Chances/comments

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a junior at a pretty good catholic high school in Michigan. </p>

<p>Looking to go into engineering, probably mechanical or aeronautical. So a good engineering program would be nice, but not a strictly engineering school. A bigger school, public or private, geography doesn't really matter. </p>

<p>Rank- 10-15 or so out of about 240; around top 10%
GPA- 3.73 unweighted, 4.1 weighted (been going up every semester; freshman year kind of sucked and is bringing it down)</p>

<p>ACT- 31; taking again in April
SAT- taking in May
SAT II- taking in June (US history, Math II, and chem)</p>

<p>Decent schedule: 4 years math (all honors; Calc BC next year), 4 years English (not honors), 4 years history (3 AP; got a 4 on Euro), 4 years foreign language (latin), and 3 years science (bio, chem, and physics; not honors). </p>

<p>EC's
NHS (11-12)
JV golf (9-10)
Varsity Baseball (11-12); also play travel
70ish hours of community service</p>

<p>Narrowed it down to a few schools:
Purdue (safety)
Boston University (safety)
Northwestern (match)
U Michigan-Ann Arbor (match)
Stanford (reach)
Cornell (reach)
Air Force Academy (reach)
maybe Notre Dame (reach)</p>

<p>Comments on these and any others I should be looking at. Thanks.</p>

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<p>Nice choice of schools. I think your opinion on acceptance is pretty accurate. Northwestern might be a slight reach. They really like ED though. I would also check out Carnegie Mellon (slight reach) and University of South California (slight reach).</p>

<p>Not sure how Boston and Notre Dame are for engineering...</p>

<p>Your ACT's are pretty decent. Try to get 2100+ on SATs to improve your chances. EC's are kind of lacking too... None really show leadership, commitment or are outstanding programs. If it's not too late, start a club or run for office or leadership positions. Couldn't hurt to be more involved with what you love either, but scores and grades are the best things you can do to up your chances.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, have your uncle build a library for Stanford. They like that.</p>

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<p>Your EC's are faily weak. Nono of them show leadership or passion. Maybe you can be chosen an officer for one of your EC's for your senior year. However, with a very good SAT score you will likely get into atleast half of your list.</p>