Chances and School List?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>College List:
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
UPenn
Columbia
Brown
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Brandeis
(yes, I have visited all of the above schools)</p>

<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Location: Northeast
Class Rank: School does not rank, but I am unofficially #1
financial aid: No
GPA - Unweighted: 4.13 (A+'s are counted as 4.3 in my school)
GPA - Weighted: Not available, but I took the most rigorous courseload available at my school (all honors)
AP classes - school only offers AP Calc AB, which I took freshman year (5)
I took additional courses through the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program (Calc BC, Linear Algebra: A, A+) and Statistics at a local Community College (A+)</p>

<p>Test scores:
SAT I: M(800), CR(730), W(730) Essay(10) Total: 2260
SAT II: Latin (780) World History (760) Math II (760)
PSAT: 230, will be NMF</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Mock Trial (9-12): Witness (9,10), Attorney (9,10,11), Lead Attorney (11), Assistant Coach/Teacher (12); Lavender Ribbon - Semifinalist (11), White Ribbon – Quarterfinalist (9,10), and Certificates of Merit (9,10,11). Lead discussion and practice groups (11,12)
Student Government (10-12): Founding Chair of Facilities Committee (10,11) and first
full-term Vice President (11,12).<br>
Piano: 11 yrs
High School Jazz Band (9-10): Lead Pianist
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (10-12): 3rd degree white belt
Latin Club (9-12)</p>

<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Volunteer With Autistic Teenager at Home: 1 hr. per week.
Group Leader (with 1 adult teacher) for 11 autistic and other disabled teenagers at special program: 3 hr. per week</p>

<p>HONORS & AWARDS:
National Latin Exam, Gold Medal Winner Summa Cum Laude (11)
Harvard Book Award (11)
American Math Competition - School Winner (10,11)</p>

<p>Essays: Should be very good
Recs: Both teacher recs will be excellent, but I am not sure about the guidance counselor rec (our school is getting a new college counselor for next year, and I have not yet met her)</p>

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<p>Very good stats. Unforunately, you have no hooks, so Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are all reaches.</p>

<p>With that said, you have a decent chance of being admitted to at least one of HYP, possibly more if your essays are stellar. You’ve got an above-average shot at Columbia and Brown. You have a great shot at Penn, Cornell, and John Hopkins. I can’t say that you’re in at Tufts because they waitlist so many applicants… but you’re in at Brandeis, for sure.</p>

<p>Best of luck on all your apps!</p>

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<p>Thanks for your response!!
Bump</p>

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<p>Yale-Reach
Harvard-Reach
Princeton-Reach
UPenn-Low Reach
Columbia-High Match/Low Reach
Brown-High Match/Low Reach
Cornell-Match/High Match
Johns Hopkins-High Match
Tufts-Match
Brandeis-Safety</p>

<p>Good luck!
Chance Me
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<p>Might look at Bowdoin and Holy Cross-very good Classics program.</p>

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<p>Excellent chances. As somone said, the lack of hooks will hurt you, because there are going to be a lot of stellar applicants. That being said you still have a shot at all of them.</p>

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<p>…Not at most schools. Like I said, HYP, Columbia, and Brown are mid-reaches, and even Cornell, JHU, and Penn are low reaches. The only safe bet on the list is Brandeis.</p>

<p>But if you apply to all those top schools, you’re likely to be admitted to at least one of them, maybe more if you have great essays.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>are you EDing at any of these schools?</p>

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<p>I am not yet sure if I will do ED for any of the schools, but I am currently leaning towards SCEA for Yale.</p>

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<p>That’s cool, just know that getting admitted SCEA without any hooks will be harder than getting admitted Regular Decision. The Yale SCEA applicant pool is one of the most, if not the most, competitive applicant pool in the United States. Don’t let the higher admit rate fool you: most athletic recruits, wealthy students, legacies, etc. apply SCEA, not RD, and they all have significantly better chances of admission.</p>