What are my Chances at Good Universities

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello, I'm a new user. I was wondering if the college board members can chance me will chance back. Applying to Undergrad
Also I will be applying for full tuition do not need financial aid, can afford up to 30k a year without taking loans. I have also finished writing a fiction book in Alternate history genre and planning to get it published. Don't know how much that will affect my transcript. Also I'm Indian.</p>

<p>I want to apply for a History major, or a buisness major.
These are my scores
SAT
Math:770
Critical reading:780</p>

<p>Writing:800</p>

<p>SAT II
US History: 800
Literature:750
World History:800</p>

<p>ACT:34/36</p>

<p>I attend a competitive public university in Massachusetts</p>

<p>Class rank Top 25 percent</p>

<p>GPA:3.64
Had a horrible freshman year got a 2.5:( but then in first semester of Sophomore
year got a 3.7
Now I have a straight 4.0 my Sophomore
second semester and Junior year gpa is also 4.0. So far I have straight As in senior year, have been studying hard.... Our school does not allow us to take many APs in Junior year at most we
can take three because we have prereqs and required courses already filling up schedule.:(:(</p>

<p>So Im in senior year
I took AP US History
and AP Stats junior year scored a 5/5 on
both. Taking AP Bio, AP English lit, AP Calc BC, AP Euro, AP Physics C, my predicted scores are 5/5 on all ap test scores. </p>

<p>ECs: President of Chess club
founder of History club
speech and debate team</p>

<p>on my school track team, and cross country team. </p>

<p>Have over 300+ hours of comm service</p>

<p>volunteered at a museum, Did so well with explaining history got a part time job after applying also a part time counseler at my YMCA.</p>

<p>I am also in Anime club, Model UN, The green team, on the yearbook team.</p>

<p>My only problem is my Freshman year which I screwed up but then I worked really hard and acheived 4.0s afterwords except first semester of sophomore year. I am taking a rigourous course load, Most kids at my school take only 3-4Aps total.</p>

<p>These are the colleges</p>

<p>BU
BC
Umass
Syracruse
Tulane
Holy cross
Bowdoin
Amherst
Northeastern
NYU</p>

<p>I'm planning to apply to Candian schools</p>

<p>Mcgill
U of Toronto
Queens
Waterloo</p>

<p>Also planning to try UCAS</p>

<p>Colleges
LSE
King's
Imperial
Oxbridge
Edinburg
UCL</p>

<p>Plz chance me, I will chance back.:):)</p>

<p>3.</p>

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<p>Your SAT and ACT scores are pretty much “off the charts” aren’t they–in the 98-99th percentile? I should think that, assuming you keep up the top grades this semester, you stand a very, very good chance at all of the US schools and I’d rule none of them out. Amherst would be the toughest, followed by Bowdoin.</p>

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<p>Agree with KY Crusader. Your freshman year will be largely ignored by the schools, since you clearly got your act together after that. You will get into a number of fine schools.</p>

<p>My only comment otherwise is that many top private schools cost $52,000+ per year in total costs now. That’s tuition/fees, room/board, books, travel, and estimated incidental expenses. That means if you don’t get merit scholarships or grants, you would be taking out $20,000 per year in loans. You don’t want to do that. $20-30K should be the most you take out in loans for all 4 years. So be sure to do the calculations as to what schools will likely expect your family to pay, and look for schools that will offer you merit aid based on your academic record. Are you likely to be a NMF?</p>

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<p>Well You see thats why I was hoping to Apply to universities abroad such as LSE or Oxbridge, and I am also interested in Canadian colleges do I stand a chance at their colleges, I’m looking at their colleges because I believe that they give you same education and are comparable to Ivies, such asw LSE, or Oxbridge, and MCGIll so coul you guys also chance me for these colleges.</p>

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<p>Some people on here will know about these schools, maybe. McGill is the only one I have any real familiarity with of the foreign schools, with regard to admissions. You should be fine there, but they are all still expensive, I believe. So I am not sure what that gains you, applying to these schools, especially when you add in the extra travel costs.</p>

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<p>Oh ok I see… I have one more question disregarding my Freshman GPA I hav a GPA of About 3.9 would I stand a chance at any of the top 20 US schools, cause it was my freshman year that I did horrible in, or will that Freshman year GPA get me an automatic rejectance… Just wondering:)</p>

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<p>It absolutely will not mean an automatic rejection. Some schools even formally throw out freshman year grades, from what I have heard, but certainly a poor freshman year with very good improvement, coupled with your excellent SAT and ACT scores, give you a chance based on stats to get accepted. Your EC’s seem fine to me, but of course that is very subjective. Bottom line, you have a decent shot at any school, but obviously the HYP schools are very tough even for those that have 4.0 every semester, including freshman year.</p>

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<p>I’m really scared to Apply because in Freshman year I had 1 D first semester and All Cs rest of the year, Im afraid that with that 1 D freshman year no colleges will accept me, I only had 1 B+ … will this majorly hinder my chances for a good college or will my other grades compensate for this fact in the eyes of Colleges,:frowning: or will tahr D get me immediate rejection…?</p>

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<p>Srry I meant that not tahr, typo, also Those were my grades only in freshman year.</p>

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<p>Well, first of all there is no reason to be afraid. The absolute worst that can happen is they say no, and you are clearly prepared for that possibility, even probability. Just to be clear, I say probability not because of your freshman year, but because most students get rejected from these schools, even ones with great stats all 4 years of high school. Get over the fear aspect and realize that 1) There really is no horrific consequence, the worst outcome is a “no”; and 2) They really do highly discount bad freshman years. Forget about the D, there is nothing you can do about it now. Besides, the only way your chances are 0% are if you never apply.</p>

<p>If there is a reason your freshman year was so poor, you can address it in your personal statement. Even if there were no better reason than you were not very mature yet and you came to your senses after that, you can say that too. Honesty and openness go a long way. It doesn’t matter to them how you were as a freshman, you weren’t applying then. It is who you are now, and they have 2 1/2 solid years of performance to see that freshman year was another life for you.</p>

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<p>Ty for telling me… btw I have one more question I want to do Histroy as an undergrad but Im wondering if I can apply to a grad school for economics or will my history degree become useless. Also I know most top Unis are extremly tough so i’m wondering suppose I go to say a top 20 uni andget a 3.3-3.4 gpa
but if I go to say… Umass and get a 4.0 will a grad school consider my 3.4 or the 4.0 that is my question because even if I go to a top 20 school if a gpa from an easy Uni like Umass can get me a 4.0 will the 4.0 Gpa be considered over the 3.4… For grad school…?</p>

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<p>Grad schools definitely take into account the quality of the undergrad school. Besides, in reality your GPA probably won’t vary that much from a top school compared to a UMass for a number of reasons. Also recommendations from profs at a top school go a long way at other top schools.</p>

<p>As far as majoring in History and then going to grad school in Econ, why would you want to do that? If you mean you have two things you like that well, then get a double major. You can easily even have them be synergistic, by focusing on the history of economics. But you cannot go to grad school for Econ and have done nothing in that area as an undergrad, that makes no sense.</p>

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<p>So then can I take a major in economic history. How tough is the competition?</p>

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<p>Probably not too tough. Pretty niche area. Check out <a href=“http://www.eh.net/[/url]”>http://www.eh.net/&lt;/a&gt; I bet you can find resources there and the names of good profs in this area and their schools. That is a good starting point. You can also Google “professors economic history”. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Ty very much!!!:):)</p>