<p>What do you think my chances of getting into the following colleges are?</p>
<p>University of Chicago
UNC Chapel Hill
Tufts
New York University
Boston College
Emory
Colgate
Tufts
Williams
Bowdoin
Wesleyan
Georgetown
Wesleyan
Johns Hopkins
Rice
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon University
UCONN</p>
<p>Which ones do I have a good chance in getting into? Which ones should be safety?</p>
<p>About me:
3.55 GPA UW (Inc. freshman year)
SAT: 2120
Either top 10 or 20 percent of class (not sure)
AP Chem
AP Bio
AP US History
AP Spanish
AP Calculus
AP Physics
AP English
+Mostly honors classes</p>
<p>EC/Athletics:
Varsity tennis 9-12
Fencing 11-12
Stage Crew
Southern Youth Symphonic Orchestra (First chair)
South Youth Symphonic Jazz Band (First Chair)
Tae Kwon Do (Martial Arts, black belt)
Volunteer at Yale-New Haven Hospital 80+ hours
Mostly honors classes, 8 APs
Class Council
Student Council
Honors Jazz Band
Marching Band Squad Leader</p>
<p>The only way to know for sure is to apply. If people could reliably predict chances over the Internet for anyone but the top and bottom 25%, there’d hardly be much point in all the application details, LORs, essays, and interviews.</p>
<p>It does strike me that if this is your list, it’s top heavy. I assume UConn is your safetybut most of the others are at least low reaches (unless maybe you’re in state for UNC.) So you are thin in the middle.</p>
<p>Check out some LACs outside the NE (not just Carleton or Grinnell but somewhat less selective ones like Macalester, Kalamazoo, Kenyon, Whitman, or Centre College) as potential “match” schools. And that’s assuming money is not a big issue. If it is, you may need to look for financial safeties.</p>
<p>You should have quite a good chance at Boston College, UNC, NYU and Carnegie Mellon (depending on which school—humanities is supposed to be the easiest) but they would not be “safeties”, so I agree that you might want to add another safe school. LACcs less selective than Wesleyan are a good idea. If you are interested enough in Chicago to apply early action and you get in, it would make narrowing down this list a lot easier!</p>
<p>Lots of different atmosphere Chicago vs big-time athletics at UNC and Boston College. Might look at Holy Cross easier to get into than Bowdoin/Wesleyan but HC has very good academics and pretty good financial aid(need blind like Ivies).</p>
Oh and sorry guys, UNC is a safety school xD</p>