please chance me for columbia, yale, brown etc

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey everybody...
I'm a junior at a highly rated public high school in massachusetts right now, and I was hoping if you could give me some feedback on my chances at these schools: Columbia (ED), Brown (EA), yale (legacy), uchicago (EA), cornell, wesleyan, brandeis, northwestern, uc berkeley, ucla, penn and swarthmore.
here are my credentials
GPA (as of right now)- 3.86 uw, 4.18 w
SAT- 700 cr, 760 math, 800 writing, 2260 overall
SATII- 710 biology
extracurriculars- junior state of america- current director of activism, organized a clothing drive for city children, 4 best speaker awards at conventions, possible president of local chapter/New England debate chair next year</p>

<p>Fencing- 4 years varsity, squad placed 2nd in state soph year, 1st junior year, placed 5th individually junior year, fence year round for a club in tournaments around new england, mens captain senior year</p>

<p>Academic bowl- 3 year varsity member, captain junior/senior year, 2 top scorer awards at yale and brandeis tournaments</p>

<p>School advisory council- elected for senior year, liason between school principal and student body</p>

<p>Environmental club- member, take care of endangered turtles and pull invasive plant species, will be doing research with a local professor this summer on the turtles</p>

<p>will be going on a community service trip to south india this summer for 4 weeks of working in a village</p>

<p>took a conservation biology seminar last year, and take a roman literature seminar this year</p>

<p>interested in majoring in classics, history, or anthropology</p>

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<p>I would say you have excellent prospects at Brown! But, as you may see elsewhere, Brown is VERY quirky re admissions, and some very qualified students don’t get in. You don’t estimate your class rank, or rigor of the course load to get your GPA. That could be a weakness if you are not taking the most rigorous courses offered at your school. The fencing is a draw. Brown has a growing and serious fencing team. (Good for you, not so good for club, interest fencers at Brown is there is no club/fun level/intramural fencing). All of your potential concentrations are a great fit for Brown as is the public service/ecology stuff. (and at Brown you can keep doing ALL of that!) Take a more detailed look at the school, talk to current students and visit if you can. If you decide it is really a good fit for you and the college can get a good sense of why that is from you, that is part of the “quirkiness” of Brown’s admission decisions. Not that you shouldn’t apply to the other schools!! Just that Brown, like other schools, wants students who fit with Brown.
PS You probably know, EA means you pick a school as being your “very most want to go there school” and can only apply there during the EA phase. It doesn’t sound with a list of more than one “EA” school, that you are ready to take that approach, so look at the schools from the “fit” category first.</p>

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<p>You have a great chance to brown, yale, columbia, and cornell, whereas Princeton, Upenn, and Harvard can be difficult for you.</p>

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<p>thanks for your feedback! my school doesn’t have class rank, but i would say I am in the top 5-10%. My course load is the absolute hardest it can be- 4 honors classes ( my school doesn’t weight humanities), and I double up on language courses, plus my extra classes and moot court, which is basically like teaching yourself constitutional law in 5 weeks.</p>

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<p>oh, and for the early action, columbia is my number 1 already, and brown and uchicago are close seconds. they do not have restrictive early action, so i figure that it won’t hurt to apply EA, because it is non binding and allows me to keep columbia as a number 1</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure Columbia only has ED, not EA. They haven’t had it for the last few years, unless that’s changing come this fall…</p>

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<p>Brown is also ED.</p>