Chance me for Stanford, UPenn, Brown, Pomona, Wesleyan, Tufts, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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–4 years of trumpet in jazz band
Band president in senior year
–4 years of varsity baseball
Team captain in senior year
2 years of JV XC and 2 years of Varsity XC
Co-captain senior year
–1 year of varsity squash
–AAU baseball
–4 years as a member of Model UN
Club leader in senior year
–4 years as a member of Young Democrats Club
Club leader in junior and senior year
–3 years as a writer/editor of a student-run news website
–3 years as editor of the school’s academic journal
–Founder and editor-in-chief of an online science journal in sophomore year
Students and faculty submit STEM works
–Admissions tour guide and Admissions prefect
–Openly secular club (club for atheists and secular humanists)

Objective:
GPA: 4.0 (school doesn’t do weighted GPA)
Rank: top 10%
–APs:
Junior Year: Chemistry, Spanish, US History
Senior Year: BC Calculus, Biology, Spanish,
Year-long STEM research project in chemistry
SAT: 1540
ACT: 34
SAT Subject Test in Math Level 1: 760
SAT Subject Test in Math Level 2: 750
SAT Subject Test in Chemistry: 740
AP US History Test: 5
AP Chemistry Test: 5

Other Info:
Race: Caucasian
FA: Will need financial aid
High School type: College preparatory school in MA

Applying to:
Applying: Stanford (Early Decision), UPenn, Brown, Pomona, Swarthmore, Tufts (sibling is an alum), Wesleyan, Northwestern, Duke, Emory, Northeastern, NYU, UMass Amherst
Intended Major: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Chemical Biology, or General Biology

2

Which Penn college are you applying to?
Regardless:
UMass- safety
Northeastern- safety
NYU- safety
Emory- high match (wouldn’t really call it a safety for anyone)
Tufts- high match (same thing)
Northwestern- low reach (same)
Brown- reach (because Ivy)
Penn- reach (same reason)
Duke- low reach (same as NW)
Wesleyan- high match
Swarthmore- low reach (just because of selectivity)
Pomona- same exact thing
Stanford- reach, but you have as good a chance as any.
Just calling many reaches because I do not want you to get your hopes up or something, but I think you could potentially get into all schools. My two cents.

3

Your GPA and standardized test scores put you in the range of all your schools. Here’s what I think:

UMass Amherst-safety

Ivies-low reach. Remember most Ivies are ~10% acceptance so don’t be surprised if you are rejected.

Stanford (REA, they don’t do ED)-high reach. Any school with a less than 5% acceptance rate is a reach for the best student unless you have some hook.

Emory, Northeastern, NYU are high match/low reach.

Duke and Pomona are low reach as well. You might want to consider Harvey Mudd.

I can’t chance you on Swarthmore/Wesleyan as I’m not really familiar with them. And Tufts of course is the one school that is likely to reject you if they think you’re using them as a backup, although with a sibling attending you have a chance.

I might add Case Western and possibly University of Miami as match schools for biology/biochem/BME.

Good luck!