Chance me, please! (Amherst, Harvard, Brown Swarthmore, etc...)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey, I was wondering if you could chance me for some top liberal arts colleges / Ivies.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance! Sorry if this is really terribly done; I've never done this before.</p>

<p>Official list: Amherst, Harvard, Brown, Swarthmore, Tufts, Pomona, Carleton, Macalester, Haverford, Whitman</p>

<p>Type of school: Private
Overall GPA (UW): 3.76, still going up
School doesn't rank</p>

<p>SAT I (retook, scores come out on Thursday)
M 720
W 720
V 760
2200 overall</p>

<p>SAT II
Literature 800
Math IIC 700
French 700</p>

<p>Course load: very rigorous, 7 APs total in HS, 1 CIS
(Senior year: 3 APs, 1 CIS, 2 required courses, 6 overall)
AP scores
Calculus 5
French 4
European History 5
English 5</p>

<p>EC:
Job as file room clerk at health care clinic
Varsity captain of fencing
Costume crew head for 2 years, won "Most Helpful Crew Member"
Ultimate Frisbee captain for 2 years
Member of premiere percussion ensemble in Minneapolis
have played percussion since 5th grade</p>

<p>Essays: I think they're good! :-D</p>

<p>Other/Awards
National Merit Semifinalist
Homesday in Tours, France for a month</p>

<p>Hooks: (maybe) Studied abroad in Switzerland @ prestigious program for a semester, got all A's.</p>

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<p>Harvard sounds more like a reach, and Brown might be a very slight reach, but it seems as if you're matches for all the other schools. I assume you have good recommendations and that your school generally sends a fair number of students to prestigious universities.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>ECs are lacking, especially for ivies</p>

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<p>If you go to a private school like Phillips Exeter Academy, your GPA is strong. If you don't go to a private school of that caliber, your GPA standing may be different.</p>

<p>Gender and ethnicity?</p>

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<p>Thank you all!</p>

<p>My private school is the top in the area and is pretty hard to get into, but I've been going there since I was little and it's not exactly Phillips Exeter.</p>

<p>I'm female and white.</p>

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<p>Are you good enough to be recruited for fencing?</p>

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<p>peggy, how can you call her a match for Amherst, Swarthmore, and Pomona? Those are all reaches.</p>

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<p>for harvard, your scores, gpa, and ecs are all rather mediocre. high reach there. others are reach-matches - i've heard amherst is almost as difficult to get into as harvard.</p>