Please "Chance" Me!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a hispanic male. I am currently a junior in high school. I will be a first generation college student.</p>

<p>UW GPA: 3.71*</p>

<p>*They use a 7-point scale in North Carolina! Isn't that the best? </p>

<p>Class Rank: Should be top 10%</p>

<p>AP/College Level Classes:
AP Psychology - A and 5
AP Calculus BC - Taking Now
AP Biology - Taking Now
AP Physics B - Taking Now
AP Micro/Macro - Next Year
AP Chemistry - Next Year
AP Literature - Next Year
AP Art History - Next Year
Linear Algebra - Next Year
Diff. Equations - Next Year</p>

<p>I will also have four years of Spanish and two years of Russian.</p>

<p>ACT: 32 (31 English, 33 Reading, 32 Science, 30 Math)</p>

<p>EC's:
-Scorekeeper for Baseball Team (9-12)
-Write for my baseball website (7/8-12)
-Paid Job (11-12)
-FBLA (9-12)
-Write for another baseball website (11-12)
-Taking a MOOC on EdX</p>

<p>I have more ECs but they don't really enhance my application,</p>

<p>Schools I am interested in:
-Cornell (CALS - Early Decision)
-Columbia
-UCLA
-UCB
-Emory
-UVA
-Chapel Hill (in-state)
-Vanderbilt
-Stanford
-Stony Brook
-NC State
-UCSD
-Pepperdine</p>

<p>Other Notes:
-Teacher Recs and Essays should both be excellent. </p>

<p>Thank you very much! I appreciate it!</p>

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<p>-Cornell: High Reach
-Columbia: High Reach
-UCLA: Mid-Reach
-UCB: Mid-Reach
-Emory: Match/Low Reach
-UVA: Match/Low Reach
-Chapel Hill (in-state): Safety
-Vanderbilt: Low Reach
-Stanford: High Reach
-Stony Brook: Safety/Low Match
-NC State: Safety.
-UCSD: I have no basis.
-Pepperdine: Safety/Low Match</p>

<p>You have a pretty nice variety of colleges. To save yourself some expenses, you might want to limit the number of reaches and throw in some matches. Being URM will help you a lot, though, so I wouldn’t say any of your listed reach colleges are necessarily impossible. I really recommend focusing on pulling your GPA up above all.</p>

<p>Look at this list:</p>

<p>[Top</a> Liberal Arts Colleges - 20 Top Ranked Colleges](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/collegerankings/tp/20-best-liberal-arts-colleges.htm]Top”>Top 30 Liberal Arts Colleges in the U.S.)</p>

<p>You’re only a moderately competitive applicant for, say, Columbia, but a superb applicant for a Liberal Arts college that could feed directly into it.</p>

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<p>Am I still a high reach for Cornell applying early decision? Is my GPA the biggest factor holding me back?</p>

<p>Thanks for the input!</p>

<p>Also: If you knock off freshman year, I would have a 3.8 when applying to the UC’s. My weighted GPA should be around 4.7-4.8.</p>

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<p>At a place like Cornell, ED applicants aren’t really given as much slack as they are at other colleges. Have you ever looked over this PDF? </p>

<p><a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000001.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000001.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I have seen the PDF. I see the admission rate about doubles for early decision. Is a large part of that legacies/recruited athletes?</p>

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<p>Yeah, when admission rates double, I personally doubt there’s a very big advantage because of all of the factors, but don’t take my word for it, Cornell could easily be different! Most of the time, people who know to apply ED are going to be better suited for the college and show more demonstrated interest than RD applicants (and you’re right, there will be some legacies and athletes making it harder for the rest of us ugh).</p>

<p>You still have time to improve your application, no worries.</p>

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<p>bump! I’d still love more opinions!</p>

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<p>chapel hill match
stony safety
cornell reach
emory high match
ucsd match</p>

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<p>Cornell and Stanford are reaches.</p>