What are my chances at these schools? I appreciate any input :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>Hi, I'm new to CC butttt I figured my first question would be to ask about my chances at various schools.
Okay the schools are: Vanderbilt, Duke, Harvard, and UPenn.</p>

<p>About Me:
-I'm a junior and I am currently valedictorian with a 3.9 GPA unweighted GPA, 4.4 core GPA, and 5.1 weighted GPA. I'm pretty positive I'm going to be either valedictorian or salutatorian by the time I graduate.</p>

<p>-AP's
Freshman Year- AP Human Geography
Sophomore Year- AP World History, AP Psychology
Junior Year- AP Calculus AB, AP Biology, AP English Language
Senior Year- AP Calculus BC, AP Gov, AP English Literature, AP Euro
Of the ones I've taken so far I've scored:
AP World-3
AP Human-4
AP Psych-5
I am an AP Scholar and I am hoping to become an AP Scholar with Honors or an AP Scholar with Discinction after my exams this year.</p>

<p>-Test Scores
SAT Score: 1380/1600 or 2160/2400
ACT Score: 32
*I'm going to retake both and I am aiming for a 1450-1480 on the SAT's and a 33 or 34 on the ACT's. </p>

<p>-Exracurriculars:
*Key Club
1. Member 10th grade
2. Vice-President 11th grade
3. President 12th grade
*National Honor Society Member
*I've been a part of the TV prodution program(class) and club all 4 years of high school.
*I was a part of my city's competition cheerleading team during the beginning of 9th grade.
*I will be joining my school's varsity swim team in my senior year.</p>

<p>-I held a job from June of my sophomore year to January of my junior year and I have been tutoring in math since January. I will probably also have another job this summer. </p>

<p>** I will have 250+ volunteer service hours (Silver Chord) by the time I graduate.
***I'm hoping to be a Silver Knights Nominee in Social Sciences next year.
(The Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards is one of the nation’s most highly regarded student awards programs. The purpose of this Awards program is to recognize outstanding students who have not only maintained good grades but have also unselfishly applied their special knowledge and talents to contribute significant service to their schools and communities.)</p>

<p>I really do apologize for putting all of this down but I want a realistic idea of my chances at these colleges. Thanks so much!!! :)</p>

2

<p>good grades
SAT score a little weak
extra credit good- but perhaps a little too ordinary, i feel like there are thousands of people applying with the same extra credits
what i mean is, i’m into film and have a completed a short high quality film so i’m really stressing that because that makes me stand out. i’m also in math team chess team and stuff like that, but i’m not stressing those because, well, there are thousands of people who are better than me, who are also in math team and chess team
awards? if you can get more awards on there that would be great
try your hand at some contests, win something, it really helps lol</p>

<p>as for the specific colleges…i’m a junior so don’t really know…also matters if everyone in your high school has high gpa or if you’re much higher than everyone else, but i’d say
very good chances for vanderbilt, good chances for duke and upenn, and ok chances for harvard
with harvard you never know
i personally think apart from your app the most important thing for ivies is your school
5 people get into harvard from my school every year and while in general i have no chance of getting into harvard, i have an excellent chance of getting into the top 5 of my school</p>

3

<p>Yeah my SAT scores aren’t super impressive so i’m hoping to do better next time i take them.
and i see what you mean about needing to stand out, i was thinking the same thing. but when it comes to TV, i have gone to these district and state convention things for fspa(florida scholastic press association) which encompasses all types of journalism, including television production.at states, i won 2nd place in script-writing and at districts i won 3rd place in video-photojournalism. i don’t know if this makes me stand out at all. but i’m going to look into any other things i could win for any of my extracurriculars.</p>

<p>thanks so much for giving me an overall outlook on the colleges i listed, it gives me hope! lol</p>

4

<p>wrong forum for this. If you go to college discussion there is a special sub-forum dedicated only to chances thread. You will get more/better advice in that forum.</p>

5

<p>Oh okay thanks, yeah i’m still trying to get the hang of this whole website lol.</p>