<p>CHANCE ME PLEASE?
White male from private Catholic high school in NJ
Legacy at Colgate</p>
<p>Applied finance/economics to all of my schools</p>
<p>Deferred Villanova Early Action and waiting for Lafayette, Colgate, Lehigh and Bucknell RD
Accepted to UMD College Park Honors Program</p>
<p>Stats:
-93 W GPA
-2060 SAT (670 CR, 670 M, 720 W)
-670 US His SAT 2, 550 Lit SAT 2 (not very good, and only submitted USH for schools that did not require SAT 2)
-Summer internship at investment banking firm in the summer, worked in and commuted to NYC
-All Honors through HS and 2 APs (Biology and European History) Senior Year
-NHS and tutor for 2 years
-English Honor Society and tutor for 2 years
-German Honor Society 3 years. current Vice President, tutor and recieved service award for my volunteer work through this Honor Soc.
-Moderator and founder of annual Baby Shower Drive, benefitting a local womens and young mothers shelter, over 500 items collected, started last year and will continue
-History Club 2 years
-German Club 4 years, current Treasurer
-3 years lifeguarding and swim instructor experience
-Rowing 2 years
-Basketball, JV and intramural, 3 years
-Varsity Swimming 2 years
-volunteered for local homeless shelter org. 2 years
-Drama/stage crew 2 years</p>
<p>Please chance me!! I would love to be accepted to one of these schools as they are my top REALISTIC picks.</p>
<p>Have sent a letter of interest to Villanova and also sent an additional recommendation from my German teacher and co moderator of my annual benefit.</p>
<p>Lehigh and colgate may be stretches, but I have interviewed at Colgate twice and did an alumni only weekend there with my dad if that helps. </p>
<p>I don’t really know much about colgate, but I thinkk that you are most likely to get into lafayette, then bucknell, and then lehigh. But you have some pretty good extra curriculars and you seem like a solid A/A- student so i would say its like an 75-80% chance for each of them.</p>
<p>Average is low, test scores in line for Villanova. My son’s friend who had similar numbers but with a 95 average from a Catholic NY school was WLed there. Your average is one thing, but the trend and whether there are any Cs in there will make a difference as well as the difficulty of the courses you took . You are right on the fence</p>
<p>My courseload has been very rigorous through high school with all possible honors classes taken, only 2 basic classes, taken and AP Biology and AP European History and all other honors classes my senior year. Only low grade was in Honors Chem sophomore year which was a approx a B.</p>
<p>also cptofthehouse, I dont know if this is accurate but villanova likes demonstrated interest and I have made numerous attempts since i was deferred to express my interest in attending including visiting and sending 2 or 3 more letters of interest to the director of admissions for NJ</p>
<p>evcalt7 - did you write to admissions at villanova once you were wait listed? This process is crazy as I was accepted to Bucknell, Lafayette but WL at Villanova, and haven’t heard from them I was also accepted to Washington and Lee so being wait listed at nova seemed crazy to me.</p>
<p>Wrote admissions like crazy when I was wait listed. Was told that if I applied to their College of Arts and Sciences I would’ve been admitted. </p>
<p>The acceptance rate for ther business school in 2012 was 12%, a staggeringly low number, so I think it had to do with what school you applied to. I know a kid who was accepted to ND, BC, UVA but WL at nova.</p>
<p>Hope you went with W&L, sounds like a great opportunity</p>
<p>Thanks evcalt7. I actually went with Bucknell. Much better fit for me. W&L was too small, and too southern. Could have played soccer there as well but had to go with what worked best.</p>
<p>I have heard from a number of people that Villanova did not admit the overqualified students as they knew that they would use it as a safety. I heard that Lafayette did same think as well, as I know someone in admissions there.</p>
<p>Just as an aside, it is interesting that of this fine group of schools (you can’t go wrong with any of these BTW), all but Villanova are in the Patriot League.</p>
<p>I know Nova would not consider joining the PL, but they would be a very good fit as they, along with the other Catholic schools in the Patriot League (Georgetown, Holy Cross and Fordham), are considered Catholic Ivy. If the CAA continues to change, Nova, with it’s high academic standards, should consider the PL for football and would be most welcome.</p>
<p>@RamRay I agree with you on the PL point. I loved all the PL schools and ended up being admitted to Lehigh and Lafayette. I think all of them had similar student bodies (predominantly white, athletically oriented, wealthy suburban kids) which I liked. Villanova staying in the Big East doesnt look so good because the only truly selective institution left in the BE are Nova and GTown.</p>
<p>While many on the PL boards would like to see that happen, most Nova football fans would never want to “Weaken” their football program from the CAA and still hope for a big time FBS jump (though that ship has sailed). Aside from that, VU in terms of size, academics and student profile, is a much better fit for the Ivy-like PL than the mostly southern-state schools that now make up the CAA.</p>
<p>But lets see what happens over time…the college football conference madness will continue to change.</p>