Chances (& urgent...)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Urgent because I have to hand my high school all the forms they need for all my schools on Monday.</p>

<p>I'm afraid that I have only reaches and safeties, with no matches... I felt like my matches were UVa and Emory, but my parents won't let me apply because they're too far away.</p>

<p>Please give me an honest assessment of what you think my chances look like at each of these schools...</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA: Overall; 96.5/100.0
(Freshman; 94.9% / Sophomore; 97.1% / Junior; 97.4%)
Rank: 13 of 372 (Top 3.5%)
SAT I: 2330 (Critical Reading; 740, Math; 790, Writing; 800)
SAT II: Biology-E; 690, Math Level 1; 740 (&Literature; 660)</p>

<p>ECs/Awards:
Math Club - Officer, Vice-President, President
Mathlete Team - Captain
Certificate of Merit - New York Math League
Silver - Nassau County Interscholastic Math League (NCIML)
Spanish Club - President
School Newspaper - Feature Editor
Published by The America Library of Poetry
Local Youth Football Clinic Volunteer - Assistant Coach
General Student Organization Volunteer - Senior Leader
Studio Art
2nd Place - School Art Contest
National Honor Society
Honor Roll every semester
National Merit Semifinalist
1st Place - School Biology Fair
Brown University Summer Program
Babysitting job</p>

<p>Subjective:
Recs- One is probably excellent, other very good
Essays- For the free topic essay, I wrote about how my love of the American Museum of Natural History in NYC prompted me to take an anthropology course at Brown, and how I not only learned about anthropology within a classroom setting, but also outside of the classroom, from the diversity of my peers... My best friends were from Bangladesh and South Korea.</p>

<p>State: New York
School Type: Private (Catholic)
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male</p>

<p>Penn (after ED deferral)
Georgetown
Cornell
Williams
Swarthmore
Tufts
GW
BU</p>

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<p>You got deferred ED from Penn with those stats? Weird, cause a friend of mine applied ED with a 1370 and less impressive ECs than yours and will be matriculating...what a crapshoot!
Anyways, you are obviously in at GW, BU, and Tufts.</p>

<p>Williams and Swarthmore are probably slight reaches just because they ignore reason and deny stellar applicants sometimes, but I'd say you're in at one of the two.</p>

<p>You also have a very good shot at Cornell and Georgetown, and who knows about UPenn.</p>

<p>All in all, you are a very strong applicant and you will probably get accepted to a majority of your elite LACs and universities.</p>

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<p>Okay, thank you very much.
Yeah, it really is a crapshoot.</p>

<p>Basically, I'm not going to entertain the notion of getting into Penn RD... So I really want either Georgetown or Cornell. I'd be totally content with either of those. I think I'd like the LACs too, so hopefully I will get into one of those.</p>

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<p>I'd really love either Cornell or Georgetown, so much, but I don't know my chances at them... Any other insight ?</p>

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<p>Did you take the Math IIC subject test?</p>

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<p>No I didn't.</p>

<p>My updated list is:
Penn (Deferred ED)
Cornell
Georgetown
Amherst
Williams
BC
Notre Dame
Colgate
Binghamton</p>

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<p>Cornell-match
Georgetown/Amherst/Williams-high match
BC-low match
Notredame- match
Colgate-low match</p>

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<p>My updated list is:
Penn (Deferred ED)-itll be a reach now
Cornell-match
Georgetown-good match
Amherst-match/slight reach
Williams-match/slight reach
BC-admit
Notre Dame-match
Colgate-safe match
Binghamton</p>

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<p>Thank you for your opinions</p>