Chances at Competitive Business Schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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State: Texas
Year: Junior
GPA (Unweighted): 4.0
Class Rank: 5 of ~800 (Top .5% - 1%-ish)
AP Courses: 4 completed, 5 current
AP Scores: All were 5’s
PSAT: Last official score was 1390. On practice tests I now get around 1450.
SAT: N/A
ACT: N/A

I’m in kind of a rare position and am looking for what you all have to say about my prospects at colleges. I have good academics, but my extracurriculars are practically nonexistent. I stopped playing sports after middle school and didn’t join any extracurriculars WHATSOEVER Freshman and Sophomore year. I’m not sure why I did this, but I was just playing video games all the time, reading interesting things, doing schoolwork, and working out. Just now I am beginning to join extracurriculars.

EXTRACURRICULARS:

  • I invest in the stock market / crypto
  • I’ve taken Coursera business / economics courses
  • just joined Science National Honor Society
  • just joined our Science UIL team
  • plan on joining DECA

No volunteer work.

I’m an objectively above-average writer, and have good relationships with my teachers, so essays and letters of recommendation will be good. I can hold my own in an interview.

These are the schools that I plan on applying to for business and possibly a minor in Econ. I would apply to higher caliber schools (although these are good) if I thought I had a shot, but I’m pretty sure I screwed myself on extracurriculars.

  1. University of Pennsylvania - Wharton (Reach)
  2. Carnegie Mellon - Tepper (Medium)
  3. UC Berkeley (Medium)
  4. UT Austin - McCombs (Medium)
  5. UVA - Darden (Confident)

I would REALLY love some feedback from an outside perspective. Where do I stand in terms of the applicant pool and acceptance probability for these colleges? Am I grossly underestimating / overestimating myself and should I introduce / eliminate better / worse schools? What can I do to improve?

I’d really appreciate the feedback. :slight_smile:

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You cannot apply to Haas Business school at UCB as a Freshman. Also can you afford $65K/year to attend UCB until you apply at the end of Sophomore year of college? No financial aid for OOS students.

The business major is in a separate division and admits students in a competitive holistic process. Frosh intending business majors begin in another division (usually L&S), take the business major prerequisites, and apply (usually in their second years). They also need to take prerequisites for a backup major in case they are not admitted to the business major.