<p>I am a white male attending a Benedictan College Prep School outside of Chicago.
All Stats and ECs through my Junior year
SAT 2250
Anticipating around 800 on SAT II Math
GPA W 4.1 (SOPH AND JUNIOR ONLY)
GPA UW 3.75(SOPH AND JUNIOR ONLY)
Classes- About 1/2 honors half not,
will have taken alg1,alg2 honors, precalcw/trig honors, ap calc, ap statistics, by senior year.
3 years of Latin.-
Silver medal national latin exam
State Qualifier for Illinois Latin tournament
3 years math team- lots of awards
2 years latin team
3 years of Lacrosse- Captain Junior Year
Co-Founder of Lacrosse Team
Also play lacrosse year-round for all-county team
Lots of Community Service-most with lacrosse team or volunteering at lacrosse camps
2 years football
3 years rotc- held leadership position
Letters of rec. should be good
Essay should be great
Plan to double major in Mathematics and Business
U of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Indiana Bloomington
Michigan Ann Arbor
Texas at Austin
UCLA
UCB
Notre Dame- Many relatives have gone here
Northwestern
NYU
Rice</p>
<p>i think you’re my twin</p>
<p>r u applying to same schools too?</p>
<p>UT
UCLA
UCB
Northwestern
Rice</p>
<p>and stats are pretty damn close, except i did act and got a 34…so pretty similar</p>
<p>wow, thats pretty similar. do u know wat r chances r at any of those?</p>
<p>hmmm. I dont know exactly the chances for all, but I think the only negative thing on their is the half honors classes. I would put ND and U of M at low to mid reaches.</p>
<p>hah no i dont know my chances, just hoping for the best :/</p>
<p>For NU, it depends. If your weighted class rank is top 10% and your school has a relationship with NU (i.e. if the admissions officers are familiar with how hard your classes are, if they’ve accepted people with similar profiles from your HS in the past), then your chances are high. Also, do your research as to why NU is right for you and reflect that in your Why NU essay.</p>
<p>thanks, everyone for your replies. does anyone actually know my chances for each school, though?</p>
<p>Might want to look at Holy Cross-good combination of academics and athletics. HC has nice campus 1 hour from Boston.</p>
<p>U of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana - Safety
Indiana Bloomington - Match/Safety
Michigan Ann Arbor - Match/Reach
Texas at Austin - Match/Reach
UCLA - Reach
UCB - Reach
Notre Dame- Big Reach
Northwestern -Match/Reach
NYU - Match
Rice - Match/Reach</p>
<p>Your one safety is UI. To varying degrees your stats are compatible at all the OOS. The issue is difficulty of OOS admission. Michigan just started it’s largest in-state class. The 10% Rule (or whatever it is now) has Texas nearly full of in-state. the California schools look for high stats but the budget pressures are forcing then to accept more high-pay (read: low aid) OOS.</p>
<p>Notre Dame statistically is one of the toughest schools to get into.</p>
<p>okay, thank you</p>
<p>vinceh,</p>
<p>ND is not as hard to get into as you think and no harder than UCB/Northwestern/Rice. Available stats don’t seem to support that.</p>
<p>I agree that the SAT/ACT numbers are virtually identical for UCB, NU, Rice & ND. My feelings are based on an Admissions Counselor’s comments made during a recent tour and information session at ND. He told our group that this most recently admitted class, (Fall 2009), was the strongest yet, with ACTs averaging 34-35 and SATs 50th%-tile about 1480. </p>
<p>Furthermore, when asked a question about legacies, he reluctantly acknowledged that legacies, athletes and the children of employees have an advantage in the admissions process. He was quick to point out that, “they all still had to show that they could do the work though”. My interpretation of that comment was that the “Hooks” tended to bring the averages down slightly. Maybe I’m inferring more than he was implying, but the presentation left me with the distinct impression that getting into ND has become exceedingly difficult. </p>
<p>Perhaps I understated the difficulties of getting into Rice and NU, but I still believe that ND is the toughest of the OP’s schools.</p>
<p>According to the website, those numbers you heard were 75th percentile, not average/50th percentile
[Admissions</a> Statistics // Admissions // University of Notre Dame](<a href=“http://admissions.nd.edu/admission-and-application/admissions-statistics]Admissions”>http://admissions.nd.edu/admission-and-application/admissions-statistics)</p>
<p>I like how admission people sometime get numbers mixed up like that and when that happens, it seems like it’s always an overstatement, not understatement. Anyway, 34-35 ACT average would mean that 75th percentile was 36. Assuming 50% of the pool had ACT, he’s telling you more than 500 students with perfect ACT were in that admitted pool. There were only 636 students with perfect ACT in the entire nation. If I were there, I’d have grilled him on the spot.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/act-preparation/767126-2009-act-national-state-score-report-released.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/act-preparation/767126-2009-act-national-state-score-report-released.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.act.org/news/data/09/pdf/states/Indiana.pdf[/url]”>http://www.act.org/news/data/09/pdf/states/Indiana.pdf</a> Also, if you look at Table 4.3 on page 26-“Students’ Score Report Preferences at Time of Testing” for the state of Indiana, only 7% of test takers that named Notre Dame as 1st/2nd-6th choice were in the 33-36 range and the majority scored below 28. That’s looking at the potential applicant pool, not the actual admitted pool but it’s still telling.</p>
<p>i calculated my uc gpa, and its about a 4.1. If i can establish California residency, what are my chances for UCB, UCLA, and UCSD? Does this effect them at all?</p>
<p>vinceh is a little off, its not likely at the last 4</p>
<p>ANYBODY, will the 4.1 uc gpa and california residency increase my chances much for UCSD, UCB, and UCLA? Are the chances with residency increased enough it would be worth while enough to give up my illinois residency?</p>
<p>anybody? plz</p>