Chances for a good, but not great, applicant.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Student:</p>

<p>User Name: bts7390
Gender: M
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Private
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.27
Class Rank: top 5 students
Class Size: 110</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I Overall: 2200
SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Critical Reading: 680
SAT I Writing: 720
SAT II U.S. History: 770
SAT II Math Level 1 (IC): 800
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 800
SAT II Physics: 800</p>

<p>AP Physics C: Mechanics- expected 5
AP Calc AB- expected 5
AP US History- expected 5
AP English Language- expected 3</p>

<p>Classes (most rigorous at my school):</p>

<p>Freshman: Honors Geometry A+
Honors World Literature A
Honors Biology A
World History A
Spanish II A
Band A
Religion A+
Gym A-</p>

<p>Sophmore: Honors Algebra II/Precalc A+
Honors American Literature A
Honors Chemistry A
Honors US History A
Honors Spanish III A
Band A
Religion A+</p>

<p>Junior: AP Calc AB A+
Honors British Literature A
AP Physics C: Mechanics A
AP US History A
Honors Spanish IV A+
Honors Band A
Religion A+</p>

<p>Senior: AP Calc BC
AP English Lit
AP Physics C: E & M
AP Biology
AP Spanish Language
Honors Band
Adobe Photoshop
Religion</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Mathletes (captain)- 11, 12
Academic Team- 11, 12
Honors Band (guitar)- 11, 12
Jazz Band- 9, 10, 11, 12
NHS (math tutoring chair)- 11, 12
Robotics- 12
JV Soccer (captain)- 10, 11
Freshman Soccer- 9
Club Soccer- 9, 10, 11, 12
JV Lacrosse (captain)- 10, 11
Freshman Lacrosse- 9
Intermural Basketball- 9, 10, 11, 12
Student Council Events Chairman- 10</p>

<p>Volunteer Work:</p>

<p>Will have 150+ hours by the end of senior year through various school activities (math tutoring w/ NHS, my graduation project, nursing homes, soups kithens, etc.)</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>Distinguished Honors (highest one) all throughout high school
Various mathletes awards: -highest scorer on my school's team
-selected to the All-League team
-won Philadelphia public v. private championship
Probable National Merit Semi-Finalist (227 on PSAT)
Bronze Medal on 2007 National Spanish Exam
Award for Academic Excellence in Modern Language- Junior Year
Merit scholarship to my high school</p>

<p>Recs/Essays: </p>

<p>Recs will all be good. All the of teachers I'm asking know me in multiple capacities.
-Calc teacher for 2 years and Mathletes moderator
-Physics teacher for 1 year, soccer coach for 2, and Robotics moderator
-my guidance couselor was also my English teacher for a year</p>

<p>Essays will be decent, but probably not good/bad enough to make or break my decision.</p>

<p>Colleges of Interest:</p>

<p>Brown
Bucknell
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western
Cornell
Duke
Johns Hopkins
Lehigh
MIT
Penn State - Schreyer Honors College
Rensselaer
Michigan
Penn
Virginia</p>

<p>Intended Major: Engineering</p>

<p>Area: East Coast
Importance of cost: Very important</p>

<p>Sorry for such a long post. I posted on here a while back, but didn't get much feedback, so I added some new information about myself. What do you all think my chances are at these schools?</p>

<p>Also, I'm a rising senior, and I'm trying to narrow this list down to 7 or 8 schools. Any tips as to how I should go about doing this would be greatly appreciated (too many reaches? safeties?).</p>

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<p>Come on. Anyone?</p>

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<p>bump--bump</p>

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<p>you don't stand out, but there's also nothing wrong with you. gonna be interesting.</p>

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<p>I hate it when nobody responds to your chances so:</p>

<p>If you think you can score higher on your SAT reading/writing try to do so, it will up your chances significantly. You have decent ECs and are captain of 2 sports (I don't count math as a sport :P). Your GPA is pretty good. You are as you described yourself a good, but not great applicant to these top schools. As for the schools in particular:</p>

<p>Brown-High Match
Bucknell-Safe Match
Carnegie Mellon-Safe Match
Case Western-Safe Match
Cornell-High Match
Duke-High Match
Johns Hopkins-Match
Lehigh-Safety
MIT-Reach
Penn State - Schreyer Honors College-I don't know about the honors college
Rensselaer-Safety, you should get some merit $$ here
Michigan-Safe Match
Penn-Low Reach, I assume you're applying to engineering.
Virginia-Match</p>

<p>Good luck, nice, well balanced list, and I expect you to get into some extremely competitive schools.</p>

<p>Please Chance me also at:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=361246%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=361246&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>i'm new to this. what does "bump" mean?</p>

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<p>means you push your thread up to most recent so that everyone who comes to the forum sees your thread first.</p>

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<p>I'm sorry to tell you this but in today's world no one is a match at the ivies and most top colleges. So I wouldn't take FredFredBurger's chance predictions very seriously.</p>

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<p>Thanks for all the input guys. Brooklynrats, enderkin is right about "bump," but it literally stands for "bring up my post."</p>

<p>I am going to do a lot of SAT prep this summer, and I'm pretty sure I will be able to break 2300 in October. I also just got my AP scores and got 5s on all of them. How much will these things help my chances?</p>

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<p>bump it up</p>

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<p>I'm not completely sure, but AP scores don't count for admission- they count only for credit. If you look at a transcript, there is not spot for them.</p>

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<p>good but not great.
get a life please.</p>

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<p>Myn- AP scores do count for college admissions. You can send the scores to the colleges. 5's (and 4's) will help your admission greatly.</p>