Predict my results!! (LACs, Ivies, + more)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Boredom and senioritis have gotten to me.

Predict my results (accept/reject/defer) for these colleges:
-Brown (ED/visitedX2)
-Harvard (Legacy/visitedX2)
-Pomona (visited)
-Northwestern
-Williams (visited)
-WashU (applying for scholarship)
-Tufts (visited)
-Northeastern (EA/visited)
-UC Berkeley (in-state)
-Cal Poly SLO (in-state)

Here are my stats:

Objective:

-I attend a small public charter school (highest performing high school in LA based off of SBAC results)
-white male from CA
-UW GPA: 4.0
-W GPA: 4.79 (no ranking)
-ACT: 34 super score (36E 33M 31R 34S 30W) two sittings, 32 single
-I take the hardest offered course load

AP tests: Lang (4)
APES (4)

*My school doesn’t offer APs, but we have to test into all of our honors classes

High School Schedule:

9th grade:
-Honors English 9
-Chemistry
-Honors Algebra II
-PE
-Art I
-Spanish I

10th grade:
-Honors Trig/Precalc
-Honors World History
-Honors World Literature
-Physics
-Spanish II
-Honors Biology

11th grade:
-Honors Environmental Science
-Honors Calc AB
-Honors American Literature
-Honors US History
-Spanish III
-Computer Science

12th grade:
-Honors Calc BC
-Honors Stats
-Honors Gov Econ
-Honors British Literature
-Honors Spanish 4
-H Enviro TA

Subjective:

-ECs:

-FREERUNNING (like parkour or American Ninja Warrior)
-I practice around 15-20hrs a week and was recently hired by my academy to become a coach. I rank #1 between the three Freerunning Academies in LA and SD (they share 1 ranking system)
-offered a spot on the Olympic Freerunning Committee (will hopefully be a sport in 2024 olympics)

-PIANO/VIBRAPHONE

  • I play around 5 hours a week, take lessons, and have participated in the national piano guild
  • I am in my school’s jazz band (play piano and vibraphone in it)

-IMPROV/ACTING
-I’ve been participating for 5 years; I’ve been on the team for 3 years and am team captain
-I’ve also been in some commercials and short films

-STUDENT GOVERNMENT/STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT
-elected high school body president as a freshman, current senior class president
-10th/11th grade representative

  • been an active member for all years of HS
    -fund raise for school apparel and school goods

-NHS (member)

-KEY CLUB (member)

-COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • through NHS and KC, I have done 350+ hrs of CS (includes volunteering to teach kids freerunning and active beach cleanup)

-PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB ~4hrs/wk (President)
-Hold an exhibition at the end of the school year

-ASTRONOMY CLUB (VP)
-also took college astronomy class and got an A

-WRITING/YEARBOOK
-fouonder of writing club in 10th grade, president
-writing a novella over summer and will be self published
-internship with my city’s newspaper company
-senior yearbook editor

Essays are strong (about how I found my voice and my community through freerunning)

Letters of rec should be really, really good–like 10/10 for one and 9/10 for the other. One from 10th grade history teacher and current XC coach and one from my 11th grade environmental science teacher for whom I currently TA

Thanks in advance!!

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Assuming you’re applying to the general schools, and not any especially hard major, your academics aren’t outstanding. Solid ACT Scores, GPA looks good, but schools may not like the lack of APs, even if your honors classes were difficult (Can look like WGPA inflation.) Freerunning looks like a very strong EC, especially with the word “Olympic” in there. Make sure not to rely to heavily on it, though… try and have some essays about something academic, since you’re applying to such rigorous schools. Also, I’m not sure how many of those schools will let you superscore… the single-sitting ACT may bring you down. Good luck regardless, I think you’ve got good shot at some of those.

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@waswaswasnt thanks!! Oh and just to be clear: my school doesn’t offer any AP classes and my school reports UW GPA so no one will see the 4.79. I just took those two tests so I could (possibly) get college credit. Only two of my reach schools don’t superscore/ take highest subs

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And for future responses: can you guys just do accepted/deferred/rejected next to the college? And maybe a sentence about why at the bottom? Thanks!

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*forgot to mention that I plan to major in English w/ a focus in creative writing or environmental science and sustainability.

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-Brown (ED/visitedX2) - accept (or defer)
-Harvard (Legacy/visitedX2) - defer/reject
-Pomona (visited) - accept
-Northwestern - accept
-Williams (visited) - accept or defer
-WashU (applying for scholarship) - defer
-Tufts (visited) - accept
-Northeastern (EA/visited) - accept
-UC Berkeley (in-state) - accept
-Cal Poly SLO (in-state) - accept

I’m also applying to schools with 34 ACT single sitting, I don’t think it will hurt us, unlike the previous poster said.

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@junior2017 thanks!! Good luck to you!

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Bump!! Update: Pomona on-campus interview went really well!

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Bumping again! I ended up not applying to Northwestern and Williams.