@Youngmis123 You need to provide an unweighted GPA to even begin to evaluate you. Your GPA is clearly weighted, and not knowing the scale for certain, that 4.06 is meaningless to us. If you had all AP courses on a 5.0 scale, for example, that 4.06 would mean you have less than a B+ average—no way you would get in to UC if that were true.
@BooBooBear my school doesn´t unweighted, it is out of 4.5
So mostly As, 3-4 Bs
@Youngmis123 you can calculate your uw cum. GPA simply by assigning the following 4.0-scale values: A=4, A-=3.67, B+=3.33, B=3, and so on. Weight each value according to credit(s) earned, add up the weighted values, and divide by total number of credits.
Colleges won’t be looking at weighted GPA because each school or district is different in their weighting methodology. They are pretty much doing the above calculation; if you do the same, you can figure out your chances better. If you are planning to apply “test optional”, that uw GPA will need to be very high.
How high does your unweighted GPA need to be
My unweighted is about a 3.74
Other things for my Stats
First Gen Nigerian American
Lower Middle Class
Small Urban Town with a high crime rating in PA
I earned 18 Credits but when I divided by my value I have a 4.334
But however, when I divided by the number of classes I have I get a 3.74
You need to make sure that credit value for the grade in the numerator is consistent with the credits in the denominator. For instance, if your school issues semester grades and all your courses are 1 credit each, and you’ve earned, say, 42 credits so far (7 each semester for three semesters) then you give each course a weight of 1 and divide by 42. Simple example for two courses: A and B. Each gets one credit:( 4.01 + 3.01) / (1+1). If the A course gives you 1 credit, and the B only .5 (say, it was only in session half the time) then: (4.01 + 3.0.5)/(1+.5).
Hopefully that makes sense!
3.74 sounds about right, BTW, for mostly A’s and 3 or 4 B’s.
is that good for Uchicago
@Youngmis123 - not sure. They look at each application individually and this upcoming admissions cycle is the first year they are going “Test Optional”. The only advice I have is to give them a strong application, hit your essays out of the ballpark (so to speak) and have backups in mind because UChicago is really hard to get into.
Your essay topic seems really interesting - anyone mentioning Machiavelli in their college essay seems like a good fit to me! 
Not sure which courses you have taken (apologize if you listed and I missed) but your GPA alone shouldn’t keep you out. They don’t look at one particular thing. UChicago is rigorous but they will love getting brainy applicants from all backgrounds, ethnic groups and SES. Their new test-optional decision is part of a new, aggressive expansion to reach even more lower income and first gen. applicants. If you feel it’s a good fit - Go For It!
AP Calculus, AP Euro, AP Bio, majority honors classes (my school doesn´t offer that many APs)
Taking AP Stat and AP Chemistry this year
Reach: Uchicago
Match: UDelaware, Rutgers, AmericanU, GW, UMass Amherst, Drexel
Safety: St Johns and Temple
Villanova maybe, it depends on my score on my SAT this October
Let’s hope the October SAT curve won’t be as insane as June’s 
College Board is stupid. They can´t do anything right
Change my essay to the comparison of apples and oranges based on the apple´s simplicity vs the orange´s complexity. I related this theory to one event in my life, where I was accused of shoplifting (which I didn´t) because of my race. In the end, I will explain we need to not judge by our simple appearance (apple) rather be judged based on our complexity (orange).
Hey! Lil late to the convo but I’m applying EA for biological chem or immunology and I did the prompt Where is Waldo, really?
Oh, I like that prompt. If I did that prompt, I would say that Waldo is our inner personalities that no one can really find