Need help with my college list

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I know i put up a thread about cornell before and that is my #1 school but I could also use some help with my list of other schools

Can anyone help me out?

Dream School: Cornell University

High Reach schools: University of Notre Dame
University of Chicago
Georgetown University
Brown University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Macaulay Honors College
Boston College
Colgate University

Target/Match Schools:
Binghamton University
Stony Brook University
Syracuse University
Fordham University
Boston University
George Washington University

Safety Schools:
SUNY New Paltz
CUNY Queens
CUNY Hunter
CUNY Baruch
St.Johns University

High School Junior at a catholic school in New York

Hooks: I am a URM (Hispanic), a first generation college student, and I’m also adopted

SAT I (breakdown): 2220 (730 CR) (740 Math) (750 Writing)

ACT (breakdown): not taking

SAT II: chem 710, us 760 , math 2 720 Lit 740

Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7

Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesnt rank

Course Rigor: Frosh- Stage Band Honors, Integrated Geometry Advanced (took Algebra 1 in middle school).
Sophmore- Biology Honors and Global History Honors,
Junior Year: APUSH

AP: US - 5

IB (place score in parenthesis): not available at my school

Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit AP Government Honors Calculus Honors Physics

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing aside from National Honor society and foreign language honor society

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 150-200 volunteer hours, golf team, bodybuilding, peer tutoring 4 yrs of band, National Honor Society, Foreign Language Honor Society

Job/Work Experience: 3 different jobs in three different businesses

Summer Activities: Worked 20 hrs per week summer of freshmen year
worked 30-35 hours per week summer of soph year
Summer of Junior year got 100 hours of service volunteering at a nursing home

Essays: Extremely strong have been working on them for many months

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Actually, a 2220 SAT is very competitive at all of the schools on your list except for UChicago, and even then you’d be in like the 33rd percentile(ish) at UChicago with that 2220 - plenty of admits will score worse.

That said, high test scores at elite schools get you past just the first hurdle; others include GPA, class standing, course rigor, extracurriculars, recommendations, and essays.

A 3.7 is a hair low for the top schools on your list – you’d probably want to be 3.8+ unweighted – but likely not a deal-breaker on its own.

URM will help.

I’ll let others evaluate your ECs.

Based on your measurables, I’d say you have a fairly decent chance to get into at least one of the elite schools and likely into most of the rest.

Make sure that you show interest: most schools want to feel genuine interest from you; no school wants to be just another app, folded into a dart, thrown at a “get me into a great school, any great school” dart board.

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Great job! What do you want to study? Also, can you afford all of these schools? You need to narrow your list down a bit as you probably know.

4

You have excellent test scores and extracurriculars. Why not add Duke to your list? Seems like it would be a great fit.

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I think you are positioned very well. GPA a tad low but otherwise you are a very strong candidate. Try to get leadership positions in your EC’s coming into senior year.