<p>ive gathered all the replies from this site and other sites (mychances/college-data) and wanted a final end all opinion on the list of schools im applying to, so here it is:</p>
<p>W GPA
freshman:3.3, 3.5
sophomore:3.28, 3.74
junior: 4.5, 4.5
total weighted gpa after junior year: 3.75
uw: 3.5
10-11 GPA: 4w 3.75 uw
estimated gpa first semester senior year: 4.3</p>
<p>2100 sat
32 act
top 20% at semi competitive public school
ec's:
150+ hrs volunteering at hospital
50+ hrs shadowing a doctor
varsity tennis
robotics club
beta chi pi (science honors society)
all suburban jazz saxophonist
play guitar for 7 years, 6 years lessons
play saxophone 6 years</p>
<p>I have taken almost all honors classes and am signed up for 5 hard ap classes my senior year(bio, chem, calc bc) and honors spanish 5</p>
<p>my parents are from egypt i was born in canada live in missouri, speak arabic and will major in premed/bio</p>
<p>heres my prelim list:</p>
<p>Boston College Maybe- reach
Emory University Maybe-reach
George Washington University IN-low-match
Johns Hopkins University OUT-REJECT
Miami University IN-safety
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IN-safety
University of Miami IN-high match
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor MAYBE-reach
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus IN-safety
University of Rochester IN-reach
University of Southern California MAYBE-reach
University of Washington IN- safety
University of Wisconsin - Madison IN match
Washington University in St. Louis OUT- super reach/REJECT</p>
<p>PLEASE, are these accurate? what do you disagree with, be specific please.</p>
<p>Im sorry if i seem really annoying or needy, but this is really stressful to me, i wonder if i am overshooting and will get in nowhere. add to this my parents think its either top 20 college/michigan(where my brother is) or going to community college and flipping burgers the rest of my life. thank you in advance for your help</p>
<p>Of course this is stressful for you! Tell your parents to shut the hell up.</p>
<p>It's that sort of mentality that causes so much harmful stress in today's college-bound students. You can be happy and successful almost anywhere, and if your parents think that you need a big name college for a big time career, use this as a chance to prove them wrong.</p>
<p>I think Hopkins and WUSTL are reaches, not absolute rejections; does Near Eastern/Arabic count as an URM subcategory? You have great test scores (although not fabulous for your reach schools), and you should be able to get into a handful of Top 20's (to please your parents).</p>
<p>If I were to evaluate your chances (I'm no expert, but I think I have a pretty good idea), they would be as follows:</p>
<p>BIG REACHES (low chance, but still try):
WashU St.L
Johns Hopkins
Boston College</p>
<p>SLIGHT REACHES/HIGH MATCHES (better chance, but still iffy):
USC
Emory
U Mich Ann Arbor
U Rochester
U Miami (more a match)
U Wisc Madison</p>
<p>you would be in at the university of washington if you were in-state, but unfortunately for you, u washington hates out of state students. however it does like to say that students come from all 50 states. so maybe being from missouri will help you. i dont know if i would call it a safety though, because the average in-state gpa is about 3.65, although the avg sat score is lower than yours. i would call it matchy. you probably have about the same chance at washington as you do at wisconsin.</p>
<p>and unfortunately north african is caucasian, and therefore not URM. but you would still add diversity to a school, because of the arabic and everything.</p>