It's the age old question.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>What are my chances?</p>

<p>I've done a thread before, but I'm curious about more than one college THIS time around.</p>

<p>So, chances for:
-Ithaca
-NYU
-Penn
-Emerson
-Oberlin
-Pomona
-University of Colorado - Boulder
-Colorado College</p>

<p>Activities:
-Newspaper; 4 years; Editor-In-Chief
-German Club; 4 years; President
-Marching Band; 4 years
-National Honor Society; 3 years
-Thespian Society; 2 years
-Critics’ Circle; 1 year; Founder/President</p>

<p>Volunteer Work/Community Service:
-Outdoor Education Lab School leader; 2 years (198 hours)
-German/Writing Lab tutor; 2 years (~25 hours)
-Theater Work; 2 years (~25 hours)
TOTAL VOLUNTEER/COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS: ~248</p>

<p>Awards and Recognition:
-Most Improved Musician Award; grade 9
-Academic Letter; grade 10
-Music Letter; grade 10
-The Arvada Elks’ Lodge’s Student of the Month; grade 11 </p>

<p>Education:
-4.0 G.P.A., unweighted; 4.1, weighted.
-Class Rank: 1 of 374, unweighted; 11 of 374, weighted
-Current Valedictorian </p>

<p>Test Scores:
Advanced Placement:
-English Language and Composition: 4
-United States History: 4
SAT I Reasoning Test: 1990 (93rd percentile)
-Critical Reading: 570 (71st percentile)
-Math: 620 (79th percentile)
-Writing: 800 (99th percentile)
-11 on essay
SAT II Subject Tests:
-German: 560 (36th percentile)
-United States History: 660 (63rd percentile)</p>

<p>Overall Honors/Advanced Courses Taken in High School:
Geometry Hon
Algebra II/Trig
Math Analysis
Biology Hon
English 10 Hon
AP English Lang/Comp
AP English Lit/Comp
World History Honors
AP U.S. History
AP European History
AP Microeconomics</p>

<p>Essays: Will be good; writing's all I'm good at.</p>

<p>Recs: Fairly good as well.</p>

<p>Male/White/Colorado/Low Income/Episcopalian Christian/Homosexual/Italian and Lithuanian heritage</p>

<p>Hey, anything that helps.</p>

<p>Thanks tons!!</p>

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<p>Reaches: NYU, Oberlin, Pomona, UPenn, Colorado College (unless they give preference to in-state students...)</p>

<p>The rest are matches/safeties.</p>

<p>The Italian and Lithuanian heritage/Episcopalian stuff no college will care about.</p>

<p>Your score are a big problem. Especially for schools that don't count writing.</p>

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<p>Upenn and pomona definitely aren't gonna happen.</p>

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<p>Your school seems noncompetitive, or you're just not good at taking tests.</p>

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<p>In response to your statement, it's both.</p>

<p>My school's non-competitive and I am bad at taking tests.</p>

<p>That's why I didn't even post my ACT scores.</p>

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<p>Also, does anyone known which schools DO/DON'T count the SAT Writing, my only noteworthy accomplishment in the unnecessary world of standarized testing?</p>

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<p>Not many schools consider writing. As far as NYU, they say they look at it but really it does not influence their decision much. I feel your pain with the writing - I got an 800 too and almost nowhere considered it. I got into NYU ED with a 660 on math and 680 on cr with just a little higher weighted GPA, so if you can pull your scores up to around that, I think you have a pretty good chance of getting in too! =)</p>

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<p>Yeah...I think most schools use the Math and Critical Reading more than the Writing to judge one's capacity to work in college. It probably has to do with the fact that the Writing section is fairly new still, and colleges don't want to factor them in heavily until they have some decent statistics. Also, the Writing section is a bit subjective regarding the essay. Some people just don't do well on the essay though they write fairly skillfully.</p>

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<p>you tricked me into this thread -_-</p>