Reach, Match, Satisfies

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi, im currently a high school junior. Please don’t mention OOS tuition as fortunately it isn’t an issue for my family. Fallback is UT Austin, I look to study business/economics and minor in sustainability which I know UT has fairly well programs for.White Male from Florida

GPA:
unweighted- 3.95
weighted- 4.98

TEST SCORES:
SAT composite- 1370
ACT- will be taking first one in February
(P.S. I know these scores are low, I haven’t been tutored yet but I look to bring up the SAT score 100 points and the ACT I aim for around a 33)

AP SCORES:
human geography-4
ap capstone seminar-3
ap world-4
ap bio-3

Classes taken this year and planned for next year:
This year- ap lang, apush, ap calc ab, ap capstone research, ap enviro, aice business, debate, UF online DE course
Next year- ap lit, ap gov, ap calc bc, ap stats, aice thinking skills, debate, accounting, UF online DE course (2 of them)
(P.S. moral dilemma…since im not majoring in science can I drop it and double up on ap maths or should I take ap calc bc and ap chem???)

EC:
Debate President (senior year)
Deca officer (senior year)
Debate VP (junior year)
NHS member all 4 years
Deca international qualifier in start up business plan category, 6th place in state (freshman year)
Deca international qualifier in franchise business plan category, 1st place in state (sophomore, junior year, projected same for senior year)
Volunteer at local organization that pairs disabled kids with abeled kids to play sports (6 years)
Volunteer at local organization called S.O.S reading village (1 year)
Volunteer at Camp Jenny (sends underprivileged kids to sleep away camp for a weekend) 2018
Instructor at franchise Mathnasium for over 2 years (work 10+ hours a week)
Mu Alpha Theta (math team) all 4 years
Recreational Basketball league coach (1 year, 40+ hours of volunteering)

Summer:
this summer I’m applying for entrepreneurship programs at UC Berkeley and Upenn, however the biggest goal is to get an 8 week paid internship with bank of America which I fairly believe I will get so take that into account for EC’s too

COLLEGES INTERESTED IN:

  1. University of Pennsylvania
  2. UC Berkeley
  3. University of Texas
  4. Carnegie Mellon
  5. Northwestern University
  6. Dartmouth
  7. UCLA
  8. New York University
  9. University of Miami
  10. Florida State University
  11. University of Florida

(PS: my mom makes me apply to 3 in state colleges however she doesnt want me going to ANY of them-florida schools suck lol. also shes capped me @ 14 schools to apply to :confused: )

THANK YOU GUYS!!!

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UF and FSU do not “suck”. And UT Austin is not a safety for an OOS student.

You have no safeties really other than those two…possibly.

3

You should look at the recent “Accepted Students” threads on CC for the schools on your list. You’ll be able to see for yourself how you compare to students that are accepted/rejected/deferred. Pay particular attention to when they applied (ED, EA, RD), if they are OOS, and what their major is. These factors make a huge difference. Good luck!

4

Indeed, UT Austin is a reach for OP from OOS. Most of seats are taken by in state auto admission. Only ~7% enrolled students are from OOS and around the same number are international.

5

UCLA/UCB should be considered a Reach with your SAT score and the fact that the UC’s have capped OOS enrollment.

6

Most of the OOS schools on the list are reaches.