Chance me! I'll be /really/ chill about it, promise.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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(Shameless rip from my Williams chance thread)

Here be my stats:

SAT: 2280 (800 CR, 730 M, 750 WR)
SAT II : 800 US History 780 Literature
GPA : 4.0 (But Homeschooled)

Awards: N/A

ECs: Obama Campaign Intern, Intern at Solar Development Company (like 20~ hours a week) Treasurer of Psi Beta, Captain of Quizbowl-like-ish team

Community College coursework:

Introduction to Psychology (A)
Shakespeare, Honors Section (A)
Psychology of Human Development, Honors Section (A)
Women’s Literature in the 20th Century (A)

Senior Year Courses: (Courses indicated with an (DE) next to them are dual enrollment courses that I’m taking at community college.)

Physics
The Black Experience (DE)
Psychology of Sex & Gender, Honors Section (DE)
Calculus
Kierkegaard to Camus: Existentialism in Philosophy & Literature
French
Linguistics
Number Theory

Personal Things:

Ethnicity: White
Income: 30k~
Financial Aid: Yup! Lots of it.
Hooks: I have one thing that might be considered a hook at two potential colleges: I was invited to SOAR at Rice and WoW at Williams.

Also, I’m homeschooled.

Reaches (though I /hate/ that term)

Williams (Applying here ED)
Swarthmore (Might apply here ED II if I don’t get into Williams.)
Amherst
UPenn
Cornell
Brown
Dartmouth (Mightt be too much of a reach)
Vanderbilt
Rice
Duke
Johns Hopkins

Matches/Safeties

Middlebury
Wesleyan
Vassar
University of Pittsburgh
Haverford (Maybe)

I’d be open to some input on my list – especially if it’d even be worth while to add like, H/P/S to my list or if it’d just be money wasted on application fees.

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Middlebury
Wesleyan
Vassar
University of Pittsburgh
Haverford (Maybe)

None of these are safeties, with the possible exception of UPitt. Don’t add H/P/S to your list. You have way too many reaches as it is.

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@jarrett211

I wrote matches/safeties at the top of the list because, to my mind, it was pretty obvious which school was my safety and which schools I considered matches.

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way too many reaches, not enough safeties.

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@Lana22 I can get into UPitt for sure. That’s a safety; if you have one safety you’re comfortable with, why add more?

EDIT: God, I’m not being chill /at all/ in this thread. I feel like a total chill-failure. There’s some white guy with dreads living in Venice beach who is so ashamed of me right now.