What do you guys think?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>So a bit of background info is that for all of my high school career, I've been a bit of an under-performing student.. I've been told many times by various teachers, relatives, friends, etc. that if I ever just applied myself I could be a fantastic student. Unfortunately I'm yet to really take this advice to heart.. If I'm being brutally honest with myself, I'd say I'm one of those kids that everyone knows has a brain, but is simply a slacker and or lazy.</p>

<p>That said, I still want to know where I stand as far as college admissions. I'm not trying to fool anyone and act like I could get into an Ivy league school (nor do I even want to) I'm just looking for schools that I can get into, fit in at, have a good time at, and of course the better they are academically the more I'd be interested.</p>

<p>So here's some rough stats on me.. I'm at the end of my Junior year currently.</p>

<p>Class Rank- Not sure exactly, in the top half though.</p>

<p>GPA- Before my Junior year it was a 3.1, after my Junior year hopefully between a 3.3 and a 3.4</p>

<p>SAT's- Math- 630, Critical Reading- 640, Writing-580. I'm relatively happy with my scores, although it'd be nice to bump that writing up... not quite sure why I scored so low. This was my first time taking the SAT's, I plan to take them again.. I'm also debating whether or not I should actually try and prepare for them this time, as the first time I took them I didn't take any courses or do any sort of review.</p>

<p>Extra Curricular- Sports mainly I suppose. Played high school football, basketball, and baseball. Am hoping to play baseball in college, not sure quite how realistic it is at larger schools like the one's I'm currently looking at though. I played 2 years of football, 2 years of basketball, and 2 years of baseball. I likely would have played 3 or 4 years of each, but the vast majority of my sophomore and junior years were spent recovering from serious orthopedic surgery. EC's that don't include sports.. well.. not much really. I'm on student council this year as a Junior, and plan to be as a senior as well, but don't think that's really a big deal. Am also planning on doing a fair amount of community service my senior year.</p>

<p>phew.. I'm writing a lot.. sorry. I guess what worries me is that even though I'm fairly happy with how I did on the SAT's, that my GPA will seriously pull me down... as far as schools that I'm looking at, I'm not 100% sure on anything yet, but a brief list of schools that I'd like to check out are:
Uconn (out of state)
Penn State U Park (out of state)
Boston U
Northeastern
Rutgers(out of state)
Fairfield
Villanova</p>

<p>I think there's probably no doubt that some of those may be a bit of a reach, but are they all a reach?</p>

<p>Thanks guys...</p>

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<p>uConn OOS: Your SAT seems about match, and GPA seems about match as well. You don’t seem to have much leadership/initiative. You also seem to lack confidence - don’t! You may not be over the top amazing, or be like a lot of the over-qualified to-be-Ivy applicants on CC, but you are still far ahead of the average American student. I believe uConn likes volunteer work, and student council is something that is important, dont underplay it.
Penn State U - Seems about a match, with same comments as above.
BU - SAT seems a little low, but can still get in. I would said a high match.
NEU - seems about a match, SAT could be upped a little. Match to high match.
Rutgers - Dont know much about Rutgers, apologies.
Fairfield - see comments for uConn
Villanova - A definite reach, maybe even high reach. The average applicant seems to be about 200 points higher on the SAT, with a higher GPA. Doesn’t mean you can’t get in, but it would be your reach.</p>

<p>From what I know, seeming to be a match at most and a reach @ Villanova isn’t particularly bad =] Good luck!</p>

<p>Chance back?</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/933115-chance-me-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/933115-chance-me-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>thanks for the reply synny201… I’m happy to here that actually… I was kind of thinking they were all reaches except Maybe Uconn and Fairfield, but I’m glad to hear you think otherwise. I knew that Nova was a reach, but I also figured everyone should have at least 1 reach school, right?</p>

<p>I’ll take a look at your thread, but keep in mind that I probably don’t have to much of a clue…</p>

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<p>a couple other things that might be of note that i’ve thought of while looking at other people’s threads are:</p>

<p>-I’m white/nonhispanic, from a wealthy/middle class suburb of Boston, MA. Parents together make approximately 175,000 a year, so i assume that wont get me any financial aid. </p>

<p>-I’ve held a job and worked about 20-25 hours a week for the past year, and when i’m applying it will obviously be longer than a year.</p>

<p>-I’m Irish/Catholic, but don’t care all that much at all about going to Catholic school.</p>

<p>-Not sure what exactly I want to major in, I’m considering applying under whatever will make it easiest for me to get into these schools, although i also have an interest in science/health professions, so i’m not ruling out pre-med and similar ideas.</p>

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<p>Don’t do whatever will get you into a school. Choose Undecided or a related field you are passionate in, and show that in your interview/essays!</p>

<p>Im also white from a rich suburb north of Boston, but dont count out financial aid. Affluent does not equal no financial aid, just lesser than non-affluent.</p>

<p>The job will look good on your application to show youre consistent and hardworking. Keep it up =]</p>