Chance Me for a Variety of Schools C/O 2024

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Hi, my top schools are currently Emory, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, NYU, UChicago, UPenn, and Northwestern. Feel free to chance me.

Looking to possibly apply to Emory ED and UChicago EA because some grades are low. Will be sending in senior year first quarter grades(expecting straight A’s)

Major(s) of Interest: English and Creative Writing

Location: (State and or Country) Louisiana

Gender: Female

Race/Ethnicity: Asian

Recruited Athlete, or Legacy: N/A

GPA: (UW and Weighted): 3.82 UW (Dip in junior year because underwent medical treatment & affected ability to learn, will explain in additional info. Weak grades in CompSci and Calc, retook Calc at local university over the summer and received an A.) School does not send weighted

AP or IB: 9 APS by the time of graduation

Class Rank: 13/120. Relatively competitive school(Abt 100th in the nation)

Test Scores: (SAT, ACT, or SAT 2’s) 34 ACT. Will take SAT 2’s in Math 2 and Lit, expecting about a 740-780

Extra Curricular, Community Service, or Co-Curricular(s):
Honors: Adroit Journal Mentee, National Scholastic Art and Writing Gold Medal Poetry & Silver Medal Short Story, National Student Poet Semifinalist, JUST POETRY!!! National Poetry Quarterly “Best of Issue” , Foyle Young Poet of the Year, Hollins University Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest Finalist, William Faulkner Creative Writing Contest Short Story Finalist, etc other national writing stuff.

Academic Games League of America: Placed many awards nationally for team,
Sweepstakes 2nd Place was the highest honor

Piano: Placed in statewide competitions, usually 2nd or 3rd place

Creative Writing: Published in numerous national magazines and edit for a few as well. Have published my own anthology in collaboration with a few other young writers. Also attended Iowa Young Writers Studio and Kenyon Young Writers Workshop. Have my own website with link to blog, creative writing published works, and other honors

Philosophy Club: CoFounder and Vice President

Writing Club: Founder and President

Jefferson Parish Youth Council: Treasurer, raised over 1000 dollars in funds

TedX: Gave a speech on the importance of art, was also executive director & holds Tedx license for events

Any other interesting Info: ( Have a criminal record, Started a band, Dad is Tom Brady etc):
How much will not doing well in areas I’m not focusing in(calc and compsci) affect me?

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What do you want to study? If you want to study English/Creative writing, check out Adroit Journal’s list of what they consider to be the best creative writing colleges. Between the lists of the last 3 years, you can compile a list of reaches and targets. You should also look at liberal arts colleges. there are few with excellent writing programs (Kenyon of course, Midd, and Davidson)

Your stats are great, though not spectacular, however, for a creative writing major, you are doing well with your fairly impressive list of awards. It is impossible to actually figure out what you exact chance is, but I would hazard to say that your chances of being accepted to a very good creative writing program are well above the average acceptance rates of the colleges to which you will apply.

That being said, a reach is a reach. Even if your chances are triple the average ones, for a colleges like Princeton, that’s still less than 20%, meaning that there is more than an 80% chance that you will be rejected.

Emory is one of the best writing programs out there, and it’s ED acceptance rate in 2023 was about 43%, as opposed to it’s average of about 27%. So your idea of applying to Emory ED is a good one.

Emerson is likely a safety - if you were a student at my kid’s HS, I would say that it was a safety for you, or close to a safety.

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I’ll be studying English, and I’ve already took a look at Adroit’s top schools for English. I will be applying to a few them. Thank you for your reply. Anyone else, please feel free to comment.

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Have you looked at any LACs? Carleton in Minnesota and St. John’s in New Mexico come to mind, as does University of Puget Sound. As it so happens those schools would be 1) reach 2) target 3) safety choices in that order.

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I’m not really looking to go to a liberal arts college because when I get into college, I’m
looking to add business or something along that field as a major as well. I’d like to attend a more general university. But thank you for your suggestion.

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Wow, I think you will get in! U have amazing test scores! How did u prep?

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I don’t think my test scores are that great. They’re pretty average for top tier colleges, but I mainly prepped by taking a lot of practice tests and making sure I understood what I was getting wrong. Thank for commenting.

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Just wondering, how did you get your ted talk thing? I want to do something similiar, so if you could help me that would be great.

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You can search up TEDxYouth and learn how to create an event. I don’t want this to be chat that turns into asking me how I did things in my high school career; I’d just like people to offer advice to my college selection.

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bump. I will be applying UPenn ED actually. What are my chances?