Will I Have to Take a Gap Year?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Maybe it's just the nervousness of the date getting closer...but I'm seriously considering taking a gap year because I've realized that I probably won't get into the schools I applied to (or at least not to the ones I really want to go to). I know no one really knows, but I need some thoughts from someone other than my friends, who say I'll get in everywhere, and my mom, who...well, let's say she isn't quite so positive.</p>

<p>location: upstate NY
white, middle class, female
attend competitive public school
GPA (UW): 3.75 9th-11th grade; 3.5 2nd semester 12th (whoops! but taking more hard classes)
decile: 2nd
SAT: 2nd take 2220 (740 V/680M/800W) (1st take 2120 (740V/650M/730W))
SATIIs: USH 800, WH 700, FR 690
APs: USH 5, Stats 5, currently French, English Language, Human Geography
ECs: class officer (VP 12th + 11th, P 10th), student council member (10th-12th), school musical(9th-12th), voice lessons(9th-12th), varsity crew team (9th-11th), volunteer at public library (9th-12th), public library teen group (10th-12th), school lecture committee (11th-12th), work at ice cream store (11th-12th very part time)
Summer stuff: course at Ithaca College (A in Intro to Musical Theater w/ 3 college credits), exchange with French family, work (~30hrs/week)</p>

<p>Schools:
American University
Brown University (applied ED and was deferred)
Claremont McKenna College
Cornell University
New York University
University of Pennsylvania
Scripps College
College of William and Mary</p>

<p>Any thoughts would be hugely appreciated. Thanks so much for taking the time to read this!:-)</p>

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<p>(okay, I realized that made me sound awful, “will I HAVE to take a gap year?” I know it could be an amazing experience…I just want to make the choice on my own instead of the schools making it for me!)</p>

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<p>Definitely in at AU, probably in at William and Mary, Scripps, and Claremont McKenna, and the rest are reaches.</p>

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<p>The others should be fine but these are alot more less forgiving when a 3.5 shows up. </p>

<p>Brown University =Reach(applied ED and was deferred)
Cornell University=Reach
New York University=High Target
University of Pennsylvania=Reach</p>

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<p>Yeah I didn’t expect the 3.5, it kinda screwed me over didn’t it? Well it’s too late now to do much about it… I have no idea how to weight my grades - my Bs are in my hardest classes (AP Lang, AP French, Philosophy), but colleges really can’t know which ones are the hardest.
You guys have said pretty much what I’m thinking - except I think I’ll get into Cornell because I’m legacy and my mom works there and I live in Ithaca (it’s WAY easier to get in if you’re from Ithaca. which isn’t fair to other people but it’s nice for me I guess)</p>

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<p>any more thoughts anyone? sorry to be just another annoying chances thread. but i’m going kinda crazy here :stuck_out_tongue:
:-)</p>