Chance me?

Basic Info:
-Male
-White

-Connecticut

  • going into senior year.

Stats:
-GPA: 3.87 UW, School does not weight but I’m in just about all honors.
-SAT: 1560 not superstored. I just took it once.
-SAT Subject: US history 800, Math 2: 780
-Rank: School doesn’t rank, but I’m probably in the top 10-15% (class of 120 kids)

  • my school has a dual religeous curriculum so I get out at 5:00 every day. I think this and the fact that I’m taking the toughest courses offered will make up for my lack of APs in terms of academic rigor.

APs
-US history: 5
-BC Calc ?
-Euro?
-Music?
My school is very restrictive in terms of the number of APs a kid can take. The maximum is 4 through all of high school.

ECs:

  • Music: Play trumpet for high school band and am the leader my senior year, take lessons once a week, and play in an ensemble outside of school.
  • Writer for school’s math magazine
  • sports: Played basketball and ultimate frisbee: each only for a year. broadcasting club for sports games. Leader of sports management club, write a weekly column for Fansided online about the NBA- specifically the Knicks.
  • I do community service working for a charity called stars of hope. They provide relief for diesaster survivors.

Summers:

  • Camp counselor for a month
  • Wharton Sports business academy for a month
  • internship at IMG sports agency for two weeks last summer
  • Two week jazz intensive last summer.
  • legacy at Columbia. Both parents undergrad and graduate school. My mother is now adjunct in the business school.

I’m interested in a bunch of things. Haven’t exactly decided on a major. I’m looking at Politcal science, history, music, sports management, and philosophy.

Schools I plan on applying to
-Reaches: Columbia, Harvard, UChicago, Georgetown, Penn, USC
-Target: WashU, Michigan, Emory, Tufts
-Safety: NYU, Maryland, Villionova, Tulane,

First of all, why is Columbia a reach for you? It seems that you’re only a step away from there. Realistically, you should be fine for all your safetys, targets, Columbia and USC. Harvard seems out of your league, mostly because your ECs don’t stand out too much for a school like that. If you got a B or lower in any of the classes that you plan to major in/relate to your major, Harvard is pretty much gone. You seem to be a viable candidate for Penn, UChicago and Georgetown, so it’s going to come down to your essays and recommendations. Good luck!

Very nice resume. Well done. You have mixed and matched various schools with very similar freshmen classes into matches and safeties. Where do you rank the various schools in terms of your interest in attending? Telling us that will help us help you.

I’m mainly interested in Columbia and Chicago. If not those two than NYU, USC, Georgetown, and Harvard are in the next group.

Harvard - Reach
Colombia - Low Reach
Penn - Low Reach
U of Chicago - Low Reach

You can probably hit on many of the others if you show interest. For Tulane, make sure it’s a lot of interest. Check out the Tulane page for the December and April bloodbaths, when high stats kids come back to CC screaming bloody murder because they got deferred or waitlisted. If you want to count U of Maryland and Villanova as safeties, fine. All the rest are within not that big a range of difference in student body composition so it will come down to demonstrated interest, what you add to the class (other than stats) that distinguishes you from the other applicants, and how well you fit in with what they are trying to achieve in terms of class balance and composition. That’s all good news for you: you can get in to a lot of those places. I would just drop the ones you are not terribly interested in and add a few true safeties. Best of luck to you!