What are my chances??

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey so I really don’t know what I’m doing and I have some schools I’m applying to but I’m not sure if I would get in and I would also like to find some more schools to apply to because why not ??? I’m not really sure what I’m looking for in a school so any recommendations would be great. Anyway the schools I’m applying to as of now are:
William and Mary
Boston College
Amherst
Georgetown (double legacy)
University of Chicago
Brown
Cornell
(I also have 2 safeties but I’m not going to list those)
SAT: 1470 (720 reading, 750 math)
ACT: 34 (35R, 33M, 35E, 31S)
Subject Tests: World History-600 US History-620 Math 2-720 (they’re really bad I know I’m probably going to try to take them again)
GPA: 4.1 weighted, I think like a 3.7 or 3.8 unweighted?? I’m not positive
Rank: my school doesn’t rank
APs: World (5), Psych (5), Calc AB (5), Lang (4), US (4), Physics (2) (lol physics was rough… won’t be reporting that…)
Senior Courses: AP US Gov, AP Comp Gov, AP Lit, AP Bio, AP Human Geo, AP Stat, French, Theatre

Extra-curriculars
Theatre- Actor and Stage Manager for 10+ Shows all 4 years
Publicity- Head of Publicity for my school’s theatre department 11th and 12th grade, basically I make posters, t-shirts, organize events etc. Nominated for a prestigious regional theatre award for high schools
Theatre Critic- Critic for my school’s critic team 11th and 12th grade, attend high school theatre shows and write reviews for the chance to be published in local papers and websites. Published 3 times and nominated for best critic team in the same regional theatre award program
Thespian Honor Society- National theatre honor society, member since 10th grade, elected as Secretary senior year
Intern at local historic site- Give tours of a 200 year old home to visitors, help with girl and boy scout merit badge programs and summer camps. I planned a super fun summer camp that was all about teaching young girls american history through the context of american girl dolls- went great and a great experience!
French Honor Society- 11th and 12th grade, tutor french students
Local government- volunteered for local election senior year, helped with canvassing and fundraising events
Vocal lessons- Musical theatre voice lessons all 4 years, competed in state wide musical theatre vocal competition 2 yrs in a row buttttt didn’t get any honors or anything

Teacher Recs- APUSH teacher and Theatre teacher, I have no idea how they’ll be, hopefully good
Essay- very good

I’m a white female from a wealthy suburb and I attend an above average public school. Thank you guys so much in advance for your help!!! :slight_smile:

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Are your parents okay with paying $280,000 for four years of university? If not, then you need to run the NPC on each of the schools that you are applying to and make sure that your parents are okay with the result. Be aware that if you might major in a field that needs a Master’s or other graduate work, then it might be better not to use up all of your college funds in the first 4 years.

You probably should also list your safeties, because most of the list that you have provided (everything past the first two) are probably reaches or high reaches.

I am sort of curious regarding what you want in a school. As one example, to me Amherst College and U. of Chicago are very different from each other. Chicago and Georgetown are in big cities. Amherst and Cornell are in small towns. Cornell gets buckets of snow, W&M gets very little, … Have you visited each of these?

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I haven’t visited and won’t have the opportunity to before applications are due so that’s why my range is so broad. I don’t want to list my safeties because they reveal where I live and I would rather not put that on here. Generally I’m just looking to see if there are any other schools within my range that I should be looking into and if I’m completely insane for trying to apply to these schools (because I very well might be).

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Bump (please I need help)

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“if there are any other schools within my range that I should be looking into”

Given your stats, there are at least hundreds of universities and colleges that you would have a good chance to get into and that would seem like reasonable matches from an academic point of view. The problem is knowing where to start in terms of making suggestions.

For me being from New England UMass Amherst and UVM seem like obvious choices. Noting your interest in theater and that you know some French Bishop’s University in Quebec is a good small school that would be an affordable safety (no French is needed to go there, but some might make the surrounding area more interesting). Given that you have listed Williams (which is a reach IMHO) there are other LACs in New England that you could consider and hundreds across the US.