New York Schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey, I'm a rising senior at public hs in wyoming. I really don't know if I'm aiming too high for some of the schools i have in mind.</p>

<p>white female
GPA: 3.85uw
PSAT: 216
SAT: 1950... first time, I know I can do way way better, i did the q&a sat thing and most of the stuff i missed was because of stupid mistakes or reading too fast. i think im perfectly capable of 2100+, i'm not sure what happened</p>

<p>Freshman year:
Yearbook (editor) A/A
Orchestra A/A
Pre-AP Bio A/A
Integrated 3 math A/A
Pre-AP English A/A
Pre-AP World History A/A
Intro to Tech A/A
Spanish 1b A/A</p>

<p>Sophmore Year:
Orchestra A/A
PIB World History A/A
Pre-Calc B/A
PIB English A/A
PIB Drama A
Health A
PIB Chemistry A/B
Spanish 2 A/A</p>

<p>Junior Year (really slacked 2nd semester due to some health stuff)
Orchestra A/A
AP Calc BC A/B
IB SL Psych A/A
IB HL History of the Americas A/B
IB Student Council A/A
IB HL Biology A/B
IB HL World Authors A/A
Spanish 3 A/B</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
Chamber Orchestra
Physics
IB SL Math Studies
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB HL 20th Century Politics
IB Student Council
IB HL Biology 2
IB HL Authors 2
Spanish 4</p>

<p>IB/AP Scores (only taken 1 IB test, will take 5 senior year, because I'm in IB I'm not really doing any more AP Tests)
IB SL Psychology: 7 (of 7)
AP Bio: 4</p>

<p>ECs:
-Violin (past 14yrs)
School Pit Orchestra 10,11,12
District Honor Orchestra
All-state orchestra
Western States Honor Orchestra
- FBLA/DECA 10,11,12
2nd place district public speaking, could not attend states
-Forensics Speech 11,12
A couple of original oratory awards
-Student Community Involvment Team 10,11,12
A city-wide volunteer group, founding member
-KRCC Radio Station 11,12
volunteer, DJ
-Golf Team 10,11,12
-Science Olympiad 7-12
Participant w/numerous state awards and national competitor 7-9
Volunteer 10-12
-Discovery Science Center Volunteer 11,12
-University of Wyoming English Intensive Workshop volunteer 30hrs
-Part-time Deli Job (summer and school year) 11,12</p>

<p>Intel Sci Fair special recog and some "outstanding" award from the army
A couple of small essay contest awards
Colorado College Southwest Scholars Scholarship; taking a summer writing class -> A- </p>

<p>Schools I'm Looking at:
NYU (CAS)
Fordham
Pratt
University of Washington
Seattle University
Colorado College
Boston College
Suggestions?</p>

<p>Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>Your stats (current GPA and SAT score) should get you in at every school on your list. (the only exception is Pratt--only because I don't have any statistics on the school, and thus can't rank your "chances" there).</p>

<p>Boston College and NYU will be the toughest ones--but even at these two, I think you are in.</p>

<p>You'll probably will get offered a small scholarship at Fordham and possibly from Seattle University also.</p>

<p>You seem to be picking Jesuit schools in larger cities (with the exception of Univ of Washington and NYU), so about the only other schools I could suggest would be Univ of San Francisco, Univ of San Diego, Santa Clara, Georgetown--and if you don't have to be right in a city, Notre Dame (not actually Jesuit--but Roman Catholic affiliation--same as Georgetown).</p>

<p>Your choices are good ones, however, and while Georgetown and Notre Dame are stretches, I think you need a stretch college or two, because right now all you have are matches and safeties. </p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>would georgetown and Notre Dame still be stretches if i got my sat's up?</p>

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<p>If you really do go up to 2100 then Notre Dame will be only a slight reach / almost match. Georgetown will still be a moderate reach.</p>

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<p>I'm mainly interested in NYC/big city schools. Is there anything I can still do better my chances for acceptance/$$$? What should I work on?</p>

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<p>youre from wyoming which means youre basically in at BC. a few years ago BC didnt have one student from wyoming, and now they are definitely looking for people to apply. youre from wyoming and you have competitive stats, so youre in.</p>

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<p>is there anything i can do to better my chances at the other colleges? especially NYU</p>