Safety and reach school suggestions

College Search & Selection
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Hi, I am half white, half Hispanic Junior boy in High School. I know it’s early however, I’d like some recommendations on potential safety and reach schools. I want to study International Relations and potentially double major in something else later on. Here is a list of some of my stats below. My district is really renowned in the Chicago Suburbs.

Stats and Info

Location: Chicago Suburbs

GPA: W-3.85 UW-3.41

SAT: 1160 (the first attempt, still working on it)

Bilingual: Spanish and English

Extracurricular

  • Class Board starting sophomore year. Vice President junior year, possibly senior year too. As VP raised $1,500+ towards charity through fundraisers (as of December 2020)
  • Co-Founder of International Relations Club. Founded junior year. President junior year and possibly senior year
  • Investment Club Advisory Board Junior year
  • DECA starting freshman year to present. Received multiple awards.
  • Fishing Club starting freshman year to present
  • Model UN starting Junior year
  • Spanish Club
  • Elevate (school organization on personal wellbeing)
  • Nominated to serve on Spanish Book Committee. Worked on organizing a section in our school library of books in Spanish. Our school is 25%+ Hispanic.
  • Track, freshman year-present
  • Varsity Cheer, junior year-present

Job Experience

  • Babysitting 2016-present
  • Pool attendant and Office assistant 2019, Front Desk for Apartment Complex 2020-present. These jobs are through the same company.

Classes

A mix of Honors, regular, AP’s, and Dual-Credit.

AP’s

  • AP Human Geography (freshman year) - 4
  • AP World History (sophomore year) - 4
  • AP Spanish Language - currently taking
  • AP U.S. History - currently taking

Senior year AP’s

  • AP Spanish Lit
  • AP Economics, Micro and Macro
  • AP Politics, U.S. Gov and Politics and Comparative Government

Dual Credit

  • College Algebra - currently taking
  • College Business (Business 101) - currently taking

Senior year

  • College Stats
  • Middle Eastern Politics
  • College Speech
  • College Composition

Hobbies

  • Stocks, started when I was 14 and in just the past year have had a huge portfolio increase.
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American U, Dickinson as reaches
Kalamazoo, Goucher as safeties (apply test optional unless you get to 1250+)

What’s your budget?
Run the NPC (net price calculator) on the three colleges above with your parents. What can they afford?