final list-- chance an anxious senior for top LACs!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi guys! Senior here, just wanted some opinions on my chances/whether I need more safeties.
State: CT
School Type: fairly competitive public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Hooks: legacies of varying weight at Amherst, Yale, Brown, Smith, Swarthmore</p>

<p>SAT I - best in one sitting: 2330 (760 M 770 CR 800 WR), superscore 2360 (only difference is 800 CR)
SAT IIs - 740 Lit, 800 USH
APs - 5s on English Lit, French, APUSH, Bio all in junior year
GPA -3.88
Class Rank: umm I think top 5-7%?
Senior courseload - AP psych, AP lang, AP art history, honors choir, honors french, AP calc, APES</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-recreational martial arts since grade 8
- audition-only choir since grade 5, though i'm quitting that this year and joining the school honors choir
- recreational piano since age 5
- National Art Honor Society, historian last year, currently vice president (we actually do things, like putting on shows and hosting "Chalkfest" and helping out at art benefits)
- Co-president of Freethinkers club (philosophy, culture, politics, basically a discussion club for any and everything)
- class council treasurer
- Leo Club (a community service club) secretary
- Environmental Club publicity secretary
-I write for several sections of the school newspaper
-quiz bowl team member
- 100 hours of community service, mostly from Leo Club and Environmental Club</p>

<p>Awards:
-Grand Concours 9th in state, 10th in country (grade 10), 4th in state 5th in country (grade 11)
-NMSF
-CAPT scholar (not that it matters)
-AP Scholar with Honor (not that it matters)
-National French Honor Society (I count this as an award as we don't do anything)</p>

<p>Summer programs:
-performing/ fine arts camp going into 9th and 10th
-Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy going into 11th (a French immersion program)
-RISD precollege program this summer (will probably submit art supplement with my common app)</p>

<p>Interests: art, literature, world languages (especially French but looking to start another in college!), women and gender studies, history, lots of stuff
Recommendations should be pretty good from my APUSH and AP Lit teachers. Counselor rec should be decent. Essays should be quite good, once I get around to those. Heh.
Not asking for financial aid. </p>

<p>The List:
Yale
Brown
Amherst
Swarthmore
Pomona
Wellesley
Middlebury
Vassar
Tufts
Smith
Barnard
Scripps
Mount Holyoke
Bard</p>

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<p>I think you have a good chance. everything from this is luck ^_^</p>

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<p>thanks hahahah. bump?</p>

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<p>Well, your test scores are obviously very good, and your GPA is pretty darn good too. I’m not sure how much weight your legacies will carry at schools like these, but they might be a plus for the ones listed. And your extracurricular activities show that you’re at the very least active and well-rounded, even if they don’t seem to have a clear focus – are you passionate about music/vocal? If so, I think you should play that up to your advantage. I’d say that MoHo, Bard, Scripps, Barnard, Smith, and possibly Tufts, you’re a match. Wellesley, Vassar, and Middlebury are reaches. Swarthmore, and Pomona and Amherst (my top two choices!) are slightly higher reaches because I’d imagine that they see many candidates with a lot of your same stats, but definitely doable – make sure your essays and recs are good! And Yale and Brown are just as random as the other Ivies in choosing their candidates, so they’re high reaches. I think you’re an obviously very strong candidate for any of the schools you’ve listed, but you might want to consider replacing some with a couple more safeties, just in case. Good luck!</p>

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