Chance Me

Hi College Confidential,

I am a current junior and would like to know my chances of being admitted into NYU CAS, Babson, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Emory, or UT Austin and to what extent would applying ED/EA to any of these increase the chances?

  • I'm a United States Citizen
  • According to The Washington Post, I go to the 14th most challenging school in the United States as of May 2017 (school's name is Uplift North Hills Preparatory)

Test Scores and Coursework:

  • SAT: 1500, ACT: 33
  • I took two subject tests (Math II and World History, both 750’s). Will retake for higher.
  • My weighted G.P.A. is 4.19 (UW is 3.72) my rank is 18 out of 140 (my school does not send rankings to colleges)
  • I’m taking IB and AP classes (I am an IB Diploma candidate)
  • My transcript states that I “took the hardest classes offered at the school”

Male
Major: History

AP Classes and Honors I took:

  • AP Human Geography (9th)
  • Honors Biology (9th)
  • AP World History (10th)
  • Honors French 5th year (10th)
  • Honors Algebra II (9th)
  • Honors Chemistry (10th)
  • AP English Language and Composition (10th)
  • AP Biology (11th)
  • AP US History (11th)
  • AP US Government and Politics (10th)
  • AP Microeconomics (11th)
  • AP Macroeconomics (11th)
  • Honors Pre-Calculus (10th)
  • AP Stats (12th)
    -AP AB Calc (11th)
    -BC (12th)

IB Classes I took:

  • IB English (11/12th)
  • IB TOK (11th/12th)
  • IB French 4 and 5 (11th/12th)
  • IB History of the Americas HL (12th)
  • IB Economics HL (12th)
  • IB Math SL (12th)
  • IB Biology SL (12th)

Rec Letters:
APUSH Teacher: 10/10
Econ Teacher: 9/10

EC’s:

In school:
Tennis (11th/12th)
Orchestra (violin)
NHS Officer (Member: 11th/12th; officer 12th)
Model UN Chair (Member: 9th/10th/11th/12th; officer: 11th/12th)
Junior World Affairs Council President (Member: 9th/10th/11th/12th; officer: 10th/11th/12th)

Others: Volunteered for political campaigns, created a product, participated/placed in various history-related competitions, teen court, econ/history project/paper research, etc.

Bumpp

@arsenicthunder16

You started exactly the same chances thread in March…maybe one thread is enough.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/2063548-my-chances.html#latest

Your GPA and ACT/SAT scores are right in the average. They have an admissions rate of 33%, so you need to make sure you have safety options. Remember, getting in is only half the battle. You need to make sure you can afford it without drowning yourself in debt.