Chance me at Carnegie Mellon, Brown, BU, NYU, UVA TUFTS

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi</p>

<p>I'm looking at: Cornell, Brown, BU, NYU, Rochester, Williams, Carnegie, UVA, Tufts, UMass Amherst, WPI, Northeastern, UIUC. Looking to do something with math as of right now... Applying to the Arts and Sciences (Liberal Arts) colleges for most of these schools.</p>

<p>I attend a well-renowed, private Catholic HS in MA</p>

<p>3.7 GPA unweighted
2160 SAT - 690 CR, 720 MATH, 750 WRITING, 31 ACT - TAKING THE SAT ONCE MORE AND MY SECOND ACT RESULTS ARE YET TO BE DETERMINED</p>

<p>SAT SUBJECT TESTS:
750 MATH II
670 PHYSICS
660 US HISTORY</p>

<p>AP Scholar with Honor - 9 AP classes
National Honor Society
Honor Roll</p>

<p>Varsity Rower - Winner of a team trophy, a bronze medal, and a silver medal (Hoping this helps)
National Honor Society
Varsity Math Team
105 Hospital Volunteer Hours and another 20 from the Library
I work at Kumon - I have teaching/tutoring experience in Math and English
Investment Club -Co-Founder
Chess Club
I play guitar and piano
I raised money and participated in a Boston Heart Walk this fall
I attended a leadership institute, I led retreats for underclassmen and I helped incoming freshman adjust to life in HS</p>

<p>My writing skills are well above par; I've been told that my essay is very good so I'm not too worried about that aspect of my resume. I'm getting recommendations from my Calc teacher and a teacher of mine who was a BU Trustee Scholar.</p>

<p>I'm hoping my successes in crew and relatively solid test scores can help shadow my GPA a bit... Although I'll have taken 9 APs and this GPA is unweighted... I have a quirky essay that I think will be memorable to most. Likely not to receive financial aid...</p>

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<p>uva, unless your instate will be a crap shoot, but possible
ivy- cornell is unpredictable
i think you are in for rochester
carnegie- match, low reach
amherst- safety
northeastern-match</p>

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<p>apparently cornell only looks at sat CR and M so you might want to get that total higher(especially for math). Brown and Williams both have really high standards(test scores wise) so it might be a high reach. For NYU, Carnegie and the other ones youre all in the middle 50 or above range which puts u in a pretty good position. If you are good at writing then try and make that aspect stand out, but make sure you show lots of interest in the major ur applying for. also try and get that sat 2 up a bit. overall pretty solid but so are 70 percent of applicants so good luck</p>

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<p>@puddigman i testing my luck with Brown, Cornell, Williams, and Carnegie to an extent… thoughts on UVA, Tufts? Im not incredibly worried about the other 7 schools. Also my ACT could play a big role if i do well so… </p>

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<p>@JimtheBoy‌ are you instate or out of state for UVA? if in state u have a great chance if out of state about 60%ish i guess. tufts is actually quite hard to get into, only 17% last year and overall high testscores. I think tufts puts a lot of weight on the essay so do well on it. 50/50 id say</p>

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<p>@ivyhopefulebound‌ , You think Amherst is a safety lol? Good joke!</p>

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<p>@PSC2IVY‌ he/she meant University of Massachusetts Amherst not Amherst College</p>

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<p>My bad, I missed that. I just did not want the OP to go into the admission process and expecting to rely on AC as a safety haha, that would be a recipe for disaster.</p>

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<p>Other opinions???</p>