Chance me Please

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Maryland - College Park
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<p>South Carolina Resident
White male
Major: Bioengineering
Class of 2010
GPA: 3.9 weighted. I am not sure what my unweighted is, but I want to say my unweighted is 3.7 but it is not less than 3.5.
Class Rank: School does not rank but the school claims all of the students would rank in the top 15% at a regular school. I go to a magnet school which has been consistently ranked in the top ten of public high schools by Newsweek Magazine and was recently ranked the 9th best high schools in the nation (public and private) by U.S. News and World Report.
ACT: my best composite score is 29. some colleges, not all and i dont know if pitt does, take your best subscores and if you do this with my scores my composite score goes to 30
AP classes before senior year: AP Euro (3), AP US (4), AP Biology (5)
Honors classes before senior year: Pretty much everything. My school has very few classes below honors since it is an academic school.
Senior Schedule: Honors Physics, Art 1 (need fine art credit), AP Literature, AP Spanish, AP Environmental, AP Statistics, AP Gov/Econ.</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
Plenty of volunteer hours, Lead Judge on Mt. Pleasant Youth Court, Teenline Counselor, TriCounty Youth Service Day Board, Ronald McDonald Charity Board, Lowcountry Earthforce Intern, President of Key Club, National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, I have held summer jobs and I have held a part time job over the last year and a half, secretary of my class.</p>

<p>Be 100% honest chance me on things like admission, honors, and scholarships</p>

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<p>If you applied priority, you definitely have a shot. If not, then UMD might be more of a strech. I hope you get in to UMD! Engineering is popular (especially bio/chemical engineering) so maybe you could apply as say a type of engineering that’s not as popular and then switch once you’re admitted. — Orbit196 (fellow applicant)</p>

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<p>I think you will most likely be accepted to UMD. I don’t know whether you’d get admitted directly into Engineering, though.<br>
Being from SC will help (i.e. you have a better chance than if you were from NJ/NY), but UMD is lowering the % of OOS students they are accepting for the fall, so the competition will be stiff.</p>

<p>I think your ACT score, grades and the fact that you didn’t take AP Calculus or AP physics or chem may affect whether you’d get into the honors program or College Park Scholars… You need stellar stats (and need to have been accepted into the honors program)to get offered the highest scholarship, the Banneker Key, which I don’t think you’ll be in the running for. You’re competing with people who have 4.0 (or very, very close) unweighted GPAs. While UMD offers several other merit awards (of which you may be considered), I’ll warn you (as a NC mom) that they don’t take a huge chunk out of OOS tuition.</p>