Chance me if you're cool

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>The colleges I am applying to:</p>

<p>-NYU (Early Decision), College of Arts and Sciences
-SUNY Binghamton (Early Action), Harpur
-Cornell University, CALS
-SUNY Stony Brook (Early Action)
-SUNY Albany (Early Action)
-SUNY Geneseo
-Boston University, College of General Studies
-Syracuse University
-Hofstra University
-George Washington University (possibly Early Decision 2)</p>

<p>These are my stats:
(my high school doesn't do rankings or percentiles in the class)</p>

<p>-Currently a senior taking Senior Seminar (4 class grades), AP Econ, AP Env, AP Calc. So total of 4 APs by the end of the year.
-No Previous APs
-Was in Honors/Honors by Acceleration math since 7th grade.
-87.5 cumulative average/GPA unweighted. My High School doesn't weigh averages.
-Upward growth since freshman year. Went from an 85.5 average Freshman year to a 93 Junior year
-1660 SAT score
-28 ACT score (92-93rd national percentile)
-Took SAT Subject Tests for Mathematics 1 and US History this morning. I think I did fairly well on the M1 but poor on the US History.
-I'm in a few clubs. I am the Founder/President of the Standardized Test Prep club and secretary for a Community Service club in my school.
-I've got enough volunteer programs and community service and I am very active with my volunteering.
-No sports
-My resume is just over a page long (if that means anything)
-I have a very original essay. I consider it to be phenomenal. My english teacher, a very harsh grader, however, says it is just average. But he considers the vast majority of the essays he has checked over the past fourty years to be absolutely putrid.
-I am on the mailing list for all the colleges I am applying to.
-I have researched each college individually and have met with several representatives of each college to which I am applying to. I filled out cards with my information on it and some of these representatives say these information cards will be very beneficial for me during the application process.
-Money is not a problem
-17 year old White male living in Long Island, New York (if this does anything)</p>

<p>Given all this information...which colleges do you think I will be admitted into?</p>

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<p>I would retake the SAT...</p>

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<p>28 = 92 percentile!!!</p>

<p>okay, i'm definitely taking the ACT</p>

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<p>As you can see from my number of posts, I'm a newbie at this. I have studied a lot of schools, however and visited BU, Syracuse and Cornell with my daughter. I am not familiar with the SUNY's, George Washington or Hofstra, so I won't comment on them. I would say Cornell and NYU are reaches for you, Syracuse is less of a reach, but still a reach, and BU is a match. I would guess that your AP score is considerably better than your SAT scores; if you decide not to retake them (you should), only submit the ACT's. Especiallly if you have only taken those tests once, retake them. You will likely improve, especially if you can identify personal pitfalls such as running out of time, problems with the calculator, distractions and eliminate them.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I'm kind of new at this too, but I'm pretty sure you can't early decision both GWash and NYU if they're binding.</p>

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<p>GWU has an ED 2, in which the deadline is in Jauary. By then I will find out if NYU accepted me. If not, then I may apply ED to GWU. </p>

<p>I called a bunch of these colleges and they said that not matter how horrible I did on the SAT, they will base their decision on the ACT if it is higher. They will just assume I had a bad testing day during the SAT, or so they said...
I am still only going to send my ACT scores to colleges that don't require the SAT Subject tests. To those that do, however, like NYU, GWU, and BU, I would have to submit my SATs as well. Hopefully they will stand by what they said and only judge me based on my high ACT score.</p>