What are my Chances? Worried...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi. I want to apply to both Stanford and Brown (maybe Yale) and I would greatly appreciate any feedback. I'm a junior, but I'll list my stats as if I'm a senior based on what I know I'm gonna do with ecs and other stuff next year. </p>

<p>GPA W: 4.7 (i think the highest at my school might be 5)
class rank: 20/520-top 4 percent. </p>

<p>SAT 1 (not taken yet, practices are around 2100, sometimes less)
Subject Tests:
Japanese with Listening 790
World History: 740
(may take either Math 1 or 2, don't know what I would get)</p>

<p>Honors:
National Honor Society
National German Honor Society </p>

<p>ECs:
Track and field (indoor and outdoor)-all four years
German Club-all four years
-president (11-12)
Model United Nations Club 11-12
Volunteer at local nature center-all four years. 300+ hours.
Music (viola):
Lower level high school orchestra (9-10)
upper level high school orchestra (11-12)
honors string ensemble (school based community service orchestra comprising of top 25 string players)-(11-12)
NYSSMA/Area all state (hard to explain, those in NY may know what I'm talking about. Basically it involves auditions and getting into a very hard orchestra for one really big performance every year)-(10-12)
I also help my Japanese teacher with her younger students class every Tuesday as well as help her with kids my own age. I'm basically am a volunteer 2 hours/weekly teaching assistant. (10-12)</p>

<p>Summer activities and/or job experience
Cashier at diner where my dad works (10th)
Experiment in International living-japan-sophomore year
lifeguarding (will do this coming summer) </p>

<p>Senior year planned AP classes:
Physics AP
English 4AP
German AP
Psychology AP
Calc BC AP</p>

<p>Teacher Recs:
I have 2 teachers who I am really close to and on really good terms with respectively (german and math) who will probably write really good recomendations for me. </p>

<p>Essays:
I'm a pretty good essay writer and I feel like I can communicate myself well through these. </p>

<p>any feedback would be greatly appreciated. and I thank anyone who bothers reading this really long (i apologize) post.</p>

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<p>bump.............</p>

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<p>Your SAT score will really affect your admission. I think if you can get over a 2100, you should be a good shape. Other than that, everything else looks good. These schools are crapshoots though, so no one can really say.</p>

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<p>Answer to your question: yes.</p>

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<p>what do you mean by yes? I didn't mean that in a rude way but I didn't ask a yes or no question. </p>

<p>any other opinions?</p>

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<p>They're all reaches for 99.9% of the highschool student population. Stanford had gone down particularly hard on cut-off rates this year, as did Brown and Yale. Columbia has also reached a record low.</p>

<p>Your SAT would definitely have to be higher in order to get a better chance. Try at least a 2200. Besides that, your EC's work well.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>def. shoot for 2250+ for the schools you mentioned above. </p>

<p>Ps- I just applied to college for 2012 and I am a New Yorker. I figured out is sounds much better to say "Zone "w/e" All-State", because technically you are not lying and it sounds better than Area-All State</p>