Chance a Georgetown Legacy!

dreamsofivy
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:29:14 +0000

I agree with pretty much everything other people have said. Your GPA is great, as is your rank, you’re in the ECs that look great (i.e. class pres, passion for music, NHS, community service, and sports), and the ACTs are good, but based on your other stats they could go up.
The one thing I would like to know is what classes are you taking? How many APs, honors, etc?
Overall, you look really good.
I wanna break these down into 4 categories: Reach for everyone, Reach with a shot, Match, and Safety.

Safety:
UMass Amherst - I live in Mass, and you could write explicitly in your essay, “I do not want to go here”, and you would still get in lol.
Boston College - I’m assuming you live in Mass as well, so this becomes kind of a safety. This is on the border of Match and Safety, but you have a super good chance.

Match:
Georgetown - Even though you have Legacy and really good stats, Georgetown is one of the most elite schools in the country, arguably top 5 not including ivies. You have a very good shot though.

Reach w/ a shot:
Cornell - Very elite school, but you’re stats match up. The biggest thing with Ivies is standing out from the other thousands of applicants with great stats, but again you have a shot. Applying ED will help…a lot.
Dartmouth - Same as Cornell.

Reach for everyone:
I’ll rank these by order of chance (1 being the best chance, 4 being the least):

1. Columbia

2. MIT

3. Yale

4. Harvard
The thing about these schools is that they are reaches for everyone, but the only thing I can say, not meaning to be mean at all, is that you are #4 in your class right now, and that means there are three people ahead of you. I am in the same boat. Schools like Harvard look at that, so they don’t want fourth-best. Now, i don’t know anything about kids at your school, but all I can say is that you do have good ECs, so you could easily stand out. The biggest recommendation I can give you is take the ACTs again, definitely get a better Reading score (for MIT higher science), and then just pray lol. It’s a crapshoot when it comes to those four.

Sorry for the novel :p