Confused. Crazy? Overconfident?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a senior in an average long island suburban hs. I have no clue where I'll be able to get in. I know the reaches, but I don't know what's safe enough to call a target, or safe enough to label truly as safety. </p>

<p>Grades:
gpa: 4.0 weighted
APs: euro 4, us 5, physics B 4, english comp 5
sats: 2300 math 760 writing 770 reading 770
sat IIs: bio 670 physics 660 ushistory 770</p>

<p>This years load:
ap calc bc, ap bio, ap gov&pol, ap engl lit</p>

<p>ECs:
Key Club<em>President
Student Service Center</em>President
Yearbook_Editor
Newspaper
Mathletes (haa)
Marching Band/Rockettes
National Honor Society
Class Office (in order of yr 9-12: secretary, vp, vp, president)</p>

<p>Sports:
varsity winter track (4 yrs)
jv lacrosse (2 yrs)</p>

<p>Rundown:
Hours and hours of volunteer stuff, have held 3 jobs, was homecoming queen, class rank unknown as of yet, prob top 5, 3/4 asian =]</p>

<p>Right now I'm looking at:</p>

<p>Yale (scary)
Williams
Brown (top choice)
Vassar
Brandeis
UC Berkeley
Dartmouth
Wesleyan</p>

<p>Those are the schools I have some interest in, I will TOTALLY APPRECIATE if anyone tells me a school I should consider/will like/match/target/good safety for my stats.</p>

<p>Any advice I can get is so welcome. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Are you also looking at small liberal arts schools? (bc of williams), if you are you should also try swarthmore college, Haverford, bowdoin (sp?), and amherst...</p>

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<p>Here's what I think for what you have so far (though what's your unweighted GPA? That will effect things):</p>

<p>Yale (scary): REACH
Williams: REACH
Brown (top choice): (Low-ish?) REACH
Vassar: MATCH (though it depends on how well your personality comes through)
Brandeis: (Low-ish?) MATCH
UC Berkeley: (Low-ish?) REACH
Dartmouth: (Low-ish?) REACH
Wesleyan: MATCH (though it depends on how well your personality comes through)</p>

<p>So, basically, your stats are great and you're doing well with the reaches and even the matches (though LACs like Vassar and Wes can have kind of quirky admissions). So all you need are some lower matches and safties. Your list is a little hard to read, but some schools you might like based on it that will be low matches or safties for you:</p>

<p>Skidmore, Bates, Colby, Oberlin, Kenyon, Occidental, some of the other UCs, Barnard, University of Rochester, Connecticut College</p>

<p>Also consider Middleburry, Bowdoin and Tufts as more in the Wes/Vassar range.</p>

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<p>youre SATs are great, youre SAT IIs...are not</p>

<p>and your ECS are mediocre.</p>

<p>still, id say u have a shot...though all of the ivies will be reaches</p>

<p>i suggest appplying ED to one of them (maye brown since its your first choice) if you want a slightly better chance of being accepted</p>

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<p>thanks for the replies. im scared of early decision, I'd rather do early action, and thats why yale is on the list. I am thinking about the "little" ivies, those small liberal arts schools, although they too are reaches and I don't want my list flooded with all these reaches. </p>

<p>any more advice?</p>

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<p>Ivies are surely reaches...</p>

<p>Small liberal arts schools would be best, I have to say. </p>

<p>Holding 3 jobs is great, that'll help a lot, or so I hear.</p>

<p>SATs are great, APs are good too, SATIIs are solid, but not great.</p>

<p>You've got a solid chance at all the schools on the list.</p>

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<p>You have a pretty good chance at all schools you mention. Any chance you can retake Bio SATII to increase the score?</p>

<p>In any case, you have a very good shot.</p>

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<p>i reaaaaally don't want to take any more sat IIs. I know they are weak, but I only have to include one, and my US is good enough, so I'll have one weak grade on my appl. is it really a hugely big deal? could it truly participate in being a deciding factor?</p>