Shooting below Ivy

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT - 2150 (CR 720, M 700, W 730)
SAT II - French - 720
SAT II - Biology - 780
AP - Biology - 5</p>

<p>UW GPA: 3.7
W GPA: 4.4</p>

<p>Courseload: Gifted student (classes: Gifted, Honors, 3 AP's (only one test taken))</p>

<p>Class rank: Top 15%</p>

<p>EC's - Plenty of music EC's with leadership position, drama club and musical with leading roles, PJAS and Science Olympiad with 1st places.</p>

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<p>Looking at top non-ivy schools like</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon
University of Chicago
New York University
Villanova
University of Southern California
Northwestern University
University of Notre Dame
Boston University
Boston College</p>

<p>...and would still like to apply at one of either Columbia, Cornell, or UPenn</p>

<p>Chances?</p>

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<p>sorry to bump it up-- some reassurance would calm my nerves though. Need to cut my list down, and I really don’t have enough experience (besides searching the web) to know whether it’s logical to cut certain schools.</p>

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<p>You have decent stats but not being in the top 10% could hurt you (unless your school doesn’t use a deciles system). I’d say that Columbia, Penn, UofC, and Cornell are your biggest reaches, but I would encourage you to focus on one of your bigger reaches and really push for it. Your ECs sound like they will help you.</p>

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<p>The Ivy’s will be high reaches with you not being in the top 10%. For the same reason it will be a lower reach with CMU, Notre Dame, and U of Chicago. The rest appear to be matches. If you apply at all your high and lower reaches you should get into at least one of them.</p>

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<p>Maybe you need to cut down and add to your list; what are your interests? What kind of school? Large or small, east or west, rural or urban, etc.</p>

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<p>I really don’t know my class percentage. All I received on it was a prelimanary transcript with unweighted GPA and a class rank out of 520, but lots of students received the same ranking (I think mine was 60). </p>

<p>Is class rank based on weighted GPA? With that I’m pretty sure I’d get in the top 10%. Thanks for the feedback.</p>