What are my chances? Getting a little nervous

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Ok so my two dream schools are tied between Stern School of Business at NYU and the Marshall School of Business at USC but probably more leaning towards stern due to the business in entertainment minor, I would be applying for a Marketing major

  • My cumulative GPA weighted (I will explain so bear with me) is a 3.94
  • My current SAT is 1370 (but I am taking again this saturday and hoping to break 1400 this time, anticipating to score around 1450-ish).
  • I have a really solid essay main essay and really solid supplementals
  • I filled out and additional information section that covers why my GPA was lagging to hard (I was diagnosed with T1D at the second semester of freshman year and that combined with my workload at the time ate me alive)
  • I took my diagnosis and used it as a catalyst to live healthier and found "the Diabuddies Club" in late junior year (basically diabetes awareness and education, alongside fundraising and service hours)
  • My standalone GPAs for Freshman year was 3.2 (yikes), Sophomore year was 3.8, Junior year was 4.5, and this year I am leaning towards a 4.6 so far, so I have a very strong incline on my transcript (which I am proud of)
  • *** Very Important - I have started two businesses during my sophomore year (one of which is still ongoing) and have had some very big mentions from them (even interactions with Adidas)
  • I run a big segment on entertainment for my school's morning show that airs every week
  • I am trilingual and on the verge of being a full on polyglot
  • I have racked up 120 service hours
  • I have interviews with Marshall School of Business and I have toured both schools along with going back and forth with admission officers of both of them through email.
  • My main concern is that my school wouldn't let me take any AP classes whatsoever, so that not only screws up my transcript a little bit, but it also bumps my GPA down a little bit

How do my current and future odds look for Stern and Marshall? I might end up doing ED2 to Stern but I am not sure yet.
I am currently sending out applications now and have just started the Q2 of my senior year in high school.

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“my school wouldn’t let me take any AP classes whatsoever,”

How did you get a 4.5 weighted GPA without any AP classes? What was your unweighted GPA?

Can you afford to be full pay at NYU or USC? What is your budget?

Do you have safeties?

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My school is weird with GPAs, they weight honors with an extra point and APs with 2, but they inflate sometimes, then with APs they give you all of these super arbitrary prerequisites (like you need to have taken 2 honors classes and do this class you didn’t know existed to take AP Chem or something like that). I couldn’t do anything because my middle school screwed up my class recommendations. Freshman year was super messy with a variation of Bs and Cs, Sophomore year was Bs with 1 or 2 honors, Junior year was Bs and As with mostly As in mostly honors, and this year I am all honors with predominantly As. unweighted I want to say was a 3.5.

I can afford to pay in full but I will be filling out a FAFSA and try to get merit based scholarships if I can

Yes, I am applying to UM, Syracuse, Santa Clara, San Diego, and FSU as well.