NYU, Ohio State, Maryland, Delaware, and more.chances please?
I’m applying to a bunch. I love college searching and working on applications, for some reason. It’s a lot of fun.
Schools:
Emory U
Fordham U
George Washington U
Millersville U
NYU
Ohio State — Columbus
Penn State
U of Delaware
U of Maryland
U of Southern California
U of Washington
Public School student going into senior year
Caucasian Female
3.81 UW GPA
1st Decile (class of around 600)
State: Pennsylvania (booo!)
SAT – 1950
CR – 650
M – 630
W – 670 (10 on essay)
SAT II
German – 570 (taking at least two more so this one can be forgotten)
EC’s
-National Honor Society
-won second place at the German Fallfest Competition at Millersville University
-scored in the 85 percentile on the AATG German exam
-vocal ensemble club during ninth grade
-Quizbowl during tenth grade
-working as a cashier at a supermarket for almost a year
- treasurer of Student Historians club at my school
-worked with special needs kids and helped them do crafts/helped organize activities for them to do (during school for the past two years)
-”Walking Tour”…about to be a tour guide for the elementary school kids for the second year in a row. I take them to different historically significant landmarks in our town and explain why they’re important.
-Civil War Reenacting in Gettysburg for the past four years
APs: 11th grade I took Stat and got a 3 on the test (I **** at math). 12th grade I’m taking Economics, Biology, German, and American History
Other classes: Honors for everything except science, plus I dropped from honors to accelerated math.
Recs: should be good
Essays: Decent-ish
Major: Undeclared
Anything you know about my chances at any of those colleges, or anything you can tell me about applying would be much appreciated.
Emory U: Match
Fordham U: Safety
George Washington U: Saety
Millersville U: Huge safety
NYU: Match/reach
Ohio State — Columbus: Safety
Penn State: Safety
U of Delaware: Huge safety
U of Maryland: Huge safety
U of Southern California: Match
U of Washington: Safety
I would definitely recommend applying to some reach schools. Your SAT score is a bit low (you should really break 2100 for the best schools) but you have a great resume otherwise, so it might not hurt you very badly.
For reaches, I would recommend UC Berkeley, Tufts, Brown, Northwestern, Pomona, and Haverford.
You have a lot of safeties, which you could cut from your list. I would recommend taking off some of the major safeties and keeping just 2 or perhaps 3.
Good luck! You’re in a very good place for acceptance to very good schools.
Why not apply to some schools in Canada? The cost is about 1/2 of what you will pay in the states for a comparable or superior education, you’ll be exposed to greater cultural diversity, and our degrees are accepted everywhere in the US. Due to proximity, I’ll list the English Universities in Quebec (you might even learn French!).