Chance me at Northeastern, Oberin, and GW?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I really need to narrow down my list and don't want to apply to too many schools I have no chance of getting into. What are my chances for Oberlin, Northeastern, and GW?</p>

<p>Background:
Gender: male
Ethnicity: white
location: NJ</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA- Freshman- 4.01, Soph- 4.17, Junior- 4.67 (Total GPA=4.27 weighted on a 4.3=A scale)
Rank- (which i may not submit) 62/488
Courses- 1 honors freshman year (not many offered), 3 honors sophomore year (no APs offered until junior year) and took Algebra II and Geometry the same year to get to Honors PreCalc, 2 honors and 2 AP Junior year, 4 AP senior year + accepted into my school's peer leadership program and took mandatory Financial Literacy over the summer to make room i my schedule. 3 year of foreign language, 4 years of english, 5 years of math, 6 years of social studies, 4 years of science, 1 year of 21st century skill, 1 year of art, 4 years of gym</p>

<p>Test Scores:
ACT- composite: 30 (had strep throat, expecting hopefully at least a 32 for October)
AP Psych- 4
AP History- 4</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Run for the Animals 3K: Starting in 7th grade, I began my own large scale charity event for my local SPCA. I is a run/walk that has attracted thousands of people in total over the years. I have been featured on NBC as well as several other television and radio stations, as well as many newspapers. It takes about 5 months a year, many hours a day, especially towards the event date, and this will be my 6th year.
Costa Rica: This summer I volunteered in Costa Rica for 10 days.
National Honors Society President
Human Relations C omission Workshop Chairperson (11) and meetings chairperson (12), member for four years. I've attendeda conference atPrinceton University for this club
Octagon (Charity service club) Events Coordinator, member for four years
Free Thinkers Society founder and president
Model United Nations, member for four years
Forensics Speech and Debate (11,12)- have gotten into finals several times my first year participating
Cross country (9,10)-- big part of my life, in one of the top teams in NJ
winter track/spring track (9)-- varsity letter as a freshman
Dead Poet's Society (11,12)-- member since founded
Soccer: Have played soccer for 12 years, 5 years of travel soccer
Students Against Destructive Decisions (11,12) member
AMC Math Competition (11)
Poetry Out Loud Competition (11)</p>

<p>Media Recognition (Run for the Animals):
- 3 television appearances: local station, NJ station, NBC in NY
- 2 radio station appearances
- 7 newspaper articles</p>

<p>Awards
Animal Welfare Federation of New Jersey Junior Hero Award
Largest contributor to Monmouth County SPCA under the age of 18
Proclamation from Freehold Township
Freehold Area Running Club President’s Award
SPCA “paw print hanging Monmouth County SPCA store at the Freehold Raceway Mall</p>

<p>Factors limiting success:
I have amblyopia in my left eye, where I cannot see out of it unless my right eye is covered. When I was younger, I was embarrassed of this and did not ask my teachers to move closer to see the board and this affected my grades. </p>

<p>Recommendations: I already know my recommendations are going to be very good because I am very close with teachers writing them. One of them is my past AP Psych teacher who thinks I'm one of the smartest students she has ever had. </p>

<p>Essays: I know my common app essay and supplement essays are strong.</p>

<p>I know this may seem ridiculous, but my GPA is not so great, so please let me know what my chances are at getting into these three schools! Thank you</p>

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<p>You are qualified for any of the three that you mentioned. Your GPA system is sorta funky and I’m not sure how to interpret it. However, with holistic admissions, your course load is more important than your GPA. I attended several information sessions this weekend (one at Northeastern) and heard it straight from the horse’s mouth. You seem like you’ll have strong essays and recommendations, so that is good as well. I’d place GW, Oberlin, and NEU in the Match/High Match region. Best of luck!</p>

<p>Chance me back?</p>

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<p>I agree that those three schools are high matches. However, Oberlin is pretty much a polar opposite of Northeastern/GWU. What is your planned major?</p>

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<p>All three of them would be matches</p>

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<p>You need to apply (at your favorite of these schools)
ED because your standardized test scores are not strong for RD. You dont have a chance at Swat which you mentioned in other posts, but Oberlin ED I (or Grinnell ED II) may be your best realistic option. Sorry to sound negative but I went through this with my older son and learned that the advantage of ED is huge.</p>

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<p>I think all of these schools are matches with Oberlin being a high match, and Northeastern being a low match. None of them are safeties though, so I would definitely expand your list. I think it’s extremely likely that you’ll be accepted into at least one of these schools.</p>

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