Chance me for top colleges!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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UPDATE: I was able to find out the acceptance rates of my highschool’s graduating class for the below colleges:
Berkeley: 38% (the rate last year was 44%)
UCSD: 44%
Irvine: 45%
Davis: 47%
UCSB: 67%
carnegie: 43%
ut austin: 53%
emory: 8% RIP
Based on this given information, can y’all tell me if my chances are improved for these colleges? Thanks!

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@ribhamil
CMU Tepper ED - Low reach

Texas OOS,Emory, UCB, UCLA - Reach

USC - Low reach

Washington OOS, UCSD, UCSB - High match

Purdue OOS, IU OOS, UCD, UCI - Match

Your GPA is a little low

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UPDATE: so I ended up not doing CMU ED since I honestly don’t think the value of going there outweighs the hefty cost. I got an email from IU Bloomington that I’ve been accepted into pre-business (finance). I still prefer staying in state though.

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UPDATE: so I ended up not doing CMU ED since I honestly don’t think the value of going there outweighs the hefty cost. I got an email from IU Bloomington that I’ve been accepted into pre-business (finance). I still prefer staying in state though

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If you were accepted into Kelley, I would strongly consider it. It’s been a great experience so far and about 2/7th of my floor is from the west coast. There are a lot of neat opportunities and people here since it’s such a massive student body. Overall, try to let go of stress about sent apps as that won’t change the result. Just know that you will enjoy the school you end up at and the skills you had in high school aren’t going anywhere. Having been in similar shoes a year ago, I just want HS Seniors to know that things will take care of themselves after they send that app away. God bless!

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haha thx guys! I narrowed my choices down to Purdue, UCSB, and Irvine. At the end, I ended up choosing UCI for Business Admin. A hearty thx to everyone that helped out!

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haha thx guys! I narrowed my choices down to Purdue, UCSB, and Irvine. At the end, I ended up choosing UCI for Business Admin. A hearty thx to everyone that helped out!

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Bio:
-Citizenship: USA
-State of residence: California
-Class: middle class/upper
-Race: Asian (Indian)
-Gender: Male

High School:
-HIGHLY COMPETITIVE (lool)
-95% asian
-around 450 students in the 2018 graduating class

Academic Profile:

Sophomore year:

Honors English: B+
Chem: B+
Spanish: B
ALG 2: A+
World Hist: A
HINDI: A
(3.5) for both semesters

Junior year: 1st sem
Pre-calc: B+
AP Stats: A
AP World History: A+
APUSH: B
Honors English: B
Digital Imaging: A

2nd sem ( I put in ALOT of effort second sem)
Pre-Calc: A
AP Stats: A
AP World History: A+
APUSH; A+
Digital Imaging: A
Honors English: B+
Macroeconomics: A+ (community college)
Microeconomics: A+ (community college)
(4.5 weighted)(3.83 unweighted) APUSH is considered one of the hardest courses in my school. If I were to make a educated guess, I would say that 20% of the kids that took the course, around 10 kids, got an A. Just to provide a broad scale of where i stand in my school, i would say that a 4.5 2nd sem gpa is placed in the top 10% of my class.

*(I need to take one more science to meet the requirement, so I’m taking Physics next year. On top of that, I’m taking AP Lit, AP Human GEO, APCS, CALC, GOV/ECON)

-Standardized Scores:
-AP’s: 3’s in APUSH and AP Stats (I filled out a form for a re score because I expected at least a 4 for each test)
-ACT: N/A
-SAT: 1450 on the new SAT
-SAT II: 710 Math II, 750 US History (hopefully my US Hist SAT makes up for my AP score)

EC:

  • 2 time gold medal winner of the Presidential service award (I have two letters signed by Pres. Obama)
  • Over 150 documented Hours of service, 100 undocumented but they counted towards the award
  • Volunteered at an underprivileged summer camp, food shelter, thrift store. As of right now, I’m volunteering as a Data analyst in a public library
  • Internship at a startup that creates a fitbit type product
    -President of the “Business and law club”
    -Played on the school soccer team for 3 years

Schools I’m looking at:

  • Early admission:
  • Carnegie Mellon-tepper school of business
  • Normal:
  • UC Berkeley
  • UC Irvine
  • UC Davis
  • UC San Diego
  • UCLA
  • UC Santa Barbara
  • Indiana-Bloomington
  • University of Washington
  • Emory (stretch school)
  • UT Austin
  • USC
    -Purdue

MAJOR: ECONOMICS
MINOR: CS
(I understand that some of my grades aren’t that great, but I’m hoping that some schools will look at my Junior year grades and take that into strong consideration. Please feel free to be as open as possible! Obviously there are a handful of schools on the list that are going to reject me, but I would definitely like some input on my chances! THANKS!!!)
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