What are my chances? (Northwestern, Tufts, Brown, Rice, and Georgetown)

Chance Me / Match Me
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What are my chances for Georgetown, Northwestern, Brown, Rice, and Tufts? I have a few other safety schools, but these are my reach schools.
UW GPA: 3.89
W GPA: 4.11
ACT: 30 composite (English- 36, Math- 28, Reading- 29, Science- 27, Writing- 08; I will be taking it again with hopes of getting a 31)

  • Varsity softball (all 4 years)
  • I have over 750 hours of service hours over the past four years
  • 500 hours at the Humane Society
  • I volunteer weekly at Scatter Joy Acres (a rescue farm)
  • I am an intern at the Congressional Leadership Fund where I intern 4-6 hours per week
  • I have gone on two (2-week) service trips to Ghana (where I refurbished the local school and taught classes to help the kids learn English) and the Dominican Republic (where I worked with the health and happiness of at risk communities) thorugh Global Leadership Adventures (GLA)
  • I was chosen as a GLA Ambassador (this means I was chosen, out of all the people who went on the trip, as the person who exemplified all the characteristics that GLA embodies best)
  • I started a club at my school called Young Medicine Club and 100 people joined (I have 600 people at my school)
  • I have recently started a 501c3 non-profit with called Gear for Ghana where I will collect used sports equipment and send it to communities that are in need of the safety equipment. I am currently working on a shipment to Ghana
  • Campus Ministry: service site leader (I pick a place to volunteer at and lead people who sign up for it when we get there)
  • Part of the Big Sister Program at my school
  • Part of the Science Club
  • Part of the Varsity Speech team (9-10 grade)
    Academic/Sports Accomplishments:
  • National Honors Society
  • National Science Honors Society
  • Mu Alpha Theta
  • Softball Varsity Letter
    Work Experience: I nannied for 60 hours a week during the summer
    A little about me: I have moved seven times since I was 3, which included living in Singapore for three years. I have been very blessed when it comes to opportunities as I have been to 25 countries. I have gotten to see so many different cultures and people. I currently go to an all girls Catholic High School. I’m so sorry- I know this is all over the place but thank you for looking!
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Your ACT score is low for those schools. Have you taken SAT subject tests yet? What kind of courses are you taking? Intended major? Check out the common data sets for your reach schools so you can see what you should be aiming for.

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You are a competitive applicant. You want your ACT to at least a 32, however, to be more competitive for these schools. Your GPA is great. Your ECs are pretty good. Write fantastic essays and try to boost that ACT score and you could get accepted to any of these schools

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Try getting that ACT up at least a couple of points and nail your essays. Rec letters are almost never guaranteed to be good, but do the best you can to solicit thoughtful ones.

These are all reaches unless you apply ED, and even then the best they would be would be low reaches. (Do not apply ED unless a school is your clear #1 and you are certain that you can afford it without too much debt – like the max student loans of about $27k over four years)

If you are happy with your safeties – by the way, what are they… so we can comment on how safe we think they are? – then your list is fine. If not, I suggest adding a few matches.

For you (right now), those would be schools like SMU, Miami (FL), Pepperdine, Syracuse, TCU. Maybe U of Rochester, Tulane, Lehigh, Wake Forest, BC, BU, Northeastern and Brandeis could be considered high matches.

LACs like Holy Cross, Bucknell, Lafayette, Dickinson, St. Olaf, Rhodes, Union, Trinity, Connecticut College, and others of that general selectivity range could be considered match-range schools too.

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Son had a 35 ACT, and 800 on SAT ll Math, 3.8 at private school, studied mandarin for 9 years, on the usa sailing team, linear algebra, Was wait listed at Brown, in Bucknell, RPI,denied RICE. Great References, Essays. Looks like a crap shoot…