Chances for Northwestern, Tufts, and more

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Schools: Northwestern, Tufts, Brown, Yale, Georgetown, UChicago, Boston College, William and Mary, Rochester, Brandeis, Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Any input would be appreciated! I'm still narrowing my list.. Might add Notre Dame too. </p>

<p>Stats: </p>

<p>State: Delaware
School type: Private (Catholic)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Parent income: ~130,000
GPA: UW 4.0 (98/100)
SAT I: 2310 superscore (750 CR/ 790 W/ 770 M), 2300 single sitting (740 CR)
SAT II's: 740 Bio M, 730 Math 1
Class rank: 2-3ish out of 60 (Top 5%)
Course load: Taken all honors and AP classes. AP Scores: AP US History (4), AP English Lang (4), AP US Gov (5), AP Bio (5). This year I'm taking AP Lit, AP Psych, AP Comparative Government (self-study), and AP Calc AB.
Prospective major: Something biology related</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: </p>

<p>Varsity Soccer (4 years)
National Honor Society (3 years)
Student Government (4 years): Class President (2 years), Class VP (1 year), SGA Historian (1 year)
Middlestates Planning Committee Member (3 years)
Model UN (2 years): Gavel winner, President (senior)
Big Brother Big Sister Organization Member (3 years) </p>

<p>Instrumental Ensemble (4 years, 1st chair clarinet each year)
Marching Band (3 years, saxophone)
County Honor Band (2nd chair clarinet)
Various Pit Orchestra bands (2 bands, several hours)
Delaware Junior All-State Band (1 year, clarinet)
Delaware Senior All-State Band (2 years, ranked 6th)
Sound of America Honor Band (national band, went to Europe)
Other miscellaneous music things... I've been pretty devoted/involved throughout high school</p>

<p>Catholic Heart Work Camp Volunteer (2 years, went to various places for two weeks building houses, cleaning up areas, etc.)
REACH Service Volunteer Group (1 year, did various service projects)
Parish Youth Group (4 years, various service projects)
Christiana Hospital Intern (1 year) -> May be going back this month to do research
Boys State Representative (1 year) </p>

<p>Various Awards: </p>

<p>AP Scholar with Honor
NHS Scholarship Recipient (at school)
Bishop's List Recipient (Basically honor roll every semester at my school)
Various music awards
Scholar Athlete (4 years)
Soccer All-Conference Honorable Mention
Delaware High School Soccer All-Star Player
All-State Band
Mini-Medical School Certificate of Achievement</p>

<p>Recommendations: From AP Gov and AP Lang teacher, should be pretty good</p>

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<p>You are literally the perfect applicant and on target for all schools except Yale. I think by this point, the only thing you can do to differentiate yourself from other kids with perfect stats like you is to have great essays and recs.</p>

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<p>Thank you! And haha yeah I know Yale’s a huge reach… Now that I’m finally done with testing I’ll hopefully be able to write really good essays lol</p>

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<p>Yale, Chicago, Brown RD: Reach
GW, Vandy, NW: Solid chances but reach</p>

<p>You got no hooks and numbers are average.
But, you will get into some good to great colleges.</p>

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<p>bump
10char</p>

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<p>bump i’ll chance back :)</p>

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<p>Clearly, you are well qualified academically & with respect to ECs. The decision, I suspect, will be made on the basis of your recommendations & essays at the most selective universities.</p>

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<p>NWU: High match
Tufts: High match
Brown: Reach
Yale: Reach
Georgetown: High match
U Chicago: High match (pay attention to your essays)
Boston College: Match
Vanderbilt: Match
Rochester: Safety
William and Mary: Low match
Brandeis: Low match</p>

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<p>@Catria: How are any of these schools “reaches” based on the info. shared by the OP ? Odds are low since acceptance rates are below 10% for both schools, but OP’s stats & activities suggest that neither is a reach, just unlikely percentage-wise. In short, what is your definition of a “reach” ? Thanks in advance !</p>

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<p>A reach is about ~20% or below for me. If I had to differentiate between reach levels…</p>

<p>Brown: Low reach
Yale: Reach</p>

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<p>OP: Are you planning to apply EA or ED to any of these schools ?</p>

<p>@Catria: Then, by your definition, wouldn’t Northwestern be a reach ? Especially so if OP applies RD ? Chicago ?</p>

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<p>I’m applying RD to all of the schools… Essays/scores weren’t ready in time anywhere for EA lol </p>

<p>And yeah, I also assumed NWU, Chicago, and Vanderbilt were reaches since they all hover around 12-17%. I wasn’t sure though if my EC’s were good enough to make a really good applicant to those schools lol. Thank you all for your input!!</p>