Your guidance counselor should hopefully help bridge the gap between your UW GPA & your ACT score. Your ECs are good… I think elaborating on your experience with languages in a well-written essay would (have been) very effective for you!
USC - Accept
UCLA - Accept
UCB - Waitlist/Accept
UVA - Waitlist/Accept
BU - Accept
Brandeis - Accept
Northwestern - Waitlist/Accept
Pomona - Waitlist
Columbia - Waitlist
Harvard - Reject
Samford - Accept
UChicago - Waitlist/Reject
UPenn - Waitlist/Accept
Best of luck! Chance me back? 
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1966406-chance-me-upenn-ed-yale-brown-princeton-etc-will-chance-back.html#latest
@writergirl0316 thanks for your input! and sure 
What were your UChicago essays on? (I had similar stats, gpa, and ethnicity to you and I got in.) The essays are the most important part once you have those stats and ECs.
USC - Accept
UCLA - Accept
UCB - Accept
UVA - Accept
BU - Accept
Brandeis - Accept
Northwestern - Accept
Pomona - not sure
Columbia - not sure
Harvard - waitlist
Samford - LMAO
UChicago - Accept/Waitlist depending on essays
UPenn - not sure
@AshleyMisAwesome For my long essay I wrote something relating music to food/late-night snacking (for the past ‘how did you get caught?’ prompt). I think my ‘why uchicago’ essay was decent (not as stellar/specific as i wanted it, although i wrote it in a goldilocks/fairy tale style). My favorites essay was more of a list with brief explanations and I thought they were pretty good.
and thank you for your thoughts!!
also @ future commenters, i accidentally left a school off of the list! the college list is this:
USC
UCLA
UC Berkeley
UVA
BU
Brandeis
Northwestern
Pomona
Columbia
Harvard
Stanford
UChicago
UPenn
Georgetown
and thanks in advance
anyone else? :-/
brief update: the science olympiad team, which i lead (pretty much i’m a coach in all but name–assigning events, arranging team meetings and build days, etc) made it to the state competition!!! this is the first time in a few years, so should i update colleges on this (esp since i lead it)?? also made 3rd in an event
also: i made first team for bowling (so basically i was in the top 6 at the conference championship), and should i update colleges on this too?
i don’t suppose anyone else wants to comment? 
USC: Accept
UCLA: Accept/Waitlist
UC Berkeley: Accept/Waitlist
UVA:Waitlist
BU:Waitlist
Brandeis: Accept/Waitlist
Northwestern: Waitlist
Pomona: Reject
Columbia: Waitlist/Reject
Harvard: Reject
Stanford: Reject
UChicago: Accept/Waitlist
UPenn: Waitlist
Georgetown: Waitlist
USC- Yes (Your GPA and ACT outweight each other but your ecs etc are all super good so accept, IDK whats with USC super low admit rate yet its not that hard to get into.)
BU- Yes
Brandeis: Yes
Northwestern: Nah
Pomona- Maybe
All the ivies and stanford- reject lol sorry.
UCLA UCBerkeley: Nah
UVA- Nah M800 you’re OOS lol.
@theperson100 thanks for your thoughts!!
@Jack1212 thanks, but you forgot two schools
any news??? good luck if not!!!
@SchoolFreakLol no news yet, but next week some stuff will be coming out!!
it’s making me pretty nervous, and thanks!
No problem!!! Let me know, I know you’ll do great!
@SchoolFreakLol thanks, good luck to you too!
bump–anyone else before decisions start to come out friday?
u will do great! sleep well, good luck!
USC - high match
UCLA - high match
UCB - high match
UVA -high match
BU - high match
Brandeis - high match
Northwestern - match
Pomona - match
Columbia - low match
Harvard - low match
Stanford - low match
UChicago - low match
UPenn - low match
Chance me: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1946391-emory-emory-oxford-wake-forest-davidson-nyu-holy-cross-gw-p1.html
I think you might be waitlisted to Harvard and Stanford, but I think you have great chances at all of the other schools!
@netflixandchillingworth @nicolas23 @potentialuga21 thanks guys for your comments!!!
also a bit of an update: i hadn’t mentioned umass amherst on this thread (oops) but i’ve been accepted there with the chancellor’s scholarship!!
Congrats on the amherst acceptance
My two cents:
USC: Accept
UCLA: Reject
UCB: Accept
UVA: Accept
BU: Accept
Brandeis: Accept
Northwestern: Accept
Pomona: Reject
Columbia: Reject
Harvard: Reject
Stanford: Reject
UChicago: Waitlist
UPenn: Accept
Georgetown: Accept
@Levin67 woah that’s optimistic!!! but thank you for your input 