Chances at Tough Schools

<p>Junior
White Male
Upstate New York
Currently attending a poor urban honors high school. Everyone has to take an exam to get in and the acceptance rate after 5th grade (5-12) is below that of most ivies. Rated #1 Public School in Western New York for many years running.
GPA : 4.0 UW (2 A-'s but school counts all A's as same) and will be 5.22 after end of Junior year.
Rank : 1 or 2/141</p>

<p>Course Load</p>

<p>9th
Adv. Algebra (Algebra II) 2 years advanced A-
Spanish 3r (regents) 1 year advanced A</p>

<p>10th
AP European History A+
AP English Literature A+
Pre-IB Math A
Pre-IB Spanish A+</p>

<p>11th (Currently with grades so far)
AP US History A+
IB World Lit A+
IB Physics A+
IB Economics SL A+
IB TOK S (Satisfactory, only Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory this year)
IB Spanish A+
AP Statistics A
I will be taking AP Micro, AP Macro, AP US, AP Stat, and AP Spanish at end of year.</p>

<p>12th (Will Be...)
IB Math Methods
IB World Lit
IB Physics
Government (State Requirement)
IB TOK
IB HOTA</p>

<p>Standardized Tests
PSAT : 187 Frosh 202 Soph 217 Junior
SAT : CR 730 Math 710 Wri 740 (12 Essay) (First time, will retake in fall)
ACT : Taking April 8th
APs : 5 Euro, 4 Lit, (3 Spanish but Retaking)
Micro, Macro, Stat, Spanish, and US are this year</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
Class Treasurer (10,11)
Debate (9,10,11)
Model UN (11) First Year at the school
Helicon Literary Magazine (9,10,11)
Varsity Crew (9,10,11 Captain)
Student Council Elected Representative (9,10,11)
School Newspaper Writer (11)
Amnesty International (9,10, 11 Treasurer) I also ran a landmine fundraiser this year that raised money and am looking at starting another landmine event.
Ski Club (9,10,11)
Highschool Foundation Junior Class Rep (11) Foundation is a non-for profit that helps provide things for the school
Masterminds (similar to Quizbowl) Varsity (9,10 All Star, 11 Capitan)
Worldquest (11) Regional champion and going to Nationals for this Geo/Trivia Competition</p>

<p>Volunteer
Worked at local political campaign's office (40+ Hours)
Helping to tutor 3rd and 4th graders in math (including some mentally disabled ones) at a local school (40+ Hours)
Habitat for Humanity (10 Hours)
Helped run the school blood drive and donated (20+ Hours)
This year I've also organized a letter campaign to help save the school from relocation. I wrote form letters that I've had signed by the student body to be mailed en masse to local politicians. (20+ Hours so far)</p>

<p>Awards (Most are given out end of Junior year but)
Helicon Poetry Awards (9,11)
Principal's List (9,10, Discontinued 11) Sort of like Dean's list
National Young Leader's Conference Nominee (10)</p>

<p>Summers
Lots of Rowing and some volunteering
Just got accepted to Kenyon Review's Young Writer's Program</p>

<p>Recomendations
Will be great. I have alot of teachers who are big fans and great writers.</p>

<p>Schools
ED/RD Princeton (Legacy)
Yale
Williams
U of Pennsylvania
Middlebury
U of Chicago (Grandparent legacy, I heard they count?)
Georgetown
Cornell (In State)
Colgate</p>

<p>ED/RD Princeton (Legacy) - High match/Low reach (only because you're a legacy. Otherwise, would be a reach.)
Yale - Reach
Williams - Reach
U of Pennsylvania - Reach
Middlebury - Reach
U of Chicago - Reach
Georgetown - Match
Cornell (In State) - High Match
Colgate - Low Match</p>

<p>You're considering applying to some of the most selective schools in the country. These schools are very difficult to get into, even for kids with really good stats and ECs like you. The truth is, for those schools, nearly all the kids who apply have stats like yours, or better. You need to add more match level schools to your list, and you definitely need to add a couple of safeties.</p>

<p>Might want to add Trinity and Holy Cross more match schools with solid crew teams.</p>

<p>I'm not sure if I'm going to row in college but thats another issue...and thanks for responding.</p>

<p>Any other matches/safeties you would suggest?</p>

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<p>Based on your current stats, here's a bunch of schools that are pretty much matches for you. High matches on the top, low matches on the bottom.</p>

<p>Wesleyan
Johns Hopkins
Carleton
Vassar
Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
Washington and Lee
Emory
Vanderbilt
William and Mary
University of Virginia
Notre Dame
Georgetown
Bowdoin
Haverford
Macalester
Davidson
Colby
Univer. Of Southern CA
Brandeis
Oberlin
Bates
Tulane
Hamilton
Grinnell
Wake Forest</p>

<p>Thanks for the responses. I'm probably leanign to Princeton ED, using the legacy for all its got. But, As we all know far too well, its all chance and so these other schools will probably be really important.</p>