Dartmouth, Bowdoin, etc. Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey everyone, thanks in advance for chancing me! The schools I’m interested in are:

Dartmouth
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Notre Dame (EA)
Vanderbilt
Santa Clara (EA)
Boston College (EA)
UC Berkeley (in state)
UCLA
UCSB
Stanford
Yale

Scores ACT: 35C (35E, 35M, 36R, 35S)
800 Chem
770 Math II
740 Lit
730 USH

GPA (4.0 scale)
Weighted 4.69, Unweighted 3.97 (B first semester AP chem)
Class Rank: Top decile, school doesn’t rank otherwise
APs: Euro (4), Chem (5), USH (5), Lang (5), BC (tba), Gov (tba), Lit (tba), Stats (tba)

Junior Year Courses/Grades
Honors Pre Calc A/A
Honors French 4 A/A
AP Chem B/A-
AP Lang A/A
APUSH A/A
Theatre A/A

Senior year course load (w/ current grades)
AP Calc BC A
AP Statistics A
AP Government/Economics A
AP Literature A
Physics 1 A+
Theatre A/A
(self studying for micro/macro is a possibility, depends on how second semester goes)

Awards
National Merit Commended
Minor Service Award/School awards
AP scholar with honor
NHS

ECs:

-Founded Peer tutoring program at my school - counseling department could never get it off the ground, now we had 200+ hours of tutoring sessions set up in our pilot year
-Chairman and 5 year member of volunteering organization in Community
-Represented Commercial/Theatrical actor (6+ years) with job experience in commercials and short films (I go on auditions frequently)
-4 year member of the theatre department at my school, 2 years at the highest level
-President and 4 year member of finance/investment club.
-Fundraising manager of high budget aero-astro satellite project at a major university, helped manage a crowdfunding campaign that raised around 150k. (10,11)
-Boys State
-Teen lead in my church’s youth program (2 years)
-Council member of youth governing body at city level. We plan events for the youth of my city (2 years)
Started my own business, probably spend around 2 hours a week on it, have made 5000 over 2 years.

If you have any commentary on my list (lack of safeties etc.) let me know as well.

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Obviously I can’t guarentee anything, but you will probably get into at least one of the top schools

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Bump

4

bump!

5

Very impressive credentials. As you noted, you do need some safeties because these are all highly competitive schools. But you have done good work in high school. Good luck!

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Thanks!

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It seems like a good list. I don’t see the point about needing safes. He isn’t going to be turned down by both UCSB and Santa Clara.

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You have a competitive profile. Yale, Stanford, and Dartmouth will be the hardest to get into so work on your essays for those schools. The rest I could see you getting into pretty easily

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Unless OP is a hooked applicant, neither Bowdoin, Middlebury, Notre Dame nor Vanderbilt are anything but reaches. That said, most unhooked applicants are super reaches for these schools, if they aren’t in the top-25% - still for OP its a 10% chance vs. less than 5% for most.