UW-Madison chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m a racial minority Junior in an affluent neighborhood in a great school of Northern Illinois. I have progressed throughout the years to get into honors classes and AP classes. This year I am in all honors classes except for math, and AP French (highest level in my school). In my senior year, I will be taking AP Bio, AP AB Calc, AP Literature, and AP Psych (and Consumer Education). Last semester my unweighted GPA was a 3.2, weighted was 4.0. I plan on bringing that up absolutely as much as I can this semester. So far this semester I have an unweighted 3.4 and weighted 4.2. I got a 31 on my ACT.
I am an editor on my school’s nationally recognized newspaper, I was a student leader in one of those “get-to-know-yourself” retreats sponsored by the school this year (applying to be a student director, higher position, for next year), I am in Medical Club, After School All Stars (tutoring kids in less fortunate areas) and I tutor kids in a writing program at my school. I am in French Nat’l Honors Society and Nat’l Honors Society. I also have a job and my volunteering can count as the After School All Stars Club, however I plan on volunteering in a hospital soon. I played lacrosse fresh/soph year, not anymore.

What are my chances of getting into UW Madison? What should I improve? Please any advice is encouraged and welcome! Please please let me know!! Thanks!

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Don’t worry, your odds are excellent, especially if you apply during the month the app goes live. :slight_smile:
Have you run the Net Price Calculator with your parents? Is the cost of UWI within budget for them?
As an OOS applicant, you won’t be eligible for financial aid at public universities outside your state (you’ll be eligible to private universities anywhere, of course).
However, of course, you should apply to other universities.

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Do you say to apply to other universities just because of common sense or because you think I won’t get into Madison? Sorry if this sounds offensive, I don’t mean it to! I’m probably just overanalyzing this but I was just curious what you meant by that :slight_smile:

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Yes, common sense. You must ALWAYS ALWAYS have safety schools (2 is the recommended number, so that, if all goes wrong, you still have a choice to make in the Spring.)