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Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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<p>GPA
unweighted: 3.8462
weighted: 4.5128</p>

<p>Class Rank: 20/746</p>

<p>SAT I:
Verbal 700
Math 790
Writing 720
Essay 9</p>

<p>SAT II:
Literature 640
Physics 800
Math IIC 800</p>

<p>ACT 32</p>

<p>PSAT 227</p>

<p>APs:
US History 4
Psychology 5
Physics B 5</p>

<p>Senior classes:
Advanced (Post AP) Chem and Physics
AP Composition & Literature
AP Bio
AP French
AP Calc BC
Band
AP Econ & Government</p>

<p>School:
Large, public, wealthy, midwest, suburban, around 3000 students</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Piano since age 3, NSMTA Honorable mention, Chicago Duo Piano Competition Winner, Participation in Chicago Duo Piano Festival for 7 consecutive years, 2005 Junior Assistant Coach, Pitten Austria International Music Festival</p>

<p>Marching Band (trombone), Competition Band, Pep Band, Wind Symphony, Jazz Ensemble, orchestra pit (school musical), section leader, American Symphonietta, Protege Philharmonic</p>

<p>Modern Music Masters Vice President</p>

<p>Wrote a piece of music for a small wind ensemble as a supervised independent study project</p>

<p>Hopes for Hope volunteer program in Ensenada, Mexico</p>

<p>AP Scholar, National Merit Semifinalist</p>

<p>Race: 50% Mexican American, 50% White
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<p>Right now, Princeton is my top choice and other I'm interested in are Duke, Stanford, Brown, Harvard and MIT, UMichigan Ann Arbor, USC, UIllinois Champaign-Urbana, and Berkeley. What are my chances at these schools and what should my safety schools be? </p>

<p>Should I use the October SAT to take the french SAT IIs? Should I retake the Lit SAT II? Or should I use the test date to retake the SAT I?</p>

<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Harvard, Brown and MIT are reaches (which they are for virtually anyone), but you can claim URM status which gives you a favorable factor that will help. Raising your SAT for those would help; getting one more higher SAT II would also help for Harvard, Princeton and MIT (which require 3) and Stanford and Duke (which do not require II's but "recommend" submitting three). Brown requires only two II's as does Berkeley; USC recommends two; they are neither required nor relied on for admission at Mich or UIUC. </p>

<p>UIUC is likely a safety to match. Mich is an easy admit if you are in-state, otherwise a match to reach; Berkeley is a match if in-state, otherwise a reach. USC a match. Do you need another safety? Maybe. However, if you apply to Mich and UIUC now -- meaning NOW!--it is possible you can have decision in hand by end of November, before the application deadline for most colleges, and if admitted to one of those you will not need to come up with another safety.</p>