Where can I get in?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I'm a junior just starting to look at schools! I took the SATs recently, got C:800, M:780, W: 700. Took the SATII, and got 730 on MII, 670 on Biology.</p>

<p>Other stats:
(currently) ranked: 1/200
Community Service Club president (also will be next year, probably)
Amnesty International club president (will be next year, started program to educate elementary school kids about diversity)
Varsity Swimming (since sophomore year)
Been in two drama club productions
Won state writing awards (1st in essay one year, 2nd in fiction another)
3 years of JHU CTY summer camp classes
volunteered at a hospital for 3 months
on editorial board of school lit mag</p>

<p>School only offers 4 APs, (planning on taking 3)
No one from school has gotten in to an IVY besides Dartmouth or Cornell in the past 4 years, no one has gone to a competive LAC for as long as guidance counselor can remember (but maybe by choice?)</p>

<p>Parents are from Nepal</p>

<p>Here are the schools I'm thinking of:</p>

<p>Reach: Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Swarthmore, Williams, Amherst, UPENN (Swat, Brown, Williams, Yale are top choices)</p>

<p>Match: Bowdoin, Darmouth, Cornell, Wesleyan, Carleton, Tufts, Trinity</p>

<p>Safety: UMass, BU, Northeastern (any other good safeties? I want the small school feel)</p>

<p>What is your opinion? Thank you for the help!</p>

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<p>Pretty reasonable selection considering your SATs and class rank. What's your GPA, though? That might have some impact.</p>

<p>Some words of caution: </p>

<p>YHP, Brown, UPenn, Dartmouth etc. are extraordinarily difficult to get into, even with good stats like yours. Figure you have, on average, a 15% chance of getting into any of those schools. Swat, Amherst, and Williams are a little easier, but still real tough.</p>

<p>Other High Match/Reach schools you might want to consider: Washington University in St. Louis (ranked 11 by US News, and a real good school), Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, Vanderbilt, Emory, Georgetown.</p>

<p>Some small school Low Matches and perhaps Safeties: Davidson, Colgate, Brandeis, William and Mary (though tougher for out of state kids), Bates, Hamilton, Grinnell, Connecticut College.</p>

<p>Some small school safeties: Dickinson College, Gettysburg College, Lafeyette, Franklin and Marshall</p>

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<p>My GPA right now is about 3.8 out of 4.0, unweighted -- school doesn't do weighted GPA.</p>

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<p>Might want to add Holy Cross to the match category. Holy Cross is very strong in biology and pre-med and the school offers merit scholarships and plans to increase the number of awards. HC offers better academic/athletic package tha Trinity and a lot of the safeties.</p>