Would you consider these schools reaches? far reaches?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Would you consider these reasonable? reaches? far reaches?
Princeton
MIT
Yale
Columbia
Duke
Vanderbilt
Georgia Tech
University of Florida</p>

<p>I’ve applied ED to Princeton, but no word yet.</p>

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<p>School Type: Public High School
Location: Florida
Race/Gender: White Female
Prospective Major: Mathematics
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.55
Class rank: 1 of 455</p>

<p>SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Verbal: 730</p>

<p>PSAT: 224 </p>

<p>SAT II Scores
SAT II U.S. History: 700
SAT II Math IC: 800
SAT II Math IIC: 790
SAT II Physics: 710</p>

<p>LEADERSHIP:
President of Mu Alpha Theta Chapter, 2 Years
co-Founder and President of Environmental Club
Math Team Captain, 4 Years (several state awards)
Assistant Coach for a local middle school MATHCOUNTS team
Mentor for 3 underclassmen in my school’s AP Program</p>

<p>MEMBERSHIPS:
Mu Alpha Theta Member, 4 Years
Beta Club Member, 4 Years
NHS Member, 2 Years (only for upperclassmen)
Science Club Member, 2 Years</p>

<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Statistician for varsity volleyball team, 86 hours
Free tutoring (mostly math and science), ~100 hours
Organizing School Calendar Girl Competition/Math Team Fundraiser, 10 hours
Producing the school calendar, 14 hours</p>

<h2>Other/Misc. small things, 40 hours</h2>

<p>Total: ~250 hours logged</p>

<p>SUMMER EXPERIENCES:
National Young Leaders Conference in Washington D.C., 2004
Camping/Rafting trip in WV, 2004
Email Correspondence with MATHCOUNTS Students (helping with their practice problems), 2004</p>

<p>Paid internship at local Naval Base, 2005
College Visits (Princeton, Yale, GT, and UF)</p>

<p>OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE:
Local Used Bookstore, part time (senior year)</p>

<p>Other Info
AP SCORES:
10th Grade:
AP Statistics: 5
AP Modern European History: 4</p>

<p>11th Grade:
AP US History: 5
AP Chemistry: 4
AP English Comp: 5
AP Psychology: 5</p>

<p>Currently taking:
AP Calc BC
AP Physics
AP English Lit
AP Government (US & Comp)
AP Economics (Macro & Micro)</p>

<p>MISC:
Only two years of Spanish, but taken at the community college at night because of scheduling conflicts. Course work was much more challenging than comparable classes at my high school.</p>

<p>All other classes are honors academic or dual enrolled (community college) credits, except general graduation requirements. Straight A’s across the board.</p>

<p>Some training in piano and trumpet, but nothing performance worthy.</p>

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<p>I’d consider them Reach/matches. You’ll get into at least one of them.</p>

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<p>You are in at Florida, GT and Vanderbilt. The rest are matches/reaches.</p>

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<p>Out of curiosity, what would you consider the weakest part of my profile?</p>

<p>And could you please be more specific as to which are “matches/reaches”?</p>

<p>TIA.</p>

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<p>In my opinion, you’re a strong candidate except for Princeton and MIT where all the math whizs apply. I can see that you’re also strong and interested in Mathematics. However, is there anything, such as awards or distinctions from competitions that you received? I see you helped out with MATHCOUNTS, anything on IMTS or AMC 12, AIME, USAMO? I mean any supplementary information will only help you.</p>

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<p>I’ve placed top 10 in several Florida Association of Mu Alpha Theta events. Since Florida is one of the most active math competition states, I’d say that counts for something. I was also 2nd and 3rd two years at the Wallace Community College Tri-State math and science olympiad… kids compete from Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.</p>

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<p>Oh, then, never mind, I think you have a good shot on all the ones that you’re applying… sorry, I still don’t know about MIT - they’ve got some strong students around the world (IMO)…</p>

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<p>Thanks, MacroKim. MIT was kind of an after thought… of course it’s a wonderful school, but I would prefer a school with a strong liberal arts scene; my other interests include politics, literature, and some history.</p>

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<p>You should apply as an out of stater for Berkeley.</p>

<p>Berkeley engineering has the highest ratio of women out of any top engineering school.</p>

<p>Also your high rank in school makes Berkeley salivate. Your scores are decent, but I think you got a good shot at out of stater for Berkeley. Berkeley loves girls who are good at math.</p>

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<p>Duke and Columbia are matches. MIT, Princeton and Yale are reaches. But you are good enough to get into any of them. Those three are reaches to almost all applicants.</p>

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<p>Are you in the Panhandle? Tallahassee? I don’t like to do ?Chances because who knows! But, I do think you have a good shot at Duke and should be admitted to Vandy, I don’t have enough knowledge of Columbia to have an opinion, Princeton and Yale are obvious reachesfor everyone. MIT comes off as looking for only superstars, but for a girl who makes the math cut, you might a have a better shot than you think (better than Yale or Princeton).
How much research have you done about these schools? They are very different beasts. However, don’t panic, you can certainly continue researching after you apply, and, after all you can’t really decide until you are admitted - Good Luck!</p>

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<p>of any chance, are you from eau gallie? some of the activities and ap programs sound very familiar… I think UF will give u 4 year-full scholarship. my cousin had 1350 SAT, perfect GPA (7AP’s) , and some other decent scores and good ECs and according to her, 1400+ and many AP’s will gurantee a full ride. (I nearly always get accused of posting false/wrong/misled info so put my comment under the least consideration)</p>