<p>So I've been looking into a future in business/finance because I haven't found anything that sparks my interest perfectly and I am great with numbers. I have been looking into schools and was just wondering if anyone out there could tell me if they suit my credentials: Northwestern University, UChicago, Penn State, UPenn, U of I Champaign-Urbana, Notre Dame.</p>
<p>GPA: UW 3.84
GPA: W 4.51
Top 10% of Class of ~800 for sure (could be top ~5%).</p>
<p>Honors Classes:
9th: Biology, Geometry, English
10th: Chemistry, Trig, English
11th: Pre-Calc, Physics
*12th: Business Management</p>
<p>AP Classes:
9th: None (None were offered)
10th: None (AP Euro was offered, did not take)
11th: AP US History, AP Language and Composition
*12th: AP Calc BC, AP Lit and Comp, AP Chem, AP Microeconomics</p>
<p>ACT Scores:
Composite: 32
Math: 36
Reading: 32
Science: 29
English: 29</p>
<p>Extra-Curriculars:
Orchestra - Cello 9 Years
Karate - 11 Years
Basketball - 6 Years (2 Years Varsity)
Teach Cello to Younger Kids (2 Years)
Teach Basketball in Summer (2 Years)
Invest in Stock market with father as hobby
Freshmen Mentor Program
Ambassador Program (Help exchange/transfer students)
National Honor Society
Honor Roll Every Semester</p>
<p>I will also be getting 3 teacher recommendations from my Juniors Teachers. APUSH teacher, Pre-Calc (and frosh geometry) teacher, and AP Lang/Comp Teacher. I will also get one from my counselor who I have done freshmen mentoring with for 3 years and knows me well.</p>
<p>bump 
getting discouraged</p>
<p>Penn state-in
UPenn (assuming Wharton) and UChicago (assuming econ)-very very low chances, ECs are weak for those schools, bad ACT, not a particularly rigorous courseload, average GPA
Northwestern and Notre Dame- Low reach, so it could go either way
U of I- Not sure</p>
<p>You’ll probably get in UIUC</p>
<p>Lol bad ACT? Is it really going to hurt me that bad? It seems to be in the mid 50% of all of the ivys.
25% 75%
Brown 29 33
Columbia 31 34
Cornell 29 33
Dartmouth 30 34
Harvard 31 35
Princeton 31 34
U Penn 30 34<br>
Yale 32 35</p>
<p>Should I still retake it? Or was that just a bad chance lol.</p>
<p>bad ACT … that was a funny one. You sound pretty set! iI am looking at U of I and you are a good match for that school so don’t worry about that and your ACT score is really good too. I thinks its the equivalent to a 2130. Looking at ND too but dont know if i can get in there. IF you can chance me back that would be awesome too.</p>
<p>It’s not a bad ACT it’s just that for those competitive schools you want to be in the upper quartile for test scores. Those score averages include “hooked” applicants. If you’re not hooked and don’t have outstanding ECs then you have to preform better than average in other departments.</p>
<p>Penn state- very probable
UPenn and UChicago- not likely
schools, bad ACT, not a particularly rigorous courseload, average GPA
Northwestern and Notre Dame- low reach. possible but not probable, 50/50 maybe
U of I- don’t know anything about this school, sorry</p>
<p>But chance me threads are always just guesses, so unless you’ve got an admit officer then really anything goes. No one can adequately predict your chances.</p>
<p>Your courseload WONT hurt you b/c you did not have the opportunity to take a heavy course load. Colleges will see that once you were offered APs, you took advantage of them by taking 4 in a year.
Your ACTs are not bad, lol. Thats just some bad chancing. Work on your essays :)</p>