<p>Is the 3.88 weighted or unweighted? My son’s first sets of SATs and ACTs were lower than yours (SATs were comparable), but his scores went up to 2060/31 on second attempts. His unweighted GPA was just over 3.3, but he attends a respected private school, and his weighted GPA was close to a 4.0. He has many of your interests: student government officer, Model UN, JSA/debating, etc. He plans to major in Poli.Sci./Government, with an eye toward law school down the road. He did not apply to any DC schools, which surprised me, but G’town would have been an extreme reach. If you want a notion of how someone with similar qualifications to yours did, here is the breakdown - Accepted: Tulane (no aid); Pitzer (no aid); Occidental ($12.5k); Whitman ($7.5k); UC San Diego (out-of-state, no aid); UC Davis (same as UCSD); Willamette ($19k); Eckerd ($19k); Guilford ($15k); New College of FL ($15k). Wait-lists: Reed, University of Washington. Rejected: UNC-Chapel Hill; UC Berkeley; Claremont-McKenna. If your 3.88 is unweighted, and you bring your SATs up a notch, you should be at least as competitive as he was. I know that people with marginally higher stats than his got nice scholarships from Tulane, for instance, and that he was not statistically out of reach for Claremont-McKenna (they love “leadership” credentials). Are you committed to Northeast? </p>