<p>I'm just wondering what my chances were at the schools I applied to:
Harvard (deferred)
Princeton
Columbia
UPenn
Dartmouth
Williams
Middlebury
Bucknell
Colgate
WashU
Pomona
Duke
Brown
Boston College
UofM - Got into Engineering School</p>
<p>Background:
Caucasion Male, Birmingham, MI (right outside Detroit), Did not apply for financial aid anywhere.</p>
<p>Academics:
GPA: Freshman and Soph Year (Went to one of nation's top Private schools) 3.65 unweighted with 3 honors classes
Junior and 1st 1/2 Senior Year (One of nation's top Public schools) 4.45ish weighted, 3.85 unweighted with total of 6 APs and 1 Honors (Straight A's senior year with 4 APs)
School doesnt give out rankings, but top 5% about.
SATs: Math-770 Verbal-660
SATIIs: MathI-700, MathII-760, Writing-690, Phys-670
Got great recs - all saying either top 5% of top ever encountered in each category</p>
<p>ECs:
2 years varisty swimming (all league both years, state qualifier both years, league champ in 2 events, part of 2 school record relays)
4 years Club/JV hockey (state champs 11 grade, co-captain 12)
3 years work experience as Database Manager for local cable company
Creator of 2 Youth Services/Charity drives at local church
Memeber of well known local rock band (I write all the music)
120+ hours of Community Service (mostly missions work)
National Latin Exam Summa Cum Laude
Michigan Math Competition Finalist</p>
<p>I know I'm probably reaching on most of these, but I figured maybe I'd get into a couple! Thanks for any input you can give me on my chances.</p>
<p>First question, are you recruited to swim at any of these?</p>
<p>Nope trying to get in basically on just academics.</p>
<p>Oh and at Princeton Columbia and Duke I'm applying to the engineering programs because of my higher preformance in math in classes, on tests, etc.</p>
<p>White, top high school, upper middle class. You can not be below averages with this profile at top schools and your SAT scores are below average for ivies. I'd have to say no at all of those. I don't know all the averages at most of the other schools, but you'll need to be well above averge in scores as your ECs are just average. BC and U of M should be a go and maybe Colgate?</p>
<p>I reread, one of nation's top PRIVATE schools. Even more expected in terms of SAT scores. Uphill battle.</p>
<p>One caveat: SEAS at Columbia is a very different program that Columbia College.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think you are basically in everywhere except Pomona, Williams, and the Ivies. HP are a big reach (especially this year, apps were up like crazy), but I think you will get into at least one to two of the other Ivies/PW.</p>
<p>You have a pretty good chance at the ones other than Duke and the Ivies but I'm wondering why you transferred out of (I presume) Detroit Country Day and to a public school.</p>
<p>I transfered out of DCD because of a lack of a social scene, the oppressive nature of the administration, and overall unhappiness. I actually went there for 12 years.</p>
<p>How was the administration oppressive? I'm just pointing out that it does not look good at all to leave as you said, one of the best schools in the country.</p>
<p>Maybe the switch would look bad if there were a disciplinary reason or my grades were bad, but I've talked to various college admissions officers and college councilers and they've said that the fact that I was willing to enter into a new situation at such a late point in highschool because I was unhappy, and more importantly, that I was able to make the transition more than smoothly, actually may bode well for me in the admissions process. And I think that any school where a student can get suspended for wearing birkenstocks has an administration with major power issues. And this goes without even mentioning the way athletes get away, for the most part, with slap on the wrist punishments for something that a normal student would get in significant trouble for.</p>