Chances? Will return the favor. Columbia, Brown, UChicago, WUSTL, Rice, Tulane

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chance me please. I will gladly chance return the favor if you ask me to. Thanks guys.</p>

<p>Columbia, Brown, UChicago, WUSTL, Rice, Tulane</p>

<p>White Male, Mississippi
Major: Anthropology
SAT: V:770 M:720 W:690
ACT: C:32 E:35 M:31 R:36 S:26 W:8
GPA: 3.88w
Rank: 42 out of 302-ouch (my school does rank weird, but there is nothing that i can really do about it)
Best public HS in Mississippi, for what it's worth
Clubs:
NHS:2 years
Robotics Team:2 years
Spanish Club: 2 years-secretary
Asian Cultural Society: 2 years
Jobs:
Tea Chef at a tea bar 4-5 months
Fact Checker and errand runner for publishing co.-5-6 months</p>

<p>3 poverty relief trips in Honduras(summer, week each)
1 poverty relief trip in the Navajo Nation(week long)</p>

<p>Avid local musician, play in progressive folk/blues band at local bars and similar venues.(writing 150 word "elaborate on one of you ECs" essay for Common app about this)</p>

<p>Spending 1st semester of Senior year as exchange student in Catalunya, a bilingual autonomous region in northern Spain. The two official languages are Spanish and Catalan. All but two of my classes are taught in Catalan. I hadn't heard a word of it before i arrived and am learning the language through immersion. I am writing my essay about this.</p>

<p>Spent a week working on an archeological dig in an early 17th century french settlement on the mississippi gulf coast that was discovered after Katrina. Learned the basics of Archeology and found a few bone fragments and nails(the dig primarily took place in the settlements cemetery, the bodies had to be moved for legal reasons.)</p>

<p>also, if you could recommend a few more safety/matches that i could apply to(preferably in or near a fairly large city that uses the Common App and offers a major in Anthropology. with kind of a quirky intellectual atmosphere like Chicago or Brown)</p>

<p>thanks guys, and please give your honest opinion, don't just try to make me feel good or anything,</p>

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<p>You have your best shot at Rice (I am not familiar with Tulane).</p>

<p>You should pick some more match/safety schools since I don't see anything that makes you stand out hugely to your reaches</p>

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<p>"You should pick some more match/safety schools since I don't see anything that makes you stand out hugely to your reaches"</p>

<p>yeah i know, that's why asked you to recommend a few safety/match schools.</p>

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<p>Alright, well your SAT score is great. Good for you. I think your GPA and rank will hurt you at these top schools, but your EC's look pretty solid, especially the semester abroad and the poverty relief trips. I think you've got an excellent shot at Tulane and WUSTL, and I think the rest are up for grabs. I'm not too familiar with other schools and their anthropology department, so I can't really be a help there. Sorry. </p>

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<p>early or regular decision? if brown feels like a fit, apply there early</p>

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<p>Columbia - Reach
Brown - low reach
UChicago - high match (with kickass essays)
WUSTL - match
Rice - match
Tulane - in</p>

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<p>Mississippi male, 1490 SAT, 32 Act & an interesting resume of ECs almost assures you of admission to every school on your list. I actually had a Dean of Admissions complain to me two years ago that he/she would give anything to "find an intelligent male student from Mississippi who could write". Actually the conversation continued on in a slightly more negative fashion. But, the point remained the same. You are almost certainly going to be recruited, admitted & given special scholar status at schools that offer such programs. And I am very serious. You don't need a chances thread, you just need applications & some stamps. The only reason that Harvard, Yale or Princeton would reject you is if they suspect that another school is your first choice. Just to prove my point, I invite you to apply to a top ten school in which you have little genuine interest. Do the application completely in crayon, maybe even different colors of crayon, and you will be admitted.</p>

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<p>well, im applying to Tulane and Chicago Early Action. I really don't want to limit my choices by applying ED somewhere.</p>

<p>and, you guys don't think that my class rank will severely hurt my chances at some of those top schools. I mean, i know the ranking system at my school is flawed(band students get 100's calculated as 1/4 of their GPA) but the colleges wont know that will they?<br>
As for competition, my school is generally seen as being one the best in the state of Mississippi, but we don't generally send a lot of kids to top ranked school(most only apply to state schools). Last year, we had one go to Harvard(also got into Yale, Columbia ect), one got a scholarship to Duke, and a few others got into really good schools, CMU, W&L, ect.</p>

<p>well, thanks for the good responses so far.</p>

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<p>"I actually had a Dean of Admissions complain to me two years ago that he/she would give anything to "find an intelligent male student from Mississippi who could write"."</p>

<p>Where was this, if you don't mind me asking? I think i may need to apply there.</p>

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<p>It was at a very highly ranked school. Unfortunately, this was a confidential conversation. The point is that you are a sought after student by the most elite schools in the U.S. A problem is that many are reluctant to leave the Deep South or, as you wrote, most only apply to stete schools in Mississippi. Apply & you'll see. I'll even furnish the crayons to you.</p>

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<p>Ok, i understand. Thanks anyway.</p>

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<p>I would say that you'd get into everything with the exception of Brown and U Chicago, both hard schools. </p>

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<p>"I would say that you'd get into everything with the exception of Brown and U Chicago, both hard schools."</p>

<p>Columbia, but not Brown or Chicago?</p>

<p>and if it makes any difference, i interviewed at Chicago and WashU and visited/info session at Columbia. If any of them offer me an interview i will deffinately accept, if i can. </p>

<p>thanks for all the great responses so far.</p>

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<p>Columbia - reach
Brown - reach
UChicago - match
WUSTL - i'm not familiar with this school, sorry
Rice - low match, almost a safety
Tulane - not familiar, sorry</p>

<p>your 3.88 weighted gpa and SAT scores aren't stellar - below average for columbia and brown, i'd say. however, it looks like you're really passionate about anthropology, and your resume/ECs definitely demonstrate that, so that may make up for your weaknesses.</p>

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<p>please elaborate on progressive folk? haha</p>

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<p>"please elaborate on progressive folk? haha"</p>

<p>not a joke at all. I play guitar, mandolin, and harmonica. Lots of improvising, almost jazzlike, though i wouldn't call it a jam band. The description may sound like a jam band, but the music kind of has it's own feel, not that it's great or anything, but i have fun.</p>

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<p>hey guys, ive been worrying a lot about my rank, 42 out of 302. I've taken the hardest classes i can and have made almost all As, a few Bs, and one C. The main problem is that my school has a weird way of doing GPA and rank. How much will this hurt my chances. Please give an honest answer.</p>

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<p>I would think that recommendations would neutralize if not turn around any doubts concerning your class rank. If your teachers know that you're intellectually engaged, then IMO you're set.</p>

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<p>My friend had a little better scores (760 V 770M 700 W) and had a relatively similar transcript. He got in at Columbia and WUSTL, but not Brown or UChicago. He's from Maine which I suppose is worse than Mississippi, and also didn't work at a tea bar. Columbia was also his top choice and I think his essays were much better for Columbia than Brown or UChicago. I say you have a good shot at all of those schools, just put a lot of thought into your essays. And your SATs are fine for all of those schools, they are good enough to look elsewhere on your app and thus raising you score by 50 points won't really help or hurt you that much.</p>

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<p>Have you thought about Emory? It should be a match for you, from my understanding it is intellectual, it's near a big city, I believe its a Common App school, and they have an anthropology program.</p>

<p>in at Tulane, reach for Columbia and Brown, match for everything else.</p>

<p>Your EC's are awesome. Not even from a college standpoint, just a life standpoint.
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