Chance Me! Are these schools realistic for me?

<p>I am Senior in High School. I really messed up my GPA in 10th grade (because of stupid decisions) but I still want to go to a good University, so I have worked really hard to improve everything my junior and senior year.</p>

<p>Academics</p>

<p>9th Grade - GPA: 3.35 (WGPA: 3.9)
10th Grade - GPA: 2.4 (WGPA: 3.1)
11th Grade - GPA: 3.9 (WGPA: 4.8)
12th Grade (So Far) - GPA: 4.0 (WGPA: 4.9 )</p>

<p>6 AP Courses Taken - US Government (4), Programming (5), Language(5), World History(5), Economics(5)
In 5 AP Courses Right Now - Literature, European History, Biology, Calculus AB, Spanish</p>

<p>Overall HS GPA: 3.34
Overall HS WGPA: 4.04
SAT: 2180 (M: 750 CR: 740 W: 690 )
World History Subjects Test: 740
Math II Subjects Test: 710</p>

<p>Awards/Certifications</p>

<ul>
<li>AP Scholar with Honros</li>
<li>Comptia A+ Certification</li>
<li>Comptia Network+ Certification</li>
<li>Signature Program Certificate in Advanced Arts</li>
</ul>

<p>Ec's</p>

<ul>
<li>120 Hours of Public Service</li>
<li>Created Several Android Apps</li>
<li>Head Programmer of Engineering Club (2 years)</li>
<li>Programmer for Game Dev Club (2 Years)</li>
<li>Participated in Google Code-In</li>
<li>Summer Internship at NIH for Computer Science</li>
<li>World History Honor Society (2 years)</li>
</ul>

<p>Application</p>

<ul>
<li><p>I know my teacher recommendations are going to be very good. One of them is from my AP Programming teacher and I know it is going to be amazing because she knows me very well. The other is from my AP Lang teacher and I was a top student in her class. </p></li>
<li><p>My counselor recommendation is also going to be pretty good because she has helped me out a lot and she knows how eager I am to get into a good college.</p></li>
<li><p>In my essays I explained my situation and talked about how much I have changed and matured. I had it checked with multiple people. They are very good in my opinion.</p></li>
</ul>

<p>Personal</p>

<ul>
<li><p>I am white, from a middle class family.</p></li>
<li><p>I went to regular public school in Maryland.</p></li>
</ul>

<p>These are the Universities I want to know my chances for. My goal right now is UMD but I would be happy to to any of these. Also for your convenience you can just copy the list and put my chances next to each one.</p>

<p>Universities</p>

<p>University of Maryland College Park (In-State):
Pennsylvania State University--University Park:
Georgia Institute of Technology:
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor:
Purdue University—​West Lafayette:
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign:
New York University:
University of Florida:</p>

<p>goes in order from which you listed(sophomore will hurt you i think)
match
high match
reach
high match
match
low reach
low reach
low reach
good luck
chance back
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<p>any other opinions</p>

<p>UMD - match
Penn state - low reach
GTech - reach
UMich - reach
NYU - reach
UF - low reach</p>

<p>If you have a genuinely good explanation for your dip in grades sophomore year and wrote about it, the adcoms may give some leniency. only if its a good reason though.</p>

<p>My thread (chance please): <a href=“Chances for Vanderbilt, UNC, NYU, UF, and Duke? - Chance Me / Match Me! - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1610985-chances-for-vanderbilt-unc-nyu-uf-and-duke-p1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>UMD: Match
Penn State: High match
GA Tech: Reach
UMI: Reach (OOS puts more weight on GPA)
Purdue: Match/High match
UIUC: High match (reach if business/engineering)
NYU: Reach
UF: Reach</p>

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<p>reach for umich.</p>

<p>Maryland: match
Penn State: low reach
Georgia Tech: reach
Michigan: reach
Purdue: match
Illinois: reach
NYU: low reach
Florida: match</p>

<p>Chance me back: <a href=“**Chance me for good and rising Northeast schools ** - Chance Me / Match Me! - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1612160-chance-me-for-good-and-rising-northeast-schools-p1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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