Chances Please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello everyone. My name is Steve and i'm new to collegeconfidential. I was hoping if you could just tell me my chances for these schools, and list others that might be good for me. There's a long list so just respond to however many you want to.</p>

<p>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Illinois, Urbana
University of Texas Austin
University of Washington
University of Indiana
Carnegie Mellon
University of Minnesota
Cornell
Brown
Purdue
Georgia Tech
Mcgill
University of British Columbia
University of Toronto
University of Rochester
and NYU</p>

<p>Thats a long list of schools, i know. My interest is to do Computer science. </p>

<p>School: public with 300 kids in my grade
GPA : 3.52 unweighted
3.75 weighted
Class rank: none
activites: math, knowledge bowl, jv football, summer baseball team, winter hockey league, chess team, science olympiad, and tutoring.
ACT: 28
Best in each section based off of 2 Act's
Math-36, Science-31, Reading-24, Grammar-26
so my composite would be 29
I am also going to retake it in september for my third and last time.
Sat 2's- Math-800, Bio-650
Awards- Quiz Bowl Nationals and PAC
Baseball team- first in regionals
Science O- first in state for 2 events, and 2nd in state for 1 event, 1st in regionals in 1, and 2nd in regionals for 1. </p>

<p>Volunteering for about 20 hours at library. I'm not sure if tutoring counts for this, but if it does, an extra 100 hours.</p>

<p>If there is anything i forgot, please ask. If you could respond as soon as possible, that would be great because i really want to fill up applications as soon as possible, and no i won't apply to every school i listed. Maybe about 10 of them or less.</p>

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<p>Oh ya, i should mention my classes. I have a total of 2 ap's sophomore year, 5 junior year, and i signed up for 4 senior year. The rest of my classes are mainly honors or required classes. Maybe 1 or 2 electives my freshman year. Otherwise, my course load is very rigorous. Mainly A's in math, a couple of A-'s, 1 B+, and 2 B's in AP Calc AB. I redeemed myself and got 2 A's in Ap Calc BC. So, pretty much i'm a math guy. I also have a 115 on the AMC 12. I got a 2 on the AIME, which is horrible, i know. I'll try to keep coming up with more stuff.</p>

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<p>SAT I Score?</p>

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<p>I never took it.</p>

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<p>Where are you from?</p>

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<p>ok dude here's the deal;
apparently u are applying to engineering.
UT Austin and Michigan and GeorgiaTech are matches
Brown, Car-Melo, Cornell are reaches
others i don't know</p>

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<p>I'm from maine. Thanks for the help cooldude. Can anybody else help?</p>

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<p>Oh ya, ap scores also. I got a 4 in Calc BC with a 4 subscore for AB, a 3 in geography, a 3 in euro, and a 3 in us history. They aren't that great of scores.</p>

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<p>Is there anything else i can add? Please help as soon as possible because i want to apply very early.</p>

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<p>in at Indiana, LAS UIUC, UMinn, Purdue</p>

<p>out at Umich, Cornell, Brown, Rochester, Carnegie Mellon, Engineering UIUC, NYU
don't know about Texas, Washington, GT, or Canuckistan schools</p>

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<p>I looked more into the LAS UIUC and i found the perfect major for me. Math/computer science major works out. Thanks for the advice. For the schools i listed above, i am applying to math/finance for some, and math/comp sci for the others.</p>

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<p>UW is a match. I think. We kind of use SAT over here. A lot.</p>

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<p>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - REACH
University of Illinois, Urbana - SLIGHT REACH
University of Texas Austin - REACH
University of Washington - MATCH
University of Indiana - SAFETY
Carnegie Mellon - REACH
University of Minnesota - SAFETY
Cornell - REACH
Brown - BIG REACH
Purdue - SAFETY
Georgia Tech - SLIGHT REACH
University of Rochester - SLIGHT REACH
NYU - SLIGHT REACH</p>

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<p>UTexas is a big reach for anyone from out of state.</p>

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<p>I completely forgot University of Wisconsin and University of Colorodo Boulder. I'm retaking the ACT again for my 3rd and last time coming up. So hopefully i improve on that.</p>

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<p>What do you think I should aim for the ACT. I have a private tutor now from Princeton Review. I have greatly improved in the Reading and the English sections. So, what scores do you think I should aim for?</p>

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<p>Michigan is a GPA driven school, they won't care if you have between a 28-32. Of course, i've seen crappy GPA's admitted with outstanding ACT scores. If you score above a 32, I could see you admitted there. Shoot for the 30s, just do your best.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the help. How about other schools?</p>

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<p>You know, you look like you do good on SATIIs so you should be ok with SATs.
I don;t have a lot of experience with college stuff, but if you can get a high SAT score then I'd say you should definitely take it because it'll be a plus in my opinion.</p>

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<p>Well thats just the SAT 2 math which is extremely easy to me. I'm pretty sure that I can do a lot better on the ACT than the SAT.</p>