Am I reaching too high? Chance a (very) late bloomer!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My schools are:</p>

<p>UCLA
UC Berkeley
UMich
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell CALS
UVA
Georgetown
Rutgers
Boston University
Upenn (lmao...)
Princeton (dream school... I miss 100% of the shots I don't take so I might as well spend $70 for a rejection letter knowing that I tried rofl)</p>

<p>I'm planning on majoring in finance, econ, or math depending on the school</p>

<p>HS: Top 10 public in the state. Sends ~10 kids to Ivies every year and tons more to top schools. Oh yeah, also sends 20-30 kids to NYU every year.
GPA: ~3.3-3.4 UW (horrible I know T_T) 4.0 UC weighted capped, 4.09 UC weighted uncapped</p>

<p>Sophomore year: ~3.2
Junior year 1st semester: ~3.0
Junior year 2nd semester: 4.0
Junior year final: 3.52 (basically, I actually started really trying 2nd semester)</p>

<p>Rank: HS doesn't do rank
SAT: 2250/1510 single sitting, 2290/1540 superscore
SAT II: 800s on chem and math iic
AP: 5s on chem, calc ab, english lang&comp, bio, and music theory
College courses: A in Intro to Business during jr year
Senior sched: 4 APs (econ, stat, calc bc, lit)
Total APs: 8 including sr year</p>

<p>ECs/volunteer/other crap:
-Piano 9 years. I play competitively and I won a bunch of competitions (internationally too) and awards. I played in Carnegie Hall multiple times. I have also tutored kids since 9th grade, and I perform for a nearby senior center.
-Violin 7 years. Played in school orchestra since 4th grade and started playing in the HS's chamber orchestra since 10th grade
-Vice president of academic league 3 years. We have been undefeated for the past 6 years or so whoohoo
-Breakdance 2 years. Started at the end of sophomore year. I performed a couple of times at school events. Also did performances in China during the summer and got invited to several middle schools to perform and teach dance to the kids.
-Interned at Credit Suisse for several weeks summer before senior year. Traded stock on my own (made some moneyz yay), and learned a lot of stuff from my mentor, a proprietary trader.
-Did research in a Rutgers bio lab for 2 years, 4 weeks each
-50+ hours of volunteer at an environmental center
-~100 hours at Chinese school
-20 hours helping dem. candidates run for election for our township committee
Teacher recs: Should be excellent since my teachers really liked me and saw how much I changed. Also, my GC rec should be really great since I'm 99% sure he knows me better than any of the other ~100 kids he looks over.
Other notes:
-School has grade deflation, and that'll probably be addressed in the school profile and by my GC</p>

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<p>You should have a decent shot at most of the schools excluding the ivies. Those will be reaches.
For the UCs, especially UCB and UCLA, you have a decent chance and of course, your gpa will hurt you, but your SAT score helps, as well as your impressive ECs in music. Of course, I think I can assume you’re out of state, and I wonder if you would be willing to spend the 50k at any of the UCs due to out of state tuition.
I’m interested in seeing how this turns out. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks. How big of a reach do you think the Ivies are (besides Princeton, it’d take a complete miracle and even that’s not enough)? Do I at least have a tiny shot of getting Penn or Cornell?</p>

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<p>finance/econ… cornell, i think you may have a shot, simply because ive seen horrendous stats for cornell. penn… well… apply, then pray.</p>