hi everyone!! i’m an incoming senior and am wondering what my chances are for getting into the schools on my college list. also wondering if any of them are too unrealistic and i should take them off & anything i could do to make reaches more attainable.
reach: BC, villanova, tulane, bucknell, umich, uva, northeastern
target: lehigh, umiami, UMD college park, clemson
safety: penn state, rutgers (i live in nj and have legacy), syracuse
GPA: 3.84 unweighted, not sure what it is weighted. since i transferred high schools junior year my new school has been super confusing about my gpa
school type: both public, class sizes 500 + 250
race/gender: caucasian female
i wanna major in some sort of math/science/stem. hopefully the fact that i’m a woman in stem will help?
class rank: they don’t calculate
SAT: 1410 march 2018, 670R 740M. also took it again in june but waiting for scores coming out july 11th ugh.
SAT II: plan on taking math 2 and chem in august
freshman year: no honors/AP (such a mistake, my guidance counselors are dumb and underestimated me as cocky as that sounds. got straight A’s that year)
sophomore year: 3 honors no AP
junior year: 2 AP 1 honors (again since i transferred schools my guidance counselors underestimated me and i got pushed into taking regular precalc/physics. I got 96’s for the year and never studied)
senior year: plan on taking 4 AP no honors
took every kind of class all four years (english math social studies science world language)
ECs/awards:
cross country 9th-11th
hostess job at restaurant 11th and will continue in 12th
concession stand job for my town 9th-10th
camp counselor going into 9th-12th (volunteer going into 9th-11th paid going into 12th)
rutgers pre college summer engineering academy going into 12th
paws and claws club (raises money for animal causes) participated 11th, treasurer 12th
student ambassador 12th (give freshmen tours and help them get used to hs)
hopefully will start volunteering this summer
national french honors society 12th
yearbook 12th
hopefully will get national honors society and national science honors society
babysitting (took babysitting certification course & CPR course)
essay/recs:
writing my essay about my dad passing away when i was 8 and moving to a new school in a diff state junior year, talking about adaptability. also relating it to my hostess job now and how i have to adapt to dealing with people’s bs if that makes sense.
saw one of my teacher recs and it was really good, asked math/science teachers and they’ll hopefully write about how i was new to the school this year and how i adjusted well. also might ask my boss at work for an out of school rec
i know freshman year my classes sucked and i had barely any extracurriculars but hopefully colleges will care more about sophomore-senior year because i really stepped it up. lmao i used to play so many sports in middle school and played viola what happened to me 
thanks everyone!!!