Chance me for Wesleyan, Tufts, Yale?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm looking into film or english majors and these are the reachiest schools that I've been interested in so far!</p>

<p>White female in Nevada</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 UW, I think around 4.4 W
SAT: Won't get back until 28th, expecting 2200+ score (800 on writing)
PSAT: 218 junior year, definitely national merit semifinalist in Nevada
ACT: Taking in June
SAT subject tests: Taking math II, lit, and spanish in may, expecting good scores
My school doesn't do class rank</p>

<p>APs:
Sophomore - AP Euro (3)
Junior (now) - AP Physics B, AP Span Lang, AP Eng Lang, AP Calc AB
Senior (next year) - AP Chem, AP Eng Lit, AP Calc BC, plus maybe one more "easy" AP</p>

<p>ECs and awards:
Co-editor of school literary magazine, will be editor-in-chief next year
In Make-a-wish club
Won school playwriting contest
National Gold medal in scholastic writing awards, plus American Voices Medal (only ~150 people get this out of 230,000+ entries)
Won a nationwide playwriting contest with a $2500 scholarship, and my play will be performed on off-broadway in may
Did poetry-out-loud last year
2 "Excellence awards" at school (meaning I got the highest grades in the class)
AP scholar
Competitive equestrian for 6+ years, lots of statewide awards (I'm shooting for national awards this year but it's not likely), very dedicated</p>

<p>Work:
Camp counselor at my barn</p>

<p>Volunteering:
Work for make-a-wish, some stuff for a local children's cancer foundation (nothing too intensive)</p>

<p>Anything I can improve on? And is any of this a ""hook"" (sorry, I'm new here, I still don't really get what that means!)</p>

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<p>“National Gold medal in scholastic writing awards, plus American Voices Medal (only ~150 people get this out of 230,000+ entries).”</p>

<p>Wow^. (National gold poetry, silver portfolio here! Got nommed for AMV this year, but nope, haha.)</p>

<p>Anyways, I think you have a great shot everywhere you’re looking–particularly Wesleyan and Tufts, but that’s just because Yale is more of a wildcard in terms of admissions. However, I do know that they have taken a lot of young writers recently (good ones, I mean, that have won Scholastic and whatnot) because they appear to want to better their writing program–or at least the appearance of it. Right now, it’s quite analytical–for that reason I never considered it (that and the fact that I’m in-state and would never ever get in, haha; I ended up at Penn).</p>

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<p>Your commitment to writing is impressive. I would say that Yale is in between a low reach and a reach, but you should be good for the other two.</p>