Chances for UChicago, Rice, Cornell, Columbia, UNC

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White male from Fairfield County, CT</p>

<p>Academic GPA (does not include electives like gym or music):</p>

<p>Freshman Year: 3.66
Sophomore Year: 3.54
Junior Year: 3.82</p>

<p>Cumulative GPA with electives: 3.75</p>

<p>Class rank: top 10%</p>

<p>All classes honors/AP (I have gotten/reasonably expect 5s on all of them)
-AP Euro
-AP US History
-AP Government
-AP Calc AB/BC
-AP Chemistry
-AP Physics
-AP Language</p>

<p>SAT (still awaiting the June scores):
CR: 730
Math: 670 (personally low)
Writing: 780</p>

<p>SAT II:
Math II: 780
US History: 780
Chemistry: 800</p>

<p>EC:
Cello: 8 years
Piano: 10 years (specialty is Jazz, have gone to two week long overnight camps for the past two summers)
Key Club: approx. 1.5 hrs/month
Debate Team: Junior and Senior year, have won awards, at least 15 hrs/month not including overnight trips
Counselor in Training at the local YMCA for freshman/sophomore summer
Tennis; not on a team, but I took lessons freshman/sophomore year and play recreationally for about 2hrs/week</p>

<p>Absolutely no chance of a need-based scholarship.</p>

<p>I feel most shaky about my EC activities, in hindsight I should have done more volunteer work. Although my GPA seems low, I only calculated core classes, and I have been on the most advanced track academically K-12. I usually have one of the 5 highest grades in the class.</p>

<p>My safeties (currently) are UNC, Bucknell, and UConn (I live in CT)
My goals are Rice and Cornell
My reach is UChicago, and far reach is Columbia (both parents went to Columbia for grad school, would this help at all?)</p>

<p>Thanks for your opinions everybody :)</p>

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<p>2100+ for rice and cornell is 2150+
I don’t think UNC is a safety for you</p>

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<p>UNC, Columbia, and Uchicago are high reaches, probably rejected at those 3. Class rank is simply too low. You have an outside chance at Cornell if you apply early decision, regular decision will be much harder. Same for Rice. </p>

<p>UNC is NOT a safety school for you by any means lol. As an out of state applicant, you are in an extremely competitive pool that only a small portion is accepted. </p>

<p>And No, you will not receive legacy consideration at Columbia. Applicant’s whose immediate family members attended Columbia Undergraduate school receive that bonus, not for those who attended columbia’s graduate school.</p>

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<p>our school doesn’t publish class rank, but I am almost certain that I probably in the top 5%; also our school is extremely competitive. According to the Naviance scattergram, if I boost my SAT by about 50 points, I will be roughly in the middle of the accepted range for UNC and UChicago, I am already in the accepted range for Rice.</p>