Indiana University / Wake Forest / Villanova / Miami of Ohio / NYU / Purdue / UIUC

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi all, I’m looking at the following schools and I want to know where you would rank them (safety / match / low reach / reach / high reach), thanks!

  • Villanova Business School
  • Indiana University (Kelley School of Business Direct Admit)
  • Wake Forest
  • NYU Stern
  • Purdue
  • Miami of Ohio (Business School Direct Admission)
  • Syracuse
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The meat vvvvvvvvv

(Note: Finances are not an issue)

UW GPA: 3.32
W GPA: 3.84 (converted from my school’s native 4.8/5.0 scale)

No class ranks because top 20% at my school would be top 10% at your average HS

29 Composite ACT
30 Superscore ACT
Just took the ACT today, honestly have no idea how I did. :confused:

8 Honors Courses
7 AP Courses(not counted in honors count, but are honors weighted in GPA) / 4 APs are senior year

NHS - Pod Leader
Marching Band - Band Staff
JA Company - VP of Finance Department
Peer Jury - Juror and Interviewer for New Jurors
Business Professionals of America - State Finalist
Solstice Literary and Art Magazine - Layout Designer
Campaign for Classrooms - member (group of friends that made a club to raise money to build classrooms in 3rd world countries)

80ish hours of community service - 40 at my local food pantry and 25 doing Peer Jury

Jobs:
Working currently at TCBY(Frozen Yogurt) and plan to continue throughout the year
Worked at Jewel Osco for 3 months (summer)

Other ~
State: Illinois
School Type: 98% of seniors go to college, around 780 students per class
Ethnicity: White/Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 450k
Hooks: None
Major: Strong interest in finance major

As I said, I can give more information if needed.
Thanks!

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All but UIUC and Purdue are reaches but being full pay will help you at Villanova.
Miami Ohio and Indiana are low matches but you wouldn’t likely be a direct admit.

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I believe I can get Direct Admittance to both IU and Miami of Ohio’s Business Programs because they are based off of numbers, no idea why I posted those. Glad to hear that being able to pay in full will aid my shot at Villanova, I plan on getting more volunteer hours in this year, so hopefully that will also help in that regard.

I know that Wake Forest places dedicated interest on a high pedestal, so I plan on opening up an active dialogue between me and my regional admissions counselor and also plan on doing well in their interview.

I figured Stern was a lonngg shot, but there are kids from my school who get into NYU with far lower stats than me, but that may be due to them getting into their arts and theatre school, not be grades, but by sending in some artistic portfolio or whatnot.

Thanks for your comment, any others?