Hi! I’m freaking out about my apparent lack of safeties even though I’m applying to 16 schools already. Are my assumptions about what schools are reaches and matches correct and what are my chances at them?
BIG reach - Brown (this is kind of just for fun; I know it’s not realistic)
Reach - Wesleyan (ED 1), Barnard (did a summer program there, it’s my second choice), Pitzer
Match/Reach - Bates, Oberlin (3rd choice), Scripps, Kenyon
Match - Skidmore, Macalester, Whitman, Connecticut College
Low Match - American (I am applying to the Honors program though)
Safety - Dickinson (triple legacy, both parents went there as well as an uncle), Beloit, UVM
here’s a little information about me:
White female from NYS,
33 ACT (36 E, 36 R, 32 S, 29 M)
93.37 GPA (eeeeek),
1st person in the 3rd decile (but at a very small, very overachieving HS)
Subject tests: 740 World History, waiting on literature
Will graduate with 10 APs, 2 Honors (English 11 Honors, French 4 Honors) and 2 Dual Credit courses (Syracuse U Project Advance US History and English). Self-Studied 5 of the 10 APs I took. I have all 4’s and 5’s (I have 3 4’s and 2 5’s so far) I have 5 years of math (taking non-AP calc this year; math is very difficult for me) 5 years of lab science, and 4 years of French. I am in my school’s science research program as well.
Extra-curriculars Co-president of Model UN, president of the Quiz Bowl team that won Small School nationals in 2017, started a civic engagement club in 11th grade after having an incredibly eye-opening experience shadowing New York State legislators for 4 days, singer-songwriter, high school theater, select choir, an intern for local county executive campaign.
Rec’s - will probably be really good - have my English Honors, AP Envi Sci and SUPA US History teachers writing them
Essay - about being a geography nerd and expanding my field of knowledge when I joined Quiz bowl; probably good but not AMAZING
sorry this is long!! thank you so much!