My chances, please?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, everyone! Please chance me for:
UNC (restricted early action, out of state)
McGill
SUNY Binghamton (in-state)
Stanford
Pomona
Williams
Middlebury
Dartmouth
Swarthmore
Cornell
Claremont McKenna</p>

<p>State: New York
School: competitive public high school, sometimes called top public in the country
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Grade: 12
GPA: 94.3529 unweighted (but colleges never see it, just our transcript)
The school doesn't rank (or weight grades, incidentally), so I literally have no idea what percentile I'm in.</p>

<p>SAT: March 2009: I was sick...2210 = 680 M/730 CR/800 WR (12 essay); retake June 2009: 2360 = 760 M/800 CR/800 WR (12 essay)
ACT composite with writing: 32 (35 English, 30 math, 31 science, 32 reading, 33 combined English/writing)
SAT IIs: USH-700; Math 2C-730; French-800</p>

<p>Schedule: Note: you can't take electives until junior year, at which point you can only take two. Senior year, you take five or six classes, but for that total of eight spots, physics must be taken junior or senior year, and so it isn't an elective but it takes the spot of one. As a junior, I took AP French and regular physics. This year, I'm in:</p>

<p>AP Calculus BC
AP Psychology
Advanced Logic and Composition
French V
International Relations
Social studies teaching internship (counts as a class; not sure if it's graded)
Badminton (whatever)</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS</p>

<p>--Fencing since September 2006, foilist from a strong location, compete nationally in USFA tournaments
--Softball since spring 2003, varsity starter all years of high school; likely captain for senior year, but I won't find out until the season starts in March because of a weird coaching situation
--Volunteer helping disabled people ride horses
--Volunteer doing service in a community garden
--Key Club
--Copy editor for the school’s arts and music magazine
--Photo editor for the school's official newspaper
--Peer French tutor
--Contributor to school’s anonymous advice column
--Former competitive swimmer; quit because I started going to school an hour away from where I live in 7th grade and there was no swim team for middle-schoolers, so I stopped for those years and never started again
--Self-study of German
--Studied Mandarin Chinese</p>

<p>SIDENOTES:
--Basically fluent in French; I’ve done some sort of immersion in the summer since 2007
--Silver key for Scholastic Writing Award
--Was on Jeopardy! in 2003 (this will probably be an essay topic for Pomona)
--Did well in spelling and geography bees when I was younger; still interested in both, but there’s no real equivalent for my age now</p>

<p>POSSIBLE MAJOR:
International relations, psychology, anthropology; minor in French or history</p>

<p>ESSAYS:
Strong, interesting, and hopefully humorous. </p>

<p>RECS:
From a math teacher who knows me very well and likes me a lot and the social studies teacher whom I had in 10th grade and have now for IR, I also intern for her. I didn't ask anyone who won’t write great things. Counselor wrote good things, too, I think.</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>Yeah, no doubt.</p>

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<p>UNC (restricted early action, out of state) - Low Match
McGill - Low Match
SUNY Binghamton (in-state) - Safety
Stanford - Reach (It is for everyone)
Pomona - High Match
Williams - Low Reach / Reach
Middlebury - High Match / Low Reach
Dartmouth - Reach (Lower than Stanford)
Swarthmore - Low Reach
Cornell - High Match / Low Reach
Claremont McKenna - Match
You have great odds; GPA and Scores are fantastic, ECs are strong. The upper ivies, Williams, and Stanford are reaches for everyone, but you have better odds than most. You are almost guaranteed (at least in my mind) to get into either Stanford, Williams or Dartmouth, but who knows? Best of luck! :D</p>

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<p>Thank you, AceClark! That was a terrifically complete post. Thanks for chancing so carefully :D</p>

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<p>Two things I forgot to mention…National Merit Semifinalist; 5 on French AP.
Please, more people!</p>