<p>I'm a Jewish male from New York. All of my applications have been sent here, and I've been left in a cold sweat, waiting for my decisions. I have a 1410 SAT (740 verbal, 670 math).
My SAT IIs are: 700 Writing, 690 US History, 630 Math IC.
GPA is 3.7 unweighted and 4.2 weighted (roughly top 12 percentile, but a definite upward trend.) My schedule for this year is the toughest possible, and I'm on the National Honor Society.
My ECs include:
Video production (I've had a bunch of short films in local film festivals)
Amnesty International
Interact (community service) Club
4 Years of high school tennis
An editor of the school newspaper/school literary magazine
Varsity member of a very good academic team (we were on a TV show called The Long Island Challenge <a href="http://www.powertolearn.com/lic/east_hampton.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.powertolearn.com/lic/east_hampton.shtml</a> and we're participating in an upcoming tournament at Yale)</p>
<p>I know that my reccomendations are very good, and I feel very confident about my essays. I'm applying to:</p>
<p>Tufts (early decision II)
Northwestern
Wesleyan
Carleton
George Washington
Brandeis
University of Delaware
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY Binghampton</p>
<p>I'd say definitely in at SUNYs and Delaware. Most likely in at GW, and Wesleyan. Not sure about Brandeis, Carleton, NU, and Tufts. You have a great chance at all of them tho. Northwestern is the biggest reach, Brandeis is probably a match. Tufts and Carleton are my favorites and might be tough, ED 2 was a great idea. Your class rank is low for some of these, are you coming from a very competitive school? Good luck.</p>
<p>I agree with Fish, it depends on what kind of academic atmosphere you're coming from. But I would predict your chances at Tufts ED II to be better than at Northwestern RD. Carleton and Weslyan will be just as tough as Northwestern, but I still see you having a good chance. I believe you have a fairly reasonable shot at the rest.</p>
<p>I'm not sure about Tufts, since they rejected a lot of people from my school this year (even this girl who got a 1500 got rejected). I actually think that you have a better shot of getting into Northwestern because the application pool for Tufts has been more competitive this year. I think that Carleton and Wesleyan are good match schools. You should be able to get into Brandeis - your Jewish status and high SAT scores have got to help there. And I'm sure you'll get into the others. Good luck!</p>
<p>hey poolio10! i don't presume to know very much about all this, but it looks like you have very good chances in all your colleges. the biggest weakness i can find is your weak math scores. but otherwise, quite solid.</p>
<p>where in long island do you go to school? i moved, but i grew up in setauket/stony brook! i would have gone to ward melville had i stayed there.. it's just cool to find a long islander on here:)</p>
<p>good luck with all your schools! let us know what happens.</p>
<p>Of your six private schools, I predict that you will get into at least three. Not sure which though. It might depend on whether they think you are excited about the school or not. That will help at Tufts. They and other places want people who want to go, not people using them as safeties in case of Ivy rejections.</p>
<p>geneseo is regarded as the best new york state school (except for Cornell, obviously). I actually got an acceptance from binghamton today, heh. So far I've gotten into my two last choice schools (the other one was Drew University)!</p>
<p>Anyone else want to assess me? Pretty please?</p>
<p>Tufts is hard but ED might help, I'd say probably for GW and the states</p>
<p>Northwestern- I wouldn't hold my breath, its possible but Id say unlikely
Wesleyan- I wouldn't hold my breath, its possible but Id say unlikely
Carleton- Don't know much about this school... sorry
Brandeis- White, Jewish Male from NY... well unfortunately thats exactly what they dont need... so this actually might be tougher... otherwise I'd say as good as probable...</p>