Chance me for various liberal arts places, please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey, I'm looking at a couple of liberal arts colleges, and maybe a couple bigger schools, too. The lists looks like this at the mo'</p>

<p>Middlebury
Carleton
Pomona
Williams
Davidson
Wellesley
Denison
Boston College
WashU
Tulane</p>

<p>Best SAT scores:
770m, 800cr, 730w
SATII's
USHistory 700, Physics 750 (couple others in the 600's)
Grades: A- (towards Freshman year A-/B+) school doesn't provide GPA or class rank to students. (It's a "tough private school" that's already competitive enough w/o GPA's and class rank)
AP Classes taken/taking: AP US, AP German, AP Latin, AP AB Calc.
AP scores so far: US- 5, Eng lang- 4, Eng. Lit.- 4</p>

<p>EC's: Track&Field 4 yrs. Varsity; co-captain
800m Group Champion, 1600m 2nd Place, 3200m 2nd place
XC 4 yrs. Varsity; co-captain
Team won states 2x, placed 1st team all-group 2x, 2nd in Conference 2x, etc.
3 yrs of the Musical
Some form of comm. service every summer (habitat for humanity, teaching English in China, VBS, camp counselor, etc.)
Took Chinese outside of school for a year then spent 7 weeks in China the following summer
Women's Glee Club 4 years
Amnesty International 2 years</p>

<p>other stuff: ap scholar, national merit commended, maxima cum laude on the national latin exam, certificate of merit on national german exam</p>

<p>cons: white/asian female from NJ</p>

<p>input would be great! oi, this is so awkward. i feel like im exposed to the world. CC is so addicting!</p>

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<p>You have a good chance at all of the schools...however, admissions are so unpredictable......</p>

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<p>I agree. You're a really strong student, so your chances of getting in everywhere are pretty good. The only one that you probably have lesser chances at is Williams. I know people who got into Yale and Princeton and didn't get into Williams.</p>

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<p>Great chances at all schools, though I agree about Williams. That SAT I is amazing, BTW!</p>

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<p>haha, thanks! the math part of my SATI went up 130 pts when I took it the second time- i was really happy. I studied hard for it.</p>

<p>oh, and thanks for the encouragement! I've been really pessimistic this week about it all (cuz i keep hearing about these great students getting rejected/deferred), but i had been stupidly optimistic in the beginning. so... im waffling. thanks for the input. I was actually considering not applying to williams for that reason...</p>

<p>and, well, basically im bumping this post. haha.</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>cuz i didn't get a letter from BC today (like i was expecting) and am now nervous as heck.</p>

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<p>im bumping. again. how sad is that?
but im taking a break from polishing up my apps, so it's understandable.</p>

<p>btw, my essay is only mediocre. it ends kind of preachy... and one rec is very good and the other two i don't know.</p>

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<p>Colgate and Holy Cross offer good combination of academics/athletics. HC is SAT optional.</p>

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<p>well, that's random. Holy cross was on my list for a while, tho. it got cut. anything else?</p>

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<p>So, are you a junior or a senior? Your academic profile is obviously very strong and stands on its own merits. But, if you are a junior and interested in running track in college you ought to contact the track and cross country coaches to see if they would support your application. This is especially true for the DIII schools; Williams, Midd, Pomona, etc. Good Luck</p>

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<p>im a senior. my semester grades are not that good. probably a B+ average. (i know, i know, it's really just this one teacher that's bringing me down and i don't know what to do!) </p>

<p>but i finally sent ALL the apps in. so im bumping. cuz im nervoussss</p>

<p>i'm in contact with most of the coaches, but im not a priority on their list.</p>

<p>oh, and im in BC, so you don't need to chance that, if you don't feel like it.</p>

<p>gah. so nervous. it's completely out of my control after friday. (end of semester) and mostly out of my control now.</p>

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<p>my semester grades are in...</p>

<p>and i just want to bump this cuz my friend got into EDII at my top choice school (middlebury - I didn't apply there early cuz of some financial issues).</p>

<p>anyway, A-'s all around except for Jewelry, which was an A.</p>

<p>ps. will jewelry look bad on my transcript? it's the only non-academic course I've taken in all 4 years. I take AP Latin, AP German, adv. Physics, AP Calc AB, world lit./shakespeare, World religions, and jewelry</p>

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<p>why not amherst on your list?</p>

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<p>i visited williams, middlebury, and amherst on the same weekend. Amherst just didn't give off the right vibe in the town and on campus. My list was much too long at that point, so I cut it. It just wasn't quite what I was looking for, particularly in terms of setting.</p>