Chance me for UChicago, Northwestern, WashU...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, thank you so much to everyone reading my post, I really need help!</p>

<p>I am going to be a senior in high school next year (graduate in 2013), and am looking to major in business (finance) in college.</p>

<p>COLLEGES (no particular order)-
1. UChicago (Economics)
2. Northwestern (Kellogg (Financial Economics))
3. WashU (Olin)
4. Notre Dame (Mendoza)
5. Vanderbilt
6. Boston College (Carroll)
7. NYU (Stern)
8. Michigan (Ross)
9. Wisconsin Madison
10. U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
11. Miami University
12. Indiana Bloomington (Kelley)
13. Purdue (Krannert)</p>

<p>DESCRIPTION -
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Asian (Japanese citizen, but grew up in the states)
School: Public ranked 28th in the state</p>

<p>STATS -
GPA- Unweighted: 4.0/4.0; Weighted: 4.87/4.0
RANK- Unweighted: 1/709 (0.1%); Weighted: ~22/709 (2.5%)
ACT- One sitting: 33 (E:34, M:36, R:33, S:27); Superscore: 34 (E:34, M:36, R:33, S:32)
SAT: 1910 (R:570, M:680, W:660, probably won't use it...)
SAT II- Math II: 770, the rest aren't great...</p>

<p>APs/COLLEGE COURSES -
APs- 11.5 in all...Soph: AP USH (5), AP Calc A; Junior: AP World (2...), AP Lang&Comp (5), AP Calc BC (5), AP Physics B (4); Senior: AP Spanish, AP Govt, AP Macro Econ, AP Lit&Comp, AP Chem, AP Japanese
College Course: Multivariable Calculus (U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)</p>

<p>HONORS/AWARDS –
This school award thing, freshman and junior year
District honor band, junior and senior year</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULAR –
Student government: all 4 years (junior: admin secretary, senior: VP)
School spirit club: all 4 years
Service club: all 4 years
Yearbook club: freshman and sophomore year
National Honor Society: junior and senior year
Tri-M: junior and senior year
Japanese school: freshman to junior year
Recreational soccer: freshman to junior year</p>

<p>VOLUNTEER-
At local church: all 4 years, ~1 hr/week
Food shelter: freshman and sophomore year, ~1 hr/week</p>

<p>I’m also fluent in Japanese and speak it at home as my family members are all Japanese citizens...I was wondering if this would work to my advantage..?</p>

<p>Thank you so much for reading this and please chance me/give me advice, help me out!!!
What are my reaches, matches, safeties???</p>

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<p>In at 9-13,
NYU and Michigan are high matches/low reaches.<br>
The rest are reaches. Your GPA is great and a superscore of 34 puts you in a good position, but the SAT IIs are going to bring you down if “the rest aren’t great.” Your ECs and awards are really generic. Nothing pops out at me and you don’t really show much of an interest to any one particular thing. You can definitely get into your reaches if you sell yourself through your essays and show them you’re not just another kid from an over represented minority.</p>

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<p>ahh, yeah you’re right…I shouldn’t be too ambitious haha.
thank you so much!!</p>

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<p>I’d agree with sumobats.</p>

<p>Idk what you mean by you shouldn’t be too ambitious. There isn’t a problem at all with you applying to those schools and you aren’t necessarily a bad candidate. Just those are tough schools to get into and you aren’t shining above everyone else. It’s okay. Not many are so amazing that the schools at the top of your list can be regarded on the match side simply due to the nature of the difficulty in getting in.</p>

<p>With regards to your Japanese, it won’t necessarily help you too much just by knowing the language and speak it fluently but you can definitely turn your culture/heritage and its influence into a good essay :).</p>

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<p>ah okay I’ll apply and see what happens. thank you sooo much! :)</p>

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<p>anyone elseeeeeeeeee?</p>