Chance me please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Colleges: Cornell ED (CAS Econ) EA: UChicago, Georgetown, Umich (Ross), UNC Chapel Hill, IU Kelley
RD: Wharton, Stern, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Northwestern, Duke, Dartmouth, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Brown, USC

Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 100k-150k
State: Midwest
High School: Very Competitive Public School

Intended Major: Business (Finance)/Econ (If school doesn’t have undergrad business)
UW GPA: 3.94
W GPA: 4.6
Class Rank: 4/480
ACT: 35C (35E, 34M, 35R, 36S)
PSAT: 1480 (Likely NMSF)
SAT Subject Tests: 800 Chem, 800 Math II
Course Rigor: Extremely difficult schedule with a LOT of AP/IB and a LOT of Dual Enrollment Business/Econ classes at high ranking state school (Will have completed Junior year college finance course work by end of hs)

Extra Curriculars:

Speech and Debate President (HUGE time commitment, ranked very high in the nation)

Model UN President

Business Club Founder + President (I teach a 50+ students at my school abt business concepts)

Paid Behavioral Finance Research Internship at High Ranking State School

Founder and CEO of my own marketing company (have 3 clients (one major), 1kish revenue)

Teaching Assistant for AP Econ at my school

Varsity Cross Country Captain (Not recruited)

Job at Food Place (Cashier)

Awards:
3x TOC Qualifier in Public Forum Debate
2x NCFL Qualifier in Public Forum Debate
1x NSDA Qualifier in Congressional Debate
National Economics Challenge State Champion, Top 5 Nationally
Best Delegate at large MUN Conference/National Merit Semifinalist (Probably)

Rec Letters :
One is Extremely Good (11/10)
The other is pretty good (7/10)

Essays:
Hopefully pretty good

Hooks:
None lol, would my business coursework count?

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“Income Bracket: 100k-150k”

Can you afford to be full pay at UC Berkeley or UCLA? California public schools have very little financial aid for out of state students.

You also might want to run the NPC on your other out of state public schools to make sure that you are okay with the likely cost to attend each. While you are at it, the NPC might also make sense at the private schools you are applying to.

Is IU your in-state safety? If not, then do you have a safety? Your stats are great, but it is very hard to predict your chances at a long list of exceptionally unpredictable and selective schools.

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All of those schools are either private or out of state, making all of them all reaches. Before you even apply to these schools, you need to know if you can afford to go there, otherwise, even if you get accepted, chances are, you’re not going there anyway. Not in that income bracket.

Trust me, a LOT of smart kids in this forum have lists just like yours every year like clockwork. You’ll be surprised how many of them wind up spending their first year at community college. Unless you have a scholarship in writing, private schools are always a reach. More often than not, private schools stiff new freshmen in financial aid awards. That’s why these schools have waitlists. There’s always a more wealthy parent willing to pay. Colleges are a lot more competitive than they were a decade ago, so you need to take target and safety schools seriously, and go for scholarships.