Chance Me for my Dream Schools!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I am in LOVE with Brown and Stanford (those are my top two by far), and will also be applying to UChicago, Georgetown, Harvard, Wash U, Northwestern, Rice, and George Washington!

I am an African-American Male at a Catholic School

Intended Major: Math/Applied Math

Here are my stats!

ACT: 33 Composite (34 E, 35 M, 30 R, 32 S) 11 Writing

GPA: 3.99 weighted (our school counts 4.33 for an A+ and .67 for AP classes and .33 weight for Honors classes)

Freshman year: 3.54 weighted GPA took Geometry Honors, Science 1 Honors, and Spanish 2 Honors

Sophomore Year: 4.2 weighted GPA took Algebra 2/Trig Honors, Science 2 Honors, and Spanish 3 Honors (all A’s this year)

Junior Year: 4.35 weighted GPA took Precalc Honors, AP English Lang, AP Chem, AP Macro, AP Spanish (all A’s this year)

Senior Year Classes: AP English Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Stats, AP Physics 1, Religion 4, AP Spanish Lit

Honors: All Conference Honors (10), National Spanish Exam Bronze Award (9-10), I think AP Scholar w/ Honor (11)

Extracurriculars:
-I started two tutoring organizations, both of them are aimed towards inner-city youth in Chicago, one is aimed at reading and one is aimed at mathematics. So many kids have improved their standardized test scores, and are actually excited about going to school now, and I just feel blessed to be a part of their journeys!
-I started an alumni outreach program at my school where different alums of color are profiled and talk about how my school affected them in their lives, what it was like attending my school as a minority, etc.
-Varsity Swimming Team (Co-Captain for Senior Year)
-Jack and Jill Teen Service Chair and Treasurer
-Math Team (just joined this year lol)
-Club Swimming (have qualified for State and Speedo Sectionals meets)

Job/Work Experience:
-Lifeguard/Swim Instructor at an inner city YMCA
-Swim Instructor at Swim Team

Summer Activities:
-Volunteering at a hospital
-E2@MIT (a MITES program) at MIT
-More Swimming
-Lifeguarding

Hooks:
URM
Mother attended Brown
Aunt attended Harvard
Mother worked at Stanford and UChicago
Father worked at Georgetown and George Washington

So what do you all think?

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I do chance back!

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I hope you’re applying to some matches and safeties. It’s impossible to chance you for all reaches. You’ll probably get into GWU.

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I agree with him^, you need to have some safeties! But besides that, I think your ACT composite allows for you to have a decent chance at most of your schools. I think legacy helps as well so your chances for Brown and Harvard go up as well, but there is no guarantee. Chance me back? :slight_smile:

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You have a really good shot. URM and decent scores. Chance back?: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1778302-chance-an-asian-yale-duke-williams.html#latest

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@jackrabbit14 i am applying to IU Bloomington, U of I, and Howard for my safeties

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If I were you i would apply ED Brown. Your unweighted GPA is not perfect but you have an awful lot going for you. Legacy, URM, solid test scores. GW should be pretty straightforward and they have a great Honors College. Aside from these schools, it’s going to boil down to your essays and how strong your applications are. Also, some of the Chicago high schools like Walter Payton and Northside College Prep are known to these colleges but the vast majority of the CPS schools are probably not

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@Wje9164be i dont go to a CPS school though. I go to catholic school

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Good chance but still difficult to get in. Chance Me http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1787125-chance-me-cornell-engineering.html#latest