<p>About a dozen AP classes total, two (maybe more as a senior) self-studied.</p>
<p>ACT 34
GPA 4.7 or 3.9
Rank 3/542
PSAT 223
SAT II US: 790 MATH II:780 WH: 770</p>
<p>Awards
National Merit Semi
National AP Scholar (Jr. year)
Various conference, regional awards for Forensics</p>
<p>EC:
-volunteering about 200 hours at a hospital
-volunteering ~20 hours at a camp for kids
-Tennis,(JV/V) 4 years
-Forensics (competitive) 4
-Knowledge Bowl (competitive) 4
-History Club (co-founder) 4
-Running Club 3
-Debate Team (founder) 2
-FBLA 2
-French Honor Society 2
-NHS 2
-Tennis Summer Camp 2
-Key Club(not that into it) 1</p>
<p>Leadership:
-Founded /co-founded two clubs
-Leadership roles in those two (Pres./V.P)
-NHS V.P
-Forensics Chairperson (leader of an event)</p>
<p>Forensics is speech team by the way (Calling it Forensics makes it seem 4000% more BA)</p>
<p>History/PolSci/Business/Pre-law Major (not all of those, just between those)
Asian male, 100k
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Safety: Loyola Chicago, Purdue?(It’s in IN and closeby, so maybe)</p>
<p>Match(ish): UChicago, <em>NU</em>, Cornell?</p>
<p>Reach: Dartmouth, Columbia, Wharton</p>
<p>If people like this are applying, how’d I get accepted? Oh, right, I’m a special snowflake. Just like everyone else, ahah.</p>
<p>Edit: But on a more serious note, if you’re applying to Ivys as reaches, I’m guessing you don’t want to apply Early Decision, which would boost your chances a ton. Really get into your ‘Why Northwestern?’ bit on the application, and definitely visit campus, meet with reps, blah blah blah. They like that.</p>
<p>And make your regular essay special and glorious and stuff.</p>
<p>There’s this big drive to get students who have NU as their first choice, so keep that in mind.</p>
<p>I’d say your chances are about as good as they’ll get, all other things being equal. Of course, admissions is a bit of a lottery, but there you go.</p>
<p>You have a good shot, but I know people with an app like yours who were both accepted and rejected. You’ll definitely get in ED so consider that if you want to guarantee going and sort of hedge your bets. Otherwise it’ll be a little random.</p>
<p>How has no one commented that this thread isn’t in caps lock?</p>
<p>… it was rather obvious.</p>
<p>I don’t disagree with your classification of NU, Chicago and Cornell as 'match ish" however the admissions rates at all three are in the sub-20% range, so none are a shoe-in even with your impressive statistics.</p>
<p>I thank that the ‘gap’ between your match-ish schools and your safeties is pretty large, and that you could find a number of schools that would be near safeties with your stats.(Brandeis and Michigan come to mind, but there are many others). Just a thought.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for something in between your current matches and safeties, you could shoot for some well-regarded state schools, or a couple of private colleges, if you’re not too keen on the giant flagship campuses.</p>
<p>Something along the lines of the University of Wisconsin, or a couple of the better-regarded UC schools spring to mind. Or Boston College, Villanova, and so on. Just some random names that I recall.</p>
<p>Honestly, you’re a very good candidate for all these schools. However, once you start applying to schools like UChicago, NU, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, etc., there is no guarantee. At that point, it just becomes random in the sense that you might get into Dartmouth (a “reach” according to you) but not get into NU or UChicago (which you consider a “match”). I wouldn’t worry about it too much though, you seem to be on a great track, and I’m sure you’ll get into one of your reaches/matches. Also, your safeties are good, you can probably even get better safeties in there like Boston College (great school, but I think your current app/stats can get you an acceptance there unless you totally mess something up…).</p>
<p>i would say that Uchicago is just as hard to get into as Dartmouth</p>