Chances at Wake, U Richmond, Villanova, etc

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>What are my chances at the following schools? Do I need more in the safety category? I'm male, from a so-so public school in Mass. </p>

<p>Wake Forest (ED1)
U Richmond (ED2)- (sister is a senior there)
Fairfield (EA)
Villanova
Bowdoin
William & Mary
Lehigh
Holy Cross
Trinity</p>

<p>GPA: 3.8/4.1 unweighted/weighted
SATI- CR:610, M:610, WR:630 (1st time, will take again in Oct/Nov)
SATII-Bio-660, MathI-730
APs: USHistory: 4</p>

<p>Taken all honors/APs offered (not many at my school)
Classes this year: AP Microecon; AP Calc (AB); AP English Lit, Honors Physics, Spanish 5-Honors, Independent Study-Music</p>

<p>ECs: Varsity tennis: 4 years, captain junior & senior year
Varsity ski team: 4 years
Marching band: 4 years
Jazz band: 4 years
Concert band: 4 years, VPres: junior year; President- senior year
Pit Band: 4 years; captain senior year
NHS
Tri-M Honor Society; executive board
Boys State: elected selectman and state rep
Lector at church 2 years</p>

<p>Honors: Selected for regional concert bands, received awards for outstanding musicianship at regional jazz festivals</p>

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<p>You have a lot of reachy schools on that list. Wake, Richmond, Villanova, Bowdoin, William and Mary, Lehigh, and Trinity will be reaches. Fairfield and Holy Cross are more like matches. If you can get your SAT's up to the 1300+ range Wake, Richmond, Villanova, Lehigh, and Trinity will be looking more realistic. Bowdoin and William and Mary aren't very realistic, unless you have a legacy or something, because Bowdoin is just very selective and W&M is very difficult to get into OOS.
I applied to Wake ED1 last year. I would say it def. helped me, because it truly was my one and only choice. For Wake work really hard on your essays, because they are really important. However, I thought my acceptance was really close to Wake, because my stats weren't overwhelming (1320 SAT, 5 APs), but I do know people here with SAT's in the 1200s so its not impossible, just unlikely.<br>
For more schools to add perhaps Northeastern, Elon, Mary Washington, Loyola Maryland, and Providence.<br>
Good luck with everything and if you have any Wake related questions feel free to PM me. Definetly try to get your SATs up though! :)</p>