Is this list diversified enough?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Okay so I think I have narrowed my college choices to 9 schools. However, I am worried if I am reaching too high and do not have a good mix of safeties, matches, and reache. Can you tell if my list is realistic?</p>

<p>Schools: (Live in IL)</p>

<p>UPENN (ED)-Wharton
UNC- Chapel Hill
Duke
Northwestern
Cornell
USC
Emory
Uof IL Urbana Champaign
Depaul University</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.74/4.00 (UW)
4.16/4 (W)
Rank: 20/535 (top 5%)</p>

<p>ACT: 34
SAT 2'S: WILL TAKE ON THE OCT. 14
US History
Math IIC
Literature</p>

<p>Courseload: I have taken the hardest courseload out of anyone in my class. I know, its not 245 AP's (all with 5's lol) like other students on this site but nonetheless it is the hardest one taken in my class.</p>

<p>By end of high school: 9 AP'S: AP US (5), AP EURO, CALC AB (5)
Senior year: AP ECON (MACRO/MICRO), AP PHYSICS C, AP SPANISH,
AP ENGLISH, AP GOV/POL</p>

<p>Besides AP, all honors courses with the exception of required electives and a couple I chose to take (intro to business, career expo, basically time wasting crap....)</p>

<p>didnt take the euro test (confidence lacking, bad teacher got pulled into taking on the class after regular teacher bailed)</p>

<p>EC's:</p>

<p>Job- All 4 years of high school (first 2 as a regular babysitter for 12 hours a week at least and last two as a mcdonalds cashier 15 hours/wk ) </p>

<p>Scholastic Bowl- 4 yrs Team Captain- Jv (2yrs) Var(2yrs). Top scorer every year on my team. Named to all conference team last year. Basically kept my team afloat...</p>

<p>Youth Culture Committee- (Baria Mitra Mandal... i know u guys have no idea) Basically try to assimilate american born kids of indian descent into its culture (secretary) (3 yrs)</p>

<p>Sports-
Basketball-Freshman A; Soph(2yrs) Intramurals (2yrs)
Baseball (2yrs)
Fall intramurals (4yrs) Basketball/Volleyball(for those lacking the time)
Winter Intramurals (2yrs)-Basketball</p>

<p>Commiunity Service- 2 yrs- run a gift shop (200+ hours)</p>

<p>NHS (which includes canned food drive, peer tutoring, and reading to young kids) (2yrs) BOARD MEMBER</p>

<p>Summers: summer camp for basketball and baseball (2yrs)
summer school (earned credit for required electives)
earned college credit at Harper Community (Calc)
Consistently working 30-40/hrs a week for last 2 summers</p>

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<p>sorry...4got to mention 1st gen. Ind (both parents never made it out of high school) and i go to a public school</p>

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<p>as long as you would be happy at either safety (you'll get into Ill and DePaul), youre list is fine</p>

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<p>Wharton is a huge reach without ECs to support it, Duke, UNC, Northwestern are reaches, the rest a reasonable shot.</p>

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<p>does it help that im national merit commended?</p>

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<p>Duke is a slight reach. Write excellent essays and you have a good shot. Your class rank, ACT score, ecs, and GPA are all in Duke's range. Northwestern and UNC are matches/slight reaches.</p>

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<p>I agree with the poster that said lack of EC's will kill you. In fact, Wharton is so odd with their admissions; it's as if they let EC's compensate for huge discrepencies in GPA. (one of my fiends got in with a 3.6 and great EC's)</p>

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<p>wat do u mean by "kill me" does that apply to just wharton or does that apply to a lot more of my list</p>

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<p>i don't mean you're out of the running, and yes just for wharton.</p>