Chance me UCLA, USC, Notre Dame, BC, Georgetown etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Stats:
GPA: 88 Freshman Year; 90/91 Sophomore Year (94 last quarter); 96 Junior Year
SAT: Have not taken yet
ACT: 34 (35 E, 33 M, 34 R, 34 S)
SAT IIs: Plan on taking US History, Lit and river Math I or II
AP and Honors classes: APUSH, AP Euro, AP Gov, AP Psych, AP Lang, Pre-calculus Honors, Spanish 3 Honors (The only honors Spanish class in my school). School doesn’t offer that many AP classes

ECs:

  • Varsity Golf, Squah and Tennis
  • Young Democrats Club (Will be president next year)
  • Model UN (Won a couple of delegation awards, some chance of leadership position)
  • Youth and Government (Travel to state capital to have a “mock” government with all schools in state that participate)
  • American Civil War History Club (Decent chance of officer position next year)
  • Broadcasted various sporting events for my school
  • Youh Leadership [Insert City Name Here] - A selective EC outside of school in which we do a service project for an organization (We are doing fundraisers) and learn about leadership and different parts of the community
  • Co-founder and co-President of my city’s Brady Campaign against gun violence: Organize meetings and rallies. Takes up decent amount of time
  • Service trip to the inner city where we stayed for 6 days while helping the poor there.
  • Probably will be going to Kenya for a week or two to work in a hospital

Go to a very good private school on the East Coast

Intended Major: Political Science

Top Schools:
T-1. UCLA or USC
3. Boston College
4. Notre Dame
5. Georgetown
6. UCSD
7. LMU
8. NYU
9. Santa Clara
10. UCSB
There are a few more that are safety schools.

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Also over 150 hours of community service

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And a NHS member.

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Reach/Low reach (right on the line…)
Notre Dame
Georgetown
UCLA OOS

Low reach:
USC
UCSD OOS
UCSB OOS

High match:
BC
NYU

Low match (approaching safety):
Santa Clara
LMU

Have you run the NPC to make reasonably sure these are all affordable, and is your family willing to pay?

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@prezbucky I can afford all of the schools I am applying to

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Then I think it’s a pretty good list.

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Anyone else?

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You are a competitive applicant for all of these schools. Focus on writing great essays and apply early to one of your top choices. Your stats and ECs make you qualified for any of these schools

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In state or OOS for the UCs?

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@hamurtle As stated in OP, private school on east coast

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In that case you need to recalculate UC GPA since only AP classes taken in 10-11 grades are given the GPA weight. I assume you are willing the pay the 60,000 for UCSD and UCSB. High match for both. UCLA is a low reach.

Match for SCU, although the school is becoming harder to get into. I recall SCU having a fairly decent PoliSci program but there will not be much recognition outside the Bay Area.

Georgetown recommends 3 SAT subject tests.

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@Hamurtle What about USC, ND and BC?

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Low reach for USC, high match for BC, reach for ND. GPA could be higher although ACT is in range.

I’m assuming you’re Catholic given your school choices. There might be a boost there for BC and SCU since both are Jesuit.

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@hamurtle Yes, I am. My private school is also Jesuit.

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Bump