<p>What do you guys think my chances are for admission and possibly scholarships?</p>
<p>ACT
30 composite/32 superscore
Highest: 34E 30M 32R 31S</p>
<p>GPA
3.964</p>
<p>I take the hardest classes available at my small, public high school (which is surprisingly ranked pretty high for academics)</p>
<p>This year took AP Chem and AP Lang. Took 4 years of spanish. Highest level math classes all through hs. Next year AP CALC, AP BIO, AP LIT, HONORS PHYSICS, and some ecs.</p>
<p>I'm a female and the first of my family to go to college. My parents make a lot of money but apparently not enough to pay 40-60,000/year for my college. I have done football, basketball, and competition cheerleading all through high school. I have done lots of volunteering through cheerleading. I was captain of the comp team. I worked all through high school. I'm in NHS. I have done a lot of traveling around the world. I was the only girl on my school's science Olympiad team and we did really well at the comps. I taught myself how to code and have made my own games.</p>
<p>I appreciate any input! </p>
<p>I think UChicago is a high reach (get your ACT up to have a shot); your EC’s are alright but not jaw-dropping for UofC. </p>
<p>@bradybest Thanks for the input. I’m not taking the ACT again. I need to start worrying about applying…I get what you’re saying about ECs, but what is “jaw-dropping”? What do I have to do, find the cure to cancer?</p>
<p>The other schools you are good matches for but yeah I would agree that uchicago is a reach. look up uchicago class of (insert year here) results threads and it will give you an idea of how competitive it is and what other students have done in terms of ecs to get into uchicago. there’s a reason why their acceptance rates are in the single digits. their ecs are often “jaw dropping” or or application is nextremely stone. if money is an issue, I also reccomend you look into schools with good merit scholarships. good luck!</p>
<p>Not chancing you right now, but pretty cool you played football as a girl</p>
<p>If you haven’t used Cappex’s scattergrams, I would look at those. It allows you to look up a college and compare yourself both GPA and ACT score wise to other applicants that were wait listed, accepted, accepted but won’t attend, and denied. It has helped my college search a ton because I can quickly look at where I stand and decide if it would be realistic for me to be accepted by that college or not. </p>
<p>Good list. Yes UCh is a reach, but having some reaches is just fine.</p>
<p>My concern is your comment , “My parents make a lot of money but apparently not enough to pay 40-60,000/year for my college”. You should find out what your parents are willing to pay for college, and then what the colleges will expect them to pay. They may well expect them to pay that $40-60K in costs whether they can or are willing to do so. Which could mean little or no financial aid for you. Work with them to find out what their income and asset figures are and fill in the NPCs for those schools you have listed and see what THEY expect your family to pay. If there is a family business or unusual situation involved the NPCs may be off. Also look and see if you are eligible for any merit awards, scholarships at these schools. No sense fishing where there ain’t any. Not only is UCh a reach for you admissions wise, you can see that they give very little in the way of merit money, and only to their top candidates and that they tend to have their money go to financial need which they will fully meet if you have it according to their forumulas. Some pricey schools you have listed there.</p>