Is this list of colleges good?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello, I am finalizing my colleg list and I just want to make sure I have schools in the right places and accurate:
Reach:
UPenn
Princeton (maybe EA)
Columbia
Brown
Cornell</p>

<p>Match:
Tufts
Georgetown
NYU
Amherst? (reach?)</p>

<p>Safety:
Loyola University- MD
George Washington</p>

<h2>Washington College (possibly)</h2>

<p>Objective:
GPA: 4.0 UW (all A+ grades except in 3 classes), 4.4 W
Rank: 1/70-ish
SAT: 2150 single (720 CR, 680 M, 750 W)
PSAT: 203, I think, commended
SAT II: 760 Math II 720 Latin
AP: Lang (5<em>) US (5</em>) Art (4<em>) Gov (5) Latin (</em><em>) Lit (</em><em>) Calc AB (</em><em>) Stat (</em><em>) Bio (</em><em>)
*= anticipated *</em>= this year</p>

<h2>School: small private (sends top 5 to top 10 schools every year)</h2>

<p>Subjective:
ECs:
National Honor Society (president): did a lot of tutoring last year, community service project collecting clothing for homeless, plan to do more next year
Mock Trial (captain): went to regional finals. Would have been top attorney but instructor chose seniors (it goes by selection) :/
Ski Club: purely recreational, though could make an essay?
Piano: 12 years, there are not many competitions around where I live. However I perform often for people, and I am quite good. I will send in a supplement.
Student Ambassador: act as a leader to younger children, get them ready for highschool, guide them around school.</p>

<p>Volunteering:
3 years volunteer at hospital. I will get a presidents award for hospital service. I have approximately 360 hours. I have also been recognized by many of the hospital's departments for my dedication every weekend (I show up alone and do all the work alone).
I play piano often for nursing homes- about 130 hours. I enjoy doing it for the people, it's fulfilling.
Some volunteering at elementary schools- 40 hours (not too much work here)</p>

<p>Work:
Intern at a prestigious research facility. I work in the chair's lab, with all graduate students and postdocs, from ivies mostly. Will try for a recommendation from chair. Just started, but hope to do very well in it this summer. I went out of state to the city for this.</p>

<p>Awards:
A lot of school academic awards, too many to list
National Merit Commended
AP Scholar(?)</p>

<h2>President Award for hospital</h2>

<p>Other:</p>

<p>Essay: probably good, I did a practice one for AP Lang after the exam, forthe highest grade in the class. It was about piano, I sucked for a while.</p>

<p>Teacher Rec: English Teacher: excellent. really loves me.
AP US teacher: will be above average.</p>

<p>Guidance counselor: not sure. Likes me, but not a good counselor, so average-above average?</p>

<p>Hook(s): my family struggles a little financially. But doubt that's a hook.</p>

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<p>Amherst and Georgetown aren’t matches for anyone, haha… But you’re looking very good for all your schools(:</p>

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<p>Well EVERY student at the top of our class gets into Georgetown no problem, I think due to proximity and the fact that our schools is a catholic school.</p>

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<p>You may turn out to be the exception.</p>

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<p>Where did you find such a huge list ? is that you found them by yourself or did anyone recommend them to you ? :-o</p>

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<p>I did a lot of work independently. My college counselor (not school!) helped place all except for Amherst.</p>

<p>I also got a gold medal for the NLE and a cum lauds in sophomore year.</p>

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<p>Bump. Thanks for your opinions. Bump.</p>

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<p>Bump 10char</p>

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<p>Bump. I’m really wondering about whether my chances match where I listed these schools. Thanks</p>

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<p>They do, in short. Trust me, and the previous posters – you don’t need more opinions, you’re spot on for these schools, though Georgetown and Amherst just aren’t matches for anyone, ahah. Not that it really matters, given your academic performance, but it wouldn’t hurt you to retake the SAT… Yours is a <em>tiny</em> bit low. You might want to get your CR to 750 and your M to 700, shouldn’t be too much of a problem for you, ahah. You’re good for the schools listed, but you might want to search for more match schools, just to give you more options come decision time.</p>

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<p>Okay. Thank you. I have BC as a match school as well. I was going to do UVA but wasn’t sure as it is out of state for me.</p>

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<p>Is BC okay? Also, do any of you have any suggestions or maybe 2 or three more matches?</p>

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<p>Bump. Mainly just because I am now wondering if anyone has opinions on more match schools I could investigate, given my current list.</p>

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<p>UPenn, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Cornell are all reaches for you but you will definitely have better chances if you get your SAT I scores up a bit. You probably have the best chance at Cornell out of all of these. I’m not sure what you want to major in so some majors/schools (i.e. school of engineering) within these schools may be harder to get into for you. Tufts, NYU, and Amherst are matches though Amherst may be slightly more difficult to get into along with Georgetown. All of your safety schools are good. I don’t know what you want to major in so it’s hard for me to suggest schools for you to investigate. Good luck!</p>

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<p>I want to do a double major in Englosh and Biology, I want to go to patent law. Seeing as my scores do fall into the middle percentiles of the ivies, does it really hurt that much? Thanks for the feedback.</p>