Harvard or Yale?? Please say I have a good chance...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello! As you can see by my name, I am a complete language freak! I've been looking through this forum, and I was wondering if you could chance me? Here are my stats as of the end of my junior year:</p>

<p>Race: White
Gender: Female</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
Algebra 2 Honors: A-
English I Honors: A (extremely difficult course)
Chinese I Honors: A+
Latin I Honors: A+
World History Honors: A+
Intro to Science Honors: A (weird class, covers like foundations of all three major sciences).</p>

<p>Sophomore:
Pre-calc Honors: A
AP Statistics: A-
AP Biology: A
AP European History: A-
Latin II Honors: A+
Chinese II Honors: A+
AP English Language: A+</p>

<p>Junior:
AP Calc AB: A-
AP Chemistry: A
AP US History: A
AP English Literature: A+
AP Chinese 4: A+
AP Latin 4: A+</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Calc BC
AP Physics C
AP Psychology
German 3 Honors
Japanese 1 Honors
AP World History
English Semester Courses (Shakespeare Honors and Creative Writing Honors).</p>

<p>SAT 1: 800 Reading, 780 Math, 800 Writing, 2380 Total
SAT 2s: (these are a bit ridiculous, so for more info please read:<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/725644-polyglotishniscoscity.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/725644-polyglotishniscoscity.html&lt;/a> ):
French w/ Listening: 800
Italian: 800
Spanish: 770
Literature: 790
Math II: 800</p>

<p>APs:
Freshman: French Language (5), Italian Language (5)
Sophomore: Spanish Language (5), Spanish Lit (5), Biology (5), Euro (5), Eng Lang (5), Stats (4 ugh...)
Junior: idk scores yet, but Calc AB, Chem, Chinese, Latin, English Lit, US History</p>

<p>Class Rank: 2/400 (close to #1, so hopefully....)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Varsity Volleyball (9-12) Captain 12
Varsity Indoor Track (9-12) Tri-Captain 12
Tennis (JV 9+10, V 11+12)
President of Mu Alpha Theta (Math Honor Society)
Secretary of National Honor Society
President and Founder of Creative Writing Club
Member of SADD
Member of Math Team
National Merit Semifinalist (Im assuming, considering I got: 76 Reading, 80 Writing, 80 Math, 236 Total)
Volunteer to Tutor People in the Languages
I often translate for people in Spanish, English, Italian, and French
I am the Editor-In-Chief of my school's Newspaper, Literary Magazine, and Science Journal. </p>

<p>Essays: Should be excellent
Recommendations: I am getting one from the Newspaper Head/AP English Lit teacher, and she said that I will be one of the "best in her career". The other will come from my AP Chemistry teacher, with whom I often completed out of class research. He said I will be "best in career" as well.</p>

<p>So, what are my chances at:
Yale (dream)
Harvard (dream too lol!)
Stanford
Brown
Columbia
Pomona
Swarthmore
Tufts
Boston College
UPenn
Johns Hopkins
NYU</p>

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<p>Yes, you’re competitive.</p>

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<p>As much as I appreciate brevity, now is not the time :D</p>

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<p>I don’t think it requires much explanation. Your scores are great–they are well above the Harvard and Yale averages. Your ECs are good, but they aren’t outstanding.</p>

<p>You’ll be attending a fantastic school in Fall 2010, even if it’s not Harvard or Yale.</p>

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<p>Dude u’ll definitely get into those schools, but it also depends on how many people like u are applying</p>

<p>very high
u will get it mark my words</p>

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<p>Okay thanks guys. Anyone else?</p>

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<p>I say that you stand a solid chance at getting that Presidential Scholarship (which is basically a full ride) at Boston College. But you do need to apply early, however, in order to be considered for it.</p>

<p>[Presidential</a> Scholars Program - Boston College](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/centers/psp/home.html]Presidential”>http://www.bc.edu/centers/psp/home.html)</p>

<p>But, for a person of your stature, Boston College may be a bit on the low side. Hit high.</p>

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<p>Okay thanks! Anyone else? Maybe like Reach/Match/Safety?</p>

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<p>Do you have any free time at all?</p>

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<p>almost all of those (minus BC and NYU) are reaches.</p>

<p>not because of your application, but simply because of the nature of the schools you are applying to. they are reaches for everybody.</p>

<p>tufts may or may not be. it depends on what kind of application you send.</p>

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<p>No, the scores are too low.</p>

<p>Maybe you should go to a community college a couple years then transfer.</p>

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<p>^oh, yeah.</p>

<p>colleges these days expect you to do so well on your tests that collegeboard feels that they have no choice but to give you bonus points because you did so well.</p>

<p>2400 is like the new 1700</p>

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<p>So I take all of those as compliments. Do I have enough safeties there? Like, do you think I may get rejected by all of them? I mean, please don’t make sarcastic jokes about how I should go to community college. I’m aware that I’m a good student, but I’m not naive enough to believe that there are no others like me.
To Yakyu Spirits, haha I get asked that a lot, but I have a surprising amount of free time. I love writing newspaper and magazine articles for my school’s respective papers, but I also love to play tennis and hang out with friends. I typically reserve Friday and Saturday nights as “going-out” nights.</p>

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<p>you need more safeties.</p>

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<p>Agree with IBfootballer. Masmas safeties (that’s in Spanish, but I think you know that)! And I think you have a good chance at HPYMS. :]
I <3 Languages too! </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/724051-am-i-doing-too-much.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/724051-am-i-doing-too-much.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>yeah yeah you’re a booknerd/language freak i get it. But what would really make you get in is applying your languages to outstanding things like teaching english to french orphans in martinique. your ec’s are simply not there</p>

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<p>I recommend applying to some more safeties. I recommend:</p>

<p>University of Chicago (do well on those essays!)
University of Virginia
University of Southern California
Emory University</p>

<p>But it all depends on the locale that you prefer.</p>

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<p>University of Chicago (do well on those essays!)
University of Virginia
University of Southern California
Emory University</p>

<p>^None of those schools are “safeties”</p>

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<p>If you don’t get into Yale or Harvard…then who does?</p>

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<p>If you want to assuage your conscience, apply to your state school, you’ll definitely get in (unless it’s UC Berkeley, where your chances are still ultra-high). You have a great shot at getting into most/all of your choices, the only risk is that schools around Tufts may reject you assuming you won’t actually attend. Excellent chances at your dream schools, just don’t get overconfident and I have no doubt you’ll get into at least one if not all of the ivies you apply to.</p>