<p>Might as well be honest about what's going on here.</p>
<p>White male, NY, no hooks
Public HS. Sends a couple kids to Cornell yearly, but pretty lame otherwise.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.92/4, 96.2/100, UW
Rank: 13 of 406 (rank is unweighted)
ACT: 35 (superscore), 34 (one sitting)
SATII: MathII 800, Physics 790, USHistory 790
APs: World History 5, US History 5, Physics B 5, English Language 5, Calculus BC 5</p>
<p>Course rigor is hardest possible. Senior year courses are AP Psychology, AP English Lit, AP Physics C, AP Stats, and AP Economics.</p>
<p>Extra:
4 years of Varsity/JV baseball (captain position): EC I'm most passionate about, by far, and takes up a lot of time overall
4 years of travel/select baseball
3 years of private baseball lessons (I'm a pitcher)
Coaching youth little league baseball team at their winter practices
1 year of rotary club (community service)
2 years of key club (community service) - ~50 hours total
2 years of math league
1 year of speech and debate team
National Honor Society (treasurer)
French NHS
1 year of self-taught guitar
Freshman year I won an essay contest and was published in a collection of short stories.</p>
<p>Not going to speculate about essays. I believe I'm a good writer and I believe I chose good writers to write about me.</p>
<p>ohbytheway. I took the SAT1 and got a 2170, which obviously is worse than my ACT. Since I'm sending in my SATII's, should I just send in the SAT score too? I mean I'd think they'd just look at the better test overall...</p>
<p>Schools:
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
Duke
Northwestern
WUSTL
Vanderbilt
Middlebury
Tufts
Boston College
UVM</p>
<p>It’s really such a crapshoot for all of those schools, but I definitely think you are a competitive applicant. You’ll most likely get in to at least one of your reaches. </p>
<p>Great chance at Cornell! You look competitive for Dartmouth, Brown, Duke, and Northwestern! The rest of them I think you have a great chance/in at! Just remember that whatever happens is not a reflection on you! Good luck!</p>
<p>I think as a NY resident you should apply to a land grant schools at Cornell ED for your best shot at a top college. Your rank is low for Dartmouth, Duke and Brown, coming from a non top high school you’d be expected to be top 2.</p>
<p>^Little late for Cornell Ed. But anyways, if our school weighted gpa and class rank I’d be 3 or 4. most kids in the top 10 take no ap’s because they think being gpa hounds will benefit them.</p>
<p>"^^^Cornell a reach and Middlebury a safety? Perhaps you should stick with asking for advice instead of dispensing it. "</p>
<p>Haha very true. Midd or any top LAC isn’t ever a safety, they know what they want in their applicants and it never has anything to do with stats. (well, a little). My safety is BC and my supersafety is UVM.</p>
<p>Dartmouth reach
Brown reach
Cornell low reach
Duke low reach
Northwestern low reach
WUSTL high match
Vanderbilt high match
Middlebury high match
Tufts match
Boston College match
UVM safety</p>
<p>your rather qualified and as a state resident for cornell i think you have a great shot there. some of the ivy leagues are scrapshots but you are a strong applicant.</p>
<p>@EDCornell2013: Thanks for the input, (and everyone else too.) You don’t think Boston College would be a “safety,” though? I’m well above 75th percentile in all test scores, and I hear people who have the numbers always get in.</p>