Chance Me!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>As the Common App is now out, and my Mother has sprung into action with pressuring me to apply right this minute, and the daunting task of facing essays and applications is upon me, I've become intrigued with my actual chances of making it into some of my reach schools. Here are my stats:</p>

<p>GPA 3.87 (UW) 4.3 (estimate I do not know exact at this time)
Class Size 1200, from a well-known extremely difficult, but good school. We do not have class ranks
SAT Writing 790 CR 660 Math 720 Total 2170
SAT II I am taking in October and only submitting if required/decent. Am taking US History and Math II
ACT 33
EC Key Club (160+ hours of community service), Student Gov (4 years), President of a club that tutors for free at elementary schools, Have been in a leadership position in the 4-H club for 5 years and am a 10 year member ( I know that most people view this as a "hick" club but I usually submit crafty and arty stuff into it and truthfully have hoped for the last 5 years or so just to use it to get into a college to maybe be a bit different than other people), various other clubs, club soccer, Model UN, National Honor Society, and an after school nanny/babysitter every day all of Junior Year. I also am a GKOM which stands for Greyhound Kickoff Mentor (We help integrate freshmen since the school is so big and harder the MS)
AP/IBs : B IFilm, US History 5, European History 5, Literature 4, Lang, Gov, Physics, Psychology 5, Environmental Science 5, and Child Development, a Dual Credit Course.
Major: I hope to major in something like International Relations/Affairs, possibly double majoring it with Business, or Poli Sci. Minor in Environmental Science. </p>

<p>I'm not incredibly worried about my essay. I am pretty sure I am going to be writing about how my paren'ts divorce has effected me and how I got over it. Moreover how I could never rely on my father to do anything or be any help, how he constantly had money problems while I was growing up (I loaned him 150 dollars when I was in elementary school one time so that he could feed me and my siblings for the weekend and eat the rest of the week) he was always moving to a new house or place (he currently lives in China (no I am not chinese), and my parents always pulled me in the middle of their vicious custody and child support fights. My mom always struggled with money at least somewhat, especially since my father hardly ever payed child support, and it was even worse since we live in a so called "rich, snobby city" even though we were not rich.
I'm going to write something about this, and how I have over come any of the obstacles. This isn't too common/usual, is it? I'm not sure.</p>

<p>Colleges I'm applying to:
Vanderbilt University (ED, and my absolute dream school)
Northeastern
Northwestern
Boston College
Brandeis University
Indiana University (Safety)
Butler University (Maybe)
Tufts (only slight maybe)
Boston U (maybe)</p>

<p>If you could chance me that would be great! </p>

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<p>Everything looks great except for that Math SAT I score. It’s not terrible but it wouldn’t hurt to bump it up slightly. </p>

<p>From what I know of your schools, you are low reach for Vanderbilt, reach for NW, high match/match for NE, Brandeis, and the Bostons, and safety for IU and Butler.</p>

<p>The essay sounds fairly common so you have to be sure to put something different on either the way it’s written or the way it is presented.</p>

<p>Godspeed!</p>

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<p>With a little higher SAT scores (I recommend retaking), you are in a shoo in for most of them (except maybe Vanderbilt and NW, because those are top tier schools) But you should be able to get into them most likely.</p>

<p>And yeah essay topic sounds a little common to me too. Put a cool spin on it. I have no idea how -_- :P</p>

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<p>@lb43823‌ and @Pianohands96‌ what if I only submit my ACTs instead of my SATs? Do you think I could improve my chances? I don’t think I have time to retake SATs since I’m taking SAT IIs in October, especially if I ED Vanderbilt.</p>

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<p>You are match to low reach, just improve your SAT or ACT. A 33 ACT roughly translates to a 2180 SAT Composite score according to the ACT Concordance chart. </p>

<p>Vanderbilt University (ED, and my absolute dream school) - Low Reach
Northeastern - High Match
Northwestern -Reach
Boston College - High Match
Brandeis University - Match
Indiana University (Safety) - Match</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/estimate.html”>http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/estimate.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Chance me back?
<a href=“http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1671689-chance-me-i-will-chance-back.html#latest”>http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1671689-chance-me-i-will-chance-back.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I don’t know. It’ll be a tough call since they pretty much only look at the CR/M Composite for SAT… I’d look into that in a more specific thread that might already exist about Vanderbilt.</p>

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<p>Hi there-- thanks for chancing me! </p>

<p>Your EC’s and GPA look good, but I do agree with what the above posters said-- you should consider retaking the SAT or ACT to improve your chances. </p>

<p>Northwestern - Reach
Vanderbilt - Low reach
Boston College - High match
Northeastern, Brandeis, BU - Match
Tufts - Low reach
Indiana/Butler - don’t know enough about to chance</p>

<p>Best of luck in the college process-- work hard and you’ll succeed wherever you end up! :slight_smile: </p>

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<p>Boston colege- match</p>

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<p>I think you could get into every college you listed, northwestern would be the only iffy one unless you’re from IL. Good luck and chance back? <a href=“http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1673832-will-chance-back-chance-me-for-cmc-barnard-bryn-mawr-columbia-stanford-cornell-umich-stern.html#latest”>http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1673832-will-chance-back-chance-me-for-cmc-barnard-bryn-mawr-columbia-stanford-cornell-umich-stern.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;