Chance me, pwease.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Here goes the long post...
Background:
I live in boston with russian/jewish origins.
i attend a fairly famous public high school, couple people to each ivy every year. my grades </p>

<p>Freshman Year (no ap) = no ap offered at this grade level
English honors (no ap) A
History honors (no ap)A
ap spanish A-
honors physics A-
AP Math B+</p>

<p>Sophomore year
AP spanish B+
AP math B
Honors English (no ap) A
Honors History (no ap) A
Honors chem A-</p>

<p>junior year
AP spanish A
AP math B+
Bio Honors A-
English (no ap) A
AP History A
my unweighted gpa's for each year are like 3.75, 3.6 and 3.8 i think</p>

<p>next years schedule
AP Gov
AP euro
BC calc
AP Spanish
Film and fiction
Note; i expect my gpa to go up since not taking science which has consistently lowered it
however i will be doing an ocean science independent study, for which i am guaranteed an A so its not like i won't have a science</p>

<p>SAT Scores: 2190 (retaking in october)
Math II: 760
USH: 760
World History: 770</p>

<p>EC's and stuff:
I know this is a ton of stuff, but i'll list all the possible stuff i could use on my application.
Math team
Ocean science team (will have some sort of rank, probably b team captain)
Chess team (1st board)
Television station internship
Job as a math school aide
Chernobyl Children's project volunteering
Helping seniors
Job as soccer referee
Piano
put together my own computer, made website, wrote some programs, etc..
have made several films in and outside of class
Currently taking a harvard ssp course</p>

<p>Awards:
not too good...
a couple national spanish exam silver medals
some places in the ocean science team competitions...
national honors society
really hoping to get an award for my movie which i submitted to some film festivals</p>

<p>Reccs:
One good.
Two fantastic (they think i'm god on earth)
could get one more but probably too many</p>

<p>Intresting Facts / Hooks:
Languages: Speak russian, english, spanish and french
Travel: i travel frequently, almost every school vacation, and i have been to six continents and 27 countries. (my family emigrated from the soviet union where traveling outside the country was forbidden. Therefore, they value travel immensely.)
Probably gonna write my essay about part of one of my trips and about how i interacted with people and cultures of the place i visited.
Film: one of the courses i took in school is film. i did quite well in it, and after completing the course, made a polished ten minute film as an independent study. this film is quite good, and i have submitted it to a couple film festivals, (awaiting results), also my film teacher is writing my a supplemental recc, and she thinks i'm the most amazing person on earth. lol -.-
Sickness: Starting with september of junior year, and still, i have suffered multitudes of medical problems. THese include severe allergies, lactose intolerance, headaches, fatigue, a peptic ulcer, GastroEsophageal reflux disease and so on...Yet i managed to not only do well in school while being sick, but i actually significantly improved my grades with a higher courseload. </p>

<p>Please Chance me for the following schools:
Harvard
Yale (grandfather was a distinguished proffesor, dad's half sister went there, help at all?)
Princeton
Brown
Dartmouth
Columbia (mom went to barnard, could that help?)
Williams
Amherst
Tufts
Brandeis
Boston University
Umass Amherst</p>

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If not, -.-, go back and read it. </p>

<p>Thanks in advance for input.</p>

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<p>I think you have a reasonable shot at all of them. Your SAT score is great!</p>

<p>Please chance me:</p>

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<p>The grandfather and the Yale thing I think is a great advantage!
Tufts, Boston U, and Umass Amherst shouldn’t be a problem for you at all. If i was an admissions counselor for those schools, i’d be begging you to come!
Not to familiar with Williams.
I would go ahead and apply for Columbia. I think you have a pretty good shot and in my opinion Columbia looks for students who are not just strong academically but those who are very well cultured.
Good luck, I see a very bright future for you!
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<p>Looks like a great application. You have some serious ecs and hooks. your Sats could be better, but arent horrible-enough to be in the running. legacies do help, btw. your gpa is a tad low, but not too bad considering your course load. I’d say harvard yale, etc are reaches, Dartmouth, Brown, COlumbia especially low reaches, the rest safety-high match. chance me back? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/736144-chance-upcoming-senior-my-school-picks.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/736144-chance-upcoming-senior-my-school-picks.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>thanks for the input
since you’re saying grandfather being professor at yale is good, should i apply SCEA to yale?</p>

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<p>Apply SCEA to Yale if and only if it is your #1 choice, because otherwise you could be applying early to a school that is less of a reach, like Dartmouth or Columbia and significantly increasing your chances there, where you already had more f a chnace in the first place. I would say you have decent to good chances everywhere, even hugher if you could get your SATs above 2200. Chance me back? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/736194-georgetown-sfs-ea-updated-sats.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/736194-georgetown-sfs-ea-updated-sats.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>everyone is saying columbia, but what about brown?
i prefer brown over columbia and dartmouth, or is it as hard to get into as the others?</p>

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<p>Brown is the hardest of those three due to its recent surge in popularity</p>

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<p>thanks to everyone for the input, but could i get some more specific comments as to my strengths and weaknesses, and what parts of my potential application i should try to cultivate, as well as stress in my application and my essay</p>

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<p>talk about speaking dif languages and meeting ppl u c in those trips</p>

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<p>weaknesses: sat 1? hard classes, awards
strengths: hooks, ec’s, legacies</p>

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<p>your ECs seem kind of scattered, IE it doesnt jump out to me that you have a passion and something that you love to do…a lot of people have laundry lists of activities, but you need something to stand out
your GPA and SAT scores are average and solid imo…
Anyways, heres my predictions:</p>

<p>Yale: low reach, the legacy will def help
Princeton: high reach
Brown: reach
Dartmouth: low reach
Columbia: low reach
Williams: in
Amherst: in
Tufts: in
Brandeis: in
Boston University: match? idk much about this place, sorry
Umass Amherst: in</p>

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<p>Harvard reach
Yale legacy, so reach
Princeton low reach
Brown reach
Dartmouth reach
Columbia low reach
Williams match
Amherst match
Tufts match
Brandeis safety
Boston University safety
Umass Amherst safety
also can u plz chance back <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/736020-please-chance-rising-senior-8-colleges-4-ucs-4-privates-thanks.html#post1062801669[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/736020-please-chance-rising-senior-8-colleges-4-ucs-4-privates-thanks.html#post1062801669&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>hmmm your comments are really reassuring
i thought most of the schools would be high reach</p>

<p>but do you really think grandfather being a proffesor will help?
i thought that only your parents being professors helps as legacy, and not so with grandparents</p>

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<p>bump
10 char</p>

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<p>Harvard: high reach
Yale: mid reach
Princeton: low reach
Brown: reach
Dartmouth: mid reach (they pay a lot of attention to rank)
Columbia: mid reach
Williams: low reach
Amherst: low reach
Tufts: match
Brandeis: in
Boston University: in
Umass Amherst: in</p>

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<p>is it seriously harder to get into brown than princeton? that’s bizzare</p>

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<p>you have a 3.7 and below a 2200… sorry. you’re not getting into princeton or harvard. maybe yale if you get some good recs but sorry, thats just my honest opinion. and to jjxx… princeton is never a low reach.</p>

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<p>I say your a great candidate for ivies!!! You’ve worked hard and it’ll pay off!! I’m jealous :)</p>

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<p>… am i missing something here</p>