<p>Hi, I'm going to be a senior this year at a very competitive and notorious high school near Chicago. Any chances would be much appreciated!</p>
<p>White female
top 10%, decile ranking in a class of 1020 people
GPA- 3.78 UW/4.93 W (choosing to send weighted)
ACT- 32 (retaking and hoping for a 33)
SAT II- Literature: 740, going to take Bio and hoping for 750+
AP Exams- Lang+Comp: 5, US Gov't and Politics: 5, Comparative Gov't and Politics: 5</p>
<p>won the National Spanish Exam award as a freshman.
I have an excellent recommendation from the teacher who designed the Illinois AP English curriculum.</p>
<p>EC's
Member of Military History Club (9,10,11)
President of Military History Club (11)
4-H Member (9,10,11)
4-H Club President (11)
Cameraman at local public access TV show "Public Affairs": (9,10,11)
ICRE Social Service Club: (9)
Social service work at an HIV clinic in Malawi: (11)</p>
<p>Writing is my passion and I'm hoping to major in something literature related. I'm also planning on applying to Columbia, Penn, Tufts, UVA, Georgetown, Brown, Johns Hopkins, and University of Chicago (where my mom is a professor)</p>
<p>If you know anything about those schools as well, please let me know.</p>
<p>Thanks so much! I'll offer to chance back, but I'm definitely not an authority on admissions :p</p>
<p>amarkov- i’m not sure how weighted GPA works in other schools, but at my school there are 5 “levels” of courses offered ranging from 1, which is special education, to 5, which is AP. The highest possible weighted grade is 5.67 for an A in a 5-level course, but nobody gets that high because you’re not allowed to take APs as a sophomore, etc. 4-level, which is honors, gives 5.33 for an A.</p>
<p>The top ten percent of my class ranges from 4.70-5.33 in weighted GPAs, but it’s impossible to tell how many kids get each type of weighting.</p>
<p>I hope that is helpful.</p>
<p>By “choosing to send”, I mean you send one GPA from my school, and you can decide whether you want to report your weighted or your unweighted GPA. My weighted GPA is definitely more competitive than my unweighted.</p>
<p>the UCs, and Berkeley, have their own GPA calculating system which you will have to use and submit to them when you apply. your weighting system seems incredibly weighted for APs and honors, but then so was the UC system compared to how my high school did it. Anyway, you seem to be in pretty good shape for berkeley at least.</p>
<p>all right, I’ve just calculated my UC GPA and it is as follows: 3.9 uw, 4.45 w. I have no idea what those numbers mean. As an out-of-state resident, would I be okay?</p>