Chances at W&M, NYU

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I’m pretty sure have an idea of what all my reach, match and safeties are, I just wanted to run it by you guys to see if I am thinking correctly.</p>

<p>General Info:</p>

<p>High School: Very good public school in suburban Connecticut
Year: Rising Senior
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Income: I wont be eligible for any financial aid, so I wont be requesting any, obviously
Parent’s Colleges: Both went to Union, my mom went to Northwestern for Grad school</p>

<p>GPA: Unweighted - 3.94
Weighted - 4.19
Ranking: My school doesn’t rank, but I should be within the top 20%</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I: 2130 - 800 (CR) 640 (M) 690 (W, 10 on essay)
SAT II: US History - 780 Literature - 740
Will be retaking one more in the fall</p>

<p>ACTs: 32
30, with writing</p>

<p>* APs *
US History - 5
Language and Composition - 5</p>

<p>Courses:</p>

<p>Freshman Year
Earth Science H - A
Geometry - B+
English I H - A
Theater Arts I - B+
Global History I H - A
Italian I - H
Phys Ed - A
Health Ed - A+</p>

<p>Sophomore Year
Biology H - B+
Algebra II - A
English II H - A
Global History II H - A
Latin I - A+
Theater Arts II - A
Phys Ed (Semester 1) - B+
Phys Ed (Semester 2) - A</p>

<p>Junior Year
Chemistry - A
Trigonometry (Semester 1) - B+
Functions (Semester 2) - B+
Creative Writing (1/2 Year) - A+
Philosophy (1/2 year) - A
AP Language and Composition - A
AP US History - A
Latin II - A</p>

<p>Senior Year Schedule
Physics Honors
AP Government and Politics
AP Psychology
AP Literature and Composition
Calculus and Statistics Honors
Latin III </p>

<p>Extra-Curriculars
Clubs
Debate Team (10, 11, 12)
[ul]Secretary - Junior Year[/ul]
[ul]President - Senior Year[/ul]</p>

<p>Key Club (10, 11, 12)
[ul]PR Officer - Junior Year[/ul]
[ul]Co-Vice President - Senior Year[/ul]</p>

<p>Stage Crew (9, 10, 11, 12)
[ul]Prop Mistress - Junior & Senior Year[/ul]
Our crew won an award for Best Set Design in Connecticut</p>

<p>National Honor Society (11, 12)
Tutoring kids, running blood drives etc. May run for a position in the fall</p>

<p>Sports
Play in the town’s basketball league</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Girl Scouts (9, 10, 11, 12)
[ul]Going for my Gold Award[/ul]</p>

<p>Campaigning (11)
Campaigned for Barack Obama my driving up to New Hampshire on election day and canvassing (25 hours)
Also campaigned for local candidate (30 hours)</p>

<p>Relay for Life (8, 9, 10)
[ul]Team Captain 8th and 10th grade[/ul]</p>

<p>** Awards **
[ul]Regional History Day Competition in the Senior Group Exhibit category[/ul]
[ul]Hollins University Book Award[/ul]
[ul]Summa Cum Laude on National Latin Exam I[/ul]
[ul]Cum Laude on Nation Latin Exam II[/ul]</p>

<p>** Work Experience **
Lots of babysitting and will intern for a few weeks at my dad’s law office later this summer.</p>

<p>This is my list right now, in what I’m assuming are the reach/match/safety categories. Also, I’m looking to major more in the liberal arts, nothing math or science related.</p>

<p>Reach:
Northwestern
Columbia
UVA</p>

<p>Match:
William and Mary
NYU
BC</p>

<p>Saftey:
UConn
BU
Union</p>

<p>Also, feel free to suggest any other schools to look at. I’m not allowed to go any further south than Virginia and any further west than Illinois, and am looking for medium to larger sized schools, if that helps. Thanks!</p>

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<p>anyone? i will ~chance back</p>

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<p>I think that your assessment of yourself is accurate. It’s difficult for me to suggest alternative schools though, without knowing a few things. Does religion factor into your decision? What does medium to large schools mean to you? 20 to 30,000? Do you have a specific major you have in mind? I think that as soon as we know that we will be able to offer some suggestions. However, to be honest, I think your list of schools is good. Are you not set on one school (meaning planning to apply ED) or are you still deciding? Regardless of what you decide to do though, good luck!</p>

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<p>You have a pretty good list. I wonder why you have large research universities if you want to major in the liberal arts? Why don’t you apply to Middlebury, or other equivalent LAC’s.</p>

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<p>Wartsandall - William and Mary is my first choice at the moment, and I will most likely apply there ED, but my mom and I are going on a road trip in August to look at about a dozen more schools, so not everything it set in stone. Religion doesn’t factor in at all, in fact, I’d rather go to a less religious school. The religion aspect was one of the reasons I did not like Villanova. And as for size, I prefer schools aobe 5,000 undergrads. In terms of my major, right now I’m between political science and psychology, but I really have no idea. Thanks for your help!</p>

<p>Nuclear - I prefer schools in or near cities or large towns, as well as schools with more than 5,000 students, which ruled out a lot of the LACs. Thank you, though.</p>

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<p>If you’ve got a 3.9+ and you’re only Top 20% in your school, that’s a pretty huge grade inflation curve.</p>

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<p>I’m not really sure what you mean. Because my school doesn’t rank, I’m sort of just going on this graph that they handed out with the amount of kids in each GPA range. They do give .5 points for honors and 1 point for AP classes, so that may have something to do with it?</p>

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<p>I love william and mary because the college atmosphere is so quaint and I love the cobblestone, farmer market, and such. William and Mary is extremely hard for oos students though.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I realize OOS makes it much, much harder. But they’ve accepted a few kids each year from my school, and I drove down for an interview, so I think I have a pretty good shot.</p>

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<p>okay anyone else?</p>

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<p>W&M has higher SAT scores, lower admit ratio and is a smaller school, thus accepts fewer people, than Uvirginia.</p>