Hi, I’m a junior in a humanities and communications magnet program in Maryland. What are my chances of getting into the above schools. I want to major in Political Science in college. So far, University of Maryland is my only fallback school, so I’ll need to find more of them. But I really want to get any of the other schools, Berkeley and Georgetown especially.
I have a 3.96 GPA, 4.54 WGPA (haven’t received a B since 8th grade). I think I’ll end up taking nine APs.
ACT: 35
E: 36
R: 36
M: 32
S: 36
ECs: President of the Young Democrats club, treasurer for the school A Capella group, member of the debate team, former policy and communications staffer for a gubernatorial campaign (wrote and developed a lot of her policy platform, worked with the comm director on outreach during debates and during the homestretch of the primary), member of the Commission on Children and Youth in my home county, run outreach and fundraising for a charity that provides prosthetic limbs to kids in Sri Lanka, Editor in Chief of the school newspaper next year, intern for Congressional campaign.
What do you guys think? Any chance to get into the above schools? What should I do to improve my chances?
Sorry, add Georgetown to that list at the top. And that GPA is off actually, 3.97 UW and 4.62 W
High match for all OOS publics, low reach for Brown. How is your EC? Start working on the essays as soon as possible and apply EA/ED for better chances.
Thanks billcsho, I will. What do you think about gtown?
Brown - match
UCLA - match
Berkeley - match
Georgetown - match
Michigan - safety/match
Michigan is no safety for anyone from OOS.
@billcsho and @derpderp11, if these are all matches, is it safe to assume that I’ll get into at least one of them. I’m asking because, as of now, I only have one safety school (University of Maryland) and I don’t really want to go there. Should I come up with more safety schools?
I second @billcsho - Michigan’s OOS acceptance rate is ~25% and dropping. It wouldn’t hurt at all to have more safety schools (better safe than sorry), as all the universities you are applying to are difficult for OOS students. With that said, I would be surprised if you did not get at least one of the schools you mentioned.
Best of luck!
@WHCOS1415 It is hard to say. I gave these 3 OOS publics high match as your chance of admission would be around 40%. Anything is possible.
@WHCOS1415 honestly, I can’t see you getting rejected from michigan. That being said, I would still add some more safeties to ensure that you’ll have options.
You have great stats. Make certain you can afford the schools. OOS publics are expensive. UCB is extremely expensive.
GTwon and Brown meet full need which is great if your parents have a lowish EFC, but theses schools offer no merit scholarships which is bad if your parents have a high EFC which they can’t afford ( this happens a lot).
I think you have a chance of getting into all of these schools (but do consider that there are 1000s of applications so add a few safeties or less selective you would really like to attend.)
@derpderp11 There are quite a few rejection from OOS at UMich with ACT 35 (or equivalent) reported in the UMich subforum this year (also last year). It is definitely not a safety for anyone from OOS.