Chances at Ivies, et al.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Applying to:
Harvard (early)
Yale
Princeton
Georgetown (School of Foreign Service)
Brown
Dartmouth
Wesleyan
University of Michigan</p>

<p>Here is my record:
GPA: 3.83 (at one of the hardest schools in the country. In this history of the school a mere three students have graduated with a 4.0. You cannot get an A+ (or a 4.3), honors, advanced, and AP courses are all calculated equally. The GPA is entirely unweighted)
Rank: N/A - my school doesn't rank
SAT I: Verbal - 800, Writing - 780, Math - 760
SAT II: Spanish - 730, Literature - 700, US History - 780
APs: Euro - 5, Spanish Language - 5, US History - 5, BC Calc - 5</p>

<p>Classes this year:
Linear Algebra/Multivariable Calculus
AP US Government and Politics/AP Comparative Government
English 12
Modern Literature
Advanced Spanish Language and Culture
AP Biology</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-3 years of student government (my school elects four representatives per grade and then those students and several faculty elect one president, VP, treasurer, and secretary from within the group)
-2 years as secretary of the student government
-3 years policy debate (I'm not a superstar at debate, but I have some awards from elimination rounds and one or two speaker awards)
-4 years math team (Co-captain of the math team)</p>

<p>What I've done over the summer:
-Before sophomore year I went to two weeks of a tennis camp and counseled at a different tennis camp for four weeks
-Before junior year I went to four weeks of debate camp at MSU and volunteered for 100 hours at Children's Hospital
-Before senior year I went to seven weeks of debate camp at the University of Michigan</p>

<p>Recommendations: I haven't read either of them, I waived the right out of respect and trust in those who I asked to write them. I had my Spanish and English teachers from junior year write them and I think they were pretty positive.</p>

<p>Essays: I'm very proud of my writing ability and consider it one of my main assets. I wrote one funny essay about trying to read A Tale of Two Cities when I was twelve, failing miserably, and eventually finishing the book four years later. I wrote another about my experience electioneering in the school's student government.
Counselor's Recommendation: I like my college counselor. We got along well. I think she wrote a fairly good recommendation.</p>

<p>Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian
Religion: Agnostic
Location: Mid-Atlantic</p>

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<p>you're going to G-town</p>

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<p>Probably not. I'm thinking more Rhode Island.</p>

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<p>I'm not trying to be negative, but maybe you should apply to a safety school. All of the schools on your list seem like reaches and matches.</p>

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<p>A few things. My first advice would be to check my other posts. This was merely a deceptive ploy to get more responses to my initial post. I am actually a senior now deciding between a few of the colleges.</p>

<p>I got into Dartmouth, Brown, Georgetown, Wesleyan, and Michigan (honors) and was waitlisted at Harvard. Michigan and Wesleyan were my safeties. Brown, Dartmouth, and Georgetown were probably my matches. The other three were that daunting and elusive third species. The people who guessed which I had gotten into might have been better guessers than you. They mostly predicted I would get in to all except the reaches. Thank you for your helpful thoughts though.</p>