<p>Hey I just want to receive at least 3-4 acceptance letters in april out of 20 colleges... </p>
<p>UCLA-
UC San Diego-
UC Davis-
Berkeley-
Irvine-
Georgetown-
Stanford-
northwestern-
brown-
Harvard-
Princeton
U of Chicago-
Cornell
Yale-
Upenn-
USC-
Rice-
Duke-
NYU- </p>
<p>I just want to get into 1 private school...hopefully USC/NYU or northwestern/chicago/cornell/georgetown/Duke... I know for sure I won't get into any others.</p>
<p>Stats:
ACT:29 (1950 converted SAT?)
SAT 2:730,660,650
GPA for 9-12 grade: 3.5 uw and 3.8 weighted
GPA for 10-11 grade for UC's and Stanford/princeton? : 4.375 weighted
Rank for 10-11: top 2 percent
Rank for 9-12 grade: top 20 percent... 100/556</p>
<p>I did very bad freshman year and my father passed away sophomore year.... HUGE upward trend since then</p>
<p>took a total of 25 college courses including 12 AP's. If the schools weight ALL my college level courses, then my fully weighted GPA is a 4.18 for grades 9-12 and my rank is 6/556. Make A HUGE DIFFERENCE! It really depends whether they weight all my off campus college courses. I put this additional information in my application.</p>
<p>REC's and essays: very good
EC's: Eagle scout, jazz band, tennis, sent a video of me dancing a traditional ethnic dance which hopefully makes me stand out from the rest. I am a Red Cross blood donor recruiter and my blood drives have saved over 150 lives... over 600 hrs of community service. AP scholar with distinction blah blah...</p>
<p>In conclusion, my personal traits and qualities are good, but my numbers are HORRIBLE... I was deferred from Chicago EA with a 29 ACT and a top 25 percent applicant. was expected a sure rejection. I guess they really liked me as a person. Will some schools look beyond numbers? I'll shall find out in APRIL from all these 20 schools...</p>
<p>You'll probably get into Davis, San Diego, and Irvine. Whether you get into the rest is anybody's guess- it depends on whether or not they really take into consideration your circumstances and if so, to what degree. You didn't really apply to a good range of schools, so it's very difficult to determine your chances as they're all pretty similar. </p>
<p>At the very least, I could see you getting into USC as it's probably the least competitive of the private schools. If you've been deferred from UChicago, you'll probably end up rejected. Good luck though and THE FORCE be with you. :)</p>
<p>Surely you jest. Everyone arguably can have good personal traits, but what gets them into a good school are those AND the capacity to academically and intellectually succeed. Banking on success simply by virtue of allegedly unique and interesting essays and the sheer quantity of your applications is just silly, as there are thousands of people with just as interesting essays/personality traits who make the objective cut. </p>
<p>UCLA - Reach
UC San Diego - Low Match
UC Davis - Low Match
Berkeley - Reach
Irvine - Low Match
Georgetown - Reach
Stanford - Divine Intervention
Northwestern - High Reach
Brown - No Chance
Harvard - No Chance
Princeton - No Chance
U of Chicago - High Reach
Cornell - High Reach
Yale - No Chance
Upenn - High Reach
USC - High Match
Rice - Low Reach
Duke - Reach
NYU - High Match</p>
<p>I guess you'd have to see my application to really understand... i see everyone on CC with piano, tennis, NHS, a few clubs and volunteer work... everybody has that I suppose. I didn't put any of that down. </p>
<p>A high match is a school where you have a good shot, but it leans towards the "harder" side of getting in rather than the "easier" side. Vice-versa for low match.</p>
<p>hey snowgurl... out of all those reaches... do you think i'll get into at least 1? I mean reach is about a 10-25 percent shot right? So I mean by doin the binomial distribution......</p>
<p>Your tennis and community service seem solid. If you're really good at the instrument you play in jazz band, send in a solo recording. All in all, your ECs seem pretty standard unless you're nationally ranked in tennis or have won major competitions in ethnic dance or jazz band.</p>
<p>Also, this isn't roulette. Applying to ten reaches doesn't help you if you simply can't make the cut.</p>
<p>nope I'm only regionally ranked for jazz and tennis. I'm nationally ranked for dance though. Too bad there's no recruiting for dance :( haha</p>
<p>I guess we're all unique! I doubt college admissions have seen a Punjabi kid who does jazz, tennis, and Punjabi dance ( sends in a video) with 600+ hrs community service, saved over 150 lives ( theoretically :) ) blah blah... Then again I'm sure thousands other applicants have better... that's just life :)</p>
<p>I'm guessing you're Asian? It's the worst race for college admissions so don't expect to get into any of those universities. It's very risky to have no safeties. Your grades and test scores are simply not strong enough.</p>
<p>i'll prolly get into davis/irvine or one of them... so those were my safeties or backups...</p>
<p>I'm going to law school so undergrad really doesn't matter... and if I don't get any financial aid, I wouldn't go to any private school anyway... it's not worth it I think. I just applied seeing where I can get in and which schools gives me $$$.</p>