Chance me - junior/class of 23 (business, entrepreneurship, marketing)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Demographics: Asian, Female
US citizen
New York
Small Public School
First generation
Semester Model Grading

Intended Majors: Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing (haven’t quite decided which)
GPA: (on 100 scale)
Didn’t do too well freshman/beginning of sophomore year

For some odd reason, they also added my 8th grade average: 93.5

  • Freshman Year: 93.11
  • Sophomore Year: 96.56
  • Junior Year (ended 1st semester w 98.42, predicted average): ~98

Cumulative: (thus far) - 94.45 but will get to 95.4 after grades inputted and hopefully at least 96 by end of junior year
Rank: Top 20% (will try to get to top 10-15% by end of junior year)
Class size (small): 115 students (a lot of student’s averages are between the 95 and 97 range so it’s quite difficult)

Score: taking in March (recommended score target?)

Coursework:
Took 3/4 available APs
AP World History (4)
Junior Year: AP US History, AP Language, Precalculus, Computer Science

Extracurriculars

  1. Founded nonprofit after freshman year (summer) that hosts events about econ, business, finance. Reached 100K+ people (social media), have a lot of members (projected 1K by college apps), (1 year 7 months)

  2. Intern for ed-tech startup. Team lead for their content department, create content for platform of 65K+ students (10 months)

  3. Founded volunteer/community service club at my school. Biggest club (70 members last year, 160 members this year), raised $500 (1 year 4 months)

  4. Intern for local library. Tutor students afterschool and organize different events (5 months)

Other experiences are more minor - research assistant for 2 months for professor in community college (summer after soph year), social media intern for women empowerment group (2 months), tutor 4 kids & raised their grades by 2 letters, boosted participation in class

Essays/LORs/Other
Essays: I’m pretty good at writing so might be helpful?
LORs: might ask my apush teacher & ed-tech startup director

Schools
Chance me for Cornell Dyson (maybe a hard reach there), UPenn - Wharton, Stanford, University of Michigan, Babson, USC, UCLA, Tulane, Boston University

Might ED to UPenn

Also looking for colleges to add to this list!

Other notes for context:

  • Not a lot of people are too involved in extracurriculars (only person in my grade to start a nonprofit of this size)

  • Would the upward trend look nice? I heard from others that they did extremely well in freshman year then their grades dipped

  • Am interested in business/social impact esp in education equity

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Congrats on your background. Do you have an ACT/SAT ?

I’m going to say these are all reaches.

If you demonstrate a ton of interest to Tulane maybe it’d work.

Babson is possible as well but still a reach.

But your rank is low. At. BU, for example, the average student is at the 6th percentile. So top 20% won’t cut it.

You need targets and safeties. You don’t need to go to a top university for business. You need to be persistent, flexible, and a hustler.

For example, Bentley in addition to Babson. Indiana, Ohio State, Miami Ohio or Wisconsin in addition to UM. Syracuse or Denver in addition to BU, etc.

And don’t forget your SUNY and/or CUNY

Btw. Have you run net price calculators ? Can you afford these schools or are your parents willing to pay if full pay ?

Good luck.

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I don’t have SAT yet but planning to take in March. Is there a score I should aim for? I haven’t run all the net price calculators but I think the tuition should work out as that isn’t a huge concern

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It’s more than tuition. And you need to talk to your parents. Are they willing to spend $340k when they can spend anywhere between $80 and 150k.

For your schools, over 1500.

But… guess what….no matter what you get there will be fine schools out there for you.

Talk to your folks about budget.

Don’t assume it will be fine.

And the question isn’t what can they afford ? It’s what are they willing to afford ?

Also have them run the net price calculator at a couple schools…Penn and Babson. See if they’ll qualify for aid. You never know.

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