Thoughts on my college list + chances of getting in?

College Search & Selection
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Reach:
Princeton (possible EA)
UPenn (possible ED + legacy)
Columbia
Brown
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Tufts
Berkely
Georgetown

Target:
Bucknell
Haverford
NYU
Boston College
Northeastern
American

Safety:
Pitt
Penn State
Drexel

ACT-33C (35E, 31M, 33R, 31S)
10 on writing
3.9 GPA
4.5 GPA (weighted)
Rank 15 out of 350

I also took classes at a local university and received As in my courses.

Extra Curricular:
Ballet (20+ hours a week)
Hot Yoga (working at the studio as well as taking classes)
Leader of French Club
NHS
In political action club
In club that works with special needs students

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HS year? Tentative academic interests?

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Regardless of what major you’ll be choosing, having Berkeley and Tufts (and Haverford and Bucknell for that matter) on the same list tells me you haven’t dug very deeply into what student experience you want. There are almost as many students in Berkeley’s Intro to CS as there are in the entire student body at Haverford. The undergraduate experience will be radically different between those schools.

4

Your targets are reaches.

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@momofsenior1 Which ones exactly? I know northeastern and Haverford are definitely some of the harder targets, but for the others I’m at the top 75 percentile for GPA and ACT.

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@merc81 I’m a junior. I’m interested in either biology/ pre-med or engineering

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Acceptance rates:

NYU 19%
Bucknell 24%
BC 28%
American 35%

These are not targets. Low reaches maybe…

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@momofsenior1 What would you suggest for targets, given my stats and acceptance rates?

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Look for schools with acceptance rates closer to 40-50%. Safeties 75%+ and that are affordable.