<p>Hi Im a rising senior at a California charter school and would like to major in Finance. Due to a bad family situation at home (3 deaths in under a year) I messed up my junior year with a 2.9 GPA and a D. This brings my cumulitive down to a 3.1. I also have an 1840 SAT (680cr,630m,530w)
My EC's
4 years first robotics cofounded a team and was a lead twice and cofounding a second team this year
4 years science club 1 year as treasurer and 1 as president
1 year film club
1 year football
2 years golf
Spent months creating a charity haunted house to enefit breast cancer</p>
<p>I also took and aced 2 classes and my local college and am taking another class or 2 this fall</p>
<p>If it helps I will be the first in my family to go to college
I am a white male and although we dont have much money my parents are high income so that may hurt
I will be getting good letters of rec and just got my first job (host)</p>
<p>So far my list of schools is as follows
Reach- Ut Austin and Fordham
Target- University of Wisconsin Madison and University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Safety - Indiana University Bloomington and Baruch University</p>
<p>Could you tell me if these are good schools to reach for or if I should be reaching higher or lower and what my chances are. If you could advise me on other good schools I would very much appreciate it.</p>