Reach? Match? Safety? -- Dartmouth, Middlebury, Queens, McGill, Bowdoin, Wesleyan...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Of the seven (Dartmouth, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, McGill, Queens (Canada), Cornell) which are matches? Reaches?</p>

<p>THE STATS:
white female, wealthy suburban Pennsylvania (no extra help there)</p>

<p>GPA:3.8-3.9 (an upward trend...I missed about half of freshman year with a very serious illness and ended up with two C's second semester in honors classes. All of this will be explained on my app. I got all A's both semesters junior year.)
QPA: 4.6-4.7
SAT I: 740M, 760V; 690M, 750V, 720W (10 essay). Do I need to take the ACT?
SAT IIs: US History (780), Math II (740), French (660 with no prep, will retake with listening)
PSAT: 70M, 77V, 80W (227 combined). National Merit commended/semifinalist.
AP tests: US History (5), Environmental Science (5)
Rank: not calculated, estimated top 10% at a very competitive (one of the best in the state) public school</p>

<p>Classes: (advanced and electives)
Freshman year: Honors Integrated III Math, Honors English, Dance, Orchestra, French II (plus mandatory Biology and History/Civics classes, none of which are offered as honors)
Sophomore Year: Honors Advanced PreCalculus, Honors English, Orchestra, Honors French IV, Honors Chemistry (plus mandatory History which isn't offered as honors)
Junior Year: AP Environmental Science, Honors Calculus, Honors Physics, AP US History, AP French, Honors English (and orchestra audit)
Senior Year: AP Statistics, Honors Organic Chemistry, AP English, History Electives (International Relations and a research-based class), AP European History, Independent (Small group) study Post-AP French (and orchestra audit)
Also: My junior year calc was run through the University of Pittsburgh (I got a 98%, so I have an official transcript with a grade for Calc I). I'm taking Arabic I there at night this semester.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: figure skating (13 years, high test/competition level, about a 15-25 hour/week commitment), flute (9 years), orchestra (principal, chamber orchestra member, played at Carnegie Hall), musical (pit, every year of high school), political discussion group co-founder and president (since 10th grade), Model UN (since 10th grade, national awards -- WAMUNC, COWAC, JHUMUNC), a couple academic based summer programs ("nerd camp," writing workshop, world affairs discussion/guest speaker program, 2-week homestay in France, etc.), NHS</p>

<p>Community Service: tutoring, skating competition aid/preformances/coaching, musical preformances, environmental litigation summer internship, Children's Hospital (it will be about 250 hours when I graduate)</p>

<p>Other stuff:
Applying Dartmouth ED, and Queens and McGill as soon as they release their apps.
On-campus interviews at Middlebury, Dartmouth, and Bowdoin (and will do alumni interviews).
Good essays (EC essay about skating and coming back after not being able to walk for 6 months, longer essay about being raised in a socially-conscious union family), but I'm by no means an amazing writer; great recs (one amazing, one good teacher, really good counselor).
Legacy at Cornell (father).</p>

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<p>bump for desparation</p>

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<p>Wow, I REALLY like your college list. I think that its because its so similar to mine... lol. I never reply to these Chances threads, but I had to compliment you on your extremely well thought out list of universities.
Anyways, here's what you wanted:
Dartmouth - Reach for everybody. But good shot since you're applying ED.
Cornell - Less of a reach - it's an ivy so its never a sure thing, but you've got a great chance.
Middlebury/Bowdoin/Wesleyan - Reach/Match - some would say match, some would say reach, you've got a good chance, but these schools are unpredictable. I predict you'll get into at least one of these though.
Queens/McGill - Match/Safety - I'd like to say safety because Canadian schools basically go by numbers... but maybe one more safer safety to be safe? Heh.</p>

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<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>And I do have a safer safety -- University of Pittsburgh, which is a great school, but way too close to home. My mom works there, so they basically have to take me.</p>

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<p>What about Vassar? I potentially qualify for free tuition there, so I'm thinking of adding it to my list.</p>

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<p>you and i have very similar stats (top 10%, 2200+ SAT), and ill be applying to some of your schools--interesting to see how it turns out.</p>