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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey everyone I'm gonna be a senior next year (class of 2011) and I'm looking into Northwestern (Early Decision), Umich (Early Action), U of Illinois, Purdue, Penn St and Wisconsin-Madison with an anticipated major in engineering (not sure what kind yet). For the top schools I more want to know my chances of acceptance but at the lower ones I am more concerned about scholarship money. I also really wanna know how good my shot at EDing Northwestern would be. I'm a white male from a suburb of Chicago in a highly competitive public school that sends many grads to Ivies. Here are my stats:</p>

<p>UW GPA: 3.872
W GPA: 4.175
My school doesn't rank but I assume im at about 9-10% in my class</p>

<p>ACT: 34 E:33 M:36 R:29 S:36 E:10</p>

<p>SAT2: I plan to take Math 2, Chem and maybe Bio/Physics</p>

<p>Freshman year:
Honors Geo: B/B (due to bad final exams)
Enriched Chem: B/B
World Cultures: A/A
Patterns of Communication: A/A
Spanish 2: A/A</p>

<p>UW GPA: 3.6666/3.666666
W GPA: 4.0/4.0</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
Honors Advanced Algebra: A/B
Biology: A/A
Government: A
Written Communication (1st semester)/Speech Communication (2nd semester. school requires it): A/A
Spanish 3: A/A
Keyboarding: A
Intro to Business: A (had to get tech credits for this and keyboarding)</p>

<p>UW GPA: 4.0/3.87
W GPA: 4.1666666/4.0
Cumulative GPA: 4.04</p>

<p>Junior Year:
Honors Trig/Pre Calc: A/A
Physics: A/A
American Literature: A/A
US History: A/A
Spanish 4 (honors): A/A
Biotechnology (honors): A
International Relations (honors): A</p>

<p>UW GPA: 4.0/4.0
W GPA: 4.43/4.43
Cumulative GPA: 4.18</p>

<p>Senior Year Classes:
AP Calc BC
AP Chem
AP Spanish
Enriched Physics
Essay Writing/Literature Themes</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
Worked in a lab at UIC doing medical research summer before senior year (currently doing this)
Student commissioner for the Commission on People with Disabilites it is a city commission and I am the only student on it.
Academic tutor 3x per week during school year (35 service hours a semester)
Adaptive PE: worked with multi needs students in gym
Multi needs peer: work with multi needs students in the class room
Special Olympics coach/helper
First Class: spoke to peers about good habits: citizenship, leadership etc.
Track all four years
Golf frosh/soph years
Cross Country Junior/senior years plan to be at the state meet sr year</p>

<p>Awards:
Biotech student of the year
Math student of the month
Illinois state scholar</p>

<p>Thats about it, if you chance i will chance back, thank you!!</p>

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<p>Wow. You seem to be on the right track. But I have a question. Are your only AP classes during Senior Year. If it is that could hurt your chances. Your ACT is pretty good and I would advise you to also take the SATs. Your ECs are pretty good as well and shows you are a very well rounded person. Awards are also a plus. If Northwestern is your first choice then you should go for ED, but know that it is a bit of a reach. The rest of the colleges are all good matches. You could even check out some of the ivies like UPenn, Cornell, etc.</p>

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<p>My opinion:
Northwestern ED: Slight reach/match
U Mich: Match
U Illinois: Acceptance
Purdue: Acceptance
Penn State: Acceptance
WM: Acceptance</p>

<p>Nice ACT and EC’s. Like RoseBuds said, consider some Ivies. </p>

<p>Chance back:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/968749-chance-me-hamilton-dartmouth-vanderbilt.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/968749-chance-me-hamilton-dartmouth-vanderbilt.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>My question is how do you go from pre-calc your junior year to bc calc your senior year? I don’t know enough about the money question to advise on all your schools, other than to say you probably have a really good shot at one of Purdues merit-based scholarships. I believe they have a couple different levels/names, depending on your GPA, etc. Don’t be too disappointed if you don’t get in at NU (having said that, I still think you have a good shot), your remaining schools are solid Engineering choices!</p>

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<p>Hey everyone! I really need some opinions on my chances on getting into certain schools. I just finished junior year, going to senior year this fall. I’m a Hispanic male living in New Jersey. My father is a truck driver and my mother is a lab technician. My parents are completely clueless, unfamiliar, and uninterested about college applications, college essays, SAT/ACT, AP Exams, and interviews. I am on my own with no guidance what so ever. ( I feel that that is what I should write about for my college essay) The guidance counselors at my school are a joke and tell me stuff that I already know. I want to apply to very selective and top tier schools but I definitely feel way over my head, naive, and extremely overwhelmed. So tell me what you think.
GPA ( my school does GPA out of 100, I know I’m somewhere in the 92-94 range)
GRADES Junior Year: (I assume that universities only look at Junior Year to see the type of student you are right now, not how you were freshmen year)
H. French 95, H. US History 93, Chemistry 95, Algebra II 90, AP Language & Composition 87
Senior yr schedule:
AP Biology, AP Literature & Composition, AP French, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Pre-Calculus, Teen Pep, Painting</p>

<p>Extra-Curricular:
Vice President of Class of 2011 Freshmen Year, Sophomore Year; President of Class of 2011 Junior Year; Secretary of Student Government Organization Senior year, Peer Leadership Program, French National Honor Society, Environmental Actions Club Member, School Newspaper writer, & a teacher’s Aid for Catholic Sunday School
SAT: My parents couldn’t afford a tutor, they didn’t care, and therefore I didn’t care. I completely blew off the SAT; I took it once and got a 400 in CR, 490 in W, and 510 in M
I never practiced or had time to buckle down and concentrate, no one pushes me, so I had to do it myself. I’m taking the SAT again in Oct and a SAT II in Nov.
Universities I would like to apply to:
New York University, Rutgers University, George Washington University, UMass Amherst, Lehigh, &…yale!! I know my SAT scores for October will either break me or make me, being the fact that I’m a minority. I want to double major in Environmental Studies & Cellular/Molecular Biology. I want to go to Medical School to become a surgeon.</p>

<p>So tell me, am I a naive fool? What are my chances, let me know</p>

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<p>206, start your OWN thread so this poster and responses to his post don’t get inter-mingled.</p>

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<p>jshain, at my school after u take honors trig/pre calc u can either go to ab calc or bc calc depending on how u think u will fare. many people go to schools where u first have to take ab then bc but at my school they find this overlap in curriculum redundant and thus allow u to go straight to bc calc after taking htpc</p>

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<p>sorry kinda new at this</p>

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<p>its ok… noob… bump</p>

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<p>I like your chances at all your schools. I agree that you should consider some Ivies.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/970863-what-my-chances.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/970863-what-my-chances.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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