Chance moi si vous plait?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Heyy guys! I’m a junior at a high school in New Jersey and well, I’m gonna be submitting my college apps. I really wanted to get into these schools and I was wondering which one I should ED to and which ones I should apply regular (obviously depends after I visit them too). So please chance me and I will chance back.

Classes: All honors
5 APs this year (Lang, Comp Sci, Calc AB, Bio, APUSH)
4 APs next year (Lit, Comp Sci Prin, Stat, Macro, mb French)

GPA: 3.7/4.0 (unweighted)…4.2 weighted
SAT: 1560
SAT 2: 780 Bio E, 780 Math 2

Extracurriculars

President/Founder of The Coding Girls (regional organization)
President Geek League (library tech help)
Principal’s Leadership Academy
Principal’s Council Executive Board

Volunteer Services of the Arts - Special Needs Music Teacher

Editor, Exec Board Model UN (Nationals, North American Invitational, bunch of awards)
Vice Pres Hindu Society

Science Olympiad (2nd state anatomy, 6th region bio blitz, 4th state forestry)
Science League (Biology 2 - school 8th in state)

Her Culture - Blog Editor, Magazine Writer, Blog Writer
Clover Letter - Remote Intern, Article Contributor, Brand Ambassador
Her Campus High School Ambassador
Intern for Phil Murphy (governor’s election)
Sand Cloud Brand Ambassador
Writing on Her Culture, Huffington Post, Powered by Girl, Spark Blogger, Clover Letter, hopefully germ magazine too

Oh and if you haven’t figured this out yet by my ecs, I’m an Indian girl (middle class). I came here when I was 1. I also have a severely autistic brother who I will most likely talk about on my common app essay.

I’m debating between marking and computer science as far as majors go. I am also really interested in North Eastern, BU/BC, NYU and as far as ivies go I was thinking Brown or Cornell. Any other schools I should check out. Please chance me and I will chance you back.

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Heyy guys! I’m a junior at a high school in New Jersey and well, I’m gonna be submitting my college apps. I really wanted to get into these schools and I was wondering which one I should ED to and which ones I should apply regular (obviously depends after I visit them too). So please chance me and I will chance back.



Classes: All honors

5 APs this year (Lang, Comp Sci, Calc AB, Bio, APUSH)

4 APs next year (Lit, Comp Sci Prin, Stat, Macro, mb French)



GPA: 3.7/4.0 (unweighted)…4.2 weighted

SAT: 1560

SAT 2: 780 Bio E, 780 Math 2



Extracurriculars



President/Founder of The Coding Girls (regional organization)

President Geek League (library tech help)

Principal’s Leadership Academy

Principal’s Council Executive Board



Volunteer Services of the Arts - Special Needs Music Teacher



Editor, Exec Board Model UN (Nationals, North American Invitational, bunch of awards)

Vice Pres Hindu Society



Science Olympiad (2nd state anatomy, 6th region bio blitz, 4th state forestry)

Science League (Biology 2 - school 8th in state)



Her Culture - Blog Editor, Magazine Writer, Blog Writer

Clover Letter - Remote Intern, Article Contributor, Brand Ambassador

Her Campus High School Ambassador

Intern for Phil Murphy (governor’s election)

Sand Cloud Brand Ambassador

Writing on Her Culture, Huffington Post, Powered by Girl, Spark Blogger, Clover Letter, hopefully germ magazine too





Oh and if you haven’t figured this out yet by my ecs, I’m an Indian girl (middle class). I came here when I was 1. I also have a severely autistic brother who I will most likely talk about on my common app essay.



I’m debating between marking and computer science as far as majors go. I am also really interested in North Eastern, BU/BC, NYU and as far as ivies go I was thinking Brown or Cornell. Any other schools I should check out. Please chance me and I will chance you back.




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Your ECs are awesome! Having writing published in the places that you mentioned is tremendous and will really help your application stand out.

Your test scores/GPA are also great and totally on par for any college. I think that you’re fine to apply to the schools that you mentioned. I do have questions about your major. What is “marking”? And why computer science, when you seem to be super strong in literature and no CS ECs? That might raise some questions in the admit office.

Overall your app looks great, though!

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Any ivy league is a reach for 99% of applicants due to the fact that they are usually crapshoots. You have good matches in Northeastern, BU, and non-stern NYU. I’d add a few more safeties and/or reaches (possibly Rutgers because you’re in-state).

If you’re doing comp sci with business consider Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, and UIUC.

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Sorry I meant marketing. And what colleges are good matches for me?
@newkidnewtrix

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University of Pittsburgh

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It’s pretty hard for me as an internet stranger to find colleges that are matches for you- A lot of a true “match” is determined by personal preference and personality.

Generally colleges with high20-40% acceptance rates are going to be matches for students with stats like yours. I think you have the profile to apply to sub-20% schools with confidence, though! Your unique ECs will really help you out at top schools. You may like liberal arts colleges a lot, I would check those out.

I do still wonder why you’re applying for a major that you’ve demonstrated no interest in. I really worry that an adcom will look at that and go “what? why?”. I appreciate having multiple interests, but when I read your app over, I just don’t see any interest for CS whatsoever. I’m worried you’ll get rejected just because of your major choice when you’re clearly a very talented person! Of course, it’s completely up to you and if you love CS, go for it.

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Don’t listen to him.

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Oh! That makes a big difference. I’m so sorry, my fault for misreading your app. Yes, what you just said is great involvement. Your chances are awesome :slight_smile:

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Apply to Georgetown and American, as well as the women’s colleges (Wellesley, Smith, Scripps).

At Cornell, ED either CS in engineering or in CALS.

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You have excellent EC’s! And while your stats aren’t that great for the ivies, you still have a strong chance of getting in because of your unique EC’s. If you don’t mind me asking, what was your article on Huffington Post about?

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SAT score is great. Unweighted + weighted GPA are both low. (Keep in mind many applicants have 4.0 UW and north of 4.6/7 W for the Ivy Leagues.)

Founding the organization is definitely a unique and strong EC. Include stats on the # of chapters or people reached?

For the websites Her Culture and Clover Letter, do you have any stats on how popular those are (i.e. pageviews or awards on articles that have been published)? How selective are the processes to get into these publications? I’ve never heard of them, and I doubt the person reading your application would have either. Not to say they are bad publications - the experience is what you make of it.

I looked up Sand Cloud Brand Ambassador just because I’d never heard of it. I’m not sure you should include that on your app if the application is just your name, Instagram, and email. Unless you feel that has had a long-term professional benefit.

I’m just a little concerned on how concrete some of these EC’s might be. But if you enjoyed doing them and feel like they have given you strong professional and personal skills, I think you’ll be fine :slight_smile:

Good luck!

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Your ECs and test scores are great! Your GPA is a little low for Ivys but your ECs would make it possible. I think you could get into any of the schools you were talking about. Additionally, if I were you I’d look at schools pitt. I’m assuming you want to stay east-coast. You might want to look at Carnegie Mellon too.
Chance me back? :slight_smile:

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If you are interested in CS you may want to look at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, UC Berkeley, and CalTech. You would have a good chance at all of them.

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@upwardss12 these sites are pretty easy to get involved in because they are all start ups. My writing experience isn’t that great. It’s my organization that’s pretty good (we have 8 chapters and are looking at getting 20 by the time i send in college apps)

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Okay. Your organization is a stellar EC if you’re able to have 20 chapters. By the way is there a website? If there is no online info about your organization that will diminish how good it looks on your application.

Listing the writing positions if they aren’t that solid and if your writing experience “isn’t that great” might do more harm than good. If you do list it, you might want to try grouping everything under “Freelance Writer”.