Do I have a chance applying to these?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I feel like my GPA is too low for a lot of these schools, and seeing the chance threads on CC everyone seems much more qualified than me. Anyway, can you tell me my chances for some of theses schools, or if I should even be applying to ivies ?</p>

<p>NYU Stern (might do CAS, not sure yet..could you chance me for both? considering doing ED for stern..does anyone think that would help?)
Georgetown
UMich
UC Berkeley
Cornell
Upenn
Columbia</p>

<p>didnt list safeties on here, just wanted to know about matches/reaches</p>

<p>GPA (weighted): 4.14 (96.4%)
GPA (unweighted): 3.62 (self-calculated so im not sure if this is right..our school only gives weighted so probably around 91-93% unweighted)
Rank: Unknown (Top 10%, maybe Top 5% out of around 560)
SAT: 2210 (790W 770M 650CR) <strong>retaking because of CR score, trying to bring up superscore</strong>
Subject tests: didnt take yet, Nov. (Math 2 & Bio)
Course Load: AP Biology (4) & APUSH (4) junior year; all others were honors classes
Senior Year Courses: AP English Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Psych, AP Stat, Economics Seminar (Honors)</p>

<p>Other Academics:
-Uwaylim Scholarship Track (11,12) : Student; 4 year islamic scholarship track taught by a former adjunct professor at Yale
-Thinkful, Inc. : 12-week front end web development course (programming)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Founder & President: Entrepreneurship Club (11,12)
Founder & President: Honor Society of Business & Math (11,12)
Treasurer: A.I.M (Ambition in Motion) (11,12)
Founder & Head Tutor: Tutoring Program at local mosque (11,12)
Member: FBLA & Member of sponsorship committee(9,10,11,12)
Member: Muslim Student Association (9,10,11,12)</p>

<p>Co-Founder & CFO : The Knowledge Foundation (11,12) (charity donating books to third world countries)
Business Development Intern : Qur'an Academy (tech startup) (11,12)
Summer Marketing Intern: Bindo (tech startup) (summer before 12th grade)
Summer Intern: Universal Distributions, LLC (summer before 11th grade)</p>

<p>Essays & Recommendations:
-Im asking two teachers that have known me since freshman year, and know me very well (one of them ive had twice, the other is my club advisor for two clubs that i founded)
-Essay is going to talk about tech & entrepreneurship most likely (startups) - trying to tie in the essay with the internships at tech startups and the thinkful course</p>

<p>School: Public
State: NJ
Race: Asian (pakistan)
Alumni Relation to stern (brother)
Hooks: First-Gen</p>

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<p>Good EC’s and sat score but apart from that I see a solid maybe low match in NYU and Umich</p>

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<p>bump</p>

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<p>your scores and class rank are a bit low, but good EC’s. I can’t say for sure, but you’re definitely COMPETITIVE for those schools and you better get some matches and safeties</p>

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<p>You do want to bring up your GPA and the CR score as most of these schools are very competitive and are reach for most students. UMich also put more emphasis on GPA. You may want to double check your uwGPA calculation.</p>

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<p>@lanflan‌ Our school doesnt provide class rank other than tell us if we’re top 10% so that was just my estimate. Thanks for the input!</p>

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<p>@billcsho‌ Are you saying the unweighted is probably lower than i put or higher? Do you know where I could do a proper calculation since our school only gives weighted? I know it’s between 91-93% unweighted, but I wanted to know what it was out of 4.0</p>

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<p>@hmemon99 Does your school give letter grades or just %? If you have uw % score, you may still convert them into letter grades. Try to convert the % grade of each class into letter grades using charts below. Then calculate the GPA using A=4.0, B=3.0, C=2.0, etc for all subjects and only the 5 cores.
<a href=“Calculate Your GPA With Our GPA Scale | The Princeton Review”>http://inquiry.princetonreview.com/leadgentemplate/GPA_popup.asp&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos”>Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos;

<p>Do not use the average % for conversion. Use the % from EACH course to get a letter grade and then do the calculation.</p>

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<p>@billcsho‌ is that really the standard system?!?!??!?! I was under the impression that 90-100 was an A, 80-90 was a B, etc. If my school just uses that system and my A’s don’t have any description other than A’s, does it matter if one was a 94? Do I need to recalculate my GPA using that system for college?</p>

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<p>There is no standard as each school may have their own chart. What I posted are just the more popular ones (which is A=90-100, B=80-89, etc).</p>

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<p>bump</p>