Chances at Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a junior this year, and I want to major in history. I've found that these Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley are leading in history, and I want your guys' opinions on what my chances are on getting in. My stats are:
Crowded school in a farming town- I live on a tree farm.
Hardest clasload possible- 3 APs and an honors class junior year, 4 APs next year.
SAT: 780M 720 V
GPA: 3.94
Rank: 22/750 unweighted rank</p>

<p>Schedule:
9th
Honors English
Honors Science
Freshman Jazz Band
Freshman Concert band
Western History
Competitive Sports
Trigonometry </p>

<p>10th
Honors English
Chemistry
PE & Health
Precalculus
Advanced Jazz Band
Wind Ensemble
French 1 & 2 </p>

<p>11th
Honors English
AP US History
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus
Wind Ensemble
French 3 & 4
Advanced Jazz Band
Wind Ensemble </p>

<p>12th
AP English
Government
AP Stats
AP Physics
French 5 & 6
Wind Ensemble
Advanced Jazz Band </p>

<p>Music:
-Jazz band
-Wind ensemble
-Pep band
-Marching band
-Jazz camp and marching band camp during the summer.
-Most outstanding musician in the jazz band- 9th grade
-Outstanding soloist awards at festivals
-All-state band 11th
-Community theater musicals every year in high school
-Honor band 9th</p>

<p>Athletics
-Soccer on a local league 9,10,11,12
-Track and field, 3 year letter so far, placed 1st a invitational 10th grade, 3rd in league and 5th in districts last year
-Skiing- won 2nd in a race held by my skii school 9th </p>

<p>Key Club- Hopefully a position next year
Environmental Club- co-prez
Knowledge bowl- Sec/Treas, will be prez probably next year
French Club
Science Olympiads
State competitor for "future problem solving"</p>

<p>Part of a "big-sister" sort of organization, volunteered in my "brother's" classroom twice a week, over 150 hours there </p>

<p>75+ hours of other random community service </p>

<p>Did this summer program where I worked on national parks in alaska for two weeks, 7-8 hours each day. Mostly trail building and preservation, great experience, I might work it into my essays</p>

<p>National Merit Commended
Student of the Month
Student of the Quarter
Social studies Student of the quarter
Mathematics student of the quarter
French Student of the quarter
2005 "Outstanding Junior" award from the masons
And all of those who's who things, national honor roll, etc. but I probably won't list these things since they're a joke to admissions officers</p>

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<p>My only non-A's were in freshman year math and junior high math, which for some reason is on my transcript</p>

<p>Also, if you guys know of any other competitive schools with good history programs, let me know, but mostly I'd like to see my chances at these schools.</p>

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<p>Princeton, Yale and Stanford will all be reaches, despite the fact that you come from a farming town; I don't know that much about Berkeley, but I think you stand a good chance there. Do you have any solid matches/safeties planned?</p>

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<p>lol yeah of course, just wanted to see about these ones</p>

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<p>What state are you from? Depending on what state you are from, saying you are an all-state musician can mean several different levels of musical performance. Nonetheless, congrats! I play trombone and only wish i made all state.</p>

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<p>Washington</p>

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<p>Amazing is what I have to say.. If people like you are what I have to compete against for top universities, then I urgently need to strap myself in and work like hell.</p>

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<p>colleges usually only care about academic courses in the 10th, 11th & 12th grade and often calculate their own GPA. They do consider your school's class rank also...</p>

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<p>In the post right after my original post I said that:
My only non-A's were in freshman year math and junior high math</p>

<p>So I guess I have a 4.0 looking at only 10th, 11th, and 12th, although I've heard that some univeristies still look at freshman year grades.</p>

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<p>Are there any ivies that don't look at freshman year?</p>

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<p>I know that Stanford doesn't (not an Ivy, I know, but it was on your list!) :)</p>

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<p>Oh and add Dartmouth to the list, forgot about that one</p>

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<p>your rank actually might work against you, but you obviously have a shot at all of the schools you mentioned</p>

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<p>Yeah, it's weird..........I'm below all of the people who get all A's in shop and FFA......... I wish our school weighted</p>

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<p>Princeton does not look at freshman grades</p>

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<p>I would say your chances are good. Your stats are similar to mine, and I got into HArVarD early action. Best of luck, write good. <~~~do not emulate. My scores are better and my class rank, also, but you have more athletic involvement which is a real bonus.</p>

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<p>How much will my rank hurt me? Will they take into account that it is not weighted?</p>