<p>Details:
White
Jewish/Atheist
From Pennsylvania</p>
<p>Reaches:
Columbia (legacy)
Georgetown
Harvard
Princeton
Stanford</p>
<p>Matches:
NYU
Berkeley
Chicago
Michiga</p>
<p>Safeties:
American
GWU
OSU
URochester (legacy)</p>
<p>Courseload:
18 A’s, 5 B’s (expected)(School doesn’t calculate GPA or rank)
Hardest Courseload Offered
School usually sends students to top universities and colleges</p>
<p>SATs:
2250</p>
<p>Subject Tests:
730
750</p>
<p>ECs:
Model U.N.
School Newspaper
Founder of Politics Society
10 School Plays
Drama Club
Chorus
Intern with Congressman
3rd Team Tennis</p>
<p>Summers:
Two years
UChicago Precollege</p>
<p>So what are my chances?!</p>
<p>I don’t know if U Chicago is a match (highly regarded PoliSci program but your SAT might be a bit low). I think UMich should be a match though, which means Berkeley should be as well. NYU is iffy. Your stats are decent, but NYU always receives so many applicants because of its popularity. I don’t know about all your safeties… You might want to apply to Penn State as safety…
Harvard and Princeton are definitely reaches, but you never know.
How time consuming are your ECs?</p>
<p>Reaches:
Columbia (legacy) - Waitlisted
Georgetown - Accepted
Harvard - Rejected
Princeton - Rejected
Stanford - Rejected</p>
<p>Matches:
NYU - Accepted
Berkeley - (OOS) Rejected
Chicago - Waitlisted
Michigan - Accepted</p>
<p>Safeties:
American - Accepted
GWU - Accepted
OSU - Accepted
URochester (legacy) - Accepted</p>
<p>My ECs are incredibly time consuming, and I’ve spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours doing them.</p>
<p>The plays took up at least 100 hours each. I really went to my internship whenever I could since freshman year, so that was a couple hundred hours. Everything else probably combined to be another couple hundred hours.</p>
<p>Also, if I take the SATs again and raise my score to a 2300 or a 2350, would my chances change at all? And for what it’s worth, I’ve been doing extra work and research papers in my history classes since freshman year if that helps at all.</p>
<p>Usually, once you get past a 2250, it doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>Really, not at all?</p>
<p>Also, just to provide clarification on my course work, I’ve already taken Calc 1, I’m doing either Calc 2 (equivalent to College Calculus) or Stat next year, I’m also doing Spanish Literature next year along with a bunch of other tough classes. My curriculum has been very rigorous.</p>
<p>Sorry I guess I shouldn’t really be hijacking someone else’s thread…</p>