<p>Your EC's seem fairly strong, but the test scores really aren't there for harvard, columbia. i think you could get into georgetown, though. Also, it could hurt you that you go to Baylor... jk I go to McCallie</p>
<p>American is a total safety and GW probably is too</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies.</p>
<p>anyone else</p>
<p>Don't give up hope regarding Columbia. My friend got in with a 1260 sat/97 weighted avg. and she didn't have any amazing hooks or anything. Columbia is extremely competitve, obviously, but they look beyond the numbers. Make yourself stand out .</p>
<p>dont let it die</p>
<p>Hey I am a junior too, pretty similar to you. I'm interested in Columbia and Gtown and I got a 2080, 3.69 GPA, 10 AP's, and I got a 800 SATII Math level2 so I'm hoping that will help too... I really hope you get in cause if you don't get in..i won't get in.. but judging my the numbers alone.. neither of us will, So i'm praying i raise my scores, which is truly a possibility considering we still have 9 months of test dates :)
good luck</p>
<p>dont take advice from stambiark, he's a rejectee and doesnt know much about the admission game. I am pretty sure you will get into most of those schools, to the extent that I can even bet money :)</p>
<p>Harvard - reach
Georgetown - slight reach
Columbia - reach
Northwestern - slight reach
GWU/American - In
Tufts: In
BU: In
Syracuse: In
U Georgia: In</p>
<p>Wow um JamesN, you don't seem to know much about the admissions game yourself...
"Tufts: In" - I very much disagree. I think you have a great shot at Tufts but by no means should you just expect to get in. I'd say it's a slight reach, at around 40% chance or so of getting in.
"BU: In" - BU can not be used as a safety. They're admissions is sometimes somewhat random. I'd consider it a safe match.
"Harvard- reach, Columbia- reach" - I call those reaches for applicants that stick out. You do not stick out, you are a normal applicant for these schools. Thus, I'd call both of these huge reaches.</p>
<p>chocolateluvr, I would have guessed you're from MA by your post. BU, Tufts, and Harvard to a lesser extent are all much more difficult to get in if you're from Massachusetts. I don't know BU that well but I would definitely call it a safety. Tufts is also not that much of a reach for some one from Georgia, I would put his chances in the 65-70% range. Again, Georgia will help him at both of those schools since they're probably not seeing a whole lot of very competitive applications from that region.</p>
<p>Also, with regards to Georgetown, it is much more difficult to get in Early Action. They aim to accept the same rate of kids EA that they did last year for all apps (from the Georgetown website: The acceptance rates at Early Action and Regular Decision will be roughly similar. Georgetown generally uses the overall acceptance rate from the year before as the acceptance rate at Early Action. For example, the overall acceptance rate for 2001-2002 was 21%, so 21% of students who applied under the Early Action program in 2002-2003 were admitted EA. The overall acceptance rate for 2004-2005 was 21%.) and the EA pool is always stronger. I can't find the page now, but SAT middle 50%s are 20-30 points higher on each section on EA acceptances compared to RD acceptances</p>
<p>well, unless the op gets his sat scores up, and he does have time to do so, i guess he won't be going to g'town. what the op needs to understand is that the lower ranges of the posted sat scores are generally reserved for recruited athletes and urms generally. not being in the upper range of the scores and not having a hook will probably not get the job done. in addition, applications at most selective universities and colleges have skyrocketed and because of the increase in apps, overall admissions acceptances will be lower on a percentage basis. this will make op's chances that much harder. i agree that bu and tufts are more within reach.</p>
<p>Gah, I had no idea schools were so tough, and I never even thought about recruits and URMs in my search. Great...hahaha.</p>
<p>I'm from MD but I am using Naviance along with personal knowledge to predict chances. Where my opinions are coming from:</p>
<p>BU- From my competitive public high school in MD, people with high scores and grades did not get in, while many with quite low scores did. I just don't think it can really be used as a safety. Chances are extremely high, and he has other backups so it's fine.</p>
<p>Tufts- They have a 27% acceptance rate and 75% SATs are 1470. That alone shows that it can not be such a sure thing. Looking at Naviance, almost everyone that was accepted had 1350-1550 and 3.5-4.0. It seems as if the 1550 4.0 students had no more success than the 1350 3.5 students. Considering some students that applied with <3.5 and <1350, of those students with stats in range each had around a 1/3 chance. The OP has good extracurriculars, so I bumped chances up to 40%.</p>
<p>Harvard- At my school 104 students have applied to Harvard in the past few years. We do quite well- 14% acceptance rate. Only 2 people got in with a score of 1430 or lower. One I know was amazing at 2 different sports and was being recruited by many schools. I do not know who the other person was, but my guess is they had something big going for them too. For the average Harvard applicant, it is a reach. The OPs SATs are hardly above the 25th percentile, so it is definately a huge reach. This doesn't mean no chance or don't apply, but IMHO chances are less than 11% (Harvard's acceptance rate)</p>
<p>ummmmm he got 2110 actually and NOT 2100 if you do the math</p>
<p>Yeah yeah, I made a typo, but I knew Harvard and Columbia were HUGE reaches, but you can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket...haha.</p>
<p>Agreed. I am in no way discouraging you from applying, as long as you aren't expecting to get in. At least you have high enough scores and grades that you probably could do well at Harvard or Columbia, so if they accept you, all the more power to you! There's always a chance if you apply, you're definately in the game.</p>
<p>Do you think I could get money anywhere? American maybe...?</p>
<p>i got waitlisted at Gtown with a 2310 / 3.95</p>
<p>yay</p>
<p>Kid at my school got waitlisted by northwestern and WUSTL, rejected by MIT and Stanford, and only got in to UI-UC.
33 ACT, 4.0 UW, 4.4 W, top 1%, AND alzheimer's research at WUSTL. </p>
<p>^^^THAT IS CRAZY. sorry but with random things like that, There's no sure bet.</p>
<p>PS-his essays might have sucked, thats the only reason i can think of.</p>
<p>his essays may not have been good and his ec's might have been pedestrian. i am surprised by nw and wustl though.</p>