Chance me for UChicago, Brown, Vassar, and GW?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I applied RD to all four schools and have no idea what my admissions chances are. Any advice/opinions are so appreciated, thanks! Here are my stats.

White female, public school in relatively rural area
1530 SAT superscore
UW GPA: 3.913 WGPA: 4.304
UW class rank: top 10% Weighted class rank: 3/277
APs: APUSH, Bio, Chem, World history, Stats, German, English, Gov, Micro, Macro, Calc AB, Physics
*Did not submit any AP scores

ECs:
Varsity Speech captain
Subcommittee director on Mayor’s Youth Council
Music Listening state competitor
Knowledge bowl
Math team
National Honor Society
Youth orchestra & string quartet
Founder of Debate club (noncompetitive)
Youth social justice organization
*Submitted a music portfolio to Brown & Vassar

Awards/Honors:
AP Scholar with Distinction
Gold award on National German Exam
All-State Orchestra

Recommendations:
Bio teacher: also speech coach, I know her well and she writes great recs
Math & German teachers: know them well, hopefully pretty good
Counselor: My hopes aren’t two high for this one, but I don’t think it will hurt anything

Interests/majors:
Poli Sci/Public Policy and chemistry for each school, I think

Essays:
I think my “why college X” essays weren’t creative enough but most of my essays for the other school-specific prompts were better.

*No legacy or significant hooks

Again, any thoughts on this are welcome, thanks for your help!

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Should be a very strong candidate for admission to GWU & Vassar.

Certainly have the class rank, GPA & SAT (superscored) for Brown & Chicago, but these schools are ultra-selective so I cannot even offer a guess.

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Thanks!

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You are a competitive applicant. Your stats and ECs are great. With good essays, you could get into several of these schools

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Update:
So far, I have heard back from 7 of the 10 schools I applied to.
Accepted: U of MN (twin cities), U of Illinois Urbana, Dickinson, Macalester, and Wesleyan University (CT)
Waitlisted: UChicago
Rejected: Swarthmore
Waiting on: Vassar, Brown, GW
I’ll update next week once I’ve heard back from the other three and eventually, what happens with the UChi waitlist. I just wanted to give a sense of where my stats have gotten me at this stage. I definitely put the most effort into my UChicago and Vassar apps, though honestly I think the only reason I was waitlisted is because I had the test scores and they waitlist like 12.5% of applicants. Ah well. My Swarthmore app wasn’t the best it could have been, and I think they could tell I wasn’t thrilled about Swat. Wesleyan was definitely a surprise, as I didn’t interview or demonstrate any other interest, and still got an early write. College admissions are strange, confusing entities.

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Congratulations on the acceptances!

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Thanks!!

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Final Update: Accepted to GWU and Vassar, Rejected from Brown. I’m super excited about Vassar and Wes, it’s definitely between those two right now, so if anyone has advice, that would be great! Good luck to everyone

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Congratulations!! I’m sooo biased toward Vassar because my DD had wonderful four years there!! I don’t know much about Wesleyan but I think those two schools are pretty comparable. I’m happy for you!!

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Congratulations! The students at both schools are very similar, so I think that you will really enjoy either. Vassar has a very strong music program (Wes probably does too). Like the poster above, I am obviously biased, but I would look at both schools’ Facebook accounts; I know that Vassar puts out a lot of information on what everyone (alums and students) are doing.I would not Take the reviews too seriously - for example, one student gave Vassar one star because they did not accept her late application. Also, check out Vassar’s career development page and the school scholarships that they have for summer research and volunteer work. Vassar is rich with resources.

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Thanks for the input!! I am planning to commit to Vassar, but I want to try and negotiate finaid a bit and attend the admitted student open house first. As it is, Vassar’s finaid is significantly better than Wesleyan’s.