chancing much appreciated

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm trying to finalize the colleges that I'm going to be applying to this fall, so if anyone would be willing to chance me that would be amazing..I'm fairly confident that I have way too many reaches (my EC's are severly lacking), but I'd just like to know where I stand.
I'm also new here, so I'm just going to do this in pretty much the same format as I've seen from previous posters.</p>

<p>Colleges:
University of Texas (Plan II, hopefully)
University of Notre Dame
Boston College
Duke
Emory
Vanderbilt
Washington University in St. Louis
University of San Diego
Georgetown
Yale
Brown</p>

<p>female, middle-class, white, private all-girls Catholic school, TX
Parents: UT alum and Univeristy of Notre Dame alum
I'd like to major in Applied Mathematics..possibly something else but definitely math-based.</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.89 (unweighted), 4.01 (weighted)
Top 10%; school doesn't send out rankings
High Honor Roll every semester
SAT I: 720 (R) 790 (M) 740 (W)
SAT II: 800 (Math II) 760 (Math I) 660 (Lit, will retake)
ACT: 34 w/o writing, 33 with
AP: English Lang (5), Span Lang (4), taking Calc BC, Gov, and English Lit my senior year
I am also trying to take Statistics AP Independent study. Unfortunately my school does not offer many AP courses, but I have taken at least four PreAP/AP courses every year.</p>

<p>EC:
Leadership- National Honor Society President, Junior Class Treasurer, Student Council Member all four years, Halloween Committee, Breast Cancer Awareness Committee, Prom Committee, Guidance Office Leadership Program (mentor and tutor past two years)</p>

<p>Athletic- 4 Years Basketball (2 Varsity), Varsity Track 9, 10, Manager 11 (torn ACL), Freshman Volleyball</p>

<p>Awards-Commended National Merit Scholar (or possibly higher), Who's Who Among Students, one of four students awarded ½ tuition scholarship from school</p>

<p>Church- lector since 8th grade, co-director for music camp past two years, Sunday School teacher last year and this year</p>

<p>Job: worked at a local gym during last school year, in May I got a job at a local Deli and I am planning on continuing to work there through the school year</p>

<p>Other- Catholic Worker House, visits to local University’s Nursing Home, helped to clean up school, volunteer at a local Respite house, and various other activities for school/NHS, Summer Scholars Program at Notre Dame</p>

<p>Also I am planning on starting a club to support the Karama House at my school at the beginning of this year. If anyone wants to check out the website it is karamahouse.org; it’s a really great cause.</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>also if anyone has any recommendations of colleges that would be a good match for me that would be great..</p>

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<p>Looks like a perfect range of schools that fit your resume.</p>

<p>Yale, Brown, and Duke are your only reaches.</p>

<p>I would look at Cornell and UChicago with your stats.</p>

<p>Regards.</p>

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<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>..anyone else?</p>

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<p>Yale and Brown are your only big reaches, but they are reaches for anyone. You have a great shot at all the others, especially since you have a legacy as well.</p>

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<p>I agree with the other posts regarding Yale and Brown. I think you have great EC's by the way. From what I have learned they are not interested in how many EC's but a strong interest in something over your high school experience. I think if you write a strong essay about your experiences volunteering and what you learned about yourself during those experiences than I think you have a shot at all your choices.
Good Luck!
chance me back, thanks.
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<p>Good ECs but take out Who's Who.. Almost everyone applying to your reaches will have that or an equivalent. Good range of schools. If USD is a safety, you don't need it because of top 10%. Good luck!</p>

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<p>bump..</p>

<p>ps thanks for the good ec's comment; that really surprised me because i keep on reading about all of these mission trips to third world countries that other people have done.</p>