Chance this Junior for these schools?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Hello, all!</p>

<p>Colleges I’m thinking about:
Northwestern University (SUUUUPER REACH)
Williams College
Middlebury College
Kenyon College
Barnard College
SUNY Purchase
SUNY Binghamton
Syracuse University
(recommend others if you can? matches, preferably?)</p>

<p>Female, NY
Caucasian</p>

<p>Rough GPA: 93UW</p>

<p>Class rank: school doesn’t rank, but in 1st decile</p>

<p>Eighth grade: 90.6
*our school counts accelerated math, language, and a regular science in our HS transcript
Freshmen year: 94.8
Sophomore year: 94.8
Junior year: 92.5 <– estimate based on first quarter grades</p>

<p>Current courseload:
AP US History
AP English
Physics H
Pre-calculus regular
Spanish H
Journalism (required to be an editor on the paper)
Band
Gym</p>

<p>AP’s taken:
AP Art History (5)</p>

<p>AP’s taking in senior year:
AP English Lit
AP Bio
AP European History</p>

<p>SAT composite: 2050
**retaking soon; aiming for 2100-2200</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities</p>

<p>School drama club (9-12)
Lead and supporting actress; art crew/set crew
Playwrights’ Festival (10-12)</p>

<p>Speech Team (11-12)</p>

<p>School newspaper (11-12)
Features Section Editor (11)
News Section Editor OR Editor-in-chief (12) <– this is very likely, my teacher says</p>

<p>Marching and Concert Band (4-12)
Clarinet 1; Clarinet Ensemble (10-12)</p>

<p>Community Service</p>

<p>Will have a TON of hours</p>

<p>Volunteered at an organization that performs plays that teach good morals and lessons on peer pressure and friendship (11-12)
Tutoring through honors societies (11-12)
Relay for Life (10-12)
Live Chat 2011 (9) <–local community service venture</p>

<p>Work Experience
Local grocery store (9)
Cashier</p>

<p>Awards/Honors</p>

<p>National Honor Society (11-12)
National Foreign Language Honor Society - Spanish division (11-12)
Social Studies Honor Society (11-12)
High Honor Roll (9-12)
National Spanish Exam
94th Percentile (9)
Took again (11)
Speech: Third Place in Varsity Prose and poetry (11)
Speech: New York State Qualifier for prose and poetry (11)
<em>more speech ones to come</em></p>

<p>Teacher Recommendations
DEFINITELY one from my English 11AP teacher who I love to death
my 10th grade AP Art history teacher
My English and journalism teacher</p>

<p>Hooks: eh…I have a twin going into college the same year as me and a single mother. Will need financial aid, if that counts as any kind of hook…</p>

<p>VISUAL ARTS/PERFORMING SUPPLEMENTS!</p>

<p>Collection of my cartoon series (send in on CD)
Performance of Forensics Speech piece/memorize a monologue?
Send in DVD’s of my school play performances</p>

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<p>If you’re considering Northwestern a Super Reach, then you certainly have to consider Middlebury and Williams Super Reaches. Especially when you take into consideration that you’re a white female from the Northeast, it will be even more difficult to get into those schools. Not to discourage you though. Your grades and scores are on the low side for those schools, but you’ll never know unless you apply. Good luck!</p>

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<p>I know Northwestern is totally competitive and has higher scores than Midd; hence, I said super reach. Midd and Williams are definitely reaches, too.</p>

<p>So would this make sense?</p>

<p>Barnard: match
Kenyon: match
Syracuse: safety
SUNY Binghamton: safety
SUNY Purchase: safety</p>

<p>Any other ideas out there? <em>bumpbump</em></p>

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<p>What is your intended major? Two safety schools are enough, syracuse and one SUNY school for example.</p>

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<p>I’d like to be a double-major in history and theater, my two loves. I’ll pick Binghamton, most likely, because I know some very happy history and theater majors there. Syracuse will be my other.</p>

<p>What should I do in regards to match schools, though? Anything else I should look at? Would Barnard and Kenyon even BE matches?</p>

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<p>But Northwestern accepts 10% more applicants than Midd does. This means that people are self selecting Midd.</p>