Chance me Please! nervous on EA

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm pretty nervous about applying to three schools early aciton: Georgetown University, Boston College and Umass Amherst---Georgetown being the top choice. I've heard the Catholic schools have strange early admissions </p>

<p>planning on applying to five ivy's regular (HYDBCorn) along with University of Rochester and Boston University</p>

<p>Male
Caucasian (Italian)
Middle-Higher income bracket</p>

<p>GPA: 3.96 UW/ 4.88 W</p>

<p>Rank: 4 of 230
-Tied with a girl with the same GPA, meaning there are only two people tied for a GPA above our's (in essence, second highest GPA)</p>

<p>ACT:
Math: 36
English: 31
Science: 30
Reading: 26
Composite: 31</p>

<p>Math: 32
English:34
Science: 30
Reading: 29
Composite: 31</p>

<p>Best/Superscore:
Math: 36
English: 34
Science: 30
Reading: 29
Composite: 32</p>

<p>Math II - 710
Math I - 750
-Took Math again today along with bio</p>

<p>EC's
-Student Government - Class President 4 years
Student Council - all 4 years
Spanish Club - 3 years
Ping Pong Club - 2 years
Band - have played the trumpet since 5th grade
******* - Marching Band - 4 years
******* - Pit Band - 4 years
******* - Concert Band - 4 years (section leader, first chair trumpet)
******* - Jazz Band - 4 years
As Schools Match Wits - Local highschool game show competition for 2 years
Council of Peer Educators - 3 years
National Honor Society - tutoring committee chairman
Key Club
Varsity Baseball-League Champs 4 years in a row
Varsity Indoor track-league champs last year</p>

<p>-Have volunteered at local hospital setting up fundraisers for cancer patients.
-Have volunteered over 30 hours for baseball clinics and camps
-Have over 20 hours of other hours at various events
-Have about 100 hours of tutoring Math/Precalc/Physics as volunteer
-Film varsity sports games for town's access television during the week</p>

<p>I have taken very rigorous courseload (as seen by weighted GPA).
I am taking AP psych, AP bio, and AP calc this year, haven't taken any yet --- currently have 95 or above in each class
Our school requires many prerequisites for the AP's you can take, block scheduling doesn't help either.
Our highschool is in the top 10% for mandated state test scores as well.
Our highschool sends about 4 or 5 kids to top universities every year.</p>

<p>Awards:
Rotary Youth Leadership Award
Massachusetts Boys State 2009
George Eastman Young Leaders Award
Bausch and Lomb Science Award
Chosen to lead last year's senior class into graduation ceremony (2 people chosen - highest GPA for male and highest GPA for female)</p>

<p>Possible majors: Math, Biology, Biomedical Engineering</p>

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<p>Legacy at Georgetown as well (my father went undergrad and grad, cousin went undergrad and grad)</p>

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<p>I would say Georgetown as a legacy is going to be your best bet. I’d put a lot into that application. Good shot at BC, Rochester and BU too.</p>

<p>I think your ACT score will make the ivies hard, HY highly unlikely and the only possibility I see would be non CAS/engineering Cornell.</p>

<p>Good rank, but not at a high school sending many to top colleges. And with UMass on the list I’m guessing you are from MA–a very overrepresented state.</p>

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<p>agree with hmom. the legacy at georgetown will help a lot, especially with your good grades and fantastic ECs. the only thing that’ll hurt is the test scores, which is why I think your chances at the upper ivies (HYP…) are slim
50/50 at georgetown though, so if thats your top choice, write great essays/recs :slight_smile: GL!</p>