Chance advice please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Thanks a million in advance to those who take the time out of their lives to advise me in my plans. You have no idea how much it means to me! :)</p>

<p>Asian-American, Male
Middle class, Texas</p>

<p>Highly competitive public school. Very difficult course load.
My grades have stayed around A- to A with an occasionally B+ throughout high school.</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.38
Weighted GPA: 4.1712
Class Rank: 36/378</p>

<p>SAT: 2180, CR: 750, M: 730, W: 700 (Retaking this weekend!)
Math II: 790
US History: 720
Chinese: 730 (14th percentile... lol)</p>

<p>APs
Computer Science A - 5 (Our school requires us to take A, and then AB)
English Language - 5
AB Calculus - 5
Statistics - 5
Physics B - 5
European History - Taking this year
US Government - Taking this year
Macroeconomics - Taking this year
Biology - Taking this year
English Literature - Taking this year
Computer Science AB - Taking this year</p>

<p>Major Extracurriculars and Community Service
YMCA Youth and Government - 11th, 12th President
Future Business Leaders of America - 12th Co-founder, Vice President
Current Events Blogging - 11th, 12th
Piano - Since 1st grade
Tennis - Since 4th grade
National Honor Society - 11th, 12th
Volunteer at Austin Public Library - 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th</p>

<p>Summer Stuff
Junior Statesmen Summer School at Princeton, 11th
US History at Austin Community College, 10th
Austin Nature Center Summer Counselor, 9th</p>

<p>Work
Intern, Law office, 12th, 8 hrs/week
Webmaster and Editor, Junior State News Network, 12th, 6 hrs/week
(JSNN is a newly started non-profit organization that gives students a chance to produce news using the Internet)</p>

<p>Awards and Accomplishments
Distinguished Delegate (Youth and Government)
AIME - 10th, 11th
National Latin Exam - Magna Cum Laude
Citizenship and Service Award
AP Scholar with Distinction</p>

<p>Potential Majors
Economics and Political Science (Double major)
Business</p>

<p>Comments:
I really got passionate about learning in 11th and 12th grade after joining Youth and Government which I think is kind of reflected in my extracurriculars and work. </p>

<p>Because of Texas law, I am automatically accepted to any Texas public university because I'm in the top 10% of my class. Thus, UT Austin is my safety. I live in Austin and my father works there, and I don't want to leave Texas and pay a fortune for education unless I am going to a top school. These are the schools I'm considering applying to. I realize they are all very difficult to get into, but my hope is that one of them might accept me.</p>

<p>LIST OF SCHOOLS
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Dartmouth
UPenn (Wharton)
UChicago
Georgetown
Duke
Amherst
Williams
Haverford
UT Austin (Business Honors at McCombs)</p>

<p>Thanks so much again!</p>

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<p>Bumparoo!!</p>

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<p>if you want my honest opinion i think every college you listed is a reach besides UT but not honors. you need some matches, safeties if you ask me.</p>

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<p>Might want to look at Holy Cross-Top30 LAC-near Boston.</p>

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<p>3.38 is an A-/A at your school?</p>

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<p>I'm not sure... Unweighted GPA confuses me. My transcript gives me a weighted GPA of 4.1839 out of 4.8. (Was changed since posting because of transcript screwup) and a numerical score of approx 93.8. In unweighted classes, a 100 = 4.0, 99=3.9, 98=3.8. In weighted classes, it's 100 = 5.0, 99 = 4.9, 98 = 4.8. etc.</p>

<p>EDIT: I used the Princeton Review scale which gives me about a 3.8. That kind of makes me feel better after browsing their book. :/</p>

<p>To the first poster: Even if I don't get into the Honors program, I'm still guaranteed a spot at UT (Probably College of Liberal Arts), so it's still a safety for me. As I said, I'm perfectly content with UT so I don't want any other safeties.</p>

<p>Thanks for posts guys. :)</p>