**Chances?? Please help put my mind at ease**

<p>i really need to know if i have a chance of getting in regular decision...</p>

<p>white male, long island public HS, un-hooked</p>

<p>SAT- 1530/2280 (GC wants to write how i got my SAT marks w/o tutors or anything, she thinks that will help)
SATII- 750 Math2, 800 US History, 630 chem
GPA- ~96 unweighted, higher w/o freshmen year, toughest courseload
No rank, top decile</p>

<p>EC's (this is what makes me nervous)
-4 years newspaper, this year Ed-in-chief (i dont know what other schools are like, but this is a MAJOR time commitment, and my teacher rec will show that)
-4 years volunteering every saturday at temple (co-leader), leading services, mentoring kids
(these two are the big ones im passionate about and will mention in essays)
-4 years community service club
-3 years hebrew culture club
-2 years math tutoring
-various other small things</p>

<p>essays: i think they will be excellent
rec's- teachers love me, and one is advisor of newspaper so can write about how much time i spend on that</p>

<p>good chances, def. apply</p>

<p>i am pretty sure that a few months ago NU had one of those tables on their website that show the percentage of kids addmitted within a range of SAT scores, and for over 700something it was 50%. does anyone else remember that or am i crazy?</p>

<p>yeah i remember it, they took it down and only have other "fast facts" on there</p>

<p>so i should have about a 50% shot, right?</p>

<p>Renman, it sounds like you're referring to the NU's</a> Common Data Set section C9.</p>

<p>i dont think it was that, im pretty sure it was a table showing what percentage was accepted within each sat range. (a few other colleges do post that data)</p>

<p>your chances are good, you have really good application selling points, your chances ED would be very high, and RD i think you have a good shot too, 50/50 at least.</p>

<p>You remember correctly. They simply took it down. One possible explanation is they don't want people to read too much into it and try to "estimate" their own chance based on that.</p>

<p>thanks guys, i knew i wasnt crazy</p>