Chances At top 30-ish Schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Stats:

GPA: 3.91 (UW) and 4.46(W)
SAT: 1490
ACT: 33 (34 superscore)
AP: 3 in USH and Computer Science, 4 in English Language, 5 in Calculus AB/Chemistry/European History
SAT II: 750 Chemistry and 800 Math II and 800 Math I

EC’s:
Website Developer for the School Newspaper
Robotics Team - Assistant Head of Programming
Science Olympiad
Community Service (through Habitat for Humanity about 400+ hours)
Mock Trial - State Champions
Math League - A Team
Academic Bowl
French Club
French Exchange Program
Georgia Tech CEISMC Program (STEM accelerated summer program)

overall very stem oriented EC’s ^

Awards:
AMC (American Math Competition) - placed in the top 5% (honor roll certificate)
National French Contest - placed 12th in the nation out of 21,160 (top .05%)

Work Experience:
Lifeguard for a summer job which demanded about 30 hours of work a week.

Miscellaneous:

School Type: Private Catholic with some pretty strong connections to Georgetown and Boston College
Hook - Hispanic (URM)
Recs: They’re gonna be pretty spot on
Essays: About a 8-9/10 in my opinion, talked to my english teacher and he agrees

Target Major: Quantitative Analysis/Management Information Systems ( QA is also known as Financial Engineering to those of you out there)

List of colleges:

Reach:
Ivies (except for Cornell), Duke, Rice, MIT (not even trying), Stanford (lol), UChicago, Berkeley, UNC Chapel Hill

Competitive:
Cornell (applying ED), Northwestern, Johns Hopkins (very strong cxn), Georgia Tech (strong cxn), UVA, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, UMich, NYU

Safety:
Boston College (very strong cxn), Tufts, UMaryland College Park, Northeastern, Purdue, Georgetown (very very strong cxn)

Tell me what you think of my list and if some of them aren’t placed right. I realize Cornell is an Ivy and should generally be placed in the reach category, but Cornell will be my ED (which has a 32% acceptance rate) and I have a connection to Cornell. My top 5 (from top to #5 in this order) is: Georgia Tech, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, and Penn (tell me how my chances are for this, as I’m a PA resident and that may have some influence?)

Thanks so much.

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Try penn it helps that you are in state. Why are you downplaying Georgetown it’s a fantastic school and your connections could get you in. Why did you put UNC as a reach? It looks like you could get into most of these places.

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Northwestern is a reach for everyone. Same with Tufts. Also, applying to all of the Ivies just goes to show that you haven’t done your research. Each Ivy has its own distinct personality. It’s very unlikely that one could equally enjoy all of them. What do your “connections” entail? An admissions personnel? An alum? Don’t bank on them as even legacies with perfect grades and test scores get rejected from these kinds of schools.

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Ha, georgetown as a safety. If you’re not a legacy, consider revising your “strong cxn”. But based on a cursory glance of your stats, please don’t apply to gtown. Something tells me you’re more of a carnegie mellon.

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Yes, Georgetown is a safety, and I’m not trying to downplay how great of a school it is, as it is definitely in my top 10 choices and I respect how amazing and prestigious of a school it is. 8/8 people were accepted last year, and 12/12 the year before, with only a 4.1 average accepted GPA, where I have a 4.4-4.5 and a higher SAT score plus better EC’s than the people I talked to from my school who were accepted. Cornell connection entails me having a personal/family relation with an admissions director who is giving me an additional rec. I wasn’t planning on applying to all of the ivies whatsoever, I was just seeing what you guys thought on my admissions into those schools. I prefer Cornell, Penn, and Dartmouth out of the 8 if that helps anything. Tufts has a fairly low average accepted GPA for our school, as does Northwestern. UNC we haven’t had an acceptance in 2 years, with 0/4 and 0/7 the past 2 years.