I chance back! Help Please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m applying this fall and don’t know where I stand with the schools i’m looking at! I’ll chance back!

I am a white german jewish female from upstate NY and I attend the 26th best hs in the country
I have a 3.8-3.9 GPA uw, all A range grades throughout highschool
My recs and essay should be pretty strong
It’s very obvious that my grades and the difficulty of the classes I have taken during high school have increased through the years, I heard colleges like to see that

My SATs were a 2010 and ACTs a 29(May not send in because not doing math or engineering)
***I know they are kinda low for better schools

Senior classes: AP sats, AP bio, AP micro, Suny Syracuse English (SUPA), Suny Albany Intro to poy sci Honors, Calc

Important ecs are:

Student council class rep, Historian twice, and Vice President
Pep club for 4 years and treasurer for 1
Key club for 4 years
Youth court for 4 years
Temples youth groups for 5 years and on board for 2
In North American federation of temple youth for 4 years
Nfty rep for 2yrs
National Honors Society
40 hour internship
Around 200 hours of community service
CIT at a sleep away camp I was a camper at for 8 years
Softball team for 5 years and captain twice
Volleyball team 4 times and captain twice
Travel volleyball team for 3 years and captain 2 times
And I played freshmen basketball for a year

I’m looking to go into international or political communications

Junior year I spent a semester abroad in Israel for 4 months without my family, going to schools, learning Israel’s history, learning and embracing and living in Israeli culture, learning hebrew, volunteering around Israel, joining the “mock IDF”, hiking from Jordan to the sea, visiting gaza and the west bank, and going to Poland on a Holocaust remembrance trip–I also lived in Israel for the summer 2014 during the war with Hamas,

My essay will relate living in Israel and traveling around/ learning the culture and laungage and living there, and my semester abroad, how it changed me and my views on the world and different cultures, and why I want to do international communications

HERE’S THE SCHOOLS

George Washington
Northeastern
Tulane
UNC Chapel Hill
NYU
American
Stanford(I know its a long shot)

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No chance at Stanford; Chapel Hill is going to be extremely difficult to get into. You have a small chance at the others. Good chance at American and Tulane.

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George Washington: Match
Northeastern: Match
Tulane: Low match
UNC Chapel Hill: Reach
NYU: High match/low reach
American: Low match
Stanford(I know its a long shot): Reach
Chance me?: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1806866-please-chance-me-ill-chance-back.html?new=1

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George Washington: Match
Northeastern: High match/low reach
Tulane: Low reach (Not sure why the above poster think OP getting in there is automatic…)
UNC Chapel Hill: High match/low reach
NYU: Low reach
American: Match
Stanford: Extremely high reach, like not worth the application fee high

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I’m a freshman at Tulane and had similar stats and ecs for the most part. You’ll get into Tulane (maybe a scholarship like me), GW, and American IMO. My guess is that you’ll get deferred from the others (except Stanford…that’s a reach for anyone). Then, anything can happen. Make sure your essays are strong.

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Tulane, NYU, GWU, UNC Chapell Hill, and American University are matches. You should get in to those. Northeastern is a bit of a reach and Stanford is just a crapshoot.

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Are you looking for a strong Jewish community, or if the school has even a small Jewish community? You started a number of threads, so you are trying to compare different schools, etc. Different regions of the country?

I don’t get enough of a feeling for your stats - CR + M SAT gets compared to ACT composite score on concordance scale. Was that stronger than ACT 29 on concordance?

You also seem to be more concerned about admission versus affordability. Have you narrowed down aspects like large campus/college town, or big city?

Have you visited enough college campuses to know what you like/dislike?

Are you planning to see where you get admitted, and then tour and decide?

USA Today has a College Guide 2016 on news stands (I got mine at Barnes and Noble) - display until Nov 17. It isn’t as detailed as US News - which may be available on-line but not in news-stands yet.

You want to seek out a school which is a good fit for what you are studying, that you have a ‘tribe’ - peer group, and that you generally like for a variety of reasons.

You may find that the school that ‘wants you’ versus you barely getting admitted may be a better fit for you.

Our family doesn’t have an open pocketbook. We look at cost/benefit. Maybe your parents do too.