Chance me for Emory, Northwestern, Uchicago and some schools in the northeast? (will chance back)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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hi! i’d appreciate if you could tell me where i stand for the following schools:

northwestern
university of chicago
emory
boston college
amherst college
cornell
johns hopkins

stats:
GPA: 3.88/4.0 unweighted
Rank: top 24% ish (large, competitive public school)
SAT: 2240
Going to take ACT next week; i go a 34 on my practice test yesterday so im anticipating a good score
Pakistani female going into pre-med with a biology-related major
income: ~$175k (not applying for need based aid)

APs taken so far: World history (5), English language(5), Spanish language(5), Physics I (3), Human geo (5) US Gov, Macro
Senior schedule: AP Chem, AP Lit, AP Calc AB, student leadership honors, academic decathlon honors, research honors
recommendations will be from two teachers who considered me their “star student” last year, so they should be good
essays should be strong once i have my english teacher critique them

Volunteering: ~200 hours
Awards: NSE gold, DECA stuff, ap scholar with distinction, some in-school stuff (academic excellence, english award, etc.)

ECs:
-NHS
-theatre (have acted in 5 or 6 plays, stage managed 2, assistant directed one, led makeup crew in another)
-helped organize a religious tolerance campaign
-helped organize an international festival
-research and awareness project on health care for the impoverished
-part of an international studies magnet program within my school
-summer writing workshop at rice
-pre-health summer program at Baylor
-academic decathlon

there are others (DECA, HOSA, model UN, current events club), but i don’t think im going to list them on my app since i havent been that involved in them.

please link me to your thread if you want me to chance back.

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i just added UVA to my list !

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bump

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Hmmm…you know that the value of the advice you get by asking to be chanced is just as much of a crapshoot as your actual chances of admissions at these selective colleges, right?

Having said that, I read your resume carefully and I am honestly having a hard time “chancing” you for these schools. What I mean is that I don’t see anything glaring either way (good or bad) for me to say, “you have a really good chance at these universities”, or “I think you are wasting your time”. There are no red flags that I can see (except maybe just a little bit…being Pakistani and your rather low-ish class rank), but I also doing see anything that knocks my socks off (you have very good/solid, but not exceptional, GPA, test scores, course rigor, ECs). So my recommendations are: to simply apply to all the schools you mentioned in your post, if you have the bandwidth to send quality applications on 7-8 schools knowing that you also should apply to a handful of safeties and low-matches; make yourself as unique as possible in your application to make you stand out from the pack of “solid but not exceptional” applicants; and if you have time, “deepen” some of your interests (for example, see if you can come up with a tangible finished product from some of your ECs–publication from your health care project, leadership role in your festival, or a curriculum addition/modification in your school community for your religious tolerance campaign, etc).

No harm in applying to any of the schools you mentioned…your application may or may not stand out, but I don’t think it will be thrown away immediately. It will depend greatly on how you package yourself…

Good luck to you!

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thank you for your feedback!

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Based on your things, I would assume you live in Texas correct? Will you take any subject tests in the future?
UChicago- high match/low reach
Johns Hopkins- (low) reach
Emory- (low) match
Cornell- reach because of selectivity
Northwestern- reach because of selectivity

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@basedchem im thinking of doing lit, math 2 and bio E in October. And yes, I live in Texas .

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Bump

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bump

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I dont agree with @basedchem. UChicago has the lowest acceptance rate (8%) of all the schools in your list. It is not a match (for almost anyone)!

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@ohiopop the average GPA for those accepted at my school is 3.84. She’s not applying for law or econ.

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they weigh essays pretty heavily i believe
so if i have strong essays i think my chances are actually better for uchicago than cornell or NU
but im not objective :stuck_out_tongue:

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^ yep. It takes a certain type of person with certain types of essays to get into UChicago.