What are my matches?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>A friend of mine told me about this site, so I figured I'd ask for your expert opinions. :-D</p>

<p>-Currently a junior at a competitive semi-private high school</p>

<p>-GPA: unweighted 3.7 weighted 3.9</p>

<p>-rank: 67/ 854 (I expect that to improve a bit by the end of this year)</p>

<p>Difficulty of course work: I've taken the most difficult classes offered at my school when given the opportunity. I've earned nearly all As in my core classes, such as English, math, etc; but my rank was thrown off by poor grades in unweighted electives, such as drafting and wood working.</p>

<p>Classes I'm taking right now:
AP English- 96
Honors Chemistry-90
AP US History- 95
Senior level German- 93
Honors Algebra 2- 94 </p>

<p>Senior year classes I will be taking:
AP European History
AP Senior English
AP Psychology
Honors Precalculus
AP Physics
Desktop Publishing</p>

<p>SAT I: 2140 740 math, 720 critical reading, 680 writing
SAT IIs: I'll be taking three at the end of this year in English, Math, and United States History.</p>

<p>Extracurricular/ community stuff:
- Russian Club
- PALS (organization to help underpriveleged elementary schoolers)
- German Club
- Foreign Language Honor Society: German
- History Club
- Math Team
- Volunteer Work for the American red cross
- Volunteer work for my greek orthodox church</p>

<p>I devote about 3-6 hours per week to the school activities which I've been involved with since sophomore year; plan to try and volunteer for some more stuff this summer...</p>

<p>Currently, I have barely any idea where I want to go. For majors, I was considering psychology, english, maybe undeclared.</p>

<p>Anyone have any suggestions for schools I should check out/ consider?</p>

<p>I was considering maybe looking at Tufts in mass, and U. of Chicago... would those be o.k. matches?</p>

<p>Thanks for you input, I greatly appreciate it.</p>

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<p>Base on your current GPA, SAT scores and class rank, the following schools would all be about matches. The schools at the top would be high matches, the ones at the bottom low matches.</p>

<p>Tufts
Washington and Lee
Emory
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
Georgetown
Bowdoin
Haverford
Macalester
Davidson
Colby
Univer. Of Southern CA
Colgate
Brandeis</p>

<p>UChicago would be a reach.</p>

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<p>I'll focus on that list you gave me. What could I do to improve my odds at U Chicago?</p>

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<p>dominate your essays</p>

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<p>i disagree with amptron. some of those 'high matches' should be reaches i.e. georgetown</p>

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<p>amptron2x's analysis is pretty accurate. You can get into a lot of the top colleges (Top 20-40 range) as matches with your stats.</p>

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<p>Hmm... this is all really helpful so far. Thanks, guys.</p>

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<p>What would be some good reaches?</p>

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<p>HYPS, considering they are for everyone, also maybe UVa or CAL-Berkley, maybe the rest of the ivies too? Johns Hopkins and Duke are great schools too</p>

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<p>A few reasonable reaches:</p>

<p>Williams
Northwestern
Wesleyan
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
Carleton
Vassar</p>

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<p>What is a semi private high school?</p>

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<p>everything from georgetown should be classified "reach" and everything above and including uSoCal should be considered "high match"</p>

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<p>Hmmm. What would be my range percent-wise of getting into either Georgetown or Tufts?</p>