Chances!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chances at:
UMN -Twin Cities
UW - Madison (My Bro. is class of 2010, Honors Program, Near perfect GPA there)
UCs (esp. Berkeley and UCLA)
Carleton (MN)
Macalaster (MN)</p>

<p>17 Y/O White Male, class of 2007.
Large Public Minnesota High School, school doesn't weight GPA, Block scheduling</p>

<p>Thus: Unweighted GPA: 3.62
(3.65, 3.5, 3.7 for 9-11th specifically)
Unweighted Rank: 70(ish) percentile :-(</p>

<p>ACT: 34 (31 English, 34 Mathematics, 35 Science, 36 Reading) 10/12 writing
SAT1: October! (expect ~1520 M+V)
SAT2: October! (expect ~750 per)
PSAT: 215 (71, 71, 73) => Commended Student certain, NMSF likely</p>

<p>AP:
10th: 4 Computer Science A, 2 U.S. History
11th: 5 Microeconomics, 5/5 Calc AB/BC, 4 Comparative Politics</p>

<p>Rigorous Schedule (honors and AP are the only ones listed)</p>

<p>9th: Honors: English, History, Physical Science, Geometry</p>

<p>10th: Honors: English, History, Biology, Alg2, Precalculus. AP: Computer Science</p>

<p>11th: Honors: English, Physics. AP: Calc AB, Calc BC, Microecomics, Comparative Gov. + Pol.</p>

<p>12th: Honors: English, Chemistry, Multivariable Calc (Calc3). AP: Physics, Stats (indep. study), European History
Also, Spanish 5 Through UMN-TC program</p>

<p>EC (fairly weak, but we'll see)</p>

<p>Debate (9-12) Moderate Success, Would be captain if team had any :-/
Competitive Speech (IE) (10-12) Decent Success, Leadership likely.</p>

<p>Hmm....
Part time work experience summer of Junior yr, nothing too significant</p>

<p>so, am I aiming too high? too low? need more information? specific class-by-class grades? should i have kept using correct grammar and punctuation? </p>

<p>If there are any other schools (considering the list) that you think I would match up well with, post away!</p>

<p>Last thing, I promise. Does anyone know/have a link as to how colleges weight grades and adjust class rank?</p>

<p>Thx in advance for help :-)</p>

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<p>Just calculated -- UC GPA is 3.86 (incl. cap)</p>

<p>Not sure if the other schools applied to would weight GPA</p>

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<p>i dont think you can take both sat I and II in october</p>

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<p>Yeah, you're right. I'll delay one of em</p>

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<p>ibirrell:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach (out of state)
UCSD: Match (out of state)
UCI/UCSB/UCD: Safe Match (out of state)
UCSC/UCR/UCM: Safety (out of state)</p>

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<p>My view on the UCs is just slightly different.</p>

<p>UC Berkeley/UCLA: Reach (Out-of-state)
UCSD: Match to Slight Reach (Out-of-state)
UCD/UCSB/UCI--Match (Out-of-State)
UCSC--Safe Match (Out-of-State)
UCR/UCM--Safeties (Out-of-State)</p>

<p>The averages last year were around 4.17 UC GPA for Berkeley, 4.12 UC GPA for UCLA, 4.04 UC GPA for UCSD--3.84 to 3.90 UC GPA for UCD/UCSB/UCI--and 3.67 UC GPA for UCSC, whereas you are at 3.86 and out-of-state--meaning you have to be slightly higher for each school or make it up on the SAT Is and IIs. You are picking up 300 extra points on the SATs (and maybe 400 equivalent on the ACT), but I don't see that overcoming both your grade point deficit and the out-of-state status at UC Berkeley or UCLA--meaning I think you will have to go to UCSD (still a bit iffy), UCD, UCSB or UCI, UCSC, UCR, or UCM if you want one of the UC campuses. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/freshman_admit_profile_2006.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/freshman_admit_profile_2006.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>As far as the colleges in the midwest, I think you're good at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (safe match to match) and Wisconsin--Madison (match). I'm not familiar enough with the two Minnesota LACs you mentioned to rate your chances at them.</p>

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<p>to complete calcruzer's post...</p>

<p>carleton- reach
macalester- match/ slight reach</p>

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<p>i think carleton is a pretty high reach for you</p>

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<p>Unrealistic list.</p>

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<p>If you're from MN, you'll get a NMS - my friend called and they said the cutoff was 213 this year. What did you put as your #1 school?</p>