Chance Me!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I did a chance me a while ago, and since then a lot has changed! I’ll list my schools at the bottom, but I’d love some recommendations as far as what to improve on, any resources, and any other schools I should look at! I’m a junior at a public high school getting ready to work on applications over the summer.

Background: I’m a white female from the Midwest. My family makes over $150K a year, but my parents are very conscious about their finances.

Course load:
My school is an AP and IB school, and from my sophomore to senior year I’ll have taken AP U.S. History (5), AP English Language and Composition (3), AP U.S. Government and Politics, AP Physics 1, AP Biology, AP Statistics, IB History, IB English, and IB French. I put the scores for the two tests I have taken! Besides that, I’m taking a few different marketing/business courses, an introduction to law course, and basic math.

GPA: Unweighted is a 3.8, weighted is a 4.3
ACT: 35

Extracurriculars:
DECA (chapter officer, state officer candidate), High School Democrats of Wisconsin (Chair), French Club (4 years), Key Club, Activist Club, and next year I’ll be joining my school’s Model United Nations club since it’ll be the first year we’ll have it, varsity swimmer.

Other:
U.S. Senate Page (September 2016 to January 2017), only 60 juniors in high school a year get this opportunity and it’s extremely prestigious and competitive.
working two jobs in high school, doing numerous campaign work for political campaigns since 2015. I’m applying to be the representative to my school board for the upcoming year and will most likely get the position.

I’m not sure how to get more “honors/other” items, but a lot of my campaign work has taken up my time since I returned from being a Page.

Schools:
Yale (Early Action)
Wellesley
Brown
Columbia
UW-Madison
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Northeastern University
Georgetown University
Washington University St. Louis

I’m planning to major in politics or pre-law, and then go to law school. I want to end up being a politician and that’s why I would go into law.

Thank you!

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Your ACT is great & your GPA is solid. The U.S. Senate Page position will help you at schools that are more politically inclined, but if I’m being super honest, I associate that internship with the Suzy Lee Weiss girl who wrote the controversial article about college after she got rejected. (Probably not great for the program to have that associated with it lol.) That said, I still understand it to be a very prestigious program. You don’t have that many APs, though it obviously depends on how many your schools offer, so I can’t judge that for you. At this point, I’d just work on getting as many ladership positions as possible within your existing ECs! :slight_smile:

Yale (Early Action): Defer/Waitlist
Wellesley: Waitlist/Accept
Brown: Waitlist
Columbia: Waitlist
UW-Madison: Accept
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: Accept
Northeastern University: Accept
Georgetown University: Waitlist/Accept
Washington University St. Louis: Accept (though I hear demonstrated interest is very important)

Best of luck! Chance me back? http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1966406-chance-me-upenn-ed-yale-brown-princeton-etc-will-chance-back-p1.html

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I don’t have as many AP’s because I’m doing IB classes as well, which are basically 2 years of an AP class with a test at the end!

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Hi! I’m currently a sophomore at Wellesley who was also accepted at Georgetown SFS, and your stats look somewhat similar to mine when I was applying to colleges :slight_smile: (I was also on the national board for HSDA!)

Best of luck!

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Bump!

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I think your list is very reach-heavy. Are you in-state for UW-Madison or Michigan? Have you asked your parents exactly how much they will pay toward school each year? Have you run the NPC at these schools to determine if they are affordable?

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^ It seems she is from WI.
For UMich, your GPA is within the admission range but a bit below average, but your course rigor would help. They GPA and course rigor as more important factors than test scores. With ACT 35, your chance there should be around or slightly above an average OOS applicant. The admission rate for OOS is near 20%.