Ye Olde Chances Thread

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a rising senior with an interest in creative writing. I'd like an opinion or two on my chances at the following schools (an elite group, I know):</p>

<p>Yale
Princeton
Brown
Northwestern
UChicago
Wash U
Cornell</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR: 800, M: 780, W: 780 (Single sitting)
[</em>] SAT II: Took this month, anticipating 700+
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 2% (Class of 800+)
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), Spanish Language (4), awaiting results for the four tests I took this year
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 5 APs
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Scholastic Gold Key (Short Story), one national prize for short fiction, some University Interscholastic League stuff
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tutoring, English Honor Society, watching films from the Criterion Collection, writing, cross country
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Summer Activities: Iowa Young Writers' Studio, Duke TIP
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] School Type: Large public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]</p>

<p>I know it's hard, with such little information, to make accurate predictions. I'm just curious what some of you think. Am I on track? (Yes, I know my extracurriculars are lacking. Any suggestions?)</p>

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<p>Clearly you are an excellent student. But, like you already said, the EC’s are lacking. That could be the only thing holding you back</p>

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<p>I don’t see any passion… nothing that sets you apart from the tens of thousands of other Ivy applicants. You’re probably good for NW and Wash U though.</p>

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<p>You have a good shot at all of those schools, but Yale and Princeton are reaches.</p>