Please Chance Me! (Vanderbilt, NYU, Lehigh)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Heyo,

Nobody responded to my last post, so here it goes. I am a senior from NYC attending a specialized high school.

Stats:
Average: 88.96
SAT: 1480, 23/24 Essay
AP’s: English: 4, World: 4, US: 5
Essay under revision (hopefully great!)

Okay so as for Vanderbilt, there is a possibility that I may E.D. there via the POSSE scholarship. If that doesn’t happen/ I am rejected, I wanted to know my chances at NYU (ED II), Lehigh (RD), JHU (RD), Emory (RD), UC Berkeley (RD), and Columbia (RD). I know the last 4 are serious stretches, but I want to know.

I currently am captain of both the Debate and Economics teams (I founded the economics club), was a semi-finalist at Coolidge Cup, won third at the High School Fed Challenge (a first in my school’s history), won numerous first place prizes for the NYCUDL including as a quarterfinalist, and did hands-on aid work in the 8th grade in Bangladesh. I run an off school newspaper and my own detailed economics blog with hundreds of viewers, and on top of this I am currently a healthcare researcher and consultant for an aid mission in Bangladesh that works with Rohingyan refugees.

What are my chances? Please let me know.

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UC is going to be expensive for OOS-no financial aid.

The GPA is going to make most of the schools on your list reaches. Test scores aren’t that bad but GPA is important. If you can get above a 90% by first semester senior year, Emory and NYU could be targets.

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@MootGobs
I would just apply to NYU ED1. Im fairly sure you won’t get Vandy.

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A sub 90% GPA coupled with a sub 1500 SAT makes all of these schools reaches. Some (Vandy, JHU, Berkeley, Columbia) are bigger reaches than others, but they are all reaches. You need to come up with some match and safety schools.

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I’d say you need to bring up your SAT to make these targets