chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Swarthmore College
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<p>I am applying under Winter ED...can I have opinions on my chances?</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT1: M710 V710
SAT2: Writing 740, Math2C 740, Biology 680
GPA: 3.8 UW, 4.2 W
Class Rank: N/A - our school offers a school rank across the classes that is unweighted, but I am pretty sure I am not in the top 10% (that requires 3.9 UW)</p>

<p>ECs:
Cofounder(9), VP(11), P(12) of math+science club for kids
Stanford Earth Science internship (9-12)
technician @ environmental eng'g lab (12)
Competitive & highschool varsity swimming (9-12)
Stanford Sports Medicine internship (10)
Junior wheelchair sports camp volunteer (11)
Forensics PCR workshop (11)
highschool Link Crew (11,12)
chinese + piano
awards in internships, swimming, community service</p>

<p>Recommendations:
strong recs from counselor, swim coach, lab mentor, but unsure about teachers</p>

<p>I've been in touch with Swarthmore's swim coach...and she says my chances are 1 in 3 for winter ED. however, I am feeling that this estimate is overly generous and I am wondering what I can do to strengthen my application. also, I know it is almost Jan. 1, but would anyone be willing to help me with my Why Swat essay? Thanks, and happy holidays!</p>

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<p>Lilypad:</p>

<p>I don't see anything that screams out what your chances would be. You would fall in the large majority of applicants who have the "stats", but may or may not get accepted depending on the total application package. It would be impossible without knowing your race/ethnicity, type of high school, where kids ranked similarly to you have gotten accepted, and so on and so forth.</p>

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<p>RE: It would be impossible without knowing your race/ethnicity, type of high school, where kids ranked similarly to you have gotten accepted, and so on and so forth.</p>

<p>I am Asian (chinese)
My highschool is #7 among all public California schools, and is very competitive
It is hard to compare myself to last years students with similar stats, because over 70% of our student body feeds into the University of California schools (especially Berkeley & UCLA) and Cal State U's. most of the remaining 30% choose large universities over LACs (very few of my fellow peers have even heard of Swat, Amherst, etc...)</p>

<p>so I suppose it really is up in the air...and I better have some darn good essays. thanks for your help interesteddad!</p>