First post! Looking for some chance advice!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey everyone! I've been a lurker here for quite some time and have finally worked up the courage to register for these forums! I'm just starting the college admission process and everyone here seems really knowledgeable on subjects like this...</p>

<p>Here it goes...be as honest/critical/doubtful/etc as you want</p>

<p>Reach schools:
Cornell
Georgetown
Notre Dame
Boston College</p>

<p>Profile:
4.1 GPA
Top 5% of my class (10th out of 232)
5 AP Classes (US History, English, Chem, Physics, Calculus) and my school runs block scheduling in which an AP takes up 2 of the 8 "blocks" per year so I've taken as many as my school offers really
CR: 730 M: 720 WR: ??? (Never can get a good read) these are my expected Oct. SAT
SAT II: History 710 Literature: 740
Will take the ACT soon
Member of National Honor Society</p>

<p>ECs:
I served on the New Jersey State Student Council (only 8 students per year get elected) and served as the head of the NJ State Charity
I've worked with that Charity (for Parents of Autistic Children) for three years now and raised over $170,000 for them in one year
I've been on my HS Student Council for 4 Years and serve as Senior Class President
3 Year Board Member of Habitat for Humanity and currently serve as President and have created a "starter's program" for other high schools to begin their own chapters of HfH
3 Year Captain of HS Mock Trial Team (have won our County Championship back-to-back years)
3 Year Member of Big Brother Big Sister Program
4 Year Band Member (section leader)
4 Year Choir Member
Attended NJ Boys State
Selected as one of 30 Students to serve in the NJ Delegation for the annual National Student Council Convention
I'm a counselor at NJ oldest and one of the most highly attended Leadership Camps
I've been a Math and Physics tutor for 2 years
Mathlete
Active in Church (Eucharistic Minister, reader, altar server, etc)
Held a job for 3 years now</p>

<p>Of course there's other side projects and all that I'd work into my apps as well, but those are probably the main highlights of my resume...</p>

<p>Thanks for advice!</p>

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<p>Hoping for some advice</p>

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<p>Bump</p>

<p>Will chance back</p>

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<p>You have a good profile with about the only thing lacking is any sort of athletic involvement but given your other ECs I doubt that’s an issue.</p>

<p>My one question is what is your unweighted GPA?</p>

<p>Your SATs have you hovering around the 75th%-tile at each of the schools, assuming an UW GPA of 3.8 I’d say you are a competitive candidate at all four. But, the four schools on your list have low admittance rates, (BC & ND are in the mid 20% range, Georgetown and Cornell are closer to 20%). Statistically BC is the easiest school, but it can hardly be considered a safety. </p>

<p>I’d add a couple of safety schools to your list.</p>

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<p>Now, if I were to bump those SAT scores into the high 1400s-low 1500s how would that impact my chances?</p>

<p>I’m taking the test one more time in November</p>

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<p>And my unweighted is 3.9</p>

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<p>just bumping this</p>

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<p>Cornell - match
Georgetown - high match
Notre Dame - match ~ low match
Boston College - safe</p>

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<p>Question, what does the term “match” mean?</p>

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<p>Makes sense now! Any other input</p>

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<p>Anything else</p>