What are my chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m a junior.

Scores:
UW GPA 3.75 (I think I can manage to bring it up to a 3.8 before apps are due though)

my latest SAT practice score:
710 evidence based reading & writing
620 math
=1330 overall

2 rec letters: from my APUSH teacher and Lit teacher (thinking of getting another one from the head Sister at a convent I’ve been involved with my entire life)

I take 4 AP/Honors classes out of the 5 offered to me (Chemistry, History, Java Programming, and English). I also take Horror Literature, Latin, Algebra II, and Theology III.

For ECs I am a part of the Model UN Secretariat (next year I’ll be President but am currently Treasurer), National Junior Classical League, and Latin Club.

Accomplishments: I co-organized a Peacekeeping Awareness week where MUN raised money to donate to the UN Peacekeepers. For this week I designed and sold T-Shirts, managed poster production, coordinated with staff and art students to orchestrate a portion filled with paintings dedicated to the Peacekeepers at our pep rally, and founded the original idea. I’ve won a Distinguished award on my MUN Position Paper as Sweden. I’ve been published in my school’s academic journal. I won the Magna Cum Laude award on the Latin National Exam. Was a part of a program called “Words for Wildcats” where I went to low income schools and helped teach struggling children how to read. Volunteered at a convent for 2 years (2 hours every Friday) where I helped transfer physical documents onto digital files. Currently am volunteering at an animal shelter and elementary school library.

More personal accomplishments that I was told would be beneficial to my app: self published a novella when I was 12 that gained tens of thousands of likes and comments on a publishing website, I have composed several musical pieces and can play 4 instruments, and I have had a play that I wrote performed at my school. For the past year, I’ve been working on piecing together a collection of short stories and poems that I’m hoping to have complete by the end of 2017 but I’m not rushing things.

I plan on majoring in physics :slight_smile: (I know I sound like I should be majoring in English or something)

Based on this, what are my chances at these schools?

-Bryn Mawr College
-Mt. Holyoke College
-Rochester Institute of Technology
-Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-Oberlin College
-Kenyon College
-Williams College

Some of these are huge reach schools that I’m honestly applying to just to see whether or not I’ll get accepted (for complete fun I’m also applying to MIT and Caltech lol)

Also if you can think of any colleges that might sound similar or fit what I’m looking for (preferably a smaller, challenging, and focused academically, school) that I have a good chance of being accepted to, please let me know.

Thanks for reading!!

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Bryn Mawr: Low reach. 25 to 35% chance.
Mt. Holyoke: Low match. 50 to 65% chance.
RIT: High safety. 65 to 75% chance.
Worcester Polytech: High match. 35 to 50% chance.
Oberlin: Reach. Below 25% chance.
Kenyon: High match. 35 to 50% chance.
Williams: High reach. Below 10% chance.

You really need to pull your SAT up (over 1430) to improve your chances at the most-selective of these schools.

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Several other colleges come to mind – Vassar, Smith, Haverford, Grinnell, and the other NESCAC schools, especially Wesleyan University, Bates, Colby, and Trinity. All are probably low reach to high match. I agree with KingBibi that you should place a priority on getting those already pretty good test scores up. Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Pomona, Swarthmore are out of reach at those SAT score levels but would move into “reach” range with scores in the 1450 range. Maybe also try the ACT? You’ve got great ECs which should draw attention.

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I’m not basing it off of your practice score.
My highest practice score was a 1300. I received a 1370.