<p>Hi I am a Junior in high school. I am starting to look at colleges and I would really like to attend a top tier university: Ivy, ND, Northwestern, Wash U, UNC, Vanderbilt, Boston College, and Georgetown just to name a few examples. I have a cumulative 4.3 GPA, weighted. That ranks my 16 in my class of 600 students. I have an ACT of a 30, I did two years of honors advanced foreign language: 2 honors and 3 honors. I am a member of NHS which I hope to be VP of next year. I am also in investment club, scholastic bowl, and the varsity tennis team. I started the debate team at my school and am captain of it. I led a kairos retreat, have good interviewing skills, leadership, contacts, and writing skills. I am very involved in my church and an usher and Eucharist minister as well as member of the youth group. I got a 5 on my AP world History exam and took 4-5 honors/AP every year. So do I have any shot getting into a university of such esteem as the ones I listed? I know my ACT is on the low side but maybe my EC's will make up for it? What are your thoughts? </p>
<p>If i were you I would retake the ACT I think you can get into BC, Wash U, maybe GTown
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<p>i would definitely retake the ACT. Otherwise, your EC’s will only make up for it if you have done very in-depth work within those activities. Right now, you have a chance of getting into Boston College </p>
<p>The kind of kids who get into “top-tier” universities don’t have strong parts of their application that make up for the weaker parts; their entire application is strong. By strong, I don’t mean perfect (i.e. you don’t need to get a 36 on the ACT and have a 4.0 unweighted GPA), but you need to be pretty darn near that, with stellar academics AND strong/unique extracurriculars.</p>
<p>Overall, your stats look great, but your ACT score is a bit on the low side for the schools you’re looking at. Here are the ACT ranges of the middle 50% of accepted students last year at several colleges you’re interested in, just to give you some examples:</p>
<p>Yale: 32-35
WashU: 32-34
Vandy: 32-34
Harvard: 31-35
Princeton: 31-35
Columbia: 31-34
Dartmouth: 30-34
UPenn: 30-34
Northwestern: 30-33
Brown: 29-34
Cornell: 29-33
Georgetown: 29-33
BC: 29-32
UNC: 27-32</p>
<p>Two things to note about the above data: [ul]
[<em>] Some of the numbers may seem low to you, and that would be because some students send in both their ACT and SAT scores, with one set of test scores higher than the other, and that skews the data. (For example, an applicant could submit their ACT score of 30 and their SAT score of 2300, and because their SAT score is much higher than their ACT score, the admissions committee would focus more on their SAT score in their decision-making, but when the admissions data is released, it looks like the applicant’s ACT score was what was considered.) Additionally, a lot of the applicants who get accepted to top schools with lower test scores are minorities, low-income, and/or recruited for athletics.
[</em>] As you can see, your score of 30 falls in the middle 50% range for some of these schools, but you shouldn’t shoot for the bottom of the range. I would definitely advise that you retake the ACT and shoot for 33+ in order to give your chances a boost.
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Best of luck! :-bd </p>
<p>You are an amazing candidate!!! I think that of the list you gave, you will surely be accepted to BC. Other schools of similar caliber that you could be accepted to include Emory, Tufts, and U of Michigan. </p>
<p>Reaches that you should consider (because they are totally plausible) are UPenn (esp. applying ED), Cornell, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, and Berkeley. I call these reaches because they have low acceptance rates, they are totally not unrealistic for you.</p>
<p>Some more crazy reaches include Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, maybe Duke (if you don’t apply ED it’s hard). </p>
<p>With your grades and scores you could really have a good chance anywhere.</p>
<p>Good work! Best of luck.</p>
<p>Chance back please: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1617448-chance-me-please-i-ll-chance-back.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1617448-chance-me-please-i-ll-chance-back.html#latest</a></p>
<p>What is you uwGPA and intended major?
You do need higher score for top tier schools. UMich LSA would be likely a very high match to low reach for oos with ACT 30 which is below admission average.</p>
<p>UNweighted GPA: 3.6 or 3.7, my schools only gives us weighted so this is my best guestimate. As for majors I’m not entirely sure. I’m thinking anything like history, law, international relations, business, government… Something in social studies or business but what exactly I don’t know. </p>
<p>Would the two years of foreign language kill my chances? I’m not sure because I did advanced honors so honors 2 and honors 3… So idk what colleges would see that as </p>