Chances at Top Tier schools and others...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, any type of suggestions and help would be appreciated....</p>

<p>Class of 2011
Texas resident
Hispanic (1st generation)
Bi-lingual
Low-income level</p>

<p>GPA unweighted: 3.64
GPA weighted: about 4.3
Class rank: 60-70/500 ~top 15% (might have gone up with year's end)</p>

<p>SAT:
Math: 610
Reading: 640
Writing: 750 (12 essay)
(2000 composite, I will retake this fall)
SAT II:
Will take US History, French, Spanish, maybe Lit.</p>

<p>APs:
9th:
AP Human Geo (5 on exam)
10th:
AP World History (5 on exam)
11th:
APUSH and APLAC (4 or 5 on exams)
12th: (will take)
AP Biology
AP Statistics
AP Government
AP Macro Econ.
AP Euro. History
AP English Lit.
AP French
AP Psychology</p>

<p>Extra-curricular: (Main activities)
Always been involved in church youth groups
Always had a summer job (secretary/accountant)
NHS
Debate club (CX team)(awards)
Academic team (went to state in competition)(awards)
Co-Pres in business club (went to state in competition)(awards)
Secretary of service club
Volunteer at Holocaust museum 100+ hrs
Hopefully AP Scholar w/ honor</p>

<p>I hope to have great recommendations and essays....</p>

<p>I want to major in Accounting/Finance with a possible minor in Economics, hopefully to set me up for a future MBA.</p>

<h1>1 Choice - University of Texas at Austin (McCombs School of Business)</h1>

<p>After UT I have built list of colleges based on some minor research. Please help me narrow it down a bit.</p>

<p>Rice University
UNC - Chapel Hill
Duke
Vanderbilt University
Emory
Georgia Tech
TCU
Stanford
NYU
The UCs
Columbia
and of course...
Cornell
UPenn</p>

<p>Any advice?
Should I be looking into other colleges?... Feel free to ask me anything that can help out...
Thank You!</p>

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<p>The UCs need to come off the list because there is minimal to no aid for out of state students-only access to top scholarships but that’s a few thousand and they cost $50K. As a URM, anything is possible but I would add more match and safety schools.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the response… That’s good to know, The UCs aren’t of any priority to me…</p>

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<p>i doubt u will make it to the ivies simply because of you gpa and test scores. except cornell which is a definite possiblity.stanford is impossible to get into these days and so is columbia, what sucks is we are getting closer and closer to the deadlines which means we can really change less and less</p>

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<p>bump… Thanks for the help…</p>

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<p>I disagree… You still have a shot at top schools. Work on your SAT score. Low-income + URM is a big hook.</p>

<p>Btw- wowzaaa [your APs for senior year]</p>