Risky List (Stanford, Rice, Brown, Swarthmore, etc.)?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>High-School Senior wondering how I look and if I'm taking too much of a risk. The thing is, I don't see a lot of other schools that I would want to go to at the moment. </p>

<p>Schools:
Stanford (High Reach)
USC (Match/High match?)
Rice (High Match/Reach?)
Claremont Mckenna (High Match)
Brown (High Reach)
Swarthmore (Reach)
UCSanDiego (? Do I have to declare?)
Cal Poly SLO (Match - I would probably declare Aeronautical Engineering)
Midd (Match - my brother goes there and is on the Deans or Presidents list or something)</p>

<p>I probably will apply as Undecided to as many as I can.</p>

<p>-Unweighted GPA 4.0</p>

<p>-Weighted GPA 4.2</p>

<p>AP/Honor courses: None until this fall, but I am concurrently enrolled at a local community college where I have taken German 1-4, English 201A, and Precalculus.</p>

<p>Class Rank: I do independent studies with a small private school. 1/10 (?)</p>

<p>SAT 1 Superscored 720CR 730M 800W Comp: 2250</p>

<p>SAT 2: 700 Math II 760 Literature</p>

<p>EC's: Principal 2nd and Concertmaster of the local youth symphony in the past. This year I think I will be co-concertmaster. I also volunteer with the youth symphony by coaching younger kids in the symphony.
Publicity Director at a Scholastic Honor Society that does volunteer work at my community college
^I don't really have a lot of opportunities for EC's because I am not really part of a school.
I do some sports, but I'm not on a team. I'm also interested in photography and art, but I do that on my own as well.</p>

<p>HONORS/AWARDS: Cal Poly All-State Festival Symphony Concertmaster
National Merit Commended
Applied for and received private art showing</p>

<p>Additional Info:</p>

<p>Race: White</p>

<p>Family's Situation: Not from hard background </p>

<p>Arts Supplement: YES. Will be sending recordings</p>

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<p>Dude, just apply to a safety school. If you are doing UCSD, just add UCD or UCSB in case of emergency. If you like small private schools, look at less selective ones. It’s ridiculous not to apply to a safety. Would you rather go to a school not on your current list or a CC?</p>

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<p>^It has happened. You are competing against a lot of kids with stronger credentials at schools with VERY low admission rates. Try to forget about status for a while and do what Holocene suggests.</p>

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<p>apply to a safety school. . . .</p>

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<p>Good points. Maybe I’ll add UCSB or Case Western or Rochester or something. But do you think my chances are different than the ones I posted, or were they pretty accurate?
Maybe list the schools and put match, reach, etc.</p>

<p>@Holocene - My community college isn’t THAT bad. I have some good friends there. But point taken.</p>

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<p>bump for that^ question</p>

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<p>Can anybody list the schools and put match, reach, etc.? Do you agree with my guesses?</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t call Midd a match, even though your brother goes there. The rest are pretty good. If you are fine with CC as your safety school, fine. If you aren’t, add a safety. I wouldn’t call Case/Rochester safeties. More of low matches.</p>