Please Chance Me!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello,

I’m a HS senior and I was hoping you could chance me for the business schools of the colleges listed below based on my admission plan and profile.

EA:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Assured Admit)
Northeastern University
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (Preferred admission but prob gonna submit my Ross Admissions Portfolio in December)

RD:
UPenn
Cornell
NYU
WashU in St. Louis
Carnegie Mellon
Boston University
USC
UT Austin
Babson
UC Berkeley
UCI
UCR
UCSD
UCSB

Major: Business Administration

Ethnicity: Indian Male

My GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.72 weighted academic

AP Scores: 5 on Euro, 5 on Spanish Language, 5 on Chem, 5 on APUSH, 5 on Calc BC, 4 on Lang

Current APs: Comp Sci A, Lit, Gov, Econ

SAT Score: 790/770/20, 1560 overall (1 attempt)

LORs: One from Euro teacher and one from Chem teacher (those were my best classes in sophomore and junior yr, respectively). Solid one from tennis coach who saw my progression in tennis (became starter and captain) and saw me in academics

Essays: Spent a good amount of time editing and revising my personal statement and most ppl who have read my essay think its pretty good (including student at Cornell).

ECs:

Future Business Leaders of America Leadership Roles
VP of Membership (Nothing major)
VP of Community Service (2 big community service events were organizing a series of business workshops for middle schoolers and a neighborhood toiletry drive)
VP of Competitive Events (Nothing major)

Future Business Leaders of America Awards
National: 7th place in Entrepreneurship competitive event (sophomore yr)
State: 3rd place in Entrepreneurship, 10th place in Intro to Business Procedures
Regional: 1st place Entrepreneurship, 1st place Management Decision Making, 2nd place Intro to Business Procedures, 4th place Personal Finance

Congressional Debate (Freshman)
Competed in regional tournaments year round, varsity 4th place at regional tournament, novice finalist at regional tournament

Parliamentary Debate (Sophomore to current)
Competed in regional tournaments year round, quarter finalist at regional tournament, qualified for state tournament (junior)

Tennis
3 years JV (doubles starter, captain, M.V.P award)
1 yr Varsity (expected)
No major out of school achievement

Other:
National Merit Semifinalist

Community Service:
Volunteer judging at middle school debate tournaments, volunteered to teach tennis to autistic kids

Thank you!

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UCSB and UCSD do not have a Business school nor a Business administration major. Also UCB is not a direct admit into the Haas Business school, unless you apply to the MET or GMP program. If not you will have to apply for the program at end of Sophomore year after completing the required courses.

What is your Unweighted UC GPA, Capped weighted UC GPA and Fully weighted UC GPA?

https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

UC’s are test blind based on the current court injunction.

Do you have a sufficient budget to pay $65K/year to attend any of the UC’s?

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Sorry! I forgot to include that abt UCSB, UCSD, and UC Berkeley. Tbh, I don’t care too much abt UCR, UCSB, and UCSD. I simply checked them off on the UC application because I was already applying to Berkeley and UCI. As for UC Berkeley, I do not plan on applying to the MET or GMP programs, so could you chance me on admission to the university as a whole? I just used the calculator for UC GPA’s and Unweighted UC GPA is 4.00, Capped Weighted UC GPA is 4.19, and Fully Weighted UC GPA is 4.62. I do have sufficient budget to attend the UC’s. Thank you for the response!

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“University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Assured Admit)”

This is a really good school assuming that it is a safety. Are you in-state? UNC is a great university. You also clearly have put in a lot of very good work and very good academic success to earn this “great safety”. Sometimes very strong universities can be safeties (eg, McGill was a similarly very strong safety for several students that I have known in the past).

I think that you have a lot of what I would call “reasonable reaches”. A few (eg BU) might be matches or even a safety if you were applying to a less competitive major, but I do not know how much more competitive the business schools are.

I think that you are likely to do well, particularly if you can avoid debt for your bachelor’s degree. Keep up the good work when you get to university.

If you are in-state in North Carolina, then this does make me wonder which “USC” you are applying to.

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Some UC admit rates and GPA data. This is not major specific and I think your chances are a better than the data suggests.

2019 Freshman admit rates for UC GPA of 3.80-4.19 capped weighted and not major specific:
UCB: 12%
UCSD: 33%
UCSB: 32%
UCI: 35%

**2020 UC capped weighted GPA averages along with 25th-75th percentile range: **
UCB: 4.22 (4.13-4.30)
UCSD: 4.18(4.04-4.28)
UCSB: 4.17 (4.03-4.27)
UCI: 4.11 (3.96-4.26)

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You seem like a solid candidate for all of your EA schools, though the Ivies are still a reach (they are for basically anyone). If I were you, I would have applied ED to one of the tougher schools to which you’re applying RD. Overall, you are a very strong candidate and I’m sure you’ll have plenty of great options when all is said and done.