Chances of getting into.... :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>ACT 27
GPA 11.871
Class rank 12 of 451
Weighted rank 15 of 451
Grades:
All A's except (two A- freshman year) Gym and Civics ( 1 B+ freshman year)Science</p>

<p>Junior year part-time PSEO at Northwestern College (MN)
Geography (A)
Intro to Lit (A)</p>

<p>-Academic excellence award 9 10 11 grade
-National Honor Society
-Member of yearbook
-Member of Varsity Dance Team 9 10 grade
(left 11 grade for Northwestern)
-Volunteer Manager for Hockey Team (Winter) and Lacrosse Team (Spring)
500+ hours each team
-Volunteer in community
-Church member
-Part-time job where I have been working for 1 1/2 years
plus additional summer employment at fair
-My parents did not go to college
-I am a hispanic female</p>

<p>Senior Year (this year)
enrolled in full-time PSEO at Bethel University
(no more classes at my high school)
-Bethel Dance Team</p>

<p>I might even be a transfer student? If I'm already doing full-time PSEO my senior year... When I actually am a "freshman in college" I will already have 38 college credits or more.</p>

<p>Major in Biology-Pre Pharmacy-Genetics....?</p>

<p>Thinking of Carleton, Madison, Northwestern, U of Chicago, Grinnell, Cornell, Buena Vista, Lawrence.....Ivy Leagues?</p>

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<p>I'm not sure of your chances at those schools, but first-generation and Hispanic is a definite plus.</p>

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<p>Your ACT score is low for an Ivy. Way low.</p>

<p>Northwestern and UChicago are also a reachy.</p>

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<p>Try the SAT, you might score higher.</p>

<p>Northwestern, UChicago, Cornell: reaches
Carleton: low reach
Madison: high match
Grinnell: match to safer match</p>

<p>Not sure about the other ones</p>

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<p>madison more competitive than grinnell? you gotta be kidding me...</p>

<p>grinnell- acceptance rate 37.8%/ median act 31
<a href="http://www.grinnell.edu/admission/classprofile/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.grinnell.edu/admission/classprofile/&lt;/a>
madison- acceptance rate 58%/ act 26-30 (median~ 28)
<a href="http://www.admissions.wisc.edu/facts.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissions.wisc.edu/facts.php&lt;/a>
chicago- acceptance rate 38.5%/ act 29-33 (median~31)
<a href="http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=377%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=377&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>...grinnell is just as selective as chicago.</p>

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<p>^But both Grinnell's and UChicago's numbers are deceptive. UChicago rejects more high scoring kids than Grinnell does, because UChicago process and their uncommon app weed out a lot of kids really early. It's a self selective sort of place.</p>

<p>And I think a lot of Grinnell's applicant pool comes from its lower achieving home state, from which they are able to reject a bunch of kids.</p>

<p>That said, Wisconsin is SO much easier to get into than Grinnell.</p>

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<p>Your profile is good enough to give you a serious consideration from Chicago (and I assume if it's good for Chicago... it's good for any other elites, though comparing notes among friends has led me to think that Northwestern/Ivies are much more stats-based). What will get you in, and not merely considered, though, are your essays. Make sure they reflect who you are, and if you take one of Chicago's uncommon application essay prompts and have fun with it, the better.</p>

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<p>generally, schools with comparable test scores and acceptance rates are considered to be equally competitive. saying chicago rejects more high scoring kids than grinnell is very subjective. one can say the same thing about many chicago's applicants being from 'its lower achieving home state.' </p>

<p>here's what i think;
Ivy Leagues- big reaches (not worth trying)
Carleton, Northwestern, U of Chicago, Grinnell, Cornell- reaches (i'd narrow down to 3 schools. chicago or northwestern/ grinnell or carleton/ cornell)
Lawrence- match (i'd add a few more solid matches like knox, denison, earlham, wooster or beloit)
Buena Vista- safety (one is more than enough)</p>