<p>Hello everyone! I am currently a Junior going to a pretty good MA public school. I plan on majoring in chemistry and then going to med. school. During my Freshman and Sophomore years I struggled w/ some serious depression. As a result, my grades dropped significantly. </p>
<p>Freshman GPA: 3.2 UW/ 3.3 W
Sophomore GPA: 3.8 UW/ 4.07 W
Junior GPA: 3.94 UW/4.15 W</p>
<p><em>Cumulative GPA: 3.66 UW/ 3.83 W</em></p>
<p>SAT: 2100 (M: 740 CR: 680 W: 680)</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:</p>
<p>Interact Club (2 years)
Chess Club (2 years)
VP sophomore year
P.A.W.S. Club (3 years)
Freshman soccer team
Club soccer (14 years)
Indoor soccer (7 years)
Soccer referee (2 years)
Head and assistant referee
Summer work at library (2 years)
~300 hours of volunteer work w/ animal shelter (1 year)
Head of friday night volunteers
Over 100 hours of volunteer work w/ organization that teaches disabled kids how to play sports (3 years)
Leadership position
20 hours of misc. volunteer work
National Honors Society
Spanish Honors Society</p>
<p>Course Load:</p>
<p>Honors American Literature
Honors Biology
Honors Chemistry I
Honors Chemistry II
Honors Spanish IV
Honors Spanish V
Honors Physics
Honors Expository Writing
Honors American History I
Honors Economics(senior year)
Honors Psychology
AP Psychology (senior year)
AP Economics (senior year)
AP Environmental Science
AP Statistics (senior year)
Honors Calculus (senior year)</p>
<p>Colleges I'm Looking at:</p>
<p>UConn
Syracuse
Fordham (Rose Hill)
University of Alabama
NYU
University of Richmond
Northeastern University
Ohio State
Penn State: University Park
SUNY Binghamton
Villanova</p>
<p>UConn- Match
Syracuse- In
Fordham (Rose Hill)- Match
University of Alabama- Safety
NYU- Reach
University of Richmond- Don’t know
Northeastern University- Reach
Ohio State- In
Penn State: University Park- Match
SUNY Binghamton- Match
Villanova- Match</p>
<p>Fordham and NE are not reaches. Both are probably low matches with Fordham at a safety. I think that they could both be safeties, but your GPA needs to be explained in the app, because you have a reason. Nyu is probably a match but on the higher end, once again due to the GPA.</p>
<p>Acceptance rates are many times much lower due to a less competitive applicant pool. For example, GW has a 31% acceptance rate but most would not find it equal to say tufts, whose AR is I believe only around the mid-20’s. A 2150 is like 80% at NE. It is not a reach by any stretch of the imagination. The OP has a 3.66 (close to your 3.7 range) and a 2130 which is on the high end of the school. The school is at worst a match. A reach would be twenties</p>
<p>Northeastern rejects/waitlist people with those stats just as often as they accept, they are attempting to climb the rankings as quickly as possible.</p>
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<p>Remove the blue/green and look at the red/yellow hidden by it</p>
<p>What are you looking at? The scored above 2000 are blue and green. That just made my point. Safety-match. Also, those schools like to waitlist very over qualified applicants. That could explain the few rejects/waitlists higher up there. If the op displays interest, there shouldn’t be a problem.</p>
<p>@bark, even so, the densest areas are at around 1950-2050 over 3.5. The red is closer to the 1800’s. The school is definitely a match, even just a little lower of one.</p>
<p>UConn - Safety
Syracuse - Safety/Low Match
Fordham (Rose Hill) - Match
University of Alabama - Safety
NYU - Reach
University of Richmond - Match
Northeastern University - Match
Ohio State - Safety/Low Match
Penn State: University Park - Safety/Low Match
SUNY Binghamton - Low Match - OOS
Villanova - High Match/Low Reach
Pitt - Low Match</p>
<p>You should add some more selective schools like BC/Tufts/Amherst as reaches. I put some of those state schools as low match because you’re OOS but realistically you have a really good shot at all those schools except maybe NYU.</p>
<p>Villanova is definitely not a reach. A 740 M and 680 CR are well into the top percentiles there. It’s a low match/safety. Nyu would be a match but the op has a lower GPA. If the op gets that up then nyu would be closer to a match. I think you (op) should try higher schools for reaches.</p>
<p>UConn - match
Syracuse - match
Fordham (Rose Hill) - safety
University of Alabama - safety
NYU - low reach? maybe a high match.
University of Richmond - match
Northeastern University - match
Ohio State - match
Penn State: University Park - match
SUNY Binghamton - match
Villanova - match</p>
<p>You should add a few reaches.</p>
<p>EDIT: Bard? Why add a liberal arts college when the rest of your list if mid-size to large universities?</p>