<p>I'm a junior in high school at the moment and I was wondering if I have a chance at these universities with my stats?</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.91
SAT: 2100 (haven't taken it yet but my practice tests avg bout that)
SAT II: Bio & USH (i haven't taken them yet but I'm getting really high scores in APUSH and AP Bio) Course Rigor:
My school doesn't offer a lot of AP's, and you can only start taking them in Grade 11.
Grade 11: AP Bio, AP USH, + 3 Honor Classes
Grade 12 (planning to take..): AP Calc, AP World, AP Chinese, AP Stats (maybe), AP Chem, AP Art EC's: 20+ Ec's
*Leadership: *
Grade 10: Class President
Grade 11: Cr8 Club Vice President
Grade 11: School Prayer Group Co Leader
Grade 9-11: Dance Club President
Grade 9-11: Church Youth Leader
Grade 9: Church Magazine Creative Director
Future: I'm hoping to be my school magazine's editor next year. </p>
<p>Universities:
NYU
Brown
Columbia
William and Mary
Northwestern
U Penn
University of Chicago
Cornell
University of Virginia
Yale</p>
<p>it seems like a good list, but you could use one or two safeties (you’re probably in for nyu but it isn’t exactly a safety), especially financial safeties if you’re trying to think about what’s reasonable.</p>
<p>hahaha actually most of the clubs are like during lunch, before school, after school, etc. + my school’s sports only lasts like 3 months so you can join three sports in one year :))</p>
<p>Yeah I was thinking of adding safeties too, like Boston College or something like that.</p>
<p>Well even with your “guessed” stats, all those schools could deny you pretty easily. Even BC. </p>
<p>A 2100 will most likely not get you into Ivys, UC, NU or UVA OOS. Try and get higher. </p>
<p>Your state U (?) I would add. If finances are a problem, worry about it now. You need at apply to schools that not only you can get in, but you can pay for.</p>
<p>You have listed 5 Ivy League schools! You have wonderful stats, but do you realize just how difficult it is to gain acceptance? </p>
<p>And what about the cost? Are you full pay? Can your parents pay the $50,000 plus for all 4 years? If not, have they done the EFC Calculator on Finaid site or the Collegeboard website? (On the Collegeboard website, hit “save” to save all the numbers, select both
FM & IM to see both Financial aid formulas used, FM for Federal Methodology & IM for Institutional Methodology.) </p>
<p>Have a serious discussion as to what your parents can pay. You are junior so you are planning ahead, good for you! :)</p>
<p>I know some kids like you who added their local state U at the last minute as a deep safety and guess where they wind up. At first there is terrible disappointment but once they get there and start at the Uni they do very well. You can either add your state U. or some still great but lower ranked privates as safeties. But you need a true safety. There’s a high likelihood that you’ll get into at least one (probably more) of those schools on your list, but true safeties DO come into play for many kids and the secret is, they’re not so bad! Remember, you are dealing with likelihoods here. There is a lot of chance built into the system. Make sure you have covered the odds.</p>
<p>Averby, there is not one person on the planet who can Definitely get into those schools with those stats. There simply are no definites. None. Add a safety!</p>
<p>@SLUMOM: I’m not even plannin on applying to harvard… i just couldn’t think of another username. + i got it from the movie nanny diaries :))</p>
<p>hmm yeah. actually the list isn’t finalized. I think i’m only going to apply to one ivy league (probably columbia… :)) and a few other safeties.</p>
<p>Btw, I don’t have a state U. I’m a US citizen living abroad…</p>
<p>Regarding financial aid, Don’t most of the big schools cover almost full financial aid? :S</p>
<p>Most of the schools on this list are reaches for everybody, since their acceptance rates are so low. </p>
<p>Look up the 25th-75th percentile SAT scores for these schools. For example, for Northwestern, the range is 2030 to 2280, which means the average is about 2155, which is considerably higher than 2000. Northwestern accepted 26% of applicants. Somebody upthread said that you could definitely get into Northwestern, but that just isn’t true. It will be a reach schools for you. If you get the SAT scores that you project, you have a chance at being accepted, but it probably is lower than 26%. </p>
Most selective schools offer need based aid. In order to get an idea of how much your family would qualify for ask your parents to use one of those on-line calculators.</p>
<p>I’d suggest that you do some refining of your EC list. What do you excel at? What interests you the most? Colleges are looking for interesting kids that do interesting things and long lists of activities can actually be detrimental. Focus on a few that you feel strongly about.</p>
<p>Also, living overseas can actually be an EC of sorts. You could write about your experiences as an expatriate American and explain how your international background would make you a valuable member of the campus community. Depending on where you live, this can be a big plus.</p>
<p>You definitely need at least one safety, especially if you don’t have a State U. </p>
<p>I don’t agree with a lot of what’s said here. Too extreme. I think one should estimate their probability of admission to one significant figure, and then 0-30% is a reach, 40-90% is a match and 100% is a safety. </p>
<p>BC has a 31% admission rate. It’s selective, but come on, it is not a reach for everyone, and it’s probably a match for the OP. It also has unrestricted early action. For those who apply EA and get in Dec 15, it IS a safety. If you don’t get in, it’s a wakeup call. </p>
<p>Northwestern has a 26% admission rate. It’s selective, but again, it is not a reach for everyone. I think it’s also a match for the OP. </p>
<p>Unless there is something glaringly wrong with the application, I think it’s more likely than not that the OP get into one of those two schools. Neither are safeties unless you get in EA. </p>
<p>I would still add another safety. </p>
<p>Just because one could get rejected from a school, doesn’t make it a reach though. </p>
<p>AP Calc and AP Chem are impressive hard, they each represent a year of college work.
AP Stats and AP World less so. I don’t know about Chinese and Art. </p>
<p>
This logic is flawed. The statistics you give are of first year students, NOT applicants. If she is in the 25-75% range of first year students, and they admitted 26%, then she is likely in the upper half of applicants. Those with lower stats likely didn’t get in. Taking the 2100 as a believable numbers, she is right smack in the middle of the range of first-year students. It is NOT a reach, but a match.</p>
<p>More than half of these schools are ridiculous reaches, and NOT A SINGLE ONE is a guarantee. I’d suggest choosing the two schools you like the most, setting them aside, and substituting every school that’s still on your list for the one 15 places below it in the US News rankings. That’s bound to produce a lot of matches and some nice almost-safeties.</p>
<p>Edit: I’m not actually advocating this manner of selecting colleges, just to be clear. But you really need to revise your list. Columbia, Brown, Yale, UChicago, Cornell, and UPenn? What for? Sorry to say this, but applying to six schools you have no chance at makes no sense.</p>