<p>Opinions on my chances of getting into the following colleges are?</p>
<p>University of Chicago
UNC Chapel Hill
Tufts
New York University
Boston College
Emory
Colgate
Tufts
Williams
Bowdoin
Wesleyan
Georgetown
Wesleyan
Johns Hopkins
Rice
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon University
UCONN</p>
<p>Which ones do I have a good chance in getting into? Which ones should be safety? Any suggestions for other colleges?</p>
<p>About me:
3.55 GPA UW (Inc. freshman year)
SAT: 2100
Either top 10 or 20 percent of class (not sure)
AP Chem
AP Bio
AP US History
AP Spanish
AP Calculus
AP Physics
AP English
+Mostly honors classes</p>
<p>EC/Athletics:
Varsity tennis 9-12 lettered sophomore year
Fencing 11-12</p>
<p>Stage Crew
Southern Youth Symphonic Orchestra (First chair)
South Youth Symphonic Jazz Band (First Chair)
Tae Kwon Do (Martial Arts, black belt)
Volunteer at Yale-New Haven Hospital 120+hours
Mostly honors classes, 8 APs
Class Council
Student Council Vice President
Honors Jazz Band
Marching Band Squad Leader
National honor society ( 25 people from my grade)
Commended student (PSATs)</p>
<p>I have to disagree with the above opinion that you have a decent shot at the schools listed. Based on your GPA and SAT scores, I honestly think they are all reaches with the possible exception of UConn. The list you made is made up almost entirely of some of the most selective schools in the country. </p>
<p>I think you need to refine your search to exclude the out of reach schools and add some more match and safety schools. Do you know what you might want to major in?</p>
<p>I might want to major something in the realm of pre-med or computer sciences. I know that my gpa is a little low but isn’t it just a part of the app? I think I have good extra ciric. activities and leadership. Any other opinions?</p>
<p>While GPA is just a part of the app, it is the part that shows how you work over the long haul, on things interesting to you as well as boring, on strengths as well as weaknesses. It is less detailed than a recommendation, but it is the recommendation of a dozen teachers over three years.</p>
<p>Your SATs put you right in the middle, but your GPA in the bottom quarter.</p>
<p>Feel free to apply to those schools, but YOU MUST ALSO LOOK AT MATCH AND SAFETY SCHOOLS. Every year there are threads from students who are crushed by not getting into their schools of choice; some students get into nowhere because they didn’t carefully choose schools. Maybe your essays and ECs will be good enough to get you in, maybe they won’t. But you can’t depend on it. Heck, for most of those schools, a student with a 2400/4.0/Class-and-three-club-president can’t depend on acceptance.</p>
<p>Yea you guys are these are reaches. But dude I am in your exact situation with the same stats and thinking of applying early decision to Hopkins. PM me if you want. Are you by any chance looking to manor in math?</p>
<p>The most recent USNWR has Tufts, Northwestern, and U of Chicago all having the same acceptance rates.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, all of these schools are hard to get into. With more international kids applying and higher average test scores, it’s very difficult to get into these top colleges. But that’s not to discourage you, but to challenge you.</p>
<p>Your GPA is lacking, but it doesn’t prevent you from getting into these schools. Perhaps improve your SAT, try to strive for really good grades, etc. etc.</p>
<p>And for U of Chicago and Tufts, make sure those essays are really good! They both have quirky questions to test a students writing and thinking ability.</p>
<p>in my opinion, the smaller schools are the ones that might consider the “whole package.” i think the big ones look for someone to meet their GPA and test score targets…and if they don’t see what they are looking for, they stop looking at the rest of the application, no matter how impressive the ECs are.</p>