Chance student looking for REALISTIC opinons?

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<p>Hey. Junior living in the state of Illinois attending a private, catholic, military academy that sends some kids to a few prestigious schools (we get a lot of kids that go to U of I). I'm looking at some good schools and think that I have a fairly good shot at getting in, but then again I am kinda new to the whole system so any (ANY) input would be helpful and if anybody out there got into any of the schools listed below, it would cool if you posted you're SAT I, ACT, GPA, and any Subject Tests. My stats include:</p>

<p>Ranked 1/130 (for now, probably between 3-7 by senior year)
GPA: 3.84 unweighted, 4.74 weighted
SAT I: 2260 (690 CR, 800 M, 770 W)
ACT: 34 (35 M/S, 34 W, 32 R)
Subject Tests: Pending (Chem, Math II, US-H, Physics)</p>

<p>National Merit Commended Scholar
National Honor Society
Math Team
Science Olympiad
JROTC Battalion Logistics Specialist (my primary extra-c)
Leadership Bowl Team Captain
ACS Chemistry Olympiad
250+ hrs community service</p>

<p>I'm applying to:
Columbia
Cornell-Early Decision
Johns Hopkins
Rice
Duke
UNC-out of state
Vanderbilt
Georgetown
and some fall-backs, haven't decided which ones.</p>

<p>If anybody's got any input I would appreciate it, thanks.</p>

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<p>Everything looks solid. Good chances Cornell ED.</p>

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<p>I think you have a good chance at Cornell. The one glaring weakness is the CR score. It’s below median and most of your schools and is a score that’s important to colleges. If you’re planning to use the SAT scores, I would retake. It shouldn’t be hard to raise 50 points with some work.</p>

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<p>I don’t plan on retaking it. I’m hoping my 800 in Math and the 32 on Reading in ACT will pull me through.</p>

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<p>BTW. What does “bump” mean</p>

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<p>Doesn’t work like that. They either consider your ACT OR your SAT. You can’t “superscore” between the two exams.</p>

<p>You’re basically a shoe-in at UNC and Vandy, and I’d be really surprised if you didn’t get into Rice.</p>

<p>Vis </p>

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<p>I know that I can’t take my 32 Reading on the ACT, make it a 710ish on the SAT and add it to 800 in Math. But seeing as most of these schools judge applicants holistically, I was hoping that seeing an excellent math student that may have had a bad reading day could still be a strong student (one more question right in Critical Reading would have gotten me a 720)</p>

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<p>I think, graphically, it would be more like:</p>

<p>|Bad (UNC)______<strong><em>| Average (Gtown)</em></strong>|Good (Columbia)</p>

<p>SATs
|----------------------------------------------------------------|</p>

<p>GPA
|-------------------------------------------------------------|</p>

<p>EC’s
|--------------------------------------------|</p>

<p>I think you have great chances at every place you listed.</p>