Nervous Applicant. Please chance, will chance back!

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I am a senior who recently applied to 10 schools, and with the first decisions coming out in a couple of weeks I’m more nervous than ever. I’d love to hear your honest opinions on whether I’ll be accepted, deferred, waitlisted or rejected from each school. Leave me a link and I will chance back!

Northeastern ED (Physical Therapy)
Fordham EA (Biological Sciences)
Sacred Heart EA (Exercise Science, Pre-PT)
Ithaca College EA (Physical Therapy)
Georgetown RD (Human Science)
Tufts RD (Community Health)
Brandeis RD (Health: Science, Society and Policy)
Boston University RD (Physical Therapy)
SUNY Stony Brook (Health Sciences)
American (Public Health)

SAT I (breakdown): 2110 / 1340 (670, 670, 770)
ACT (breakdown): n/a
SAT II: 630 Chem, taking maths in January (signaled on common app I’d take in December… hopefully it’s not a problem I pushed it back a month)
GPA: 97.89 UW, 100.4 weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8/584 UW, 9/584 weighted
AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (4), Physics 1 (4), English Lang. and Comp (4), US History (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: Calc AB (switched from BC recently- had to email all my schools- eek), Chem, English Lit, Macroeconomics, Latin V Honors, Chamber Orchestra
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nothing huge. Harvard and Brandeis book awards, Selected for Area-All State orchestra 3 years and principal violist, honored by county board for article published in regional newspaper, Social Studies, English and Music class distinction awards, NHS&Tri-M honor societies.

Extracurriculars: Yearbook Club (Editor-in-chief 2 years in a row, 4 year member) Elite youth orchestra violist, Fiddle Club (President, 4 year member), Recycling Club (Vice President 2 years, 4 year member), Girl Scout working towards Gold Award (bringing music therapy resources to a local hospital), Co-Catechist for 9th grade religion class, youth rep. on Church’s pastoral council, violist on music ministry

Job/Work Experience: Seasonal street musician (17 hours a week or so in the summer). Use money to pay for music tours abroad with fiddle club/ youth orchestra.
Volunteer/Community service: weekly volunteer at PT clinic (450 hours and counting)
Summer Activities: took Neurobiology through Harvard summer 2015, Global Public Health through American summer 2014; also a camp counselor for a week at church camp

Essays: Common App was really unique and screamed me. Wrote about why I love airports and music and connected the two in an insightful way I think. Tufts supplements were my best, they were so fun to write. BU’s were great too. I had one typo in a Georgetown essay I noticed but otherwise they were good.
Teacher Rec #1: Very strong. 10/10 I hope. From my Latin teacher who has had me all four years.
Teacher Rec #2: n/a
Counselor Rec: Very strong again I imagine. She has a TON of students but she knows me very well.
Additional Rec: from a physical therapist where I volunteer. Pretty strong I think, added a new perspective.
Interview: All I had went great. Georgetown’s lasted nearly 2 hours, said she doesn’t write good letters of rec often but that she would for me. Tufts was good, said “I was such a Tufts student” and promised a good letter too. Sacred Heart was with the admissions counselor who said I would get in and has stayed in fairly close contact since.

Other
Submitting a music supplement at Tufts and Brandeis.

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: large public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: parents divorced. mom (who I live with full time) under 50k, dad a little over 100, not sure how that works for aid.
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I wish!

Thanks for reading. I’ll chance back if you leave a link!

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Northeastern ED (Physical Therapy)-low-reach/match school. I applied EA for nursing and submitted a piano & bassoon supplement
Fordham EA (Biological Sciences)-mid-reach
Sacred Heart EA (Exercise Science, Pre-PT)-low-reach/match
Ithaca College EA (Physical Therapy)-match
Georgetown RD (Human Science)-mid-reach school
Tufts RD (Community Health)-mid-reach school
Brandeis RD (Health: Science, Society and Policy)-low-reach
Boston University RD (Physical Therapy)-match school
SUNY Stony Brook (Health Sciences)-match school
American (Public Health)-match school

Have you considered Vanderbilt or Emory or Duke???

You’re parents being divorced helps you, but you’re parents make too much for you too qualify for any signficiant amounts of aid, you would have to get merit/other scholarships.

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@em1998 I’ll go chance you now. I’m confused why I would consider Duke (9%) and Vanderbilt (13%) if you think Sacred Heart (65%) is a low reach for me haha. Thanks for your thoughts though I appreciate it!

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@ptkid16 Sorry, I was thinking of the wrong school, it should be a safety/match school for you. You may never know with Duke or Vanderbilt.

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Oh okay haha, I’ll think about Duke, Vanderbilts a little too far for me. Thanks! @em1998

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It seems like you have a good chance at Georgetown, American, and BU. Fordham seems like a low match to me. Tufts is a reach, but certainly not out of the question. I don’t know very much about the other schools, but it seems like you are poised to get into many of them.

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Thanks so much! @plasticity

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I think you will get into northeastern ed!! But in case if you dont, you probably have a good chance at tufts and about a 30% chance at georgetown (georgetown is probably the biggest reach out of all your schools). I also think youll get into BU and Brandeis, and I dont really know much about the other schools to chance you there but you seem like a strong applicant all around so youll probably have good chances there too! Best of luck!! :slight_smile:

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I don’t know much about these schools (other than BU, at which I think you have a very good chance), but you have a very solid transcript. If your essay is as good as you’d say it is, I’d say you’re a match for the less ‘competitive’ universities, mostly based on major though. Good luck!

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You’re ECs are spectacular, and your classes show that you’re challenging yourself. You have plenty of volunteer and work experience which prove that you’re accustomed to a variety of circumstances and have a lot of endurance. The only weakness might be your stats, but schools often put more emphasis on other aspects of your application anyway. I would say you have a great chance at fordham, stonybrook, GW, and ithaca. Good luck!
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Thanks! @plsnu1234 @ruetherford @gettingdat2400

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Your SAT is around average for Northeastern, but your GPA and rank will really help you, as will your unusual extracurriculars - I’d say you have a good shot at getting in there ED. As for the other schools, I think your EA schools should be pretty safe, as well as Stony Brook. BU and American are matches, Brandeis a slight reach, and Tufts and Georgetown reaches. In other words - a good shot at getting into most of the places on this list! Good luck :slight_smile:

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Northeastern ED (Physical Therapy)-Match
Fordham EA (Biological Sciences)-Match
Sacred Heart EA (Exercise Science, Pre-PT)-Safety
Ithaca College EA (Physical Therapy)-Safety
Georgetown RD (Human Science)-Low Reach
Tufts RD (Community Health)-Low Reach
Brandeis RD (Health: Science, Society and Policy)-Match
Boston University RD (Physical Therapy)-Match
SUNY Stony Brook (Health Sciences)-Safety
American (Public Health)-Safety

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Thanks! @ffina23 @MathFan21