<p>Alright, so, like every other junior on here, I am trying to narrow down/finalize my college list. Does this seem reasonable to you? Are all of my schools correctly categorized? Are there any, based on this list, you think I should consider? Thanks!</p>
<p>STATS
SAT: 2190 (710 CR, 730 M, 750 W) (I took it again in June and think I did better, probably in the high 2200 or low 2300 range)</p>
<p>Grades: mostly A-'s with a few A's and a few B's</p>
<p>Course Load: most difficult, all honors possible and will graduate with 8 APs</p>
<p>High School: ubercompetitive day school in CT</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Horseback riding (40 hrs/week) Ranked 3rd in my state
Model UN (10-20 hrs/week Oct-Jan) Student Head, Best Delegate YMUN 2008
School Newspaper (10 hrs/week) Head News Editor, Columnist
Senior Advisor (5 hrs/week) select group of 12 seniors who plan social activities for 6th graders</p>
<p>Prospective Major: Classics</p>
<p>COLLEGES
Reach: Yale (SCEA, BIG reach!), Columbia, Penn, Georgetown, Wash U
Match: BC (high match/reach), GWU, maybe BU
Safety: Pitt, Fordham</p>
<p>I'd say it's pretty good, though you might want to add just one more match/safety to be safe. Just make sure that if worse comes to worse, you'll be happy at one of your safeties.</p>
<p>When you go to an uber competitive CT day school, ask your counselor or look at your school's history. The first thing you need to contend with is the incredible number of legacies at such a school, not to mention recruited athletes. If you're in Greenwich, you also live in the headquarters of those why buy their kids way into top schools-development candidates.</p>
<p>Your school is most probably among those that send 30% to ivies plus, but never the top 30% if it's a top CT private.</p>
<p>So, that said, what's your rank or are you near the top and are you hooked anywhere?</p>
<p>Wash U and Georgetown are a bit easier than Columbia and Penn, and considerably moreso than Yale. You might think of reaches and High reaches. I think BU might be closer to a safety. This is based on my friends and how they did this year. Do you really wanna go to Pitt? How about Wisconsin as a safety or "probable match", Or UMass? How about Cornell as a reach? (Not a high reach)</p>
<p>My school doesn't rank, but I am at least in the top 15% of my class (that is the most detail my school will give me and they don't even send that to colleges). For some reason they do it in increments of 15 so the highest you can be is 15%. My school sends about 15-20% of its graduating class to Ivies and other top schools. And I am not in Greenwich, I am near Hartford. Thanks for your responses guys!</p>
<p>And I'm not entirely sure if I would want to go to Pitt, I am visiting there in July. I'm also looking at Duquesne then as another safety option. I liked UVM when I visited so that might be a safety, too. I'd really like to apply to a safety that has rolling admissions so that I can know early on that I am into college.</p>
<p>With regard to school history, my school subscribes to a program that lets us see a graph of the GPA and SAT of kids who have applied to each college in the past five years and their result (accepted, deferred, rejected, waitlisted) and then graphs our stats on it. It has helped me a lot in categorizing schools although sometimes it is misleading (it doesn't mention athletes, legacies, or extracurricular strengths and also makes it appear as though Dartmouth and Georgetown are harder to get into than Yale and Harvard).</p>