honest opinions needed

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>im in serious need of some honest opinions on whether ill get into the schools im applying to or not. i feel that my guidance counselor is being WAY too pessimistic. she says that i do not have any safetys and that the only targets i have are penn state and delaware, everything else reach. and my mom is being WAY to optimistic, she thinks im going to get into all of them and wait-listed to penn. so some help would be greatly appreciated. here i am:</p>

<p>3.64 gpa (3.3 frosh year to a 3.85 jr year)
no class rank, i go to a really competitive public school
760 verbal 700 math 650 writing
730 us history, 700 math level 2
honors/aps all throughouts hs, 5 aps sr year
national hispanic recognition scholar finalist
jv/varisty cheerleading all 4 years, captain/co-captain
competition cheerleading
pop warner student demonstrator (community service)
ballet, tap, jazz dance for 12 years
job in summer and sr year
future business leaders of america
church youth group</p>

<p>im applying to villanova, boston college, penn state university park, university of delaware, upenn (yeah i know, ultra super reach), nyu stern, and lehigh
thanks! ill really appreciate any feedback</p>

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<p>I think that everything but upenn and nyu are safeties for you. You seem to have taken a hard course load and your test scores and ec's are good. Is your GPA weighted or not? That would make a difference, but seriously my counselor has done the same with me and its frustrating but im sure ull get into many of those schools.</p>

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<p>yeah my gpa is weighted. and even though my course load is hard now, freshman year I only took one honors and really didnt care much. highest gpa possible in my school is 4.6 out of 4.0 (because its weighted) and i know about 10-15 who have close to a perfect 4.6, its rediculous over here.</p>

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<p>you shouldn't have any problem with those schools. you'll should be able to get into at least 50% of them.</p>