<p>I am a caucasian high school female in NC at a competitive private school.</p>
<p>GPA:
3.7 UW
4.04 W</p>
<p>APs:
APES-3 (not reported)
AP French-3 (not reported)
APUSH-4
AP Language and Composition: 4</p>
<p>Current courses: AP European, AP Postmodernism, AP Calculus AB, AP Psychology, Anatomy, Augustine Tutoring Project</p>
<p>SAT I: 2020 (720 W, 670 R, 630 M)
SAT II: 700 US History, 650 French</p>
<p>ECs: YMCA Camp Counselor/trainee program for 6 summers; President of Go Green Club; Varsity Volleyball 3 years and Club Volleyball for 4 years until junior year; MUN 4 years, president now; Student Ambassadors Club President; Special Olympics Volunteer; Soccer Coach; CIEE South Korea Scholarship Program Participant; Diverbo Volunteer in Spain</p>
<p>Essays: Strong</p>
<p>Recommendations: from History teacher and English teacher should both be very positive and show me as a person very well; good relationship with college counselor so that should be pretty good too</p>
<p>chance me for: Williams (RD, deferred ED as double legacy), Colby, Davidson, Middlebury, BC, Hamilton, Claremont Mckenna, Scripps, William and Mary</p>
<p>Williams- reach
Colby- match
Davidson- match
Middlebury- high match/low reach
BC- match
William and Mary- high match
I don’t know much about CM or scripps to be honest! :/</p>
<p>You have nice EC’s, SAT is statistically average/below average to those schools. I think if you reflect a strong personal connection to your EC’s in your essays, then it could help give you an edge. Good luck!
Chance me back please :)</p>
<p>unfortunately, your SAT scores are very low for these schools. If you were a URM or from an underrepresented area then you would probably have a better shot. I would recommend doing EDII to one of these in order to boost a shot of getting into one</p>
<p>Williams: Low Reach (due to double legacy)
Colby: Match
Davidson: Match
Hamilton: Mid Reach
Scripps: High Match/Low Reach
Middlebury: Low Reach
Boston C: Match
William and Mary: Low Reach
Claremont McKenna: Low Reach</p>
<p>I know it sucks, but when you’re relatively privileged and white it’s just tougher to get into places like these. You’re still an excellent candidate for many schools, and I’m sure you’ll receive acceptance to at least two of the ones listed. Fortunately, your ECs are pretty outstanding. I wish you the best of luck.</p>
<p>Scripps is your best chance among
LACs on your list. If I were you I would get an application off to Skidmore, Union, Knox and Connecticut College.
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<p>To reinforce my previous post, I really don’t think Colby/Davidson/BC are out of your reach. I don’t see why that has become the consensus. You’re within the score range for all of them and have good ECs to accommodate. And it’s not like your SAT II’s are super weak, they’re just not as strong as they could be. I think you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>High match may be a reasonable label for the ones I referenced, but they’re definitely not a big reach for you. Don’t get discouraged.</p>
<p>Williams (RD, deferred ED as double legacy) mid reach (it is for everyone)
Colby match
Davidson match
Middlebury high match
BC high match
Hamilton match
Claremont Mckenna low reach
Scripps high match
William and Mary high match</p>
<p>Everything is great, SATs are a bit low. Good luck, you’ll for sure get into most of those. :)</p>
<p>@collegebound OP is not an ORM just to clarify. Being an overrepresented minority would require one to be a minority. Whites are not a minority.</p>
<p>EDIT: In addition, contrary to some of the sentiments on this thread, being white and privileged will not <em>hurt</em> you. Maybe this is where admissions is heading but right now there’s really no disadvantage to being privileged. It just won’t help like a URM status does. In fact (I thought this was obvious), being privileged can help. Let’s take you for example. You have legacy status at Williams - that helps. Sure being a legacy at a top school does not completely indicate that you’re privileged, but a lot of the time there’s some sort of connection there. </p>
<p>In conclusion, it’s silly to think that being privileged hurts you. Unless your resume just looks like mom and dad did everything for you. Which doesn’t seem to be the case here. What <em>will</em> hurt you is if you are an actual ORM - meaning you’re Asian, in plain terms.</p>
<p>I also think the word “hurt” is a little too strong. But you get what I mean. Admissions is just simply harder for Asians.</p>
<p>@Nnormal You’re right. Being White isn’t quite as damning in the process as being Asian, which shows just how utterly preposterous the admissions process is anyway and why no one should ever cry over a rejection letter. They throw that blanket term on any student from the Asian diaspora without consideration to which region of Asia they even come from: like, a Hmong peasant who immigrated to America isn’t going to raise children with anymore privilege than a Hispanic immigrant (who could have very well come with funding/job security).</p>
<p>Admission caps are just so racist. (I’m sorry for misdirecting the thread.)</p>
<p>@zamiota yup preach. Though I don’t think it’s directly related to a privileged status - admissions officers can tell that an Asian is not privileged if he/she asks for 100% FA (actually not sure if AO’s have access to this info in decisions, but there are other indicators regardless). It’s simply a racial diversity thing.</p>
<p>@collegebound Oh really didn’t sense the sarcasm, my bad. </p>
<p>Yeah sorry OP for derailing, but yeah I think you’re a reach everywhere but a high match at W&M, Scripps and maybe BC.</p>
<p>Williams (RD, deferred ED as double legacy) - Not likely
Colby - mid match
Davidson - Low reach
Middlebury - Mid reach
BC - high match/low reach
Hamilton - mid match
Claremont Mckenna - low/mid reach (But I think they’ll like your ECs!)
Scripps - mid match
William and Mary - mid match</p>
I wish you the best of luck.</p>