Please Help Chance Me for these Schools?!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I made an earlier post about which schools to narrow down as I currently have 23 schools on the list. I think I need to compare my chances of admission/financial aid (merit, need-blind, grants, scholarships) for these schools in order to narrow it down.

Also please offer advice on which school to ED to (I’m looking at UChicago, Cornell, Northwestern, UPenn Wharton, or Columbia because they are high reach schools and might improve my chances for admission)

I’m interested in majoring in business or maybe economics.

For Purdue, UTexas, UMichigan, UVirginia, Georgia Tech, and Indiana Bloomington, they have good business programs, but I am applying to see if I can get a lot of financial aid/scholarships since I’m OOS.
In general, I like larger schools in an urban/suburban area and overall school ranking is also important to me (preferrably top 30 or so, otherwise I would settle for OSU which is my safety school). I would mainly just like to apply to reach schools ranked top.

I would really appreciate if you could chance me for any of these schools and let me know which schools are or aren’t worth applying to! Also a ranking of these schools’ business programs would really help!

Chance me for these schools:
NYU (aiming for Stern program)
USC
Berkeley
UCLA
CMU
UChicago
Columbia
Cornell
Emory
Georgetown
URochester
UMichigan
UNC
Northwestern
UPenn
Vanderbilt
WashU in St. Louis

Around how much financial aid will I be able to receive for these schools:
OSU
Purdue
UVirginia
Georgia Tech
Indiana Bloomington (Kelley)
UTexas

SCORES:
Unweighted GPA: 3.73
Weighted GPA: 4.122
High School ranked top 5 in Ohio, top 200 something school in nation
School does not report rank.
Asian (Chinese)
Income >100k

ACT: taken 4 times. Highest score in one sitting: 33 Composite, 36 Math, 35 English, 32 Reading, 30 Science, 7 Writing (messed up Science and Writing)
Superscore: 35 Composite, 36 Math, 35 English, 33 Reading, 34 Science, 9 Writing

SAT Subject: Math Level I (760), plan to take Math Level II again, Literature, and Chinese but not sure if Chinese will make if for Early Action since it’s only offered in November every year. I also took Chemistry (620), US History (560), and Math Level II (640) but will not be reporting those scores.

AP Scores: AP Bio (3), AP Calc AB (3), AP Government (4), AP Chinese (4), AP U.S. History (2), AP Chemistry (3), AP Psychology (4)
Plan to take: AP Lang, AP Env. Science, AP Lit, AP Stat, AP Micro, AP Macro

HIGH SCHOOL COURSES IN MIDDLE SCHOOL:
Honors Algebra 1: A
Honors Geometry: A
Physical Science: A/A-

9TH GRADE:
Honors Algebra II: A/A-
Modern World History: A/A-
French I: A
Biology: A
Honors English I: B+/A-
Orchestra: A

10TH GRADE:
*I really messed up sophomore year…:confused:
Honors Precalculus: B+/B
French II: A
AP Chemistry: B/B
Orchestra: A
Honors English 2: B/B+
AP U.S. History: B+/B+

11TH GRADE:
AP Biology A-/A
AP Calculus AB B-/A-
AP Gov & Politics A-/A
French III A-/A
Honors English III A-/A-
IB Psychology SL A

12TH GRADE (taking dual enrollment college level classes at OSU through College Credit Plus Program):
1430 Statistics for the Business Sciences
1100.01 First Year English Composition
2001.01 Principles of Microeconomics
2002.01 Principles of Macroeconomics
2100 Intro to Environmental Science

EXTRACURRICULARS:
Girls JV tennis (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, Co-Captain 2017):
Extremely competitive to get into team, Varsity tennis team placed top in our state. Played for 7 years since middle school tennis. We are often undefeated against other high schools

Figure Skating (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
Skated ever since I was 7 years old (skated 10 years now). Originally skated competitively, now skate to complete all levels (there are 8 levels total for Moves in the Field and Free Skate each). I’m currently Junior Moves (one more level until Gold/Senior level) and Juvenile Free Skate (4 more levels until Gold/Senior)
*btw, Gold/Senior is the highest level you can reach (thats Olympics level)

Freshman Cabinet, Sophomore Cabinet, Junior Cabinet, Senior Cabinet (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017):
Help plan multiple school dances, and social activities for our class.

Mock Trial (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017):
Advanced to Regionals Competition (2015, 2016)

Key Club (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, officer: Welcome Warehouse Chair, 2016, 2017 )
I helped organize volunteering at local warehouse to provide clothing for those in need, fundraisers for the Mid-Ohio Food Bank & a canned food drive for a local food pantry

Wee Folk Room Volunteer (2016, 2017):
I help care for little children, I find various entertaining activities for them at my local rec center

Biology Olympiad (2016, 2017 involved in making of first year, Secretary 2016, Vice President 2017):
Secretary of Biology Olympiad and involved in the making of the club’s first year at my high school. I helped prepare students for the prestigious Biology Olympiad Competition & the National Biology Competition by helping them build critical thinking in laboratory skills and biological reasoning, using resources created by top universities many other stimulating activities

Student Council (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017):
We planned numerous fundraisers and service projects that helped benefit organizations and our school a great deal. Also, we organized several events such as the district wide Dodgeball Tournament, American Cancer Society fundraiser, and another fundraiser which helped to raise over $10,000 for pediatric cancer research at a nearby Hospital

Teen Institute (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, Co-Leader 2017):
Club promoting drug-free choices and healthy lifestyles. I helped plan multiple events and retreats. In addition I help lead the Teen Institute of all the high schools in our entire community.

Volunteer often with one-time events at local Rec Center (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)

Worked at El Vaquero (summer 2016 and beginning of 11th grade):
Hostess & Busser

USG (2017):
OSU Undergraduate Student Government

Women in the Outdoors Club (WITO) (Co-President 2017 at OSU)

Do I have too many extracurriculars?

HONORS & AWARDS
Honor Roll (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
AP Scholar with Honors Award (2016, 2017)
Future Valedictorian, Summa Cum Laude, Diploma with Honors
Advanced to Mock Trial Regionals Competition
NHS (2016, 2017)

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Chance me for these schools:
NYU (aiming for Stern program) - possible, but probably not much FA
USC - reach for admittance and no chance at aid
Berkeley - reach for admittance and no chance at aid
UCLA - reach for admittance and no chance at aid
CMU - possible for admittance
UChicago - big reach for admittance
Columbia - big reach for admittance
Cornell - reach for admittance
Emory - possible
Georgetown - reach for admittance
URochester - possible
UMichigan - reach of OSS admittance
UNC - reach of OOS admittance, possible aid if get in
Northwestern - reach for admittance
UPenn - reach for admittance
Vanderbilt - reach for admittance
WashU in St. Louis - reach for admittance

Around how much financial aid will I be able to receive for these schools:
OSU - Likely to get in, possible for some aid. Likely not a full ride though.
Purdue - possible acceptance, not much aid
UVirginia - reach for OOS admittance
Georgia Tech - reach
Indiana Bloomington (Kelley) - possible acceptance, maybe some aid
UTexas - big reach for OOS admittance

As mentioned in several of the 27 replies to your other post, UC’s & NYU are likely out of reach financially even if you get in. Is it worth applying to all these reaches? well, that’s up to you - how much time/money/effort/emotional capital do you have to invest in applying to all these schools??

Likelies are OSU, IU, Rochester, maybe Purdue, Emory, CMU. Add Case Western, Miami (OH) & Ohio U to have chance at more merit money from those schools.

In general your stats (3.73 UW, 33 single sitting ACT) are good but likely not remarkable enough to really impress reach schools. Your ECs are pretty decent, and show an involved and earnest student, so you will get offers from some really good schools.

As for ED, I don’t see much of a bump for you to do ED anywhere in particular. Is there a reach school that you really want over all others, and can afford to go to? If so, consider ED there. Please run the net price calculators at the reach schools to see if any of them are affordable at all.

Finally, please go back and read the replies from your earlier post. Lots of good advice there as well.

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^ Agree! However, I consider NYU-Stern a reach too. Too many reaches in your list!

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Have you checked the NPCs for these schools? You are not likely to get merit scholarships from those OOS schools on your list. Your GPA also makes the admission chance not very good at them. From your letter grades, your UMich recalculate uwGPA is around 3.5 which is very significantly below the admission average of 3.87. You may remove it from the list.

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You listed your family income as >100k. Assuming that it is less than 200k, I would drop UCLA and UC Berkeley from the list because I think that your chance of substantial financial aid is zero.

You have a lot of reaches. However, OSU is a very good school and if it is also a safety from both the point of view of admission and also finances, then I can see that there is little point in applying to a “less than top” school that you would not prefer to OSU. On the other hand, having two safeties is not a bad idea.

I don’t think that it makes any sense to apply ED unless you are really sure that there is one school which you want to go to as a strong first choice, and that you have at least some chance of getting into ED.

As such, I would be inclined to get your application into OSU early, don’t bother with ED, and cut your reach schools in half. Adding another low match / safety might be a good idea also.