U of Chicago - Aiming to high?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a high school student from North Carolina planning to apply EA. Can you please rate my chances.</p>

<p>4.48 - Weighted GPA
3.87 - Unweighted
36/360 - Class Rank</p>

<p>ACT: 27 (I Know it's low. Took June of Sophomore Year, will retake in June and one more time in September)</p>

<p>APs Taken:
US History
English Language and Composition
English Literature and Composition
Environmental Science
Psychology
Statistics
US Government
Calculus</p>

<p>ECs:
Editor-in-Chief, School Newspaper (3 years)
Student Body President (3 years)
National Honor Society President (2 years)
Key Club President (3 years)
North Carolina Scholastic Media Association President (State Office)
-North Carolina Scholastic Media Association Journalist of the Year
-North Carolina Scholastic Media Association Editor of the Year
Debate Team Captain
-2 State Championships
National French Honor Society
-Studied Abroad in France for a summer
Varsity Football (3 years)
-Team Captain
-All Conference (2 years)
-All-Academic State
Varsity Baseball (4 years)
-Team Captain
-All Conference (4 years)
-Hoping to play for U of C
North Carolina Science Fair Winner
Special Olympics Volunteer (100 hours/year)
Global Young Leaders Conference
National Institute of Health Internship over Summer of 2007
-Published Research
Junior Statesmen of America Summer School </p>

<p>Work 30+ hours per week
Volunteer Bi-Weekly with Meals on Wheels</p>

<p>Am certain I will have great recommendations and essays.</p>

<p>Any help on how I can improve my chances, or other colleges that I could get into would be great!</p>

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<p>Your extracurriculars are great, but you just need to work on bringing up your GPA and test scores. If you get a 31, I'd say you're a weak match.</p>

3

<p>you have excellent ECs. the academic stuff can use some work because colleges are above all academic institutions, not places to show off ECs.</p>

4

<p>Honestly, if you break 31-32 on your ACT and write some solid essays (UChi loves those), you are a match. Don't sweat the GPA (it's good enough).</p>

5

<p>If ACT=32, you have a shot.</p>

6

<p>Agree with all the above, your EC's are amazing. If the ACT doesn't seem to work for you, go for the SAT's, some people seem to do a lot better on one than the other and it seems to me you're definitely capable</p>

<p>Though I would have to say go for Duke!</p>