<p>I made a thread earlier about some LAC's I was looking into, but I'm also interested in Big 10 Schools. What would my chances be for these? </p>
<p>Stats:
Location: Illinois
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes
Possible Major: Political Science, Economics, Chemistry, Pre-Med</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.30
GPA - Weighted: 3.80
Class Rank: top 15%
Class Size: 800</p>
<p>ACT: 30 (am retaking april 4th and april 22nd at my school)
AP US History: 4 (took soph. yr)
taking English Language, Human Geography, US Government, and Macroeconomics this year + English Lit, Chemistry, and Calc AB next year
SAT II U.S. History: 690
will take Math II and another SAT II later this year</p>
<p>Activities:
Basketball- 4 yrs.
Mathletes- 4 yrs.
Junior Classical League (Latin Club)-3 yrs.
Multiple honors society stuff
Volunteer @ Hospital</p>
<p>Schools: (every big 10 school except penn state and ohio state)
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Northwestern
Purdue
Wisconsin</p>
<p>anyone? i’ll chance you back if you chance me…</p>
<p>The only ones that can be iffy are Michigan and Northwestern, Northwestern more than Michigan, because the Big Ten doesn’t really consist of very selective schools. although they are all good schools. If you can bring your ACT score up, do fairly well on your Subject Tests and possibly raise your GPA by whatever you can, then those two won’t be as much of a reach as they are now.</p>
<p>Thanks disasterpiece02, I’m definitely going to try to get my ACT up and my GPA for this year higher than my first two years, so they should go up…Anyone else?</p>
<p>Northwestern is a pretty big reach and Michigan is a small reach. Wisconsin may be a slight reach or high match. Otherwise pretty good.</p>
<p>I have basically the same exact stats:
Illinois- Safety/match
Indiana- Safety
Iowa- Safety
Michigan- High match/ low reach
Michigan State- match
Minnesota- Safety
Northwestern- Reach
Purdue- match
Wisconsin- match</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the chances. My stats haven’t changed much since my original post, but I’ve added the following scores…
ACT: 31
SAT Subject Math II: 650
AP English: 5
AP Govt: 4
AP Human Geo: 4
AP Macroecon: 3
Thanks again everyone for chancing me.</p>
<p>I think the 31 might give you an extra edge for UMich. I’d say it’s a high match now.</p>
<p>Thanks…anyone else?</p>
<p>not sure, but why all big ten schools, any particular reason?</p>
<p>I’ve just visited a lot of Big 10 schools and I’ve liked all of them that I’ve seen, although I’ve cut back some that I was initially going to apply to. The ones I’m going to apply to now are
Illnois (in-state)
Michigan
Michigan State (legacy)
Minnesota
Northwestern (early decision?)
Wisconsin</p>