Daughter's Chances!!!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi! I would really appreciate feedback on my daughter. She is a white female in a recognized public school in New York.
Her unweighted GPA is in the 3.8s (unweighted). Her school does not weight GPAs nor does it rank. She has been a member of Signifer (honor society based on GPA) for 2 years (maximum # of years).

Here are her courses:

Science: Advanced Biology, Advanced Chemistry, Advanced Physics, AP Chemistry (my school has a restrictive science track)

Math: Senior Year-AB Calculus, AP Statistics

English: Regular Every Year

French: 5 Years, Senior Year-AP French

Latin: 2 Years of an Advanced Level

Social Studies: 9th, 10th Grades-Regular (only level), 11th Grade-AP U.S. History (4 on AP Test), 12 Grade-AP Macroeconomics

Health: 10th Grade (required course)

Band: 9th Grade-Regular Band, 10th, 11th, and 12, Grades-Wind Ensemble (highest level band), 4 Years of Varsity Band (plays at football games)

Here are her standardized test scores:

Biology SAT II: 770

Math II SAT II: 760

U.S. History SAT II: 750

ACT Composite: 33

Here are her extracurricular activities (including senior year):

4 Years of French Club (President for 2 Years)

4 Years of Varsity Skiing (Captain Senior Year), 2 Year All-League

Tennis: 1 Year Jv, 2 Years Varsity B

Soccer: JV Freshman Year

Cross Country: 10th and 11th Grades-JV, 12th Grade-Varsity

4 Year Member of Tri-M Music Honor Society

3 Year Member of Catholic Club (President for 2 Years)

1 Year Reporter for School Newspaper

3 Year Member of Latin Club

Community Service:

Member of Youth Group at my Church for 4 years: 85 hours, (won award for most hours twice)

Catholic Club (community service club)

Tri-M Music Honor Society (community service club)

Community Service Band for 1 Summers (40 Hours)

She has a great essay and fantastic recommendations.

Awards:

National French Exam: (9th Grade-Bronze, 10 Grade-Silver, 11th Grade-Bronze)

National Latin Exam: (10th Grade-Gold, 11th Grade-Silver)

Colleges she is looking at: Middlebury College, Bowdoin College, Williams College, Amherst College, Colby College, Bates College, Colgate University, Hamilton College, College of the Holy Cross, Lafayette College, Trinity College, and Bucknell University.

Please state safety, target or reach.

Thank you so much!

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Middlebury College,: Low Reach
Bowdoin College,: High match
Williams College, Reach
Amherst College, Reach
Colby College,Low Match
Bates College, Match
Colgate University,Match
Hamilton College, Match
College of the Holy Cross,Low Match
Lafayette College, Safety
Trinity College, Low Match
Bucknell University. match

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I agree with @SternBusiness for the most part except that Trinity, Holy Cross and Bucknell could definitely be safeties.

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Middlebury&Bowdoin&Hamilton -low reaches
Amherst&Williams- reaches
Bates&Colgate- target
Lafayette&Bucknell- low match
Rest are safeties. It’s a great list, good luck to her!
Chance me back please:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1782833-chance-a-rising-senior-for-uchicago-georgetown-ivies-etc-will-chance-back.html#latest

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Using the post directly above, from the targets up, the student demonstrating interest is paramount because no matter what the numbers say, the acceptance rates are well below 20% for an unhooked student and could be worse for an unhooked female.

Must visit and interview.

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You have no safety schools on this list. If she’s into LACs, make sure to add SUNY New Paltz.

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A few notes-

As a white female from NY your daughter is a member of the most overrepresented demographic possible for the schools she’s looking at. Her competition will be stiff.

Is she being recruited for skiing? Has she contacted coaches? If not, she should. Athletics can help a lot at these schools.

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Middlebury College,: Reach
Bowdoin College,: Reach
Williams College, Reach
Amherst College, Reach
Colby College: Match
Bates College, Match
Colgate University, Match
Hamilton College, Match
College of the Holy Cross, Match
Lafayette College, Match
Trinity College, Match
Bucknell University. Match

  1. I think she could get into a reach or two, but they are still reaches.
  2. I think she could be denied from some of the matches, but they are still matches.
  3. Lafayette is probably the easiest school to get into of that group…and yet still a great school.
  4. Probably need to pick a safety or two
  5. Have kind of a mix of conservative and more liberal colleges here. You might want to do a little more research and see what would be a better match for your daughter. Bucknell is kind of button up compared to some of the other schools like Middlebury (which is more politically liberal) for example. I bet there aren’t too many people who apply to Middlebury and also Bucknell.
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I think she may be a little light on APs for those top 5 LACs-- Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin and Midd. At those schools, not taking AP English, for example, is going to be a killer because most who are competitive applicants do so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-OLlJUXwKU

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Middlebury College,: Low Reach
Bowdoin College,: High match
Williams College, Reach
Amherst College, Reach
Colby College,Low Match
Bates College, Match
Colgate University,Match
Hamilton College, Match
College of the Holy Cross,Match
Lafayette College, Low match
Trinity College, Safety
Bucknell University. match

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I think she could use a truer safety or two to be on the safe side, though I doubt she will need it.

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Is the OP a parent or the student?

If the student is a rising senior and took the APUSH test last month, how does she already know her score?

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Williams and Amherst are reaches for everybody, no matter who they are or what they’ve done. I agree with BatesParent2019 that showing interest is key for some of these schools - especially Bates. I’m also a Bates Parent 2019 and I know it’s important to Bates to show interest in them. Same for Hamilton - I was also a HamiltonParent 2014!

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Your daughter has amazing scores. Other than Amherst, she has a good shot at all of them. Amherst is kind of a crap shoot.
Just wondering, how did your daughter do both cross country and tennis? These are both fall sports for girls?

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^ At least in locales in the northeast, tennis is a spring sport, @catlover2000