Nervous Junior Worried about Her Chances at Top Schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! So I am currently a senior off to college next year, but my friend is wondering what her chances are going to be next year at top colleges. </p>

<p>I do not know all of her stats, but this is a brief summary:</p>

<p>Grade: Class of 2011
Sex: Female
Race: Indian
State: MA</p>

<p>School: Parochial, Class of about 300
GPA: 4.0 UW
Class Rank: 1, but school only reports "decile" to colleges, so top 10% (most college are able to discern where in the "decile" a student is ranked by looking at weighted GPA)
SAT: 2400 (on first try)
SAT IIs: None taken yet, but scheduled to take Math II, US History, and Biology in the fall (currently testing for an 800 on Math II and 780+ in the other two). Also, she will take French and Literature in the early fall.
APs: There is a 3 AP Limit at my school and only 2 are offered junior year: Biology and US History...she is taking the exams this week.
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc, AP Chem, AP English Lit, Physics Honors, French V, Faith</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>National French Exam Award (not sure which, but it was extremely high--she went from French II to French IV because she was so far ahead)
National Merit Finalist (expected with a 230 on the PSAT)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: 4 years of Math Team (Captain senior year), 4 years of Academic Decathlon (Captain senior year), 3 years of Cross Country, won the Massachusetts State Science Fair (went to a National showing in San Francisco), she has an internship coming up at Northeastern University doing research in a lab, she is a member of various other clubs, but has no leadership positions.</p>

<p>This is a VERY short list of her key activities/grades, but she is in all the national honor societies at my school (National, French, Math, English, Science). </p>

<p>What are her chances at:</p>

<p>Harvard
MIT
Caltech
WashU
JHU
University of Central Florida
RPI
Princeton
Columbia</p>

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<p>bump please!!!</p>

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<p>Harvard -reach
MIT - reach
Caltech - not sure
WashU - low match
JHU - low match
University of Central Florida - in
RPI - low match
Princeton - reach
Columbia - high match</p>

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<p>Why is part of this in 3rd person?
All the places you mentioned’s a crapshot anyway, they’re all reaches but only your essays and recs can really finish the job.</p>

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<p>It’s in third person because I am doing this for a friend of mine lol. I don’t have some weird complex where I refer to myself in the third person… :/.</p>

<p>Thanks so much though! Anyone else?</p>

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<p>if shes such a genius and takes every AP class and is in every honors program and won every award why are you worried</p>

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<p>…
why ■■■■■■■■? whats the use?</p>

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<p>Dude this isn’t ■■■■■■■■ at all…like i SWEAR. </p>

<p>This girl is the valedictorian of my class’ junior class and she thought that because her extracurricular’s are “average” she wouldn’t stand a chance at top schools. Because of that, I put up this thread to prove to her that she had better chances then she thought she did. </p>

<p>Everything that has been said is 100% true and honest about this girl.</p>

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<p>She has a good chance.</p>