Chance thread for nervous senior. I will chance you back/advise in any way I can

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Thanks for taking the time to read this. I've already applied to college so I can't change anything now, but I am about a week into a four-month wait and it's agonizing. Please give me your thoughts- thank you.</p>

<p>APPLIED TO:
Yale
Columbia
Brown
Carnegie Mellon
UChicago
Pomona
Swarthmore
Middlebury
Tufts
Vassar</p>

<p>GPA: 3.81 unweighted, 4.2 weighted
Taken 7 APs- Biology, English Lit, French, Calc BC, Chemistry, USHistory, EuroHistory
AP Scores: 5 English Language, 5 English Lit, 5 European History
Senior Year Load: AP Bio, AP French, AP CalcBC, APUSH
Ranking: top 20% out of 40 students</p>

<p>SATs: 2320
SATII Literature: 750
SATII Math 2: 690 (will retake)
SATII French: 680 (will retake)</p>

<p>Essays: strong
Recommendations: strong</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Theatre: significant show resume
Theatre: Conservatory classes from 10th-12th grade
Theatre: first student director of high school play
Voice Lessons: weekly lessons, daily practice, 9th-12th
Creative Writing: 5th-12th grade. Sent in a short supplement
Speech team- 9th and 10th grade, quit because of school change, many state awards
Track&Field, XC, FH- one season each (quit for theatre)</p>

<p>Honors:
National Merit
Honorable mention in Hollins poetry contest
Accepted to competitive Governor's School for the Arts for writing
Smith College Book Award for English
Top Student in Adv English 2 (as a freshman) and French I
Nominated by faculty for school Supreme Court
Honor roll all four years</p>

<p>Summers:
Duke Tip 2 years
Carnegie Mellon 1 year
Governor's School for the Arts
Two homestays in Francophone countries</p>

<p>Thank you again. Please let me know if I can help you in return!</p>

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<p>I do not know about Yale/Brown, but for everything else you should get in. It also depends on amount of FA, if you are asking.</p>

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<p>You are pretty much in everywhere except maybe Yale , Brown and Columbia of which you will get admitted into at least 1 college. Only your Class rank and SAT 2’s might be a tad low.</p>

<p>Chance back at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1060886-chance-hopeful-will-chance-back-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1060886-chance-hopeful-will-chance-back-2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>How much will being 5/40 matter with such a small class size?</p>

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<p>You can look at the common data sets to see what percentage of the accepted are not top 10%. That percent is unfortunately very low at these schools, and is mostly made up of athletes, URMs and well connected legacies. You don’t tell us race.</p>

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<p>Caucasian. I am just hopeful that such a small sample size will mean there’s less of an impact. My school may not even officially rank. Does this change things?</p>

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<p>Ana- most of the schools are need blind, so, no, how much FA I’m asking for doesn’t matter.</p>

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<p>Yale, Columbia - high reach
UChicago, Brown - mid reach
Carnegie Mellon - low reach
Vassar, Tufts - high match</p>

<p>Sorry, I’m not familiar with your other schools. Also, what is your prospective major?</p>

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<p>My impression of Brown and Yale when I visited (older sister went to Yale for theatre!) was that they really like the liberal arts and I think your impressive show background while getting a high SAT score and a good GPA will at least give you a chance there, especially if that’s what you’re majoring in. </p>

<p>I don’t think you’ll get into Columbia. Their app pool has increased significantly and they’re not as artsy loving as say NYU so their lit/theatre/liberal artsy students are of serious serious academic caliber. </p>

<p>Other schools I think you have a great shot at getting into. </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1071667-chance-me-looking-ivies-other-top-schools-environmental-studies.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1071667-chance-me-looking-ivies-other-top-schools-environmental-studies.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>In case anyone is curious, I got into Carnegie Mellon, Vassar, Columbia, and UChicago. Strange.</p>