CHANCE ME: UMICH, UWISCONSIN, PURDUE, NOTRE DAME, MIAMI OH,

Chance Me / Match Me!
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What are my chances for Umich, Purdue, U Illinois (Urbana), U Wisconsin Madison, and Notre Dame, Miami (OH)?
(Btw both of my parents went to MIAMI OH)

Intended major: Meteorology/ Atmospheric sciences and/or Environmental Sciences
I am out of State from the Southwest, I go to a small liberal arts charter school. Also lol I know for all of these schools tuition will be very expensive because I am out of state but it is okay!

GPA: unweighted 3.9: (out of 4.0) weighted: 4.77 (out of 5.0)

Classes: (btw my school does NOT offer any AP or IB classes only honors!)
Freshman year:
Honors Latin IV
Honors Geometry
Honors English/ language arts
Honors Biology
Honors Music
Honors Poetry
Honors history

Sophmore year:
Honors Latin V ( I took 3 years of Latin in middle school, so this year was the last year i could take it)
Honors Precalculus
Honors Chemistry
Honors English/ language arts
Honors history
Honors Music (my school required 2 years of music)
Honors Economics

Junior year:
Honors Greek
Honors Physics
Honors Calculus
Honors Art
Honors Drama
Honors history
Honors English/language arts

Senior year:
Honors Greek II
Honors Physics II
Honors Calculus II
Honors Art ( my school requires 2 years of art and drama)
Honors Drama
Honors history
Honors English/language arts

EC:
-Varsity tennis & team captain all 4 years

-Student council all 4 years

-3 years in local volunteer organization

-freshman year- Leadership/ excellence award (only 1 person in whole grade gets it)

-3 week People to People trip to Europe

-1 week volunteer mission trip to Navajo land with my church

-sophmore year: part of my schools program to mentor kids with disabilities (only could be apart of it for 1 year)

-3 years tutoring middle schoolers

  • 20 hours of volunteer work aside from the other volunteer organization Im in
  • junior & senior year: part time job working 10 hours a week
  • astronomy club ( my school doesnt have leaders or presidents of clubs, or very many clubs at all)
  • Also i signed up to be apart of the University of Michigan's math and science summer program! Does that help?

ACT: 30
SAT: 1400

Thank you all very much in advance!!

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I think Purdue, U of I, Miami of Ohio, and U Wis are all good bets for you right now. That’s not to say you don’t have a chance for u mich and notre dame because you definitely do, they’re a stretch for pretty much all applicants. I would put Michigan at more reasonable than notre dame solely based off of averages of ACT/SAT and gpas and such, but that all comes tumbling down when you look at what college you’re applying to within the school. For example, michigan has a phenomenal engineering program, that isn’t to say its LSA college isn’t good too it’s just relative to its other colleges, the engineering school is considerably harder to get into than its general acceptance one. So it all kind of depends on what you want to do/major in.

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And one other thing I forgot to mention was early decision/restrictive action. I know that michigan has an early decision and that notre dame has an early restrictive action, so if either of those you knew were the one then I would recommend it because there’s a higher acceptance rate and you get to hear back earlier, but the downside is that it’s binding, so if you’re in, you’re required to go there, which really shouldn’t be much of a downside if it’s already your number one.

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I know people with half of the requirements that you have and get into almost all of those schools. If you can write a good essay when applying then you should have no doubt of getting into Michigan (they care about that a lot). Personally, it depends if you want to go to graduate school. It isn’t the smartest option to go to the same undergraduate school that you plan to attend for graduate school. Yet, I do think you meet all the requirements for any of those colleges.