Chances/Help deciding where to apply, mostly LACs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Female
White</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 UW, ~4.9 W</p>

<p>SAT: I: Best sitting: 2320, Best combined: 2400
II: Lit-800, USH-790, French (no listening, non native)-760
PSAT: 237, so should be national merit</p>

<p>Rank: Unsure, top 10% I guess...but we have a lot of 4.0s. End of Jr. Year I was about 15th out of about 300.</p>

<p>School: Public, IB, Florida, ranked in top 10 of the lovely High School ratings which mean essentially nothing about our quality...but we do have a lot of students competing for top colleges.
All AP, IB, or honors except Drama freshman year, out of 7 APs through Jr year, 6 5s and 1 4. Full IB diploma candidate with 4 higher levels, 3 more APs sr year.</p>

<p>ECs (This is in very condensed form, however it is my weak point, even when fully expanded upon.)</p>

<p>Theatre:
Thespian Troupe 10-12, Officer 11-12, competed at districts and state, have earned superiors and excellents.
Extensive work in school plays both onstage and off throughout high school.
Voice lessons.</p>

<p>Church:
Have been active in my church youth group for many years, includes some community service. Also serve as acolyte, lector, calicifer.
Happening, a diocesan youth retreat, probably basis for my essay...on steering committee, had second highest position at one of the happening weekends putting me directly in charge of about 15 other volunteers, as well as having worked as a small group leader three times.</p>

<p>Academic:
Brain Bowl (11, 12)
French competition team, (10, probably 12) earned superior rank, our team won first in state of florida.
French club, french honor society, NHS, English honor society (possible officer 12)
Modern greek lessons with professor at UF in 10, credit course at Brown University in ancient Greek between 11 and 12.
(I plan to major in Linguistics)</p>

<p>Well, that is all that leaps to mind...so I suppose I shall move on to my college list. I am putting this in the chances area, though it's honestly more for help on where I should apply. Perhaps I should have put it in that forum, but oh well. Because it's mostly my need to get a good mix of reaches/matches/safeties by narrowing down my extensive list, so I think it fits here. Anyway.</p>

<p>Top 3:
Swarthmore (ED, tentatively....visiting in October to make final decision)
Brown
Yale</p>

<p>Other Very Interested:
Middlebury
Wesleyan
Georgetown
Bowdoin
Vassar
Wellesley</p>

<p>Second Tier (in my interest...and mostly in quality)
Haverford
Bryn Mawr
George Washington (parents both went here)
Goucher
Reed (love it, but distance is pushing it...I think it's obvious I want out of the south, but Oregon...)
Pomona (same issue)
Brandeis
Grinnell</p>

<p>Out of the ones I like less, my mind changes from time to time...but that's the general gist of it.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Given your stats, you will be a strong applicant at all the schools on your list. The only reach I see is Yale, and not because your stats aren't good enough - they' re more than good enough - but because Yale admits so few applicants (less than 10%). By the way, Middlebury is noted for languages. Might want to look at that school in depth.</p>

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<p>Languages yes, but they actually don't have a linguistics department at all, which is what I'm truly interested in. However, I definitely plan to spend one of my college summers in their immersion program. Thanks, though!</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>A high scoring Florida resident will look very appealing to any New England LAC. Just be aware that the competition among women for admission spots can be very fierce.</p>

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<p>You're a great candidate. You don't need to apply to any schools you aren't sure of. That is a great list. You won't need to resort to your second tier schools, so it's probably a waste to apply to many of them, unless you are looking for a lot of financial aid. Applying to two or three would be good.</p>

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<p>Swarthmore is probably a great choice for you, especially if you are going on to a graduate program, as I expect you are. When you are accepted ED, you won't have to worry about what other LACs to apply to.</p>