Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I have been getting mixed reviews about the schools on my apply list so I just want to get some more opinions. What do you think my chances are?</p>

<p>Senior, applying for Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering, live in the NE</p>

<p>GPA: 3.53 (unweighted)
Courses (only includes academic courses):
9: One honors, Four non-honors [not many honors offered for 9th grade]
10: Four Honors, One non-honors (French) [only one AP offered]
11: Three APs (Calc BC , U.S. Gov't, Comp. Gov't), Three Honors, One non-Honors (French)
12: Three APs (Econ, Psych, Physics C), Two Honors, One non-Honors (French)
ACT: 34 Comp, 35 Math, 35 Science, 31 Writing (08 Essay), 33 Reading
APs: Calc BC- 5, U.S./Comp. Gov't - 4s
SAT IIs: Math II-800, Physics-800</p>

<p>ECs:
-After-school job at local smoothie store
-Video-editing consultant for local business
-Social Media Director for local historical society
-Altar Server, camp counselor, religion teacher for my church
-Red-cross volunteer (safe rides)
-National Honor Society member
-Charter member of local Math Honor Society chapter (Mu Alpha Theta)
-Tutor (math/physics)
-Hockey referee
-Learned/play guitar/piano/drums in free time
-Work in digital art and web-development (Photoshop, After-effects, HTML/CSS) in free time</p>

<p>My essay is okay at the moment. Will certainly put a lot of effort to improve it</p>

<p>What do you think my chances are for getting into Columbia, Cornell, Notre Dame, UMichigan, USC, Tufts?</p>

<p>Any/all comments are appreciated. Thanks!</p>

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<p>What is your class rank? Your GPA is very low for most of the schools on your list, if your class rank is high it will help since it tends to mean your school is very challenging.</p>

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<p>My school doesn’t rank, but I can estimate I am top 10% at least.</p>

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<p>Any safety?</p>

<p>Columbia: Reach
Cornell: Reach
USC: High match
UMichigan: Match (OOS against you)
Tufts: Reach
Notre Dame: Reach</p>

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<p>These are just these the schools I’m concerned about. I’m also applying to Lehigh, Northeastern, U Rochester, U Connecticut</p>

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<p>If your rank is top 10 percent I agree with everything Catria said…</p>

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<p>Does this mean I should be looking lower? Or does this list seem okay?</p>

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<p>I know I’m shooting high, but is it too high?</p>

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<p>Lehigh: Match
Northeastern: Safety
U Rochester: Match
UCT: Safety</p>

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<p>Does my list seem unrealistic? Am I shooting too high?</p>

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<p>Columbia and Cornell seem unrealistic…</p>

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<p>I am/was totally expecting Columbia to be unrealistic (my parents are making me apply) and I can see Cornell as being unrealistic.</p>

<p>Is there one thing that makes them unrealistic? I imagine its my GPA, but am I missing something else?</p>

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<p>I think your GPA is the only thing that is not so good, unfortunately for super competitive schools like Columbia is a big disadvantage. I think you have great chance at all the other schools you mentioned.Thanks for chancing me and good luck.</p>