Chance Me Please!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m just starting to formulate my list. If y’all could chance me at these schools, that would be great. Any advice would also be appreciated.

Age: 16 (Junior)
School Type: Public (a large, competitive new school)
Location: North Carolina
Race/Gender: White, Female
Parent’s Salary: 150k+
Prospective Majors: Econ, Poli Sci, Journalism, Architecture, Linguistics - I have really no idea atm
Rank: Top 10%
Unweighted GPA: 3.97
Weighted GPA: 4.69

SAT Scores (possibly retaking)
Writing/Reading: 760
Math: 740
Total: 1500

Notable Classes
Honors - (8th) Honors Math I, (9th) Honors Math II, Honors English I, Honors Bio, Honors World History, (10th) Honors Chemistry, Honors English II, Honors Civics & Econ., Honors Math III, (11th) Honors Pre-Calc, Honors Digital Photography, Honors Spanish 3
AP - (10th) AP European History (5), (11th) AP Lang & Comp, AP Environmental Science, AP Human Geography, AP US History

I’ve taken 5/24 of my school’s offered AP Classes, but I’m planning to take 5-6 senior year

Activities - (I’ll write it as it would be submitted when I apply next year)

  • Softball - 9 years of rec, 4 years competitive challenge - Captain
  • Young Democrats - 10, 11, 12 - debates, political involvement and education around school - President
  • MUN - 11,12 - multiple awards, hosting a conference - Secretary
  • Photography Club - 11,12 - local museum feature, teaching photography basics to an elderly community - Officer
  • K-8 tutor at a local community center - 11, 12
  • GSA - attended meetings, but nothing huge - (would this give me an edge at all?)
  • (11, 12) NHS, Roh Kappa, NEHS, (12) NAHS

Future Activities -

  • I’m thinking about starting a political outreach club, to join together students all around the political spectrum to foster structured and productive debate
  • Applied to internships involving my interests, hoping to hear back soon
  • Applying for a paid job at a retirement home near me
  • Hoping to get involved with Girl State/other forms of political involvement
  • I don’t have many service hours comparatively, so I’m working on that

Recommendations: I have great relationships with the teachers I’m going to ask. Hopefully some good stories and personal qualities would be shared.

Other info

  • I’m a fan of learning languages; besides my Spanish class, I can speak conversational German and Korean basics

I’d like to know what my chances would be to where I’m thinking about applying, if they’re a stretch or something.
1st Northwestern (I’d be doing early decison)
2nd Princeton
3rd Duke
4th Chapel Hill (Legacy)
5th Vanderbilt
6th Washington University
7th Emory
8th Columbia

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Your stats are great. Your ECs are great. You have a list of reaches where you have a reasonable chance for most of them. However, I expect that you know that you can’t count on most of them (I don’t personally know much about Vanderbilt nor Emory). Thus make sure that you also have matches and safeties.

You also should find out what your budget is and run the NPC on all of the schools that you apply to. A salary around about $150k puts you into the awkward range where need based aid is limited, but being full pay is very tough.

Of course, given that you are in-state for UNC Chapel Hill, that is a really great choice. One of my good friends was from there when I was a graduate student.