How's my college list?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey everybody! After consulting many people online and offline...I have a list of schools to apply to. My early is Yale so it's too late to do anything about that. The rest of my list looks like this:
- Safety: University of Washington, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Maryland-College Park
- Good Match: New York University, Boston University, University of Virginia (thanks for the suggestion, Faline2!), and Johns Hopkins University
- Reaches: University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, and Yale (but already applied)</p>

<p>Looking at my profile (after all this mumbo-jumbo), do you think that this list is reasonable? If you have suggestions and predictions for each college, please tell me! Thanks and sorry everybody! I procrastinated and probably should already know my list by now. Anyway...here's the stuff and thanks again!</p>

<p>SAT: 2200 (M:780, V:740, W:680)
SAT II: (Just took them this month) Bio (M), Math2c, and Lit.
ACT: 32 (Not taking again...)
AP: US History 3, W. History 4, Eng. Lang/Comp 5
IB: ITGS (SL) 5
GPA: 102.893 weighted/estimated 97-98 unweighted (out of 100)
Class rank: so far 1/492 (hope it stays that way...<em>crosses fingers</em>)
Courses this year: Orchestra IV, IB History of the Americas II (HL), IB English
IV (HL), IB Biology II (HL), IB Japanese IV (SL, ab initio),
IB Math (HL), IB Theory of Knowledge, and Speech.</p>

<p>Other info: IB Diploma Candidate</p>

<p>Honors stuff: (I'm only putting major stuff)
- People to People Student Ambassador (9th)
- Finalist, Southwest Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (10th)
- 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Center Teen Volunteer Award (10th)
- Fort Bliss Teen Volunteer Award (10th)
- Various National Dance/Drill Association Awards (10th)
- Close-Up Foundation/Presidential Inauguration Program Participant (11th)
- Military Order of the World Wars Youth Leadership Conference Delegate
(11th)
- National Society of High School Scholars (11th)
- National Honor Roll (11th)
- National Honor Society (11-12th)
- AP Scholar (11th)</p>

<p>Extra-Curricular Stuff: (again...major stuff only)
- Church Youth Volunteer (Choir, Youth Group, Children's Church, VBS) (9-
12th)
- High School Orchestra (9-12th)
- All-Region Orchestra (9-12th)
- Sub-Editor/Treasurer, High School Literary Magazine (9-10th)
- Member/Soloist, High School Japanese Language/Choir Club (9-11th)
- Member/Vice-Pres., Fort Bliss US Bowling Congress Youth League (9, 11-
12th)</p>

<p>Oh yeah...by the way, I'm a female Filipino in Texas...</p>

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<p>penn = 15%
darthmouth = 15%
yale = 10%
...you'll prolly get a few rejection letters from some of those matches too....
...you're in at all your safeties</p>

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<p>thanks zackalacka87! anybody else has an opinion?</p>

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<p>percentages are worthless in my opinion. I think you have the right idea of your chances based on how you have split up the schools into safety/reach/match. I think you actually have a very good shot at dartmouth, btw.</p>

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<p>thanks rockofeller about dartmouth. also, the reason why I'm asking is because various sites that I've been on sometimes don't concur with each other. this was also the case with opinions from people. I based my list on the trend and instinct and I want to make sure that my self-estimations are reasonable.</p>

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<p>idk, if i were u, i would add a few other places, get rid of some of those safeties and matches, you don't need 5 schools in each of those categories. Just pick a few you will be happy with. For reaches, i would add a midwestern school such as Northwestern and on the east, I would add Cornell, as I think you will be admitted to both of these places.</p>

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<p>good shot at all the schools, including your reaches. just make sure your app essays are kick ass!</p>

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<p>bball, why would you suggest those schools for this person? They did not list their preferences. OP, please apply where you would like to go, and forget advice that tells you to apply to some school because of its rank and your chances of acceptance. It is interesting that you list both NYU and Dartmouth - the settings/campuses are the exact opposite of each other.</p>

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<p>ur matches are actually safeties IMO. ur stats are way too good for NYu and Boston. As far as yale, dartmouth, and penn, I think you will get into one of them, probably between dart and penn, yales tough but u got a nice shot as well</p>

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<p>rockofeller...my reasons for going to a school is for the minds of my fellow students...I want to be in a place where my mind can be free...it doesn't matter where the college is or how its campuses are formatted. I look at college as a forum where thoughts and ideas could be exchanged, critiqued, improved, suggested, etc. Wherever I go, I'm sure it will be an intellectual heaven compared to high school where you're stuck with people who are there to be there and don't want to think. ^_^ (Is this good enough for justification, or no?) oh, and thanks hypoch0ndriac for the confidence!</p>

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<p>dude, some of your matches are safeties and some of your reaches are matches. Freakin' BU!!! You got a 1520, you're first in your class and you have an A+ average; are you messing with me!!!! BU is a super safety for you. You will be going to an Ivy if you want to. Suggestion... Cut out some of your safety/match schools and add in some more top notchers like Brown, Cornell, etc...</p>

<p>P.S. Those stupid 780 math scores. Tell me about it... I bet it was a simple question you got wrong, too.</p>

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<p>sorry if my list is a little wacko...I thought that this was true myself...remember that I'm basing this on college websites, other people, and gut feeling...(yes, some of these categorizations went against gut feeling but I wanted to ask people like you about them). Let me guess, you also only missed one question from a perfect score, huh? If it's any consolation, the question that I missed was actually one of the "highest difficulty" questions; so it's not so bad (but it still ticks me off!).</p>

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<p>Might look at some very good LAC's like Holy Cross or Bucknell. Holy Cross offers good financial aid, is 1 hour fron Boston and better schoolthan BU. Bucknell is good school also but located in rural Penn.</p>

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<p>Holy Cross and Bucknell...hmmm...never heard of them...<em>trots to search engine to look them up</em></p>

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<p>Update: SAT II tests
- Biology (molecular): 760
- Math IIC: 770
- Literature: 670</p>