Chance me? I pinky-swear I'll chance back

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a Caucasian girl in her senior year.</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: 4.0
UC GPA: 4.39
Rank: n/a--school does not rank
SAT: 2320 (720 math/800 writing/800 critical reading)
SAT IIs: Math II (800), Chem (770), US History (790)</p>

<p>APs: AP Spanish Language (5), APUSH (5)
This year I'm taking BC Calc, AP Psych, AP English Lit, AP Chem, Advanced Journalism, Science Research Honors, and Econ </p>

<p>ECs:
-President of Garden Club
-Vice president of a tutoring club I helped to start
-Managing editor of award-winning/prestigious student news magazine
-200+ community service hours
-Varsity tennis and track and field; varsity badminton for two years</p>

<p>Letters of recommendation: I'm getting two really good ones (I think) from notoriously difficult classes; one teacher gave me an award for my work in her class, and the other one just all around loved me, so I think they will be pretty stellar recommendations. As for guidance, we have advisors who get to know us pretty well so that one shouldn't be too bad.</p>

<p>I volunteer once a week at my library; this summer I traveled to a different state and have been helping out at the local library as well--I help to run programs/other basic stuff.
I'm also working on a science project regarding the school garden--determining its sustainability and food production, which entailed 150 hours over the past school year.
This summer I volunteered with a program that helps teach children about where their food comes from and the importance of local/sustainable farming, so I worked at a farm (~100 hours).
I spent my last summer teaching young kids (5-7) how to play tennis. </p>

<p>Essay: I'm in the process--I hope it'll be good.</p>

<p>My high school is public but considered very competitive and we are ranked among the top 100 high schools in the nation. </p>

<p>Nonetheless I'm not sure how I stack up/compare--my extracurriculars have focused, for the most part, on working with children/gardening/the environment, but I don't know whether I'm interested in pursuing that seriously after high school/college.
Obviously it's impossible to tell based on this information (and I'm probably missing some things I forgot about) but do I stand a chance at any of these? I have no interest in pursuing sports for college outside of intramurals (because many schools I'm interested in are D1/I am not getting recruited).
Also my school has nominated me for the Morehead Cain Scholarship at UNC Chapel Hill--and I don't really stand a chance, but is it worth it?</p>

<p>Legitimate college list:
University of Chicago (not sure but I think I want to do Early Action)
Columbia
UCLA
UCSD
UNC Chapel Hill
William & Mary
Princeton
Swarthmore
Pomona
USC
Tufts (?)
UC Berkeley
Dartmouth</p>

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<p>SAT/ACTs? You look fine now but you might want some backups. You’re applying to damn difficult schools to get into, even for a kid lucky enough to go to a top 100 high school and survive with a good gpa. I’d say from my limited knowledge as a cali native that:
U Chigago = lower chance, apply early action if possible
Columbia = lord do any of us have a chance XD
UCLA = good chance/match
UCSD = match, you will be in the top 25% or so if accepted (harder for out of state though)
UNC= IDK
W and M = IDK
Princeton = same as columbia, lord who knows!
Swarthmore = again idk
Pomona= likely
USC= likely
Tufts - idk
U Berkeley = out of state is harder, you would get in if you were in state. Not sure…
Dartmouth = those ivys are impossible to predict</p>

<p>sorry about my socal centric limited knowledge. Hope the advise of a fellow senior helps?</p>

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<p>So the biggest issue I see in your ECs, from my understanding you didn’t really do anything freshman year, the amount of leadership will effect things a bit, but it seems like you have some so you should be fine. In terms of your stats you are a strong applicant at every school on the list. Now to the schools (I am familiar with all the schools OP did not chance you for). You have a few LACs on your list which means the quality of your supplemental essay must be great for each essay. Top LACs all require a supplement and they all expect them to fantastic and personalized. I was speaking to a Swarthmore admissions person the other day when they were at my school and she basically said that the essay decides who gets in once they have narrowed down the applicants to those with strong grades/scores/ECs. So assuming you have great essays I think you have a solid shot at University of Chicago, Swarthmore and Pomona.</p>

<p>Like OP said ivies are almost impossible to predict, you are definitely in the running but beyond that there is really nothing we can tell you.</p>

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<p>I think that your EC’s are a little above average and certainly not weak by any means. Your stats (GPA, SAT’s, ect.) are phenomenal and with those stats you have a decent chance at any school. I feel that all your schools are matches except the Ivies, which are so unpredictable its hard to tell. However, even at the ivies you definitely have a significantly higher chance than the average applicant so i think you will get into at least one. </p>

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<p>University of Chicago- match if you write really good essays
Columbia- low reach
UCLA- in
UCSD- in
UNC Chapel Hill- match
William & Mary- in
Princeton- reach
Swarthmore- match
Pomona- high match
USC- match
Tufts- match
UC Berkeley- high match
Dartmouth- reach</p>

<p>Chance me back at “Chances for Davidson, Richmond, Colby, ect…”</p>

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<p>your stats are great, I really wouldn’t worry… try for UCB!</p>

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<p>I’m from California so I know I stand a pretty good chance at UCSD/hopefully at Cal and UCLA–if that information helps</p>