Chance Me (Engineering WashU, Lehigh, etc)?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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White Female from a Large Public High School in the suburbs
Major Chemical Engineering
ACT- 32 superstore (E33, M30, R31 S33) single sitting 30
GPA weighted 4.05 (Our school doesn’t give unweighted, but it is around a 90) senior year weighted gpa 101.6
AP- WH-5, APUSH- 5, BC Calc - 5, AB subscore - 5 currently in AP Enviro AP Gov’t AP Stats with straight As first semester
I took 3 years of foreign language in high school (2 at the level below honors junior year honors) all other courses at the honors level
EC
Field hockey varsity 3 years, senior captain, JV 1 year. Interviewed multiple times by local media
Club Field Hockey traveled throughout the United States including a national qualifier
Lacrosse varsity 3 years, senior captain JV 1 year
Math Team 4 years, captain
Science Fair, 13th place school 4th place regional 3rd place states. Participated freshman- junior year
NHS Community Service Officer- organizing of 1800+ service hours and runs monthly service drives
Math Honor Society- President
Spanish honor society
Girl Scout 10 years- cofounder of a town wide fundraiser and 300+ hours community service
Help runs a science camp to teach how to conduct year long independent research projects to freshman
Member of a mentorship program that connects students to local researchers
Eureka- Upper class men mentoring underclassman in science.
1st chair bassoon in honors band junior year, multiple music awards, and plays flute pep band,

Applying to
Washington University in St. Louis (showed interest by emailing admissions and optional scholarship application)
Case Western
Lehigh
Lafayette
Bucknell
Villanova
RPI
WPI

Already Heard back from
Tufts (ED and legacy) - rejected
UMass Amherst - Accepted to honors College
UMass Lowell- Accepted Honors College
Manhattan College- Accepted Presidents Scholarship

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Washington University in St. Louis - Probably the toughest admit on your list, so I’ll guess rejection.
Case Western - I think you can get in, so I’ll say accepted
Lehigh - I’ll guess rejected. The 32-34 ACT range has a 30% acceptance rate, and I don’t think your GPA or ECs will give you enough of a boost.
Lafayette - Accepted
Bucknell - Accepted
Villanova - Accepted
RPI - Probably in, a little tougher though I think?
WPI - Accepted

Overall, you’re a solid applicant. I think your biggest weaknesses will be GPA (Maybe? I don’t really understand GPA systems that aren’t on a 4.0 or 5.0), and the fact that your ECs don’t really show any direct interest in engineering, aside from interest in the general sciences. That said, you’ve got good scores, and I think you could get into a fair number of the places on your list.

Would you mind chancing me back?
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1965690-chance-me-at-top-engineering-schools-ill-chance-back-everyone-who-wants-to-be-p1.html

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My school does GPA weirdly so you get a GPA out of 100 and you’re weighted GPA is AP classes get 10 points added and Honors get 5 points added. So if you only took AP classes and only got 100s you could have a 110. More realistically the valedictorian has a 100.1 weighted if that gives you a better sense. My weighted is a 94 and unweighted a 90 which is definitely one of the shortfalls of my applications.