Please Chance A Junior Looking At The East Coast

MWolf
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 03:59:38 +0000

First of all, congratulations on some pretty great ECs.

Your GPA is relatively low for Middlebury, Boston University, Brandeis, and Northeastern. Unless you have a hook or something really interesting that will bring you to their attention, you chances at any of these are pretty low.

Midd doesn’t post the GPA ranges of its accepted students, but if you look at the stats of students, but unofficially it’s over 3.9. Your ACT is on the bottom of their mid 50%. Their acceptance rate is 17%, so your chances are pretty low - you can consider it a high reach

For Northeastern, both your ACT and your GPA are in the bottom 25% of the students who they accept, and their acceptance rate is around 18%, so this college is also a high reach for you.

For Brandeis you’re in a better situation, but your GPA is still substantially below their UW average of 3.84. Their acceptance rate is 31%, and it would be a reach for you, but still feasible

For Boston U, you’re GPA is still below their average (3.72), and your ACT is at the bottom of their mid 50%. However, their acceptance rate is pretty low 9around 19%), so it’s likely more of a reach for you than Brandeis.

So your Second Choices are all reaches or high reaches. Uconn may be a low match, rather than a safety, so you should look for a true safety.

While your legacy status will help you at Cornell, your GPA is pretty low, relative to that of the students who are generally accepted at Cornell. SO again, you have a chance, but that chances isn’t all that high.

You have great ECs, and you would likely have a great chance at many colleges out there, especially LACs, however, the colleges at which you are looking are all reaches for most people, and for you these colleges are reaches or high reaches.

Apply to them them if your are interested in attending them, but also find yourself some more matches as well as a true safety.

Good luck (and I hope that you prove that I underestimated your chances)!!