Chance me?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a caucasian girl from New Jersey.
I would like to apply to the following schools next year (I will be in 11th grade):
-UChicago
-Harvard
-Princeton
-RISD&Brown (possible Dual-Program?)
-Cambridge or Oxford
-Rutgers</p>

<p>I honestly don't know what my chances are of getting into some of these schools, so input would be great! Let me know if I'm crazy or if I have a good shot. :P As for my plans in college, I hope to do a double major with astrophysics/particle physics(not sure which yet) and art.</p>

<p>SAT in 8th grade-1700</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
Honor's Biology- 96
Advanced Algebra Honor's-94
English Honor's-92
World History Honor's-93
French-100
Advanced Art-95
Intro to Engineering-95</p>

<p>Bio SATII-750
Extracurriculars-Science League, French Club
Took US History over the Summer</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
Honor's Chemistry- 98
Honor's FST (Functions/Stats/Trig)- 94
Honor's French- 98
Honor's English- 88
Advanced Finearts 1- 96
Advanced Finearts 2- 94
Honor's Physics- 96</p>

<p>Extracurriculars-Science League, Science Olympiad (helped set it up), Science Bowl (also was new this year), Robotics, French Exchange Program
I was in Top Ten of my class (they don't do any more rankings than that)
SAT- 2120
Taking Economics and Precalcus over the summer
Going to the Physics of the Atomic Nuclei Program at Michigan State in August
Summer Intership for Biochemistry at Rutgers University (my boss is a part of the National Academy of Science)</p>

<p>Schedule Next Year as a Junior:
AP USII
AP Chemistry
AP Studio Art
AP Calculus B/C
Honor's French
Honor's English III</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:Science League, Science Bowl, Robotics, Science Olympiad
Will also be doing 4-5 online courses at Coursera.com throughout the year(I'm not sure if I get any sort of credit from that?) as well as an art class at either Rider University or Mercer County Community College in the fall
Over the Summer I would like to take multivariable Calc and then Linear algebra as a senior.</p>

<p>Be brutal or give me hope! I don't really know haha Thank You!!
OH. P.S. Could someone help calculate my GPA? I would do it myself but there seems to be so many different ways online that I'm not sure how to do it accurately on my own.</p>

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<p>bump??? :3
please??</p>

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<p>Your freshman year uw. gpa is a 4.0 and your sophomore year one is a 3.86 from the way I think it’s supposed to be done. Each A is 4 points and each b is 3 points. You add up the points and divide by the amount of classes. Some people divide their overall average by 25 but I really don’t believe that is accurate.</p>

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<p>I think your GPA and your course load is fine for those schools if you are still in the 10% of your class… just try to get 5 in AP exams or 4. Your SAT is still a little low for Harvard and Princeton, try to get a 2200+ (you have plenty of time) and that will work for the others you mentioned, too. You also need to take two SAT subjects and score well on them, possibly above 700. You did a lot of science things in your ECs and that’s very good, but I personally see a lack of leadership which is usually considered very important by those universities. You have two years, so make sure to be an active part of a club and maybe a VP or president or something like that.
I don’t know about Cambridge and Oxford, they probably require different things. I read somewhere that you need to take A LOT of SAT subjects to be competitive with the English pool. Find out and see if you can manage this.
The universities you have chosen are the most reach of the country and their admissions are so random sometimes. You seem qualified, but a lot of qualified applicants are rejected every year by those schools. What I can suggest to you is to try your best in this year and apply the next one and just see how it goes! Pick up also some more affordable schools where you would like to go, just in case :slight_smile: Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thank you!!! I do plan on retaking the SATs ^.^
What is considered a lot of SAT II tests? I was planning on taking the MathII and Chemistry as well. How many more should I try to do?</p>

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<p>Two SATs will be fine for American universities like Princeton and Harvard. I don’t know a lot about English requirements but I know that English students take Alevels during high school, so American students have to take the same number of A level in APs exams or SAT II (especially APs)
Anyway I don’t know much about this topic, so you need to find out something more in another way :)</p>