunately. I think they’re trying to keep some of my peers from applying to all 8 Ivies + Stanford/MIT/Williams/etc…</p>

<p>Do you think I’d be too reach-heavy if I cut Tufts/Bryn Mawr (or something else) and instead applied to both Brown and Columbia? Right now I’m figuring it wouldn’t be a good idea to have two Ivies b/c my math grades aren’t so great, but idk</p>

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<p>re: brown and columbia, those two schools are completely different in terms of academics/environment. you should look into both, and try to decide which atmosphere you’d be most comfortable in, and apply to that one :)</p>

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<p>I’ve visited both and really like them for completely different reasons, but have reservations about both of them, so right now I’m not sure I can decide between them just based on which I prefer personally! but that’s what I’ll try to do the rest of the week…</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

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<p>bump? specific chances for each school would be great :)</p>

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<p>You’re in at all those schools, congrats. Maybe not Chicago because ur ECs aren’t that great, but if you wrote great essays and had nice LORs, then you’re fine. please chance back! <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1423204-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1423204-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>thanks! bump?</p>

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<p>Cut the schools you want, but just make sure to keep two safeties among the list. It sounds like your really want to apply to Columbia and Brown, plus you are EA at Chicago and so that stays and I doubt you do not want to use your double legacy status at Oberlin. So, my thoughts re four other schools that match you well from your list: Barnard (because you really like Columbia and this is the next best thing), Wes and SWAT (essay topic seems a perfect match), and Bryn Mawr (ECs and curriculum focus coincide with the school’s strengths and like Barnard this is probably a match).</p>

<p>My chance guesses: BMC, Oberlin, Barnard = matches (75% plus); Wes = low match (50 to 75%); Chicago 50/50 (suspect they will love your common ap essay and your profile (theatre/classics etc) is not a typical one for them); SWAT = low reach (25 to 50); Columbia and Brown (reaches but not totally unrealistic, say 25% or so).</p>

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<p>Strong Application nice ECs make sure essays are killer i think you have a great shot, Chance me back? It’s a little above this thread? :)</p>

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<p>bump? 800 on lit SAT II</p>

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<p>trying again…bump? thanks!</p>

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<p>I really think you’ll get in at Chicago. And you’ll love it there because their classics department is underrated. Also Tufts (I have friends there doing classics and it’s amazing) - you should keep your app there. Bryn Mawr is 50/50 chance. That and Wesleyan, Swarthmore, Barnard are all so small that it’s hard to tell. Michigan should be OK and McGill doesn’t seem like what you really want. Good luck though!! </p>

<p>PS <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1419543-hi-friends-penn-chances.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1419543-hi-friends-penn-chances.html&lt;/a&gt; if ya got a chance</p>

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<p>Cutting McGill, a public school, is cutting a safety, since you’re applying to the Arts faculty; Arts accepts people with 2050 on the SAT and 3.5 GPAs (ECs don’t matter at McGill).</p>

<p>UMI and SUNY Geneseo are your domestic safeties. Is Swarthmore a place you don’t exactly like? Or Wesleyan?</p>

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<p>I loved Swarthmore and Wesleyan :/</p>