<p>my reaches are:</p>
<p>yale
princeton
cornell
brown
stanford
washington uni in st. louis
northwestern
u of chicago</p>
<p>and my stats (2140 sat [800 w, 740 cr, 600 m], 730 - lit, 710 - u.s. history, 3.85 uw gpa, 4.6 weighted).</p>
<p>are any of these reaches less reaches than the others? obviously yale/princeton are the hardest but how would you rank the others? which ones do i have the best shot at? thanks!</p>
<p>WUSTL, Northwestern, & Uchicago are your most likely to be accepted’s from that list</p>
<p>Your math score is pretty mediocre, and unless you have some serious math credentials (history of good grades in high level math classes, good AP calculus score, or other) then it’s probably going to cause concern for the adcomms of most of those schools. However, your other credentials seem good (although you don’t provide important info like class rank, ECs, and so forth) I’d say Northwestern and WUISL are the easiest to get into out of all those schools, and you do have a chance at both. Cornell and UoC are possibilities. The rest, probably not, unless you’ve got some outstanding credentials you’re not sharing.</p>
<p>thanks, guys! that’s helpful. </p>
<p>well i don’t know if it helps but i got an a+ in honors geometry freshman year and a b+ in honors algebra ii sophomore year. didn’t take math junior year but this year i’m taking stats at a cc and pre-cal or calc i at a cc. so i don’t have like a bad math record or anything but yeah, nothing exceptional unfortunately. </p>
<p>umm ec’s…i think my ec’s are really good. they are all really long-term, passionate, and unique. (most are in film, which is my passion.)</p>
<p>rank is 8/507 i think.</p>
<p>I agree with xAAAx. Either scrap the others or just apply to one or two of them; your chances at those schools are incredibly low.</p>
<p>cornell and washington u in st louis are the easiest ones but thats not saying much =)</p>
<p>given Wash U’s emphasis on SAT/ACT, I can’t imagine that would even be an option, but they have been known in the past to make some unusual decisions…</p>
<p>The OP’s scores are pretty good though. He’s looking for reaches here, not matches. He’s certainly more likely to get into WashU than Yale or Princeton unless he has something non-numbers amazing to offer.</p>
<p>“unless he has something non-numbers amazing to offer.”</p>
<p>what would qualify for that anyway?</p>
<p>Curing cancer, winning one of those competitions I’d never even heard about before CC (USAMO or something, Siemen’s? I have no idea), athletic recruit, etc. Maybe Stanford, Yale etc. if you were also URM + first generation + low-income (Stanford especially, but still unlikely as pretty much anyone is unlikely there).</p>