Chance me for Wesleyan, Colgate, and Tufts please!

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Hi! I was wondering if you could chance me for Tufts, Wesleyan, and Colgate (they are very different schools obviously but my top 3 nonetheless). I am not applying for financial aid, and I would apply ED II to any of these schools if it would help my chances.

GPA: 4.8 weighted
SAT: 2110 (700 math, 690 writing, 720 critical reading)
Subject Tests: 730 on bio, lit, and history

AP Classes: Junior Year AP Bio, English Lang, APUSH (5 on english, 4 on bio and apush ap tests)
Senior Year AP Calc, English Lit, Psych, Spanish

Extracurriculars:
-Captain of the Cross Country Team, Cross Country grades 9-12
-Editor in Chief of the School Paper
-Public Relations Chair of class council
-Student Government
-Ambassador on my school’s exchange program with Spain (I went to Spain for a week to stay with a Spanish student, they stayed with me for a week)
-Best Buddies
-Girl Scouts
-National Honor Society
-World Language Honor Society
-Taught an after-school history class at my local elementary school
-Started a technology class at the local senior center where we helped local seniors with phones, computers, Facebook, etc
-A lot of volunteer hours

Awards:
-AP Scholar
-Fairfield University Book Award

My interview at Wesleyan went really well (I think/hope)

I believe that my essays and recommendations are good, although those are hard things to be objective about lol

This was very long! Thank you for reading!!!

I would love to know if those schools are reaches or safeties for me, as well as if I should do any of them ED II as far as how that would better my chances. I really love all of them the same, and would be happy at any of them!

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I think you should be in the mix for those schools. If you are going to apply ED II to one of those schools, and it doesn’t matter which one - do this. Using your school’s college software, check out recent graduates at your school that have applied to these schools and see what their scores were and whether they got in or not. This will show you if you are in the running.

What it will also show is whether a particular school doesn’t take from your school. If you see this at one of the schools, then don’t waste your ED II on it.

My daughter has applied to 2 of the 3 schools you listed. When she checked what past students at her school did with respect to the third school, she noticed that 15 students had exceeded the high range that the school was looking for for both SATs and GPA, and all 15 got rejected. A little strange. But maybe this particular college is not interested in taking students from my D’s school.

A few minutes of checking may help you narrow your decision. good luck.