would love a chance on some annapolis group schools.

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>hi there. i just finished my junior year and i’d like to get a perspective on what sort of schools i should apply to. i’m mostly interested in annapolis group schools like reed, hampshire, bard, bennington, colby, sarah lawrence i.e. liberal, hippie schools. i’m just wondering whether or not i have a chance at any schools like that.</p>

<p>personal
race: white as a white baby’s bottom (i am 100% finnish though, not sure if that means anything)
sex: male
location: southern nh
high school: public, 1600 students, definitely not nationally ranked
rank: top 5%
gpa: 4.6 weighted, 3.9 unweighted</p>

<p>sat
composite: 1980
reading: 680
math: 590
writing: 710
essay: 11
(that was my first time though so i think i’ll improve, especially on math, when i retake it next year)</p>

<p>classes
ap english, us history, psychology & art history
glowing recs from teachers for honors english/history
independent study for history</p>

<p>ec
editor of school newspaper
academic decathlon
a year of golf resulting in a varsity letter
smattering of community service and work on the obama campaign</p>

<p>thanks so much. one love.</p>

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<p>get up there</p>

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<p>really not so sure, man. you need much better test scores than that</p>

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<p>I disagree, your test scores are fine for most of those schools.</p>

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<p>Colby and Reed are reaches with those scores. I’m not sure that I would label Colby a liberal hippie school either.</p>