<p>Scores:
SAT total: 2090
640 CR, 720 M, 710 W (will definitely improve writing/CR in Oct)</p>
<p>GPA: about 3.7-8
Rank: 3/120</p>
<p>Junior Year: all honors courses w/ 1 AP - score of 4 (only 1 AP course offered jr year)
Senior year: 4 AP's (only 5 AP's offered sr year)</p>
<p>EC's
Editor in Chief of Award winning student newspaper
Classical Piano 12 years, performing at conservatory level
teaching piano to beginner students (2 years)
Girl Scouts 10 years
Secretary of school's largest community service club (going to Nicaragua in Dec)
Varsity Field hockey (11/12)
Tutoring English as a Second Language Adult students through library (comm service)
I also spent the summer in Spain so am now nearly fluent in Spanish</p>
<p>I'm not really sure what else to put here, but if you need more info, let me know :)</p>
<p>Schools where I'm looking to apply:</p>
<p>Amherst
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis
Holy Cross
Northeastern
UPenn
Harvard
UVA
Duke</p>
<p>I also forgot to add that I am a member of the National Honor Society and recently won a scholarship for a history essay that I wrote.</p>
<p>Except probably Harvard, you have a good chance at all of these schools.
Although with such low admission percentages, it becomes a crapshoot.</p>
<p>My only recommendation is that you are focusing too much on the Boston area. There are good schools in the midwest, such as Wash U, Michigan, etc., and it is probably a bit easier to get into those schools, because they are not in as desirable an area. </p>
<p>The talent applying to Boston is off the scale. If you were applying to school in a different region of the country, you might be one of the top applicants. But in Boston, you are just another applicant with 2100 SATs, and good grades and ECs.</p>
<p>I think it is harder to get into Boston University and Boston College than many higher ranked schools that are located outside the northeast and California.</p>
<p>As you point out, the relative weak spot is your SAT-CR. </p>
<p>Overall, this looks like an excellent well-thought out list of schools. Even with no improvement on the SAT, there are both Matches and Safeties here (as well as some reaches). Perhaps it’s a bit ambitious on the number of reaches, but since you’ve covered your options – why not!!!</p>
<p>Improve your SATs moderately, and it looks like a fantastic list.</p>
<p>Bottom line, one would expect multiple acceptances on this list. Looking at the ‘upper end’ (i.e., Amherst, Penn, Harvard, Duke, etc.) the acceptance percentages are so small, that it’s impossible to really make a prediction for anyone.</p>
<p>BTW – I mildly disagree with the prior poster – your list is Boston-centric, but to me that says that this is where you want to go to school, if possible. With your grades, scores, etc. I think it likely that you should be able to accomplish this.</p>
<p>Prior poster is correct that there are many excellent mid-western schools, though in this day and age, I’m not certain that they’re necessarily easier to get into than the ones you listed (Wash U, specifically).</p>