Chances @ UChicago, JHU, Gtow, NU, Tufts...

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I’m a senior this year:</p>

<p>White female, upper-middle class, from Minnesota
large public school</p>

<p>-ACT:32
-WGPA: 3.7 UW: 3.6
-WRank: 43/802 UW: 101/802</p>

<p>-EC’s:
Newspaper (11, 12) Senior Writer, 12 (Given to 3 writers on a staff of 8)</p>

<p>Science Club (10, 11, 12)</p>

<p>3rd-Grade Teacher’s Assistant (10, 11, 12) +100 hours</p>

<p>Volunteer at Summer Reading Program at public library (11, 12)</p>

<p>Student Aid in school office (deliver papers, do paperwork) (10,11, 12)</p>

<p>Customize and sew for Asian Ball-Joitned Dolls since I was 13 years old (paint faces on dolls, make doll clothes. I pay for my hobby by selling doll clothes) I’ll send samples of work to my schools.</p>

<p>-Instruments:
Banjo, flute. Play in church choir.</p>

<p>-Travel:
England 2005, raised $ through fundraising
Cruzando Lutheran Youth Gathering 2006, raised $ through fundraising</p>

<p>-Academic Honors:
NHS
Honorable Mention, regional science fair-- 2nd prize round-draft to paper</p>

<p>Research paper on the influence of conflict between Catholicism and Buddhism in Vietnam on American religious roles in 1960’s-1970’s submitted to the Concord Review (student research journal)</p>

<p>Research paper on disillusionment and disabuse as themes in 1950’s literarure submitted to the Lincoln Heights Literary Society.
^^^ Both papers written outside of school, not for credit.</p>

<p>** I’ve been uber-Lutheran since I was a baby; I want to major in religion. I’ll put a lot of emphasis in my essays on my knowledge of other religions and on my desire to learn more about different religions.</p>

<p>Reaches?
Yale
Johns Hopkins
Swarthmore
Amherst
Wesleyan
Gtown
Northwestern</p>

<p>Matches?
UChicago
Carleton
Tufts</p>

<p>Safeties?
Macalester
Notre Dame</p>

<p>I know I’m a long shot!!!</p>

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<p>Reaches:
Yale
Amherst</p>

<p>Mid Reaches:
JHU
Gtown
NU
Carleton
UChicago (it always depends on your essays)</p>

<p>Low Reaches:
Swarthmore
Notre Dame</p>

<p>Matches:
Wesleyan
Macalester</p>

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<p>Sorry, but Tufts and UChicago are reaches too – maybe not on the level of Yale, but certainly on that of Amherst, Gtown, etc.</p>

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<p>I know, Yale would be like my ultimate dream-reach school. UChicago is my big one; I’ll be applying there EA.</p>

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<p>Tufts isn’t on the level of Amherst, though.</p>

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<p>Essays, essays, essays! From your stats, they could make you or break you. </p>

<p>It seems, however, from your impressive array of research papers, that you should do fine in them. Good luck! I’m looking at similar schools. Just out of curiosity, what do you want to do with that religion degree?</p>

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<p>Hmmm, I’d say it’s something like this:</p>

<p>High Reaches:
Yale
Amherst
Swarthmore</p>

<p>Reaches:
Johns Hopkins
Gtown
Northwestern</p>

<p>HIGH Matches (or maybe low reaches)
UChicago
Carleton
Tufts
Wesleyan</p>

<p>Matches
Macalester (maybe a safety-ish? I don’t know much about Mac)
Notre Dame</p>

<p>What is comes down to is your ACT is good and your ECs are pretty impressive with the research papers (though not mind blowing), and your location will help for a lot of these schools, BUT your GPA is low for a lot of these schools as well, so it’s a toss up. I’d focus on finding a few more true safeties. </p>

<p>Note: Those schools in high matches/mow reaches are there instead of in the reaches category partially because I get the impression that those are schools that will really like the independent research you did, and are also schools where a good essay will go a long way…so make it good! </p>

<p>Also, which rank does you school consider the official rank? Because your weighted rank will be helpful, while your unweighted rank might hurt a little.</p>

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<p>Macalester & Notre Dame safeties… nope!</p>

<p>But…</p>

<p>I’ll rank these schools by difficulty of getting in…</p>

<p>BIG REACHES
Yale, Amherst, Swarthmore</p>

<p>SLIGHT REACHES
University of Chicago, Northwestern, Carleton, Tufts</p>

<p>HIGH MATCHES
Johns Hopkins, Wesleyan, Gtown</p>

<p>LOW MATCHES
Notre Dame, Macalester</p>

<p>Best of luck!</p>

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<p>Haha, what college is Gtown???</p>

<p>Yoz, homie I go to Gtown.</p>

<p>Ah, I’m really bored/tired.</p>

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<p>zivalicha: lol! </p>

<p>kingkouture: more research, I guess :stuck_out_tongue: ha </p>

<p>I hesitate to say that I’m a moderately okay writer; everyone says that they have “fantastic essays,” I know, but I hope that mine’ll be pretty strong.</p>

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<p>This cant be correct!!!</p>

<p>JHU, GTown, and Wesleyan are not high matches…at worst slight reaches</p>

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<p>Forgot to mention: Work 12 hours a week at a gift shop, and take extra classes at local community college.</p>

<p>Should I even bother applying to Yale? I know it’s a crazy reach, but stranger things have happened…</p>

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<p>If it’s your dream school, APPLY. 1. You’d always wonder if you would’ve gotten in. 2. It’s just an essay and 60 bucks. A small price to pay to go to your dream school.</p>

<p>Like you said, anything can happen.</p>

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<p>Bump bump bump!</p>

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<p>Bump bump again</p>

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<p>Hee hee, bumping again</p>

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<p>Bump bump bump</p>

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<p>May I ask which public school in MN? I’m quite familiar with some of the places there.</p>

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<p>riceman: I don’t want to say online, but it’s in the southeast, pretty close to the twin cities</p>

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<p>Yale HIGH REACH
Johns Hopkins LOWer REACH
Swarthmore HIGH REACH
Amherst HIGH REACH
Wesleyan LOW REACH
Gtown VERY HIGH MATCH/LOW REACH
Northwestern REACH
UChicago REACH
Carleton LOW REACH
Tufts REACH
Macalester MATCH
Notre Dame LOWer REACH</p>