Chance me please?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi everyone, I just graduated from a private Jesuit high school and I am taking a gap year. I’m applying to most schools as a finance or econ major, but I will be applying for engineering to northeastern and virginia tech.

Here are the schools I’m applying to:
-Boston College*
-IU Bloomington (really only applying for Kelley)
-Santa Clara University
-SMU
-UNC Chapel Hill*
-USC*
-University of Wisconsin-Madison
-Villanova
-UCs (UCSB, UCSD, UCLA, UC Berkeley*, UC Davis)
-Cal Poly SLO
-Northeastern (engineering)
-Virginia Tech (engineering)

  • designates reach schools

Here are my stats:
-3.5 UW
-4.0 W
-6 APs: Literature (4), Language and composition (4), French (5), Gov (4), US History (4), Calc AB (2) oops
-33 ACT (34E, 34M, 34R, 30S) looking to superscore, could probably get up to a 34
-Upward trend through high school (3.3 GPA–> 3.3 GPA–> 3.65 GPA–> 3.75 GPA)

ECs:
-Eagle Scout, held the highest position for one quarter, currently serving as an Assistant scoutmaster during my gap year
-4 years of crew: captain senior year, boat won a silver medal at scholastic nationals
-100 hours of volunteering
-70 of which were with an organization that the mentally challenged (did my Eagle project there)
-Work at a concert hall, work nearly every show and there are 40 shows in a year

Gap year:
-interning at a 3d printing startup for 6 months, will be doing marketplace research and also they’re teaching me 3D printing related stuff (laser cutting, water jets, etc…)
-traveling for 3 months
-helping out Boy Scout troop

Anyways, thanks for taking the time to look at my post.

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Do you have any cost constraints? The California UC’s will be full pay at $60K/year and SLO will be around $40K/year to attend since these schools offer little to no financial aid to OOS students.

What is your calculated UC GPA (capped weighted and fully weighted): https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

For SLO, use the same UC calculator but include Freshman grades and no honors points for Freshman classes. Your CP GPA will be the capped weighted GPA for the a-g courses 9-11th grades.

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What is your home state and what are your financial constraints?

Given that you are thinking of being either an engineering major or a finance/econ major, does that mean that you are thinking of going on to graduate school?

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I’m a california resident, and no financial restraints. I’m thinking about getting my MBA, but that all depends if I’m happy with what I’m making post grad.

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I also forgot to include that I’m applying to clemson for engineering