Chances please? It'd be greatly appreciated!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Thanks for taking the time to read through all this!</p>

<p>Ok so here are the schools I'm looking at:
Stanford (SCEA)
Brown
Northwestern
Boston College
Tufts
George Washington University
Yale
Penn
Vassar
SUNY Binghamton (EA-it's ok, Stanford allows me to do this)
SUNY Geneseo</p>

<p>Male from NY
First Generation College Student
White (not Asian-you'll see why later)
Public High school, competitive and does well with admissions (one year each ivy accepted 1-2 different people. another year, apparently 5 people got into Brown, but that's hearsay).</p>

<p>Stats:
UW GPA (School doesn't do UW, but it's around a 3.9ish)
W GPA. 4.6ish out of a possible 5.2 I believe.
Rank 23/475ish (will this hurt?)</p>

<p>Senior Year Classes:
AP Calc BC
AP Physics C
AP English Lit
AP German
AP Psychology</p>

<p>Past APs:
World History 5
English Lang 5
APUSH 4</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning:
CR: 700
Math: 770
Writing: 730
Total: 2200</p>

<p>Sat Subject Tests
World History: 740
Japanese with Listening: 790
Math Level 2: 760</p>

<p>Awards/other:
-National Honor Society
-National German Honor Society
-Outstanding achievement in German award
-99th percentile on american association of teachers of german test
-passed level 3 of the japanese language proficiency test
-Area all state orchestra (hard to get into) participant 11-12 grade
-AP Scholar</p>

<p>ECs
-German Club 9-12. Have been Sec, Vice and Prez. We have an ongoing exchange program with a school in Hamburg. But when we're not doing that, we spread german culture through oktoberfests, cabarets, etc.
-Varsity Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field 9-12 (not good enough to be recruited but still an active member of the team)
-I also act as a teaching assistant for my after school Japanese teacher with 2 of her other classes
-Over 300 hours of community service at a nature center 9-12
-Am in school's honors string ensemble for best 20 string players in the school (I play viola). We play at bookstores, rehab centers, private clubs, etc throughout the area.
-model UN club 11-12. We only got a model UN 11th grade, that's why I didn't join sooner. I'm going to be a future delegate come our first conference.</p>

<p>Work experience/miscellaneous:
-Lifeguard at a lake this past summer
-Went to Japan as part of the Experiment in International Living (EIL) for a month. Included a 10 day homestay.</p>

<p>Subjectives:
recs from German and math teachers should be really good
guidance counselor rec should be good
Everyone I showed my essay(s) too really liked them. </p>

<p>Thanks for reading through all of this!</p>

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<p>Nihongo ga hanaseru neh. Good for you lol. You have great test scores, a solid GPA, and decent ECs. I'm really impressed with your committment and success with foreign languages, which is something you should definitely emphasize. Regardless, Stanford is still Stanford, so I'd say your chances are 50-50. I think you look good for Brown, Northwestern, and all the other schools except for Yale in Penn. I'd say Penn is a tossup while Yale is 40-60. Good luck!</p>

<p>If you don't mind, chance me back, too. Hopefully I'm still somewhere near the top.</p>

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<p>in at all, but idk about yale and stanford.</p>

<p>here's me: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/599653-very-very-not-perfect.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/599653-very-very-not-perfect.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>nihongo ga jouzu desu nee! oh wait! im korean xD</p>

<p>having 3 languages DEFINITELY helps you stand out! better chances than most at stanford, yale, penn, brown</p>

<p>the rest are definitely at least matches (NU, BC, and tufts may be slight reaches....but still a great chance)</p>

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<p>bump (10 char)</p>

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<p>I never, ever respond to chances posts, but I'm struck by several similarities between your profile and that of my son's (now in his first year of college). He, too, is a white kid with a love of Japanese (and languages in general - he studied a total of 8 at different levels going back to childhood) who did lots of independent study of Japanese (including a month in school in Japan). With slightly higher SAT and SAT II scores (in the same 3 subject areas as you) and a somewhat higher class rank, but with a lower GPA, his results for the schools that overlapped with your list were: Yale - deferred EA, then rejected, Stanford - rejected, Penn - waitlisted (he immediately took himself off the waitlist), and Brown - accepted. I think your higher GPA may improve your chances with these schools, but - in the end - there's a huge element of luck that will determine your fate. Everything works out for the best - my son ended up at the school that was his true number 1 choice and where my husband and I always knew he belonged based on all the factors that "stats" fail to capture.</p>