chance me for Ivies, top LACs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Objective:
ACT: 33
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10 in class of 440
AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography (5), World History (5), US History (5), Lang & Comp (5)
Senior Year Course Load: 5 APs and an easy elective</p>

<p>Subjective:
- Soccer: 3 year varsity starter, 2x captain, 2x All-conference
- NHS member
- Science tutor</p>

<p>Essays: Pretty good
Teacher Recommendation: Excellent
Counselor Rec: Meh</p>

<p>Other
State: Minnesota
School Type: Fairly large, good suburban public school
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>

<p>Applying to:
- Stanford
- WUSTL
- Brown
- Dartmouth
- Duke
- Notre Dame
- Tufts
- Carleton
- Middlebury
- UChicago
- Northwestern</p>

<p>Safeties:
- Puget Sound
- St. Olaf
- Denver U
- Minnesota-Twin Cities</p>

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<p>I’ll chance back, by the way.</p>

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<ul>
<li>Stanford: reach</li>
<li>WUSTL: low reach/reach</li>
<li>Brown: reach</li>
<li>Dartmouth: reach</li>
<li>Duke: reach</li>
<li>Notre Dame: low reach</li>
<li>Tufts: high match</li>
<li>Carleton: high match</li>
<li>Middlebury: reach</li>
<li>UChicago: reach</li>
<li>Northwestern: low reach/reach
The thing is you have a good ACT score and a near perfect GPA, but you have very few ECs. Nothing in your application stands out enough to get into these schools, except for maybe Tufts of Carleton. Try to do some internships/research/volunteering if you can to stand out more.</li>
</ul>

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<ul>
<li>Stanford: safety</li>
<li>WUSTL: safety</li>
<li>Brown: safety</li>
<li>Dartmouth: safety</li>
<li>Duke: safety</li>
<li>Notre Dame: low match</li>
<li>Tufts: match</li>
<li>Carleton: safety</li>
<li>Middlebury: safety</li>
<li>UChicago: safety</li>
<li>Northwestern: safety</li>
<li>Puget Sound: high reach</li>
<li>St. Olaf: high reach</li>
<li>Denver U: high reach</li>
<li>Minnesota-Twin Cities: high reach</li>
</ul>

<p>;)</p>

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<p>I agree 100% with scderek4.</p>

<p>International95: Your jokes are getting a little old.</p>

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<p>Hardly a joke. I’m serious :O</p>

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<p>I would say you are in all of those except maybe some of the ivies… For those, just right GREAT essays and you should be good.</p>

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<p>Thanks. I’d agree that most of those schools are a reach because I don’t have any great ECs, especially Stanford/the ivies. Other ECs that I forgot to mention: I co-started a cancer fundraiser at one of my soccer games (not that big of an event though), I have done a lot of work with my school’s Athletic Director, and I have written/edited for a sports website, but I have put little time into that. I’m also a 3 year varsity track member.</p>

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<p>You should probably put those ECs into the OP. They help your chances a little, but you should still probably do a little more. You have a near-perfect app, just very few ECs.</p>