Chance me for Ivies/Stern/NU/UChicago? =)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys! My name is Brian and I go to a semi-not really competitive high school in Jersey. My high school has sent people to ivies, and as we are right outside of Philly, is almost a filter to UPenn because of the large amounts of our students sent to UPenn :].</p>

<p>Schools -
Columbia
Cornell
UPenn (Wharton! uh-oh!)
NYU Stern
Northwestern
University of Chicago
Northeastern
Boston University
MAYBE Harvard/Rutgers</p>

<p>Potential major - Finance/Economics with a minor in theater/theater production
Potential career - theater producer or something along those lines!</p>

<p>Stats-
UW GPA - 4.0/4.0
W GPA - 4.65/4.0 (Will probably be around a 4.9 by the end of the year!)
Rank - 1/400 (Competing for Val, only student not to get a B!)
ACT - 33 (30 E, 33 M, 32 R, 35 S, 9 W)
AP's (Taking in 2 weeks! AH!) - AP Language and Comp, AP Bio, AP USH
Schedules - Hardest classes taken in my school possible.
Senior Year Schedule - AP Physics, AP Calc, AP Stat, AP Lit, and AP Gov</p>

<p>EC's - Long list, but the important ones...
Fencing (captain) - ~6 hours a week
Senior Company Dance Member (captain) - ~10 hours a week
Theater - well over 300 hours total in theater related activities, including acting and production based activities
Chorus/Vocal Ensemble/Jazz Choir/Chorale - ~8 hours a week
Band (Bassoon) - ~5 hours a week
Transition Project (Leader) - help Freshmen get acclimated to the school
Morning Jolt - ~3 hours a week, daily news show for morning announcements</p>

<p>Community Service - Around 200 hours total
Created/Ran my own can drive last year, raised 100 cans. Will do the same next month, hopefully raise even more.
Tutoring as part of my membership to NHS.
Dancing for Make a Wish Foundation as well as in hospitals during the holidays.
Raised around $200 dollars for the MS Walk.
Helping run and organize an event called "Gregapalooza" (long story!) that hires a ton of local bands and has an auction all for Breast Cancer research as well as local animal shelters.</p>

<p>Awards -
All State Chorus Member
All South Jersey Chorus Member
National Merit Commended (I'll be commended, got a 203 on my PSAT).
Honorable mention in VFW Essay contest
Principal's list for my entire time in high school
NHS Member, currently running for Secretary.
Musical Activity Award for achievement in musical :)
Core Honor Student for academic achievement
John Philip Sousa Award for music achievement</p>

<p>Summers -
Cornell University Summer College - received A's in all of my courses, and the only student in one of them!
This summer, The Governor's School in the Sciences - I'm so excited, it's going to be GREAT!</p>

<p>Recs - One of my dance teacher who knows me more than anyone else, one from my math teacher who has told me I'm the best in her career (I cried, I love her!).
Essays - <em>hopefully</em> going to be original and humorous like me! I know the topic I want to write it about!</p>

<p>Ethnicity - Caucasian
Sex- Male
Income - Depends, my father is pretty wealthy, but I don't live with him. I live with my mother who is a math teacher at a local middle school, sooo....</p>

<p>So what do you guys thing? Do I have a shot at all?</p>

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<p>I’d say you have a really good shot at all of them except Harvard and possibly Columbia.
Rutgers is a definite acceptance for you, and they’ll probably give you a full ride as well if you want to save money. For the others you have a really good shot, especially if your school has sent multiple students to UPenn. If you really want to go to Harvard, you’ll want to raise that ACT score a couple points. But you can almost definitely get into most of these colleges.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I assumed as much with Harvard, haha! I thought I’d apply just for the fun of it even though I know I won’t get accepted =)
Thanks though!</p>

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<p>Your credentials look fantastic.Your GPA is spot on for any school in this country (as if you already didn’t know :D). The only thing that may hold you back at some ivies is your ACT score, but I think your GPA covers up that “short coming” (god I would love a 33). EC’s, awards, and summer experiences look great. Harvard and Columbia might be a stretch. I believe that your odds are from good to great at most of your school. I wish you the best of luck!!</p>

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<p>31-35 is the 25-75% range for act scores at Harvard. 33 falls right in the middle. A 33 will not hold you back at any school in the world.</p>

<p>[Harvard</a> University | Admissions Facts and Statistics](<a href=“http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/harvard.asp]Harvard”>http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/harvard.asp)</p>

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<p>Thanks guys! =) I didn’t know my score was in the 50% at Harvard? Wow, that made me feel cool! haha!
Anyone else?
(P.s., I love your name “Reaganomics” as I study for my AP history class! xD)</p>

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<p>Bump! Ill chance back laterr :)</p>

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<p>Bump!!!</p>

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<p>bump, :D:D:D:D:D:D:D</p>

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<p>Columbia- Reach
Cornell- High Target
UPenn (Wharton! uh-oh!)- Not happening unless you ED where its a reach
NYU Stern- target
Northwestern- high target
University of Chicago- high target
Northeastern- safety
Boston University- safety
MAYBE Harvard/Rutgers</p>

<p>Firstly, your school selection = eh in terms of you dont need to apply to bu/northeastern since there are safeties above that. if you wanna do biz, apply to umich ross (right after wharton/stern in finance) and mcdonough. unless you ED at wharton, itll be nearly impossible to get in although if youre gonna ED there, do LBW for the summer and youll likely get in if you get into LBW. harvard is a definite reach. columbia is easier than wharton but still a reach. i recommend adding brown to this list as well.
hope that helps</p>

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<p>Thanks very much for your input! I saw Wharton today, so I don’t think I’m going to do ED, but that’s okay. I do believe I like Cornell a bit more than UPenn, so I’ll see how that works out come next year! I haven’t really looked into Brown, but I’ll check it out =]</p>