<p>As far as extracurriculars go, I am very involved in Jazz band (I play saxophone and guitar in 2 groups each). I also participate in mock trial, and am going to the Yale Young Global Scholars program this summer. I received the Wesleyan book award at my school. My primary academic interests are social sciences and law.</p>
<p>At the moment, my list of reach schools is:</p>
<p>University of Chicago
Yale
Columbia
MIT
Stanford
Rice
Harvard</p>
<p>My mid-tier schools are:</p>
<p>Vanderbilt
Northwestern
Washington University in St. Louis
Emory</p>
<p>and my safeties are:</p>
<p>George Washington University
Occidental College</p>
<p>Sorry for the long post. Anyway, if you guys could let me know if my classification of each school as reach/mid/safety is reasonably accurate, and assess my chances at each, it would be great.</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot to add some important details. My unweighted GPA is 94.18, and my weighted GPA is 114.5. Also, I’m a Korean male from an underrepresented state.</p>
<p>Plus factors: High GPA, SAT, ACT; also from an underrepresented state!</p>
<p>Negative factors: Very bland EC’s and Ethnicity </p>
<p>Ok now my opinion:
Harvard- (major reach) * no hook/ weak EC’s your relying on Academics alone
Yale- (same as harvard)
Stanford ( same as harvard)
M.I.T ( Reach)
Columbia (slight reach)
Rice ( Match)</p>
<p>Vandy ( Match)
Emory (Match)
Northwestern (safety)
Washington University ( safety)</p>
<p>@sallymeno11 It’s my opinion, I’ve seen people with significantly lower stats and nothing special get into both of those schools. Wustl and Northwestern are probally the easiest to get into on his list. Many will disagree but the chance forum is highly subjective anyways.</p>
<p>There is no way WashU and Northwestern are safeties. WashU purposely rejects qualified students; they want to admit kids who will go there, not ones that will automatically pass them up. </p>
<p>Your stats are good, but so are everyone else’s. You didn’t list many ECs, and they don’t really stand out. </p>
<p>University of Chicago (Reach)
Yale (High reach)
Columbia (High reach
MIT (High reach)
Stanford (High reach)
Rice (Low reach)
Harvard (High reach)
Vanderbilt (Low reach)
Northwestern (High match)
Washington University in St. Louis (High match)
Emory (High match)</p>
<p>It’s not that you’re not qualified. You are. It’s just that everyone else is, too.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone, this is all very helpful. To expand on my ECs, I was chosen for the All-State jazz ensemble in my state on guitar. I also received a scholarship from my high school to travel to NYC to study jazz guitar. I write and produce my own music too. Additionally, I participated a little bit in the Volunteer club at school, and do swimming & track. I have an internship at a software startup this summer and my team received honorable mention in the moody corporation’s Moody’s Mega Math Challenge competition. I apologize for the long post again, but I wanted to add more potentially helpful details about ECs.</p>
<p>I’d narrow your list down a little bit. If you try and apply to all those schools you will not be able to put as much focus into each essay as most all of these schools have supplements. Find the schools you really like and get rid of the schools you are just applying to for the prestige. This way you can really focus on the schools you want to get into.</p>