Chances at NYU, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, and Ivies (It's a crap-shoot, I know)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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So here are my stats:

Objective:

New SAT: 1410 (700 in EBR&W and 710 in Math)
SAT II: 730 in Math 1 and 660 in Math 2
Unweighted GPA: 3.88
Weighted GPA: 5.21
Class Rank: 5/525
AP: Calc AB, Calc BC, Stats, Environ, Bio, World, U.S. History, Psychology, English Lang (Have passed all of them or better)
Senior Course Load: Multivariable Calculus, AP U.S. Gov, AP Comp. Gov, AP Micro, AP Macro, AP English Lit, AP Spanish
Awards: AP Merit Scholar

Subjective:

Sports:
JV and Varsity Football (9-12, Captain my senior year, but NOT RECRUITED)
JV Baseball (9-10, was the statistician for the whole program)
Varsity Lacrosse (11-12)

Other ECs:
Spanish Club (9-12, Co-founder of the club, and I am fluent)
UNICEF (9-12, President)
KEY Club (9-12)
Speech (11-12, Captain of Extemporaneous Speaking)
Debate (11-12, Captain of Congressional Debate, also a PF Debater with many awards in both)
Math Club (11-12)
National Honors Society (11-12)
Amnesty International (12, joined because I accidentally walked in on a meeting and got interested lol)
Practicing Martial Arts (I have 2 black belts)
Tutoring my siblings

Job/Work Experience: Worked at a movie theater between my junior and sophomore years

Volunteer Work: I have about 120 hours thanks to my ECs

Summer Activities: Helping out with Speech and Debate; also, football workouts (AKA Hell on Earth)

Essays:
Common App: 9/10. Very in-depth story about the relationship between my autistic brother and me.
CMU: 9/10. Witty, funny, and effective at explaining why CMU is a good fit.
NYU: 7/10. Solid.
Duke: 8/10. For such short essays, I made mine very unique and interesting.

Teacher Rec. #1: 10/10. My Stats teacher who has caused everyone who has read the essay to cry.
Teacher Rec. #2: 9/10. My Spanish teacher. I’m apparently the best-speaking student he’s ever had.
Counselor Rec.: 8/10. I’ve had a lot of face-time with my counselor to work out schedules and things.
Additional Rec.: 7/10. From my football coach who says that I’m the smartest player he’s ever coached, but it’s not very specialized.

Other:

Aid: YES
Intended Major: Statistics (It’s at the Dietrich College at CMU)
State: North Carolina
School Type: Large Public
Ethnicity: Paper White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $80,000-$100,000
No major hooks, sadly.

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In at NYU, UNC, Cornell

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Thanks

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I disagree. I think all of those schools are reaches for you, mainly because of your SAT score. Do you have safeties?

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Duke will be tough. Your SATs need to be a bit higher – at least the 50th percentile to have a decent shot. They sometimes will let the standardized testing slide in cases of URMs or athletes.

Do you have time to retake?

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My safety is UNC at the moment.

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As for my SAT, I’ll take it again next month.

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Have you run the net price calculator for each school? NYU in particular has a poor reputation for financial aid.

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Aid will get me down to about 30K per year, and I’m hoping that scholarships and grants will get me down to 20K or less.

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Hey! I was wondering if you can publish your results, I’m interested in what schools you got into