HELP! chances at competitive LAC's

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>i've posted this other places, AND NO ONE EVER ANSWERS !! but i really would like to get a feel for my "chances" in order to decide where to apply, if it's worth it ect. </p>

<p>NJ Female
3.7-ish GPA (W).. i know, i'm an A/B student heavier on B's, but i took hardest classes across the board (honors/AP) US Hist-4 Bio-3
45/596 rank
2220 combined SAT's (740 across the board)
SAT 2's: 660 US, 770 Lit
ec's including a senior editor of the newspaper
Literary Magazine, senior photography editor
jv field hockey
volunteering at a local elementary school with the school newspaper
National Honors Society
Judaic Studies Classes
Guitar
summer work experience in a nature program
Strong writer, published poetry</p>

<p>and i'm expecting good rec's and GOOD essays (writing is my strong suite).</p>

<p>So, that in mind, Safety/Match/Reach for...</p>

<p>Bard
Vassar
Wesleyan
Amherst
Brandeis
NYU
Bates
Macalester
Oberlin</p>

<p>:) :) :) :) :)</p>

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<p>bump bump...</p>

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<p>OK, here's my guess (no promises!)</p>

<p>Bard - safety
Vassar - reach
Wesleyan - reach
Amherst - reach
Brandeis - don't know
NYU - don't know
Bates - match
Macalester - match
Oberlin - match</p>

<p>Your grades could be stronger, but the high class rank may mitigate that.</p>

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<p>Bard - match
Vassar - reach
Wesleyan - reach
Amherst - huge reach
Brandeis -match
NYU - match
Bates - slight reach
Macalester - dont know enough about
Oberlin - dont know enough about</p>

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<p>In addition to huskem55's </p>

<p>Oberlin - reachy match
Mac - match</p>

<p>I am not sure if I would consider Bard a safety - its admissions rate is kind of low. Strong match, maybe.</p>

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<p>just a question for anyone else who comes here: is the reason i'm kind of "reaching" for a bunch of these schools a matter of my grades, would you say? not enough activities?? anyone's opinion...</p>

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<p>in part due to your grades (which are very good by the way for 98% of the colleges in the country), but just the nature of the schools you're applying to, all of the applicants will have similar or better grades and scores and ECs.</p>

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<p>
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writing is my strong suite

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<p>Kind've ironic that writing is your strong suit :)</p>

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<p>Amherst - reach
Brandeis - match
NYU - match</p>

<p>I think the main reason is your weighted GPA. Your SATs are good, your ECs are decent, that GPA is just bringing you down.</p>

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<p>Ditto cool2bars</p>

<p>You look like a nice, well-rounded person to me. The Bs might hurt at Amherst, Wesleyan, Bates...but the others are matchable (I'd say reachable, which is an actual word unlike matchable, but that doesn't fit CC lingo).</p>

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<p>I think that if a weighted gpa of 3.7 gets you a class rank in the top 8% and you had a very hard schedule,then you should be okay. I think it may mean that your school makes getting good grades difficult. Your SAT score is higher than the average at all of your school and in the top 25 percentile at a many of them.</p>

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<p>thank you all!</p>

<p>ps - njpitcher, it was an honest spelling mistake. thanks for pointing it out...</p>

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<p>I was just playing with you, haha. I got bored, and I figured it was ironic enough to post.</p>