Let's give this a whirl...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Well, hello everyone. I'm a senior girl from Indiana getting ready to apply to my colleges. I'm applying to Indiana University, Notre Dame, St. Olaf, Carelton, Yale, U Virginia, U Chicago, William and Mary, and Davidson. I attend a public school in a relatively rural community--one that considers me an exceptional student, though I'm pretty typical by CC standards. So I'm curious to know what you think. Am I shooting too high with my schools?</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 weighted, 3.8 unweighted
Rank: ~10/330</p>

<p>SAT: 2230 (730 CR, 700 M, 800 W)
Subject tests: 730 in Literature, 750 in US History
AP: AP Euro-3; AP US-4; AP Lang-5; AP Lit-4</p>

<p>Extracurricular:</p>

<p>two years varsity swimming, two years JV cross country, two years as newspaper copyeditor, four years as baseball manager, five years of violin lessons, two years on English academic team</p>

<p>Service:</p>

<ul>
<li>Mission trip to the Dominican Republic (9)</li>
<li>Nursing home volunteer (11)</li>
<li>Mentor to freshmen (12)</li>
</ul>

<p>Honorifics:</p>

<p>None to speak of. </p>

<p>Schedule:</p>

<p>This is probably where I'll suffer--I guess I'll just have to accept that. </p>

<p>1) Class at local college--hopefully 200-level English
2) AP Calculus A/B
3) Newspaper
4) US Gov (required class)
5) Latin IV (studying AP Latin, but can't call it that because my teacher isn't AP trained)
6) Spanish II</p>

<p>Second semester, I'll have two classes at the college and will have had four classes through the college in my high school career.</p>

<p>I expect to be able to put out decent essays for my colleges, so that may help some. What do you think?</p>

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<p>IU - safety
notre dame - match
st. olaf - safety
carleton - match
yale - always a crapshoot
uva - reach
chicago - reach
william and mary - reach
davidson - low reach</p>

<p>as a virginian, uva and william and mary are VERY hard OOS. especially uva. but, with your grades and SATs, you are relatively competitive at most places. you have fine ECs, etc. however, you might be missing a hook. you'll really have to bring it in your essays in that area if you want to make some of your reaches high matches.</p>

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<p>Thanks. That's more or less what I'm excepting--I should have been a Virginian. Chicago's my dream school, but even if I get in, there's the whole issue of having to pay, so it might be best if I don't even have to make the call.</p>

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<p>well, i am a virginian, and let's just say that even my in state residency did not help my case too much at uva and w&m. :-)</p>