What are my chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Bio:
-Citizenship: US Citizen
-State of residence: New York
-Race: Biracial (American and Jamaican)
-Gender: Female

School:
-Type (Public/private & size): Public, Class Size of 407 Students
-Graduates (How many go to Ivy’s/top 20): Salutatorian from last year is going to Yale
-AP’s Offered: 20

Academic Profile:
-Unweighted GPA: 94.0625
-Weighted GPA: 97.8542
-AP’s:
Sophomore Year
World History (3) probably won’t report
Junior Year
Calc AB (3) probably won’t report
Lang and Comp (4)
US History (5)
Senior Year (No Scores Yet0
US Gov and Politics
Literature and Comp
Physics C
French
Calculus BC
-ACT: 32 Composite
-Rank: 20 out of 407 (top 5 percent)
-Course Rigor: All AP/Honors/College Courses

EC (In order of importance/commitment):
-Competitive Dancer/National Grand Champion/Award Winning Soloist (Past 14 Years)

  • National Honor Society (President)
  • National Foreign Language Honor Society (Treasurer)
  • Mock Trial
    -Class of 2018 (Student Government)
    -Glamour Gals (Treasurer)
    -Leadership Intern at a local STEM Summer Camp
    -Volunteer at a local Assisted Living Home
    -School Newspaper
    -Marching Band
  • Teen Advisory Council at local library
    -Junior Docent at local Holocaust Museum

Honors:
-AP Scholar w/ Honor

Schools I’m looking at:
-Brown
-Amherst
-NYU
-Boston College
-Yale
-UC Berkeley
-SUNY Binghamton
-SUNY Stony Brook
-Boston University

Intended Major: Political Science
Intended Minor: English?

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Yes, I think you sound like a competitive applicant. Best of Luck!

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Copy and use this Template. Feel free to add or subtract any sections you would see as relevant.

Fill this out, and then we can help you a lot more.

Bio:
-Citizenship:
-State of residence
-Class:
-Race:
-Gender:

School:
-Type (Public/private & size):
-Graduates (How many go to Ivy’s/top 20):
-AP’s Offered:

Academic Profile:
-Unweighted GPA:
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-AP’s:
-ACT:
-SAT:
-SAT II:
-Rank:
-Course Rigor:

EC (In order of importance/commitment):

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Other Notables (College courses you've taken, papers published, created own website, TAing a class, ect):

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Schools I'm looking at:

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Just make sure that when you are checking off that race box, you just put black. It will help you more than putting Biracial, but that’s just my opinion. You handle that at your discretion.

-Brown (Low Reach)
-Amherst (Low reach)
-NYU (Match)
-Boston College (low Match/ high Safety)
-Yale (Reach)
-UC Berkeley (High Reach)
-SUNY Binghamton (Safety)
-SUNY Stony Brook (Safety)
-Boston University (Match)

Your list is very nice, and you’ll have plenty of options next year!

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@smsliadgal
You have a great application with wonderful stats and accomplishments. I also like your list, and implore you to add more is you feel you can handle the additional applications.
-Brown- Low Reach
-Amherst- Low reach
-NYU- Match
-Boston College - Match
-Yale- High Reach
-UC Berkeley - Reach/ High Reach
-SUNY Binghamton- Safety
-SUNY Stony Brook -Safety
-Boston University- Match
If you like Brown, Tufts and Emory are great options.

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-Brown - Reach
-Amherst - Low Reach
-NYU -High Match
-Boston College - High Match
-Yale - Reach
-UC Berkeley - Reach
-SUNY Binghamton - Safety
-SUNY Stony Brook - Safety
-Boston University - match

Your stats and everything are awesome! Chance back?

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I hate to have to type this, because I know you want a personalized number, but it is impossible to gauge your chances of going to a certain college, especially an Ivy. I do know you have as well a chance as any other qualified applicant. Just to let you know (this is besides the point), Brown has a huge thing about written and linguistic expression (they mentioned this many times when I visited), so consider that in your application. However, based on their admission numbers ONLY, you have a 9% shot at acceptance, or about a 1 in 11 chance. But, so does every applicant. Hope that helps!!!