Chance Me!

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Hi guys! I just got my ACT scores and wanted to see how I would stack up now, since my GPA kind of sucks in comparison. Here are my stats:

Ethnicity: Asian
Sex: Female
State: CA
GPA: 3.7 Unweighted ; 3.86 Weighted
ACT: 35C 35E 36M 34R 33S
SATII: Math II (800), Chemistry (750)
AP: Mandarin (5), Literature (4), Computer Science A (4), Chemistry (3) (ew)
Rank: Second quintile (Top 40%)
Extracurriculars: Violin (I know; typical Asian thing), Golf
Arts Profile: Music supplement

Schools I’m Applying to:

Barnard College
Boston College (EA)
Boston University
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University (I’ll also have a pretty good recommendation from one of my teachers, who’s an alum, and an outside supplementary recommendation from another alum)
Georgetown University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University

I know that these are a lot and it’s going to take forever to chance me on all of these, so if you’d rather to do just a few, my first choice is Columbia, and my main non-reach target is Johns Hopkins, so maybe do those if you don’t want to deal with all of them please?.

As you can see, a lot of these are reach schools. But people I’ve talked to said that a lot of people have really high GPAs by taking easy ass courses, and that colleges take that into consideration as well. I’ve taken four APs in sophomore and junior year and am taking two more this year (Statistics and BC Calculus). I’ve also been in Honors math my entire four years in school. My GPA fluctuates a lot, dropping when I was having a hard time adjusting to school in freshman year and when I sunk into a series of pretty bad mental illnesses in first semester junior year. I was wondering if colleges take that into consideration (GPA dropping, but shooting up afterwards)

Thanks in advance!

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You need to elaborate on your ECs. What have you done with your summers? Why is your unweighted not that different from your weighted gpa?

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@Falcon1 Oh, right uwu

I spent much of this summer working on a project with Chelsea Music Festival to bring the festival to Taipei in an effort to spread music throughout Asia. I was the head of the translation team and translated multiple documents from Mandarin to English and vice versa (Since the two main hosts of the festival are communicating between New York and Taipei)

Our school’s GPA system is different. Instead of +.5 for Honors courses and +1 for APs, we only have +.3 for each advanced class taken. This means that it’s virtually impossible to get a GPA higher than 4.1, even with obtaining straight A’s

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I’m afraid most of the colleges on your list are pretty high reaches. Your gpa and ECs are just not competitive enough for you to be accepted. I don’t know much about Boston College but hopefully high test scores and great essays and recs will get you through the door. Good luck with everything!

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@Falcon1 Yeah, I do have several reaches on the list. Thanks for your input though!

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I think you’ll get accepted into Boston College EA considering your dedication to music is as strong as it seems. Grades/test scores are low and might play against you esp since ur asian. Make your essays unique as they def make a dif in admissions:)

Imo columbia is a high reach for anyone and jhu would be a low/medium reach given your current circumstances.

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