Chances for a "normal" kids

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi everyone! I would like to be chanced for these colleges. My main worry is that even though I have good grades/scores, I don't have any "standout" extracurriculars. I do many activities, but I don't do anything super unique or inspiring...</p>

<p>-Yale
-Williams
-Princeton
-Middlebury
-Swarthmore
-Bowdoin
-Brown
-Duke
-Carleton
-Northwestern</p>

<p>-Suggestions on a few others for safeties</p>

<p>Academics:
4.65 weighted GPA, 4.0 unweighted
Taken honors/AP whenever offered
2370 SAT
Subject tests: 800 Lit, 800 Math 2, 800 World History
4 AP classes so far, 4 more next year
Academic Awards: Harvard Book Award, Bausch and Lomb Science Award, Lots of departmental awards from my school for various classes</p>

<p>Activities:
-Swimming (high school team, club team, state qualifier, second place relays at states)
-Student Government (Served as class officer and student advisory council for 3 years)
-Saxophone (Band, jazz band, pit orchestra, Senior District and All State festival, Tri-M, teach lessons to a middle schooler)
-Summers: Swim Lessons and Lifeguarding</p>

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<p>What are your AP scores, and if you had more EC’s I would say you’re in very good shape for any of those schools.</p>

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<p>I don’t know much about the LACs.</p>

<p>Yale = reach (for anyone)
Princeton = reach (for anyone)
Brown = match
Duke = low reach
Northwestern = high match</p>

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<p>Everyone else is a reach.</p>

<p>NWU: High match
Carleton: Match</p>

<p>You want a safety? We need, at a minimum, your budget and your intended major; if you have additional restriction on college size or geographical location, please state them as well.</p>

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<p>You are only normal in CC. Otherwise, you are different from 99+% of other students. :slight_smile:
Great academic achievement. You may want to contact the swimming coaches of each school to see if they are interested. You are who you are. Work on your essays and you are good to go.</p>

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<p>Thank you! For a safety school, budget shouldn’t be a huge problem. I’d prefer a small to mid-size school in New England or the Mid West, but location is not a necessity.
My AP scores:
-Stat:5
-US: 5
-Spanish: 5
-World History: 4</p>

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<p>And thanks for the advice/encouragement billcsho! I am fast enough to swim at Bowdoin, Swarthmore, or Carleton, but probably not anywhere else. I have emailed a few coaches</p>