chances at regular to good schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Oooookay, read a lot of these posts, know y'all can be kind of mean, without actually trying to hurt anyone's feelings, I'm sure, but be merciful, and I'm bracing myself. I'm really aware that a lot of these are huge reaches, but here's the list:</p>

<p>Amherst
Bates
Bennington
BC
Bowdoin
Clark
Colby
Hampshire
Haverford
Lehigh (major legacy)
Macalester
Reed
Tufts
Willamette</p>

<p>And the stats go like this:</p>

<p>General: Indian American, currently lives in CA, both my parents went to college and grad school, blah blah blah
GPA: 3.5 uw, probably around a 3.7ish weighted since my school doesn't weight, mostly due to a special circumstances terrible semester my sophomore year, which I pulled myself out of and explained in essays, and if you discount, it becomes more of a 3.8ish, 4.0w)
Class rank: My school doesn't rank but upper 25th percentile
SAT: 700M, 730V, 750W
SATIIs: 710 math , 720 lit, (this is the kicker - last test, terrible day, long story) 590 US History
Classload: AP French, AP Calc AB, AP Government, AP Psych (almost all my school has)
EC: Track (not good, but interested in exercising), Youth and Government for three years (approx 20hrs/week, vice president of delegation and in some selective programs within it), Youth Council for two years, Literary magazine (four years, head short story editor for the first three, editor-in-chief this year), school magazine for two years, would have been more but freshmen and sophomores can't be on publications (20 hrs/week, News Editor), Second Harvest Community Service Club for four years (Vice President for 2 yrs, President this year), also holding down a steady job since last summer, approx 15 hrs/wk
Summers: CTY (intensive summer educational program, 8 hours of class a day) for two years, and then high school summer school to get a required class out of the way</p>

<p>So basically... what kind of chances have I got?</p>

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<p>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanybody?</p>

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<p>My bet is you will get into several of these schools- willamette for sure. you are way above their average stats. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks! Yeah, according to my college counselor, Willamette and Clark I'm pretty much in, as well as Lehigh, and possibly Bennington. But I figure, the more I apply to, the better probability I'll get into a good one... I s'pose, anyway.</p>

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<p>BC is more conservative than most of the other schools.</p>

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<p>Oh, I know. But my cousin goes there (Indians have a lot of cousins, have you ever noticed that?) and he looooooooooooooooooooooooves it and I liked it when I visited.</p>

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<p>Might want to look at nearby Holy Cross-1 hour from Boston. Similar to Colby but better location</p>

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<p>You know, that makes sense, but changing anything this late in the game might actually kill me. I can imagine dropping a few (if my parents weren't so dead set on what I've got) but adding something else makes a little more of my sanity die.</p>

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<p>I hate to bump this but seriously... I haven't gotten that many responses to my original question... chances? Yes, no, maybe so? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaseeeee?</p>

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<p>Totally know what you mean with the freak last SAT II, the same happened to me with a 550 on Spanish, while I did well on Lit and US History (above 700s). I think you have a good chance, and I hope I'm right in thinking so, since I'm around the same, also did CTY, etc. and am applying to Tufts. Good luck to you!</p>

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<p>I'm sure you'll get into a lot of these. Lehigh for sure, esp. with the legacy, Willamette too. It wouldn't be that surprising if you were accepted into all of these. But many of the small LACs weigh the essay more heavily than test scores, so a lot could hang on that.</p>

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<p>is colby a al girl school?</p>

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<p>No, it is not.</p>