Chance a future Economics major for top colleges!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi guys it would be awesome if you could chance me my dream school UChicago!</p>

<p>Race: Indian
Trilingual-english, telugu, hindi</p>

<p>10 AP classes in total
4's in Human geo, european history, language and comp. And U.S. history</p>

<p>Gpa: 3.5uw/3.81w (low, I know) (school doesn't rank but I'm between the top 25-30%)</p>

<p>ACT: C-35 , M-35, S-35, E-35, R-33, essay-10</p>

<p>Sat subject tests: Math 2-730, US History-740</p>

<p>Teacher recs- pretty good, my honors precalc teacher and my AP english teacher, plus a supplementary from my AP macroeconomics teacher</p>

<p>And a counselor rec as well( she said she wrote a lot wbout my community
service to the school as a part of student government)</p>

<p>Essays: I did the Heisenberg one and its probably one of the best essays I've ever written, it clearly shows my love of economics. My common app one is really good too.</p>

<p>EC's:
Chairman in my student government 11th-12th grades (regular member 9th-10th)
President of the Indian student association 11th-12th (cofounder)
Vice-president of book club 10-12th
Black belt in tae kwon do
1St ranked table tennis player in my school club 11th-12th
2 yrs in JV1 Tennis
6 yrs in a tennis club (ranked 4/50)
5 yrs Bollywood dancing
3 yrs in Businesses professionals of America
-went to the state competition twice for two events each (Finance and spreadsheet applications)</p>

<p>Awards:
AP Scholar with honor
Ambassador torch award (this is given out to less than a hundred kids each year by BPA)</p>

<p>Community service:
Tons of community service through organizations and clubs </p>

<p>My school is only in its fourth year right now so a lot of clubs and facilities weren't available to us right from the start. </p>

<p>my other schools are:
UPenn(ed)
UMich
NYU
Harvard
Columbia
Cornell
Indiana univeristy
University of Illinois urbana-Champaign
UC-Berkeley</p>

<p>Thanks guys!!</p>

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<p>Bumpppp !!!</p>

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<p>Bump to the second power :P</p>

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<p>UChicago: high reach
UPenn(ed): low reach
Harvard: high reach
Columbia: high reach
Cornell: reach
University of Illinois urbana-Champaign: match
UC-Berkeley: low reach</p>

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<p>LOVE your EC’s. Bollywood dancing! :smiley:
You seem like a very unique applicant. University of Chicago is always looking for that “unique” factor in students, so make sure you really convey that with your essays. I’d say you are an extremely qualified applicant for the University of Chicago, but I would suggest applying to other private top-tier (ivy leagues).
Just looking through, I would say a safety for you would probably be UCLA…but just to be safe safe safe, apply to a lot of schools! All those acceptance letters would give you an ego boost.
chance back please!</p>

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<p>UChicago: Reach
UPenn: Reach
Harvard: Reach
Columbia: Reach
Cornell: Reach
UIUC: Match
UCB: Reach</p>

<p>You can try U Toronto as well.</p>

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<p>Your ACT and ECs are terrific, but your GPA and estimated rank are VERY LOW for top schools. With the exception of Illinois and Indiana, none of the schools you list accept any significant percentage of students outside the top 10% and you are not close to that at 25 - 30%. Most of these schools are looking at Top 5% and higher, while Harvard wants vals./sals form the top high schools. Therefore, I am somewhat less optimistic than the other posters and guess: Harvard less than 1%; Chicago, Columbia, Cornell = high reaches of less than 15%; Penn ED, Berkeley OOS = reaches of less than 33%; Michigan OOS = low reach, ie 50/50; NYU = low match 50 - 66%, and Illinois and Indiana = safeties.</p>

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<p>Indiana University is a safety now…</p>

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<p>Thanks for your responses guys…</p>

<p>I know it doesn’t make much of a difference, but i’ve taken the hardest classes at my school included AP’s in Physics, Macro, Micro, Human, European history, Language and comp. Calc BC, Lit.and comp as well as APush</p>

<p>I’m really focusing on writing good essays to at least ease my low GPA</p>

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<p>last time Bump :P</p>