I know that I don’t have the best chances at most of the schools that I’m applying to, but my stats are really weird so I wanted more opinions on my chances.
Ethnicity: African-America
Gender: Male
Residency:Illinois (I go to a public school, one of the top 5 school in the state, and they have a selective middle school program that I got into, so I’ve been there since 7th grade)
GPA: 2.8654 UW, 3.8654 W
Rank: N/A
ACT: 33 (36E, 34R, 34S, 29M)
APs: World History, US History, Language and Composition, Economics (Macro and Micro), Psychology, and Physics
Extracurriculars
– VP of outside of school college prep program where we go on college tours and do a bunch of volunteer work, among other things (10-present)
– I studied abroad in Hungary over the summer
–(Over 200 hours) I volunteer at the zoo (10-present)
– Mentoring/tutoring students at my neighborhood elementary school (10-present)
– Job (12):I started working at this shoe store downtown this year
– ACADEC (12) My schools Academic Decathlon team is nationally ranked, but I started this year
– Random clubs and sports that I have been in sporadically throughout HS
School List:
Duke University
Indiana University Bloomington
Northwestern University
Syracuse University
The Ohio State University
University of Arizona
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Missouri
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Southern California
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ik I have slim to no chance at the top schools (I’m just applying to a bunch and hoping one lets me in) but what are my chances at the schools on my list with this application?
Seem to havr a good chance for all of those schools. Duke, Michigan, Notre Dame, University of Southern California, and Northwestern may be tough. You have good hooks and favorable background.
Your GPA is going to be a major concern at most likely all of these. For example Indiana, only admits 3% of there class with your GPA or lower. Wisconsin is 0.5%. What does your GPA trend look like? Upward, downward, or steady(uw)? You have to remember, that OOS acceptance into most state flagships is way more competitive then instate. Places like Duke, NW, and UM are going to reject 34 ACTs with way better GPA’s.
Before you take the advice of the above poster, you may want to look at the question that they asked on their other thread.
@rohroh017 They are from the common data set that most schools provide. Just google common data set to find. I should have said enrolled, not admitted. However, the admitted population is normally stronger than the enrolled.
Hey! I live in a suburb of Columbus, my mother is an OSU grad and my brother is currently a freshman at OSU, so I know the process pretty well. Your ACT score is extremely good for the school (about 80-85th percentile), but your GPA is pretty rough. The average UW is around a 3.65-3.7, so you will definitely have to explain the reasoning behind why your GPA is, relatively, extremely low.
I agree with the others that your GPA is going to be tough to get around. Do you have any safeties?
Also, all of those schools are pricey, including the public schools if you are out of state. Are all of those affordable? Have you run the net price calculators for all of them?
OK, I don’t mean to be intrusive, but what does it mean that you have a “plan” as to how your are going to pay? A student can only borrow limited amounts on his/her own. For freshman year that amount is $5500. How much have your parents said they will contribute? Have you run the Net Price Calculators at these schools? For example, I know that IU is very expensive for out of state kids.