Please chance me for this beautiful university!! Go Colgate

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Ok I may love Colgate a bit too much. Please tell me what my chances are here? I just visited and I love every single thing about it. I want to spend four years here :slight_smile: Also, I’m quite new to CC so stick with me here ;D

SAT I (breakdown): 710 (W + R), 780 (M), 6-6-7 Essay
ACT (breakdown): N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 17/ 416
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Government (5), AP Human Geography (5), currently taking AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP European History, AP English Lang, AP Calculus AB
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: Biotechnology Course, AP Statistics, APUSH, AP Physics C, AP English Literature, and AP

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended (Not yet sure if I am a semifinalist yet, results are not out but definitely on the edge)

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Medical Sciences Club (Founder and President)
NHS Lead Tutoring Club (President and fellow tutor)
Varsity Tennis (2 years)
Newspaper Head News Editor (3 years in the newspaper, 1 year editor so far)
Link Crew Leader
National Honors Society (2 years)
Science Olympiad (3 years, competing 2 years)
Students Helping Students (President, coordinator, tutor)

Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service: +100 hours at a summer camp for kids with special needs,
Summer Activities: Going to be at a pharmaceutical company internship for 4 weeks, worked as a hostess for majority of summer and bit of school year!

Ethnicity: Asian American
Gender: F
Income Bracket: <$60,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I sort of copied this format from some thread I saw hehe. Anyways, any input would be very much appreciated. Btw, I am a junior.

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Great thread title @motherpugger!

Fully qualified applicants such as yourself stand a very good chance at many colleges, including those as highly selective as Colgate. For this reason, I’d be surprised if you weren’t accepted.

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@merc81 ohoho thank you! I really liked it there. Surprising how much a university can just ‘click’.

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You might want to consider applying ED, but agree with @merc81 that you look good for Colgate

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@wisteria100 Why do you think I should do ED? Does it seem like I don’t have a good chance regular decision? I would still consider doing early decision because it is now my first choice, but I need to consider financial aid.

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Also thanks for your input!

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I think you have a good chance at RD, but an excellent chance at ED, because the admit rate at ED is so much higher at Colgate. So if it is truly your first choice it would make sense, but only if you don’t need to compare financial aid packages.

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Anyone else? Please help out

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if it is really your first choice, make sure to go to ed. rd has much lower chance of entry.

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Run the Net Price Calculator on their website to get a sense of what they would expect you to pay. If it’s in your ballpark, apply ED; if not, go RD.

For the class of 2020, Colgate’s ED acceptance rate was 50%, vs 26% RD (this year’s stats are not out yet). So yes, your chance of getting in ED is much better than RD.

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@moneyp @mjrube94 Thank you! I’ll fill that out when my parents are here because I don’t know several of those financial questions. Do you think that I am competitive for Colgate? :slight_smile: Just curious.