Do I still have a chance at my schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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So my grades dropped a lot first trimester senior year (3.5 uw gpa compared to my 3.95 cumulative), most notably I got a B in vector calculus and a B+ in biochemistry…do I still have a chance at these schools? I’m afraid they’ll see my midyear report and be like “nope haha yikes”. To be fair those are the hardest courses at my school by far, but I don’t even think that matters with the schools I’m applying to anyway

Schools: Brown, Columbia, UNC Chapel Hill, Northwestern, Washu in STL, UCLA, UCB,

also I already got into my safety so I’m not worried on that front, just wondering for the rest

Objective:
ACT (breakdown): 35C (36E, 36S, 34R, 35M, 32 W)
SAT II: Math 2-800, Latin- 700, Bio Molecular- 750
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 7%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio, Psych, Bc Calc, US Gov, and Latin are 5. Physics (4).
Senior Year Course Load: Vector Calculus (BC Calc Prerequisite), Biochemistry (AP Bio Prerequisite), AP Chem, Art History, Senior English Electives, Advanced Latin Seminar (AP Latin Prerequisite)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none really lol. Inducted into Hermes Language Honor Society, placed in State and National Level in unnamed language competitions
Subjective:

Extracurriculars :
-4 years of varsity swimming (captain) (not good enough to get recruited haha)
-4 years of jv cross country
-6 years of a well known national language organization, (state board for one year),
-language club president

  • SAID (Students advocating informed decisions) club president
  • member of chamber choir in my school
  • tour guide at my school

Volunteer/Community service:

  • 120+ hour volunteer at local museum (selected as lead in one of their programs, helping other students navigate program the summer after I completed it)
  • 200+ hour volunteer at local library
  • 50+ hour volunteer at local women/children’s shelter
  • volunteering every saturday at local elementary school

Summer Activities: working as lifeguard, volunteering (lol)

Recs: I’d say pretty good, my latin teacher really liked me so probs a 9 on that, my math teacher kind of liked me so I’d say like a 7 on that

Essays: Well I haven’t done them for all of those schools yet but my UNC ones (I applied EA) were pretty good and my UC ones were also pretty good but not as good.

Intended Major: Double Major in Psychology and Classics
State: TX
School Type: small private school
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $200,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Please let me know! Thank you!

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As long as your other grades right now are good, I think you will be fine. That being said, all of those schools on your list are reaches. Brown, Columbia, NW, and WUSTL are reaches for everyone. UNC, UCLA, and Cal are state flagships and are going to be very difficult for you since you’re OOS. You are a competitive applicant, but Ivies are reaches for everyone, and your OOS-status is not going to help you at UNC, UCLA, and Cal. Good luck.

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@wormholes thank you for the response! I only put my reaches on this post bc that was what I was most worried about my list is actually balanced

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That’s good to know. You’ll probably get into at least one of these schools, but it’s good to be safe :slight_smile:

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The UC’s are a non issue as they don’t use senior grades in admissions at all. Might impact your chances a bit at the others though