Chance Me pls

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Out of State
White female
ACT: 32
SAT: 1420
GPA: 4.27
Rank: 5/416
SAT Subject: 770 (history) 700 (math)
APs: 5 on calc ab, us history, gov; 4 on english 11, 3 on bio and chem

ECs: State Championship debater, Rho Kappa president, Legal Studies Academy (200+ community service hours), Senior Class Historian, Foreign Policy Work Group, Boys Varsity Soccer and Girls Varsity Bball manager, 11 AP classes by graduation, math tutor, national honor society, national math honor society

3 recommendations from ap calc teacher, us history teacher, and ap chem teacher

I think my essays are fine who knows (mostly about my family’s background, debate)

I’m applying to: UT Austin, UChicago (ea), UPenn (ed), UC Berkeley, UCLA, USoCal, Rice, Vanderbilt, Georgetown

Any suggestions for safeties???

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Also I’m from Virginia and I’ll chance back

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also my planned major is mathematics i keep forgetting to put stuff oops

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Loyola Chicago, Temple or St. Joe’s if you like Philadelphia, UTK, Tulane, Catholic University of America, George Washington (match), American (high match/low reach) why no UVa?

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@a20171 thank you!! and it’s really typical of my school for any remotely smart kid to go to uva and i also don’t want to go in state (if i don’t get in to uchicago or upenn or ut austin I’ll prob end up applying to uva)

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Understandable!! UVa is a great school though so don’t count it out and it’ll end up being very cheap unless you have a low EFC and will get a lot of FA at the other schools

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I’m just now applying to college like you so this opinion can and should be taken as a grain of salt. Standardized tests might be too low for upenn, Chicago, Vandy, and Georgetown. Your gpa is good though. EC’s look solid. Probably a safe bet for UT Austin, USC, and maybe UCLA. The rest of those schools are tough no matter what your application looks like. But you’re competitive for all of them, which I guess is all any of us can really guarantee.

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Are you near a big city, because it could matter on how the application is treated

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@toocoldtoohot i live in virginia beach!! it’s a pretty big city for my state but def not the biggest

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@emmajac at least you are not from northern Virginia or Richmond. Which math subject test did you take?

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Reach: UChicago , UPenn , , Vanderbilt, Georgetown
Low Reach: High Match- ucla, usc, rice, berkeley

Chance me back on my most recent

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@toocoldtoohot i took math 2!

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I find it refreshing that you are looking beyond Virginia, to be honest. I’m in Richmond and so many times kids just limit themselves to UVA if they have high stats. UVA may be an excellent academic school, but it’s not a great fit for a lot of kids. As for sticker shock, there are plenty of really good schools that will give you money to go. Sometimes it makes financial sense to drop down a notch (from UVA, Georgetown, Berkley) to get excellent merit aid, especially if your intended major is available at a lot of schools.

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The UC’s don’t offer any financial aid for non-residents. Your costs would be $60K per year. Can your parents afford that? Also, did you calculate your UC GPA?

https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

USC is $72K per year. Can you afford that? They like NM scholars, athletes and hooked applicants.

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update! got into ut austin, ucla, and uc berkeley. waitlisted at georgetown school of foreign service but wasn’t pulled off. attending ucla!

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That’s really impressive. Considering your SAT score, I thought it might have been really hard for you to get into those schools. Nice!!!