Help I need somebody

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Parental Legacy at Brown and Yale and grandfather and uncle went to UPenn</p>

<p>I'm currently a junior and I'm wondering what my chances are at: Brown, Yale, UPenn, Northwestern, Wesleyan, NYU, WUSTL, Pomona, Amherst, Michigan (honors),Johns Hopkins,USC, Darthmouth, Emory, Berkeley and Cornell</p>

<p>Caucasian male at a top public school on long island (14 in newsweek)</p>

<p>GPA: uw: 3.96 W:4.2 (my school has a weird weighting system where if you take any class thats a regents level class or higher which is mostly every class you only recieve a collective weighting of .3 points so it doesn't really take into account AP classes)</p>

<p>SAT I: 2230 (superscored) CR: 730 Math: 700 Writing: 800 (11 essay)
ACT: 32
SAT II: Math 1c: 720 will also take bio and us history
PSAT: 215 NM commendation</p>

<p>By the end of my high school career I will have taken 11 APs: AP Stat (4), Ap Euro (5), AP French, ap composition, ap US history, AP bio, AP literature, AP physics, AP gov't,AP economics, AP calc AB I will probably be an AP scholar with distinction</p>

<p>ECs: Sports editor School Newspaper (11th grade) and will be Editor in chief for senior year
Co-editor of school public relations magazine
Regular contributor to literary magazine with potential for editor
Model Congress member
Rachel's challenge club
Principal's Decision committee(9th grade)
Guitar for seven years
Piano for 3 years
National Honor society
French honor society peer tutoring coordinator
300+ combined Communtiy service hours at boys and girls club and at a home for those who suffer from severe brain trauma</p>

<p>Summers: New York Film academy at princeton, Brown summer program, Northwestern film program, internship with an author/journalist</p>

<p>Also will enter Siemens Westinghouse and possibly intel and have entered dupont challenge, Oracle Thinkquest, and Toshiba explora vision however no awards as of yet</p>

<p>I've also won some writing awards for poetry and short stories of mine</p>

<p>Essays i'm sure will be very strong as will Recs</p>

<p>Please tell me what you guys think are my chances at these schools thanks</p>

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<p>Brown- low-mid reach (legacy)
Yale- reach (legacy)
UPenn- low-mid reach (legacy)
Northwestern- reach
Wesleyan- low reach
NYU- match
Pomona- reach
Amherst- reach
Michigan (honors)- hich match
Johns Hopkins- low reach
USC- match
Berkeley- low-mid reach
Cornell- reach</p>

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<p>something sexyyy</p>

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<p>If i were to raise my act to say a 33 or above would that in some way safeguard my below average sats for these schools if i sent both scores?</p>

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<p>I'd say your chances are pretty awesome (particularly at the schools to which you have legacies)... competitive standardized test scores, a good GPA, and plenty of ECs. Chances on a scale of: high reach, reach, semi-reach, good fit, likely, safety.</p>

<p>Brown University (legacy)... GOOD FIT. If the legacy hasn't been very active in supporting Brown, then SEMI-REACH.
Yale University (legacy)... SEMI-REACH. If the legacy hasn't been very active in supporting Yale, then REACH.
University of Pennsylvania (legacy)... GOOD FIT. If the legacies haven't been very active in supporting Penn, then SEMI-REACH.
Northwestern University... SEMI-REACH.
Wesleyan University... GOOD FIT.
New York Univeristy... LIKELY.
Washington University in St. Louis... SEMI-REACH.
Pomona College... SEMI-REACH.
Amherst College... SEMI-REACH.
University of Michigan (honors)... GOOD FIT.
Johns Hopkins University... SEMI-REACH.
University of Southern California... GOOD FIT.
Dartmouth College... REACH.
Emory University... GOOD FIT.
University of California-Berkeley... SEMI-REACH.
Cornell University... SEMI-REACH.</p>

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<p>would alumni interviewing count as active enough?</p>

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<p>Alumni interviewing is definitely an example of an "active legacy." As long as your legacy has retained contact with the school since graduation (attended events, given money, been involved with the college's/university's community), it will give you a boost.</p>

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<p>Alright sounds good cause my parent have done that thanks littleatheist also how dramatically do my chances increase if i apply early and do i lose my legacy advantages if i don't apply early</p>

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<p>No, I don't think you lose your legacy bonus if you apply early (or at least, a girl I know who got into Penn this past year didn't and she applied ED). I don't know about all of the schools on your list, but for Penn, at least, applying ED gives you a definite edge in the admissions process (according to my college counsellor at least).</p>

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<p>no i was asking if you lose it if you don't apply early</p>

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<p>You have a good background, but I do not see a focus in what you stated here. You seem to tend toward communications and the media- writing film, but also have the science competition thing going on, the music, the community service. If you can do something this summer and next year to highlight yourself as someone developing into a really good writer/communicator, and also highlight that in your applications (essays, interviews, recommendations), it will help. You don't want admissions officers to read your app and think that you are a generic good student/nice guy and put it aside. This might be a good time to drop a few things and focus more effort on others. You should also read one of the books out there on how to pull together a good application for an Ivy level school. They go a little (or way) overboard on it, but they do have valid points that you can learn from. I recommend Katherine Cohen's books. I have also read the Tanabi books, but like Cohen more.</p>

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<p>well chances are i wont win anything in research and i'm not even doing any research this summer it's not really my thing my thing is writing and film this summer i'm doing a film program at northwestern and interning with an author which should help to highlight my role as a communicator as you say but should i just not even mention that i entered these competitions on my applications</p>