<p>I'm an upcoming senior in TN </p>
<p>ACT-30
AP classes-junior year: APLAC (4); senior year: AP Bio and AP lit (my school offers about 7 AP classes)
GPA-3.73 UW (my school does not do weighted GPAs)
Class Rank-81/452</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:
-3 years of Key Club (2 yrs being a chairman/officer)
-3 years of Spanish Club (1 yr of being historian)
-2 years of French Club
-National Honors Society
-Model UN</p>
<p>My Senior Class Schedule:
Physics honors
AP Lit
Art 2
Art 3
Pre-Cal Honors
Psychology Honors
French 3 Honors</p>
<p>I have taken every honors class/adv honors class possible throughout my high school career if that means anything. I'm also a hispanic who will be the first in family to go to college.</p>
<p>Please chance me for the following colleges:
-University of Southern California
-Pomona College
-Boston College
-Lehigh University
-Wesleyan University
-Rice University
-Vassar College</p>
<p>Not that you don’t have nice credentials, but given how competitive things are, I would say that there is a risk you might not get into any of them. They are all tough to get into. For example, my friend’s son, an Indian (asian), got a 740 on his math sat and went to a top private high school, but got rejected at Boston College and USC. But I don’t know how a college would treat the fact that you are hispanic, and a first in your family. I suggest you add some midwestern schools to the list to diversity your risk, such as Michigan and Wash U. The indian kid I mentioned got into those schools.</p>
<p>floridadad55: Yeah I know that my chances at these colleges are up in the air. I just wanted to weed out some of the high reach colleges from my college list and Wash U was one of them but I’ll definitely add it to my college list, thanks!</p>
<p>I’d say these colleges are fairly “reachy” for you. Particularly your rank - most of these school like to have top 10 percent. It’s not like you have very high ACT to help compensate. I think Pomona and Rice are very high reaches. Vassar and Lehigh seem more realistic…</p>
<p>Highbury: Even USC? I thought it was one of the most realistic of the list…</p>
<p>4205145 - I just don’t know that much about USC…I did just notice that you are first generation hispanic, that should help. Good Luck!</p>
<p>If you are talking about Wash U in St. Louis, it is extremely competitive. The average ACT score is a 32-34. It is just as hard if not harder to get into than Rice or Vanderbilt. With schools such as these and the Ivies it is really a toss up of whether or not you get in, even if you are an excellent student, due to their extremely low acceptance rates.</p>
<p>The fact that you are an ethnic minority AND a first generation college student is going to help you A LOT. I am not very familiar with the other colleges but I think you have a fair chance at USC.</p>