Chance Me for Rutgers, TCNJ, Cornell, UPenn, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>General:
White Male, rising senior
4.420 weighted GPA (4.33 scale, weird I know)
No rank, projected to be top 5% out of 750</p>

<p>Standardized Tests:
2150 SAT second time (640 CR/800 M/710 W), taking again in October for 2200-2300
800 Math II
690 Latin
Taking Physics in November, depending on that score retaking Latin in December</p>

<p>APs & Honors:
AP Language and Composition (4)
AP Literature and Composition (N/A)
AP Calculus BC (5, 5 AB Sub)
AP Physics C (N/A)
AP US History (4)
AP European History (N/A)
AP Psychology (N/A)
AP Latin Vergil (N/A)</p>

<h2>AP Microeconomics (4)</h2>

<p>English I H
English II H
Algebra II H
Precalculus H
Calc III/Diff Eq H (weighted as an AP though)
Biology H
Chemistry H
Physics H
World Civilizations H
Latin II H
Latin III H
Latin IV H</p>

<p>Extracurriculars and Awards:
Junior and Senior Class Treasurer
National Honor Society Sergeant at Arms
Latin Honor Society Junior Consul, most likely Senior Consul next year
Key Club (9-12)
Cultural Diversity Club (9-12)
Invisible Made Visible (10-11)
Student Council (9-10)
Latin Honor Society (10-12)
Mu Alpha Theta (11-12)
National Honor Society (11-12)
Cross Country (9-11)
Winter Track (9-12) 3 Varsity Letters
Spring Track (9-12) 4 Varsity Letters
National Latin Exam: maxima cum laude (10) and summa cum laude (11)
100 hours of volunteering
3 years working at day camp for the recreation department</p>

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<p>You should get into Rutgers and TCNJ easily but all of the Ivies are a reach with such a low SAT score</p>

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<p>Harvard and Princeton are high reaches
Cornell is a reach
Colombia - reach to high reach
matches for other two
bring up the CR SAT in october too</p>

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<p>Bumping this up. Trying to get CR up to a 670-720 and W to 750-800, giving me a 2220-2320 superscore. So would mid 2200s improve my chances significantly? Or is there something else with my GPAs or ECs?</p>

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<p>It will be tough even if you get in the 2200-2300 range as an unhooked applicant, and even with a 2300+, it can still be possible to get rejected at all of the ivies. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t apply. Give it a go and hope you get accepted at a few of them.</p>

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<p>Yeah I know it’ll be tough but it’s not a complete crapshoot right? I mean obviously Princeton is gonna be a high reach (applying just for fun to be honest, since it’s Princeton) and Harvard too (applying because my grandfather got his PhD from there, so somewhat of a distant legacy I suppose) but Penn/Columbia/Cornell aren’t completely out of question right?</p>

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<p>Not completely although test scores are low. If you could bump those up you would have a much better shot.</p>

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<p>Thanks! And eak325, if everything goes right in October I’ll be 2250-2300 so hopefully that’ll make things better. Thanks again!</p>

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<p>If you could do that you will improve your chances twofold I’d say because you already have the good GPA and extracurriculars. Good luck! :)</p>

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<p>It looks like you were involved in a lot of clubs since freshman year, but do you have leadership positions in any of them? Otherwise it’s pretty meaningless since the barrier for entry into a club is pretty low</p>

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<p>“Junior and Senior Class Treasurer
National Honor Society Sergeant at Arms
Latin Honor Society Junior Consul, most likely Senior Consul next year”</p>

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<p>^Eh. Holding positions in Honor Societies doesn’t add much weight to your app.</p>

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<p>Well he just asked me if I hold any leadership positions in the clubs so I was pointing them out.</p>

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<p>All the ivies you listed are probably reaches, I kind of dislike the EC list because so few are long term ECs, it’s like you don’t really commit. That current CR score also hurts a lot.</p>

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<p>I don’t think you have enough significant leadership positions or unique ECs to get into the Ivy league schools</p>

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<p>I really dislike chance thread. That being said, I am going to chime in to tell you that you have good chance at Penn and Cornell, but not for certain. Because of that, I would like to ask you if you would be happy to go to NJ state schools if you didn’t. </p>

<p>My older daughter applied to NJ schools as safeties, but was very upset about having to go to Rutgers. If you are in the same boat, I would like you to do more research and try to find other safeties that you would be happy to go to - Colgate, Lehigh, Bucknell, BU, Emory, Rice, Tufts…</p>

<p>You would have a good chance with Cornell and Penn if you could bring your SAT up, but with very slim chance at other schools.</p>