Overall Chances to Good Universities

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Good afternoon everyone!</p>

<p>My name is Adam and I am a Junior from CA. Here's my problem, I've basically been scaring myself into believing that I am not going to be able to make it into any universities or colleges that I would like to go to, preferably a top engineering school, thus I was hoping that someone could maybe ease my worries just a little. Here is a little information about me. I go to one of the most competitive public high schools in my area and am ranked around 60 out of a class of about 500 people. I've either taken or am taking: AP English, AP Spanish, AP European History, AP US History, Honors Spanish 3, Honors Chemistry, Honors Physics, and Honors Math Analysis. My unweighted GPA is 3.69 while my weighted GPA is a 4.19. I've been swimming since sophomore year as well as running cross country since freshman year and am hoping to be on the varsity teams for each sport my senior year. I founded the Spanish Honor Society at my school and am president of that society and am a member of Link Crew and the National Honor Society. I've been in Band since my Freshman year, have done my county's honor band for three years now, and am section leader. I have also volunteered regularly for the past two years - ranking up about 150 hours of community service. I also took American Law and Litigation, an Insight Course, at the University of Chicago this last summer to see if the study of Law was going to be something that would interest me as well as obtaining some college credits. </p>

<p>If you could please size me up as if I was applying to a top 25 university or college, that would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for your time and if you would like more information, please ask away.</p>

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<p>Alrighty. Are we talking MIT or Rochester Institute of Technology? Case Western? What are you aiming for here?</p>

<p>Your school is going to help with this. For the main part, the TOP top schools want to see good stories. They want something captivating. You need so much more than good grades and scores and things like that. You have to go beyond. But, that’s for places like MIT. And, honestly, that is a reach for anyone.</p>

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How was the American Law and Litigation course at UChicago? Was it easy to get in? My 9th grader is planning to apply for for the course! Any suggestions? Thanks!

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So, your GPA and class rank are likely going to make the tippy top schools very unlikely for you (i.e. MIT, Stanford, etc) I think you would be on the edge for some top 25 places, and could have a good shot at some good engineering schools. However, a lot of this is going to hinge on test scores. Great engineering schools I think you could have a chance at, if you can get really good grades this semester and do well on the SAT/ACT are:
UMichigan
Georgia Tech
UT-Austin
UIUC
UC San Diego
USC
UW-Madison

I’d put all of those places in the high match-reach for you, but good test scores could shift what you’re looking at. A 1500+/33-34+ would give you solid chances at any of those, at a guess. Good luck, you’d want to add a lot of safeties to that list.

Would you mind chancing me back?
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