If you chance me you'll get into the college of your choice

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My mother, my grandfather, and two uncles attended Brown and my mom interviews for them and my father attended Yale and he interviews for them and my grandfather and uncle attended UPenn </p>

<p>I'm currently a junior and I'm wondering what my chances are at: Brown, Yale, UPenn, Northwestern, Wesleyan, NYU, WUSTL, Stanford, Amherst, Michigan (honors),Johns Hopkins, Williams, and berkeley (out of state)</p>

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

<p>GPA: uw: 3.9 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: 2170 CR: 700 Math: 670 Writing: 800 (11 essay) (retaking in march hope to get over 2250 or over)
ACT: 32
SAT II: Math 1c: 720 will also take bio and us history
PSAT: 215 probably NM comendation
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</p>

<p>Also entered Intel, Siemens Westinghouse dupont challenge, Oracle Thinkquest, and Toshiba explora vision </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>Consider yourself in.</p>

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<p>That's an impressive legacy and nice scores, I'd say good shot.</p>

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<p>Nice legacies. However, Michigan itself is difficult out-of-state (though quite easy for smart in-staters), so honors is dubious.</p>

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<p>I dunno man, you have impressive legacy but filtering the list, this is what I see.</p>

<p>GPA: uw: 3.9 W:4.2
SAT I: 2170
-SAT II: Math 1c: 720 will also take bio and us history
PSAT: 215 probably NM comendation</p>

<p>Filtering the EC list from the very genial:
-Sports editor School Newspaper (11th grade) and will be Editor in chief for senior year
-Co-editor of school public relations magazine
-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>I would not put things like Principal's Decision committee(9th grade). It would seem like padding the list.</p>

<p>Summer. I really don't know how competitive these are.
New York Film academy at princeton, Brown summer program, Northwestern film program</p>

<p>And Intel, Siemens Westinghouse dupont challenge, Oracle Thinkquest, and Toshiba explora vision doesn't count yet because you haven't won anything. (I could enter with a egg in a cup and call it some embryonic experiment.)</p>

<p>To the point, you have great legacy, but this will not help you for most schools on your list. Also, if I(as an Asian) had put such stats on the board, with above SATs, ECs, and etc. I'm sure people would have called me an almost automatic reject from the top tiers. </p>

<p>So I'd say that another look into your chances, from an unbiased view, will be a good idea.</p>

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<p>legacy helps a ton, so at brown and yale i'd say straight up reach, just because you aren't a 4.0 uw 2400 sat applicant, and they're a reach for just about anybody</p>

<p>williams, amherst, stanford, and upenn are far reaches</p>

<p>for most of the rest you are looking at about a high match</p>

<p>for nyu and u mich honors i'd say low match - i had a friend this year get into umich honors already with similar stats</p>

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<p>"Nice legacies" makes me think "nice legs," except in a nerdy way.</p>

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<p>at least he passed his road test.</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>That's a pretty impressive legacy... That's got to help...the only person I know with similar stats, I suppose, was a friend of mine whose whole family (grandparents, parents, uncle and three cousins) all went to Yale...
Assuming that you improve your scores like you said and get at least 4 or 5 on all your APs...
Brown: Slight reach
Yale: Slight reach
UPenn: Slight reach
Northwestern: Pretty good/Match
Wesleyan: Pretty Good/Match
NYU: Match
WUSTL: Slight reach, Match
Stanford: Reach
Amherst: Slight reach
Michigan (honors): Pretty good chance
Johns Hopkins: Pretty good chance
Williams: Slight reach
Berkeley: tiny reach/ match</p>

<p>BTW, Yale looks a TON at legacies from what I've seen. :)
Good Luck! I hope you get into your first choice!</p>

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<p>bump by the way i know that colleges don't care as much about the writing sat score but that 800 can't be for nothing how much weight will that hold?</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>bumpppppppppppppppppp</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>Snake13:</p>

<p>UCB: Slight Reach (out of state)</p>

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<p>ha. your thread title reminds me of myspace bulletins. anyhoo.
legacy will not carry you in some of those schools. and gryffon seems to have hit your stats right on. you've padded your ec list man. I have several honors and such, but they are kinda useless. just list the ones that speak the most about you.</p>

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<p>I think LEGACY matters!
why don't you try Harvard too?
Maybe you will get in.</p>