Chances at Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Georgetown

Chance Me / Match Me
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SAT: 2100 (760 W, 690 CR, 650 M)
ACT: 31 (34 E, 32 CR, 31 M, 28 S)
SAT IIs: plan on taking Math 2, English Lit, US History in Sept. 2015
GPA: 4.5 weighted, 3.9 unweighted
Class rank: 10 of 366 (based on weighted GPA), 9 based on unweighted
APs: Euro History 3, Macroeconomics 3, Environmental Science 4, US History 5, English Lang 5
Senior Year Classes: AP Stats, AP English Lit, AP French, Ceramics, Physics, AP Gov’t., Senior Project
Junior Year Courses: APUSH, AP English Lang, Pre-Calculus, Philosophy/AP Macro, AP Environmental Science, Honors French 3

Academia Civitas: Four-year honors program in Political Science. 5-honors courses completed: Intro to Poly Sci, State and Local Gov’t., Int’l Relations, Speech, Philosophy. 100+ hours of “service learning,” completed internship at the California Department of Education, Senior Project to come fall 2015: recycling advocacy and expansion of my club to include more of the student population - liaisons for each sports team responsible for collecting recyclables at games

Extracurriculars: Rio Recycles - on-campus recycling program that donates profits back to programs at school - ie Athletic Boosters, band, Avid, theater, PTSA. VP last year, President this year. French Club- 4-year member and 2-year Secretary, Rio Model UN- 4 year member, Women in Leadership Senior member
Varsity Basketball - Coach’s Award as sophomore, All-league Honorable Mention
JV Basketball - MVP as freshman, 10-0 in league
Upper Natoma Rowing Club (UNRC)- three years (one novice, two varsity). Spring 2015 Most Improved Rower. Won a silver medal in the Women’s 4+ at USRowing Youth Nationals in June 2015. Attended US Junior National Team Sweep Selection Camp (June/July 2015), was selected for 2016 Worlds Development Team- 10 day training trip to Spain. Will be a team captain at UNRC this fall/spring, am being recruiting by top academic and rowing schools. 20+ hours per week rowing
Summer 2015 internship at the California Department of Education
Summer 2014 attended Leadership Institute at Georgetown University
Volunteer work: 200+ total community service hours, 113 community service hours as camp counselor at Sacramento Zoo, phone bank on a 2012 election, additional 75 hours working for variety of causes- river clean-ups, manning fun-runs, serving homeless, tutoring, etc.

Intended studies: Major in Poly Sci w/ minor in Econ
other info: CA resident, white female, $200k+ tax bracket

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To me it all boils down to how recruitable you are. Only you can answer this.

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Objectively, if Stanford, Princeton, Harvard and Georgetown are recruiting you to be part of their rowing or basketball team, then I think your chances are VERY high, as long as you take up their offer and apply SCEA or EA (in the case of Georgetown). If however, they are not interested in your athletic ability, and you are being recruited by other schools that you are not really interested in, anyone always has a chance. Nothing is impossible and you have done wonderfully so far. However, there are a few holes in your application that might make it a little difficult: your test scores are not stellar (ACT or SAT), you are yet to take your subject tests, and the rigor of your subjects is not that great. If your school offers AP Calc AB and AP Calc BC and you are skipping those and instead are taking AP Statistics after your Pre-Calculus, this will likely be noted by these uber competitive universities. You will be fine with less competitive universities, but if you want the top ones, this could be noticed, as well as your not taking a top science course (such as AP or at least Honors Physics). Make your essays really interesting to make up for your test scores and slight lack of course rigor.

Best of luck!

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http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1797003-chances-at-stanford-harvard-princeton-georgetown.html#latest
Same person, different account?

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Yep