Chance my reach list?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White male. top 10% of class. UWGPA 3.85 WGPA 4.15. ACT: Composite 31, math 30, English 32, reading 31, science 31. Almost completely straight A's with only 3 B's or so. AP's include AP Chemistry, AP Biology, and AP US History. Dual Enrollment english 4, and pre calc. All other classes are honors.</p>

<p>Varsity Crew rower.(3 years)
Symphony member, (Have been a cellist for 9 years).
Eagle Scout - I heard colleges look very favorably at this?
In the national honor society, as well as Mu Alpha Theta- the math honor society.
100+ hours of community service.
Member of student government (Committee Chairman)
Member of student enhancement committee- a fund raising committee.
received American citizenship award- for students with exceptional leadership and academics.</p>

<p>Can get great letters of recommendation from science teachers.</p>

<p>Will have also spent 5 weeks at the Tennessee Governor's School for Humanities- was very competitive for admissions. Spend 5 weeks at a university of tennessee campus taking college courses, completely paid for by the state.</p>

<p>I was also just accepted into the American Legion's Boys State school for a free 1 week camp this summer. It focuses on leadership, citizenship, and the government.</p>

<p>Interested in Chemical Engineering.
I am also considering army ROTC. Would this influence my admissions chances anywhere?</p>

<p>I have a good idea about my chances on most my college list, but i have a few reaches on my list that i want to know how far of reaches they are for me. I could also take Ap European history my senior year, but it would be a lot more work and how much would it actually help my chances?</p>

<p>anyways, how big of reaches are these for me, and are there any other slight reaches you may recommend? (eastern half of US please)</p>

<p>Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
Carnegie Mellon
Rice
Northwestern</p>

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<p>I am also an Eagle Scout and I have found that it helps quite a bit. I am a bad test taker but I have decent grades and have gotten into some selective schools i think because of it. </p>

<p>Also, two friends of mine applied to the same selective university (vanderbilt).
Both were involved in similar activities–pretty close GPA’s etc
Friend A 33 Act not an eagle scout
Friend B 30 ACT Eagle scout </p>

<p>Friend B got in. Friend A did not. if that doesn’t show how much some universities like eagle scouts i don’t know what else will</p>

<p>I put them from most to least difficult to make it into
Carnegie Mellon
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Rice</p>

<p>I think you will make it into half of them at least. :slight_smile: good luck!!! keep up the good work</p>

<p>chance me too…
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1133349-northwestern-university-chances.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1133349-northwestern-university-chances.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^You think Rice is the least difficult of these to get into, think again. It just may the MOST difficult of these schools. Whether you apply EA or ED (ex. Rice, Northwestern) will affect your chances and also what you plan to major in. Try to increase your test scores, otherwise you may get waitlisted or rejections from all of these very selective schools. My S is also an Eagle Scout but I do not believe that that was the determining factor in why friend B got into Vandy. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt - mid reach
Notre Dame - mid reach
Carnegie Mellon- high match
Rice- high reach
Northwestern - high reach</p>

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<p>thanks for the help. i have all the acceptance rates, but clearly those aren’t always an indication of difficulty of admissions.
Northwestern-27%
Rice-22%
Vandy-20%
UND-29%
CMU-36%</p>

<p>any other opinions are welcome…</p>

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<p>I can’t speak for other schools, but for CMU, the percentage you should be looking at is [url=&lt;a href=“Home - Computing Services - Office of the CIO - Carnegie Mellon University”&gt;Home - Computing Services - Office of the CIO - Carnegie Mellon University]26.9%[/url</a>] for the class of 2014, which is the acceptance rate for the specific college you’d be applying to within CMU that has the chemical engineering major (CIT). CMU has you apply by school (essentially the major you’d be pursuing in college). I’d agree with a match/high match assessment for you there.</p>

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<p>Is Carnegie Mellon the only school on that list that requires to you apply by school? Am I really a high match for that? I feel like it and its 27% acceptance rate is way out of my league. Especially when all I see on CC is 34s, 35s, and 36s. My 31 feels quite insignificant.</p>