Please Chance Me (: Reach/Match/Safety for College Search

<p>Class Rank: 2/126
GPA: 4.0 UW
SAT: 2250 (700 M 750 W 800 CR)
SAT II: 800, 780, 780
National Merit Commended</p>

<p>Activities:
Varsity Football (Captain, multiple awards)
Varsity Wrestling (multiple awards)
Academic Games (4x National Champion, 8x Top Ten)
Boy Scouts (Eagle Scout, Senior Patrol Leader)
National Honor Society
Spanish Club, French Club, Stand Tall, Lead and Seed</p>

<p>Other Awards:
Feldman Writing Competition (winner, 3x finalist)
Barrow Civic Theatre Poetry Competition (winner)</p>

<p>Summer Activities:
Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week
Rotary's World Affairs Council
Senator for a Day program
Baumgartner's World Class Wrestling School</p>

<p>Volunteering:
Boys Scouts
Chain Crew for Youth Football
Humane Society</p>

<p>Colleges: Princeton, Georgetown, Harvard, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt,
Brown, Dartmouth, Boston College, Penn State, Alabama,
University of Miami, American, University of Virginia, USC, UCLA</p>

<p>Thank you so much for your time!!</p>

<p>Harvard- Reach
Princeton- Reach
Dartmouth- Reach
Norte Dame- Low Reach
Vanderbilt- Low Reach
Georgetown- High Match
BC- High Match
American- Low Match
Penn State- Safety
Miami- Safety
UVA- Match
USC- Low Reach
UCLA- Reach if OOS
Alabama- Safety (You’d probably get more than 1/2 tuition)</p>

<p>Have you tried talking to coaches toget recruited? You seem like an all around amazing athlete and student. If you get recruited, the Ivys could become more attainable.</p>

<p>Thank you for that (: I’m not the best athlete but I work hard. I doubt I could get recruited to a d1 school though. I’m really interested in political science. Do you have any suggestions?</p>

<p>Does anyone else have any ideas?</p>

<p>SAT’s are low for schools like Harvard Princeton Dartmouth etc…, your EC’s are medoicre… you don’t stand out, good grades and scores are not everything. Focus on your essays and be unique. </p>

<p>***mediocre </p>

<p>@driftadriva‌ He’s an eagle scout, plays two varsity sports with one captainship, and is apparently really good at something called the academic games… not exactly “mediocre”. Also his SAT scores are at about the mid-50 for the hyper-competitive schools. </p>

<p>@Zeke55‌
I’d say your list is a bit reach heavy, but there’s nothing wrong with applying to ton of reaches- just make sure you have one or two good safeties, and a couple of match schools you’d be happy to attend. Don’t sell yourself short. Best of luck!</p>

<p>chance back?
<a href=“Garbage GPA- where should I be looking? - #7 by driftadriva - Chance Me / Match Me! - College Confidential Forums”>Garbage GPA- where should I be looking? - #7 by driftadriva - Chance Me / Match Me! - College Confidential Forums;

<p>@Literature‌ for schools like UCLA, USC, Miami and American he is outstanding…</p>

<p>However, compare him to the caliber of students applying to Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth THEN come back and tell me how he stands compared to them. Yes, his academics, scores, and EC’s are great, but so are the other 40,000+ applicants to those Ivies. He does not stand out as unique when compared to kids who have started their own NGO’s/NPO’s, advocated to the UN, won international competitions in science and speech, or had research published in national science journals…</p>

<p>@Zeke55‌ you might want to add some other good schools in which you stand a good chance, such as JHU, Cornell, Tufts, NYU, WashU, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, etc…</p>