Chance Me (Wake Forest, UVA, UNC, e.t.c)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Applying to UVA, Wake Forest, UNC, Richmond, Pitt, Lehigh, William and Mary, and some safeties (also Emory but not expecting a yes from them)

Did interview at Wake and was too late to interview at Lehigh so I had a meeting with the AD

Demographic:

  • Currently live in South Florida
  • white male (Jewish)
  • financial aid not required
  • Attend highly competitive private school in South Florida

Academics:

  • weighted gpa: 4.92 as of end of junior year; school is kinda weird with weighting
    -unweighted gpa: school says mine is over 4.08 ; I’d say around 3.85- 3.9 on 4.0 scale if I had to guess
  • honors and A.P. courses, math taken one level below honors; did take calculus my junior year
    -Junior year- A.P. Enviro- 4 , Apush- 4
  • Senior year core classes: AP comp sci principles , AP Lit, AP Macroeconomics, Honors gov, honors physics, advanced stats. (Probably getting 2 B+ first semester in macro and lit)
  • ACT (not superscored): 31
    -ACT (superscored): 33 (W: 36, M: 31, R: 35, S: 31) Adding this since some of the schools listed do superscore

Awards:

  • School District Pathfinder Nominee in field of business
  • 4th Place in district FBLA website design competition

Sports:

  • 4 years of varsity lacrosse

Clubs/ extracurriculars:

  • FBLA treasurer (11, 12) honors member (9,10)
  • started small lacrosse stick stringing service (11, 12)
  • Work front desk at home health care company past two summers (11, 12)
  • Volunteer counselor at local church camp (9-12)
  • Member of american computer science league (12)
    -Volunteer coach for local rec lacrosse league (10, 11)
    -Key Club (10-12)
    -SGA (9-11)

Honors: basically just member of a lot of honor societies, and put the pathfinder thing here

CommonApp Details:

  • essay is about a metaphor; people I’ve shown it to really like it, but has the potential to be viewed as cheesy. Tried to be really creative and wanted it to stand out
  • supplements for schools I feel are really solid and accurately represent me.

Recs: Should be solid

Strengths: Essays (possibly), No financial aid
Weaknesses: Strength of schedule, Test scores for some schools

Any comments are greatly appreciated. I realize that many of the schools listed are reaches, and just wanted to see if anyone with similar stats may have been accepted. Feel free to leave some suggestions of other schools as well

Thanks so much!

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For anyone who stumbles on this thread, I’ve been accepted to Richmond, Colgate, and Lehigh (CSB) along with a few other schools. Rejected from UNC, UVA, and Emory. Waitlisted at W&M.

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congratulations! lehigh, colgate, and richmond are fantastic schools.