Chance me for my very competitive college list - will actually chance back!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello CC,
After a whirlwind tour of the northeast (and parts of the south) this week over spring break, my college list for next year is beginning to solidify (I am currently a junior). </p>

<p>It is roughly as follows:
1. Columbia (semi-legacy, my dad went for MBA)
2. Brown
3. Georgetown
4. Vanderbilt
5. Vassar (legacy)
6. Wesleyan (spelling?)
7. UVA (legacy)
8. Skidmore
9. George Washington
10. Lafayette</p>

<p>As for my grades:
Freshman year: 1 AP, 3 honors (most rigorous), ~84 UW, 87 W
Sophomore year: 1 AP, 3 honors (most rigorous), ~89 UW, 93 W
Junior Year: 1 AP, 3 honors (most rigorous), ~96 UW, 99W
Projected senior: AP Calc. AB, AP Euro, AP English, AP Physics C, AP Spanish 5 (by far most rigorous) and am talking to teachers about summer work so that the transition will be easier. After talking to them, expect straight, low A's, unweighted, maybe higher with motivation.</p>

<p>I'm aware my first two years have less than stellar grades, but my grade trend, when graphed, is overwhelmingly positive. As for test scores:
SAT I: 730 CR, 680 M, 730 W (2140 total), plan on taking again, and have been routinely earning perfect scores on practice tests, so i expect it to rise by a healthy amount (I took a class since).
AP world - 5
AP Us history - expected 5
SAT II's: Bio - 670, World history - 740, Math 1- 800, lit - 800, US history - 760</p>

<p>EC’s:
-Varsity track all four years
- religious youth group all four years, clocked over 750+ hours community service therein, including the fact that I I give up my spring break and a week every summer to do charity work abroad, Youth adviser in Junior year (selective position, only 10 of them with 30+ applicants), and expected senior adviser senior year
-Founding member and board member of the Young Philanthropists charity fund, all four years
-Model UN all four years
-Debate team sophomore year on, varsity for junior and senior years
-Service league of Boy’s (charity group) all four years, Sophomore liaison for sophomore year, Vice president of philanthropy Junior year, President senior year (already been informed of acceptance to the position), totaling probably 100+ hours philanthropy total therein
-Yearbook sophomore year on: intern sophomore year, Layout editor and designer Junior year, editor-in-chief senior year</p>

<p>Additional info:
-Unsure if helps my chances at Columbia, but my dad went to business school there
-Spent two summers taking classes there, have a relationship with a professor or two in English department
-Currently in process of a novel, unsure whether I should put it on the side burner for now or just go all out and finish it in time for application to serve as a feather in my cap (I have an adult friend who is learned in the process of getting a book published)
- My classes are very rigorous, only slightly easier than the most rigorous, and even then only in my math and science courses, yet in all of my classes I am either the top of the class (literally in some cases) or within, I’d say, the top 3-5. My school does not publish official rankings. </p>

<p>Already talked to my teachers about Rec's, and they are the teachers I am closest with PLUS they historically write great essays for high caliber students.
I don't expect essays to be much of a problem, as I intend to major in english, am an award winning essayist, and am getting coached by a paid college counselor through the whole process.</p>

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<p>also, for the record, I think I will be doing ED at Columbia.</p>

<p>From experience or otherwise, does anybody know if this helps in any significant measure?</p>

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<p>Columbia is a reach, but plausible. UVA seems like a match. </p>

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<p>ED always helps–IF you are competitive.</p>

<p>The one thing that worries me is your grades; I will take you at your word that your SAT scores will improve. Your ECs look fine, although obviously I can’t tell how meaningful they are from such a short description. The other thing is that at your level of math, the colleges will want to see Math II rather than Math I.</p>

<p>What part of the country are you from?</p>

<p>Columbia - reach
Brown - reach
Georgetown - reach
Vanderbilt - low reach
Vassar (legacy) - match
Wesleyan - high match
UVA (legacy) - match
Skidmore, GW, and Lafayette I think you are fairly safe at, but I don’t know that much about them so I hesitate to say any more than that.</p>

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<p>I made an account just to critique you</p>

<p>you will not be able to do physics c… physics c requires substantial knowledge of calc bc. now i read your schedule, calc ab… man you will fail everything… you won’t learn how to do the calculus in physics c it is expected that you know it… gg fool</p>

<p>sat 2s. math level 1 800. everything else fail.</p>

<p>you will not get into a real college with stuff like that
give up tryhard</p>

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<p>…Wow, that was unnecessarily harsh. Did I say something to upset you?</p>

<p>I am aware my schedule is going to be a bit extreme next year, but I am getting a tutor on the side as physics c is the only AP physics offered by my school, and i happen to LIKE physics. I also received special permission from the department head to take the class, and have been told that studying calculus AB concurrently, supplemented if necessary by a tutor on the side, would be enough.</p>

<p>As for everything else failing? All other responses seem to be at least borderline positive, so unless you do anything to substantiate your claim, I am inclined to think you’re ■■■■■■■■. </p>

<p>If you, or anybody else, has further HELPFUL input, it would be readily accepted.</p>

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<p>^ That was unnecessarily harsh. I think you do have a good chance based on your EC (+750 hrs of comm service = wow!!) but I have to say that your amount of AP classes are a bit low (for 10 and 11 grades I mean) esp if (judging by your senior year) your school offers a lot of AP classes. But honestly as long as you keep your Physics class grade up then it doesn’t even matter what you get on the AP exam bc colleges won’t see that. So overrall…i would say that you have aa good shot at the other schools, if nit Columbia. Oh and def get your SAT scores up.</p>

<p>Chance me back :)? It’s under “just another ivy league chance me…but I’d really appreciate it :)”</p>

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<p>thanks for the input Sophomore. Yeah, it’s weird, other than history, and language if you are at the appropriate level (I was not), no AP’s are really offered until senior year.
Good point about the AP Physics exam, I had not thought of that.</p>

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<p>E&M, perhaps. Mech? Not at all.</p>