chances for hopkins, upenn, northwestern, university of chicago, UCs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>hi, i'm undecided as to what major i would be applying as, but i'm interested in both the sciences and humanities. i've been on this board a while, but this is my first post. i visited hopkins and berkeley and ucla and really liked it there (especially hopkins, despite what everyone seems to say about its "cutthroat" environment), so i'm focusing on those three schools. </p>

<p>gpa: 4.3
sat combined score: 2280
competitive california high school
sat IIs: u.s. history 800, chem 760, math iic 760
APs: 5 (apush, bio, chem, physics c mech) 4 (calc ab, physics b)</p>

<p>ECs:
independent research for intel science talent search and siemens (didn't win)
illustrations/cartoons for published book
volunteering
journalism
sports at school
worked for online startup company for a year</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>oh yeah, senior year schedule:
ap english lang, ap french, ap stats, ap physics b, government, econ</p>

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<p>Your academics are good but nothing extraordinary, and your ECs seem a little weak, unless you can find a way to spin them into something outstanding in your essay, eg your "work" for an online startup company: were you doing dusting and filing, or did you have an impact there? what sort of "volunteering" or "sports at school" did you do? </p>

<p>I would say your chances are weak for UChicago & UPenn, 50-50 for JHU, Northwestern & Berkeley, strong for UCLA.</p>