<p>as long as you’re honest! please chance me :)</p>
<p>school: top private boarding in NE
gpa: 10.2/11.0
rank: no rank, about 15~20% from the top?
sat: math 780 cr 720 wr 730 total 2230
ap tests: calc ab5, bio5, spanish4
EC:
12hrs-piano, piano ensemble president
15hrs-dance company, dance team captain, “adv. dancer” title
4hrs-environmental newspaper editor-in-chief
5hrs-yearbook sr board layout director
3hrs-gospel choir-club head
2hrs-outreach music lessons club head
3hrs-liberty club president
2hrs-student council dorm representative
2hrs-martin luther king day committee
1hr-diversity council
7hrs-work
–total 56 hours (honest! but do u think i shoudl crank down that number not to appear insane???)</p>
<p>Good SATs, but your class rank/GPA are too low for HYPSM without something absolutely outstanding, which I don’t see.</p>
<p>You are involved in a lot of ECs which is good, but in the end your class rank will really hurt you.</p>
<p>All the schools you listed besides HYPSM are reaches. HYPSM are huge reaches. Your ECs are good, and so are your SATs, but a class rank outside of the top 10% (maybe outside of the top 15% even) will make getting accepted at any of those listed schools extremely difficult.</p>
<p>I would disagree with ranking being a problem. Top 10-15 % at a good private school equates to much higher at most schools. A 10 % ranking at Exeter is much more impressive than a top 1 % at Compton High Skool</p>
<p>i disagree as well. adcoms are familiar w/ good schools so if the school is as good as the OP says, i don’t think any of those schools are “huge reaches”. you could get into 1-3 of HYPMS. maybe add a safety school?</p>
<p>Uh yeah sorry …for privacy issues i didnt list what school but it’s one of the most selective so you can consider it as “exeter”. rank= 33~38.
what do u think would be considered a safety for me? my counselor says im a great candidate, but that i should consider safeties too. Could you give me some examples?</p>
<p>also as i said up there- should i play down my EC hours even if they are an accurate representation?</p>
<p>additional
SATII
Bio 770
MathII 800
Chem 750</p>
<p>just tell us the damn school. no one cares who you are and you’ll get a better chances response if you do. I say reject HYPSM; high (unlikely) reach at Columbia and Penn (which is almost no chance) and matches at the rest. You’ve only taken 3 APs. Considering you are supposedly from a top-flight school, you’re academic profile isn’t exactly spectacular. Some of your EC’s are complete BS. 27 hours total in dance/piano? Do you expect a sane person to believe that? Cut down your obscene numbers.</p>
<p>The top third of the class at “Exeter” is Ivy-qualified. I’d expect the OP to get into most or all of the schools listed except HYPMS, and might even get an offer from one of those. Your flagship state U. is a good safety, or if you don’t like it, consider U.Wisc. or U.Mich.</p>
<p>Hey everyone
thanks SO much for your replies so far, i really appreciate it.
As for the the EC, numbers I put down dance as 13 but im in the dance company which is the equivalent of a varsity sport at my school. rehearse six days a week, having wed and sat afternoon practices when varsity teams have games.
yikes i want to tidy this up a bit and repost on a new thread</p>
<p>update: new SAT score: 2350
If it’s even worth asking, which do I have even a slightly better chance at? Stanford or MIT? I am not a resident of CA</p>