<p>i am currently a junior and these are the schools im considering. if you are a student or know anything about any of these universities please let me know my chances! thanks! (also, please recommend any schools that i don't already have listed and that i have a good chance of getting into)</p>
<p>Lehigh
Villanova
Bucknell
Penn State
U of Maryland
Cornell
College of NJ
Boston College</p>
<p>SAT:
Writing 650
Math 680
Verbal 610
Total: 1940 (or 1290 without writing)
im taking them again in a month</p>
<p>GPA:
unweighted: 3.98
weighted: 4.46</p>
<p>Activities:
ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, and lyrical dance classes all throughout high school
piano first two years
secretary of SCN (students concerned for the needy)
member of Italian club
Italian National Honor Society
member of SMAC (student movement against cancer)
member of SCN
yearbook staff (and possible editorship next year)
service hours at my church, soup kitchen, thrift store
im going to start tutoring soon</p>
<p>classes:
2 APs this year, 3 more APs next year
all honors classes</p>
<p>What state do you live in? This will affect your chances depending on whether you are applying in-state or out-of-state to TCNJ, Penn State, UMCP.</p>
<p>Does your school have Naviance? That will give you an indication of where students from your school with similar stats have applied and gotten in.</p>
<p>Your current SATs are a little low for these schools, esp. if you are applying OOS to Penn State or Maryland. Admission at big state schools is often highly numbers driven. I believe Penn State had a chart where you can graph your SAT and GPA and see if you will get in. Google “Penn State admissions chart” or something like that. </p>
<p>You can also go to the College Board website or the College Search function on CC and use their college finder search tools to locate schools that fit your stats and interests (i.e. intended major, distance from home, etc.)</p>
<p>As you say, the State Schools might have higher requirements for the out of state applicants, but the Math and CR SAT scores fall within the middle 50% range for all the private schools except Cornell.</p>
<p>For Penn State, I think that your SATs are just fine. I was accepted to PSU with an SAT of 1740, so I think it really varies from student to student. As for the other schools, I’m not sure.</p>
<p>You will have little problem getting into Penn State with your stats. According to PSU’s web site, the admission requirements are the same for in-state and out-of-state students, and your SATs and GPA are both at the high end of their published ranges (3.52-3.97 and 1750-1990). I’m also pretty sure that they use the weighted GPA (at least I think thay did with my son), and so your GPA would be way over the average.</p>
<p>You probably also have a good shot at Villanova and the College of New Jersey. If you’re serious about Lehigh, make sure that you visit. Lehigh places a lot of importance on student interest, and if you live within driving distance and don’t visit, they’re much less likely to admit you.</p>
<p>Cornell and Boston College will definitely reaches.</p>
<p>To get an idea of where you fall in any school’s range, go to their web site and search for the Common Data Set.</p>
<p>BC has gotten much harder to get into for some reason (probably because of the USN&WR rankings - it’s ranked right around W&M, UNC-CH, UVA, and NYU - all difficult schools to get into). Your stats are in line with all of the schools on your list, but that doesn’t guarantee admission. And why some people get in and others don’t is anybody’s guess. </p>
<p>That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t apply, though. Within reason, apply to whatever schools you’re truly interested in and where there’s a reasonable chance of admittance. You have a nice range of schools on your list and you may find others before you make your final list in the fall. But in addition to your matches and reaches, please make sure that you have a couple of safety schools that you would be happy attending and that you can afford. With your stats, you should have no problem finding safety schools.</p>