Please Chance Me for Claremont McKenna, Georgetown, University of Washington

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Incoming high school senior, and I was wondering about my chances at these schools:
Claremont McKenna (probably applying ED)
Cornell
University of Washington
Whitman
Bowdoin
Georgetown

Washington State, White

GPA- 3.95 UW, much higher weighted
10 AP classes by graduation, including AP Calc and Physics

ACT- 33 cumulative

Leadership-
ASB Senator/rep for 3 years
ASB Secretary for Senior year
NHS vice president
Association of Washington State Leaders Executive Board Member

Extracurriculars-
Varsity cross country athlete for 4 years (times are probably not fast enough to matter to recruiters)
JV Track athlete for 3 years
Member of the EFN’s (a local charity) ambassador board
Student representative for the school board
Club Founder (Students for Peninsula Schools, in favor of passing school bonds)
2nd place winner for library systems short story and poetry contest

Thank you for chancing me!

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CMC ED - Low reach/high match
Cornell - Low reach
Bowdoin - Low reach
Georgetown - Low reach
Whitman - Match
Washington in-state - Low match

You might want to add a couple more matches and a safety – potential matches include schools like BU, BC, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh, Tulane, U of Rochester, U of Richmond, Case Western, Trinity, Connecticut College, Reed, Denison, St. Olaf, Gettysburg, Miami, Wake Forest, SMU, and any other LACs and U’s ranked from about 30-60 or so. Some of those are high matches. Regardless, they give you more options in case you are shut out of CMC/Cornell/Georgetown/Bowdoin.

I would add a couple of those additional match-range schools unless you would be completely happy in Seattle or out at Whitman. I think you’re probably getting into at least one of those two, but it isn’t guaranteed. If you’d like to have more than one or two match-range options, do add a couple more such apps.

For a safety, maybe consider the other Washington state schools, like WSU and EWU… or some other lower-ranked U’s and LACs that you like and can afford. Washington might be close to a safety since you are in-state and your stats are quite strong, but I wouldn’t quite call it one.

I think you may well snag an admission to one or two of those four highly selective schools, but you also might not get into any of them, so… to cover yourself, add a couple matches and (as is the case for everyone) do add a true safety. Just in case the sky falls.

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Youll get into UW. 100%.