Where can I end up?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I know this is an another annoying thread from an overachiever, but this last month is giving me serious anxiety, and I'm just looking for some feedback from this place where I've lurked for several months.</p>

<p>Where I applied (in order of preference):
Yale
Columbia
Dartmouth
Penn
UChicago
Amherst
Northwestern
NYU
Michigan
Maryland</p>

<p>NY, white, male, competitive public school</p>

<p>SAT I: 800 reading 800 math 790 writing
SAT II: 800 US History, 800 Math II, 780 Chemistry
GPA: 3.9 unweighted, all honors/AP classes (basically the hardest schedule I could have taken)
Rank: 98%</p>

<p>APs taken: World History (5), Art History (4), Calc BC (5), Biology (5), US History (5), English Literature (5)
APs currently taking (w. mid-year grades): Euro (A), Physics C (A), Music Theory (A+), English Language (A)</p>

<p>HS EC's:
-4 years high school soccer, freshman captain, 3 years varsity. Started junior and senior year, team ranked in the top 20 at end of sophomore year, top 10 at end of junior year (sectional champs), top 3 at end of senior year (sectional/group champs). All-area/all-county senior year.
-9 years club soccer on a regionally competitive team
-Trumpet, years of private lessons, independent ensembles. In honors symphonic band in school, and have been lead trumpet for three years in the honors jazz ensemble.
-Science Olympiad, four years, (~2 hrs a week)
-RHS Mentor (basically a funny way of saying math tutor), 3 yrs, ~2 hrs a week
-Member of a Student Advisory team for a Senator</p>

<p>Summer EC’s:
-Alumnus of People to People program
-Summer college at Cornell, used work from there to make school district more environmentally friendly</p>

<p>Counselor rec: incredible
Teacher recs: great
Loved my essays too.</p>

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<p>Yale - high reach
Columbia - reach
Dartmouth - reach
Penn - reach
UChicago - low reach
Amherst - reach
Northwestern - low reach
NYU - very low reach/safety
Michigan - safety
Maryland - safety</p>

<p>Yale is a high reach for anyone. You have great test scores, pretty good ECs. Do you have any special awards or honors that you are proud of? You seem like a pretty typical applicant to the Ivies. There isn't a major "hook" if one looks past the test scores. If you expand on the Cornell summer program work you did to make your school district more environmentally friendly, that would be more impressive. But I wouldn't be surprised if you made it in to any one of these colleges. You have to trust your luck.</p>

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<p>Yale - high reach
Columbia - reach
Dartmouth - reach
Penn - reach
UChicago - low reach
Amherst - reach
Northwestern - low reach
NYU - very low reach/safety
Michigan - safety
Maryland - safety</p>

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<p>Those top schools are "reaches," but they're certainly not unrealistic.</p>

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<p>Does anyone have more opinions on this one? Similar stats to mine I'm interested...</p>

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<p>you stats are good enough for any school in the country- its really a crap shoot for yale/columbia, maybe penn, amherst idk-- but id say you're a matchish at all</p>

<p>obviosuly many of those schools are reaches for any</p>

<p>but yea maybe ur ECs is what u need to set u apart- idk ur stats are outstanding so id say u have agoood shot</p>

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<p>Thanks for everything so far!</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>10char</p>

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<p>bump again. anyone?</p>