Chance me at Kenyon, WashUSTL, other LACs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Home state: NY
Major: Considering English, Journalism, PoliSci

Stats:
GPA: 3.61 W
APs: AP Calculus AB (4), AP Spanish Literature (senior yr), AP Physics 1 (senior yr), AP Statistics (senior yr)
ACT: 34 composite (34 on english, science, and math. 32 on reading)

ECs:
Two years varsity football
Two years varsity baseball
-Two years JV baseball
Two years on debate team (wasn’t fully established until soph. year, when I spent brief period at another school so I was unable to join)
Three years school newspaper (Sports Editor senior year)
Two years yearbook club (Copy Editor senior year)
Four years model UN
Participated in sports broadcasting camp each of past two summers
Took a creative writing course at Yale this summer
Took a journalism course at SUNY Purchase
Write for two sports websites outside of school

  • Three years writing for sub-site of SBNation
    -Two years writing for sub-site of Scout.com
    Wrote essay for TeenInk that was named Editor’s Choice

Schools:
Kenyon
WashUSTL
Trinity College
Hamilton College
Brandeis
Williams

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I assume you are male? I think you have an okay chance at most, except WUSTL and Williams. Your GPA will be the issue. No Idea how rigorous your schedule is compared to peers in your school, but if a lot more APs were offered and you didn’t take them, that might be a factor. I do think you need a safety school because most colleges look at UW GPA. Grades are more important than test scores. You seem to have been so involved in ECs that it appears to have affected your grades, which isn’t ideal. As I said, find a safety or two. Your current list makes me a little nervous.

3

I’ve applied to a lot more schools within range already. these are just schools id be adding on.

4

Your admissions chances at these schools will roughly correspond to their current student profiles:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-610-smartest-colleges-in-america-2015-9

WUStL, Williams and Hamilton each enroll more than 75% of their students from the top 10% of their HS classes. This could be your greatest obstacle at these schools. Kenyon’s low acceptance rate might be an obstacle there. This may leave you with two relatively likely admits from your group, and reasonable chance of getting into maybe one or two of the remaining four.

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If you are simply adding schools, then Brandeis, Trinity, Kenyon and Hamilton would potentially provide you with two matches and two reasonable reaches.