Range me (spin off of chance!)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey all, currently a junior, I was wondering if i could post my stats and you could direct me toward some reach colleges that are in my range. my dream college is uchicago, and it would be amazing to be admitted there; if you have the time, please chance me for uchicago also. thanks in advance!</p>

<p>gpa: 4.429 weighted on 5.0 scale</p>

<p>SAT: 2120 </p>

<p>ACT: (planning around 34+, have taken several practice acts and have always gotten above 34)</p>

<p>AP: i will have around 10 ap tests by graduation, mostly 5's.</p>

<p>Classes: (most rigorous schedule possible)</p>

<p>Freshmanyear
-honors eng I - A
-honors bio - A
-honors algII/trig - B!!!
-honors world history - A
-orchestra - A
-spanish II - A
-gym - A (lol)</p>

<p>Sophomoreyear
-honors eng II - A
-honors chemistry - A
-honors precalc - B!!!
-AP Euro - A
-orchestra - A
-spanish III - A
-gym - A+ (lol)</p>

<p>Junioryear
-AP III English - A
-AP Government/Politics (US and comparative)- A
-AP Calc BC - B!!!
-honors physics - B :(
-orchestra - A
-AP Computer Science - A
-gym - A (lol)</p>

<p>Senior year (projected)
-AP IV English
-Senior Advisory - essentially this is a 'class' (more like a social studies practicum) where only a few seniors out of 1000 kids are able to guide freshman for a period throughout their school year, it's sort of like we are teachers for one class period. shows leadership and selectivity?
-Calc III - taken through uofi, an actual college course with transfer credits
-AP Statistics
-orchestra or AP environmental science (not sure yet)
-APMacro/Micro
-gym </p>

<p>Extracurriculars -</p>

<p>freshman year- nothing lol, tried out student council, didnt like it.</p>

<p>sophomore - joined cross country (xc), youth and government, tri-m, ultimate frisbee, volunteered in china to teach english, bpa</p>

<p>junior year - was xc manager and ran with team, youth and government, bpa, part of my city council that helps decide housing for people, write for the mash (chicago newspaper for teens)</p>

<p>volunteer-
over 100 hours at library, administrator willing to write LOR</p>

<p>LOR-
english teacher (knows my personality and passions very well)
government teacher (knows me very well, seen me succeed in youth in government and in class)</p>

<p>awards -
-elected Executive director of lobbyists in youth and government STATEWIDE (out of 1400 participants)
-elected Secretary of state in youth and government STATEWIDE (out of 1400 participants)
-went to bpa state for small business management team
-i am 'ambassador' for a teen advisory group for the library, i help write proposals and present them to the board of directors of the library
-i'm planning to intern for a congressman.
-honor roll all 3 years so far
-school got rid of class rank, i would have been 14 out of 1200ish kids, (very competitive, I'm in the top .9%)</p>

<p>interests:
i love meeting and talking to new people
i love learning about other's mindsets (weird, i know)
thinking of doing poly sci or law</p>

<p>summary of questions:
will consistent b's in math hurt me? im not planning to do anything math related, even though i take the hardest math classes
will lack of ec's in freshman year hurt me? i tried alot of stuff but they arent worth mentioning.
chance me for uchicago
gimme a few colleges that are good for my range</p>

<p>thinking about:
ucla, Berkeley, UCHICAGO, northwestern, duke, washu, ivies (maybe)</p>

<p>Thank you so much for reading!!!</p>

<p>i will chance back if asked</p>

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<p>Buuuuuuuuump.</p>

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<p>ucla is your best bet out of that list, unless you are hooked, you have a very little chance at the rest of those schools, your gpa is a bit low, your sat’s are good but not great, and your ec’s are lacking (for the schools you are looking at). You have to realize that you are competeing with probably the valedictorian of every decent school in the country at the very least and everyone applying has a 2200+ sat score with mind blowing ec’s. its very tough, but getting your sat score up to 2300+ and applying ed will help your chances greatly</p>

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<p>GPA and class rank looks good for your level of rigor, aside from math; but, it’s not like you’re failing so don’t sweat it
freshman year’s an adjustment period for many, myself included, so emphasize what you’ve done since
if i were you, i’d keep orchestra over AP enviro. science
do you think that your SAT scores wouldn’t benefit from a retake?</p>

<p>UCSD, UNC, UVA?</p>

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<p>im actually planning on probably not sending in SAT scores if i get 34+ on the act, and i’m not too worried about my act scores anyway. ill probably retake SAT eventually, but i think my ec’s are actually okay considering that my youth and gov statewide elections are great, but that’s just me.</p>

<p>thanks for all the input!</p>

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<p>I think rigor should make up for your math grade if you’re not doing anything with math. You might have a shot at UChic–I have a friend who got accepted with pretty similar grades/courses. If you expand in an essay why you didn’t have extracurriculars in freshman year, it could turn out pretty decent. You just have to spin how you tried lots of things in a positive light. This is just my opinion–I’m still a junior and don’t know much either. I’d recommend schools, but I’ve only been looking at ones stronger in engineering and you’re not really going in that direction. Chance me back? (I have another thread)</p>