Please Chance Me!

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>Can you guys please tell me my realistic chances of getting into these schools?</p>

<p>UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC Davis
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara
Boston College
Brown
Columbia
Dartmouth
Duke
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Princeton
Stanford
George Washington
Tufts
Notre Dame
UPenn
USC
Vanderbilt
Yale</p>

<p>Stats:
Major: Economics
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: 100% Afghan
School: Nor Cal Public School
Unweighted: 3.76
Common App GPA: 4.0
UC GPA: 4.2
SAT: 1980 (going to retake w higher score) (Writing 600 (essay 9), Math 730, Reading 650)
ACT: 31 (waiting on new scores, hopefully higher)
Dad did not go to college, mom only has an AA degree from community college.
Parents were born in Afghanistan.
Will probably not qualify for financial aid and has not had super hardships.
Has letters of rec from elected officials as well as teachers.
Essay will be really good</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Class President all four years
Student leadership all four years
Club soccer since I could walk (many years as captain)
Won a few awards here and there
Worked on Mayor's campaign for State Assembly
Summer internship for Congressman
Graduated from a District Attorney's program
3 year varsity soccer player
1 year of lacrosse
Has visited Afghanistan 2 times
Volunteered extensively in education in Afghanistan in 2013 (really extensively) [in education and development of orphanages]
Founder and president of a club to donate money to an orphanage in Afghanistan
Volunteered for an organization that holds soccer tournaments in America and donates proceeds to soccer development there
Voted most likely to succeed, junior homecoming prince and senior homecoming court (if that counts for anything)</p>

<p>Please be completely honest with me, don't spare my feelings. Thank you all so much!</p>

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<p>You have almost zero chance with your SAT and ACT scores. If you bring it up to 2100+ you would have a good chance at all the schools.</p>

3

<p>While your GPA and test scores are good, they are unfortunately on the very low end of those admitted to that list of schools. Make sure you have a balanced list of schools and be sure to included some matches and safeties. You should run your list past your high school counselors and see if they can help you come up with a more realistic list of schools.</p>

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<p>I think you have a nice chance! You are applying to a wide range of schools so that is VERY good! Try to get your SAT up a little :slight_smile: Just take as many practice writing and reading sections as possible, and your scores should improve there. You have a really interesting story so I recommend playing that up in your essays, but as genuinely as possible! You don’t want to sound pretentious and as if you did all things just to get into college–the admissions directors want to see who you are FOR REAL so don’t try too hard. </p>

<p>Good luck! </p>