What are my chances? HELP!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I am going to be a high school senior next year and I am considering the following schools: UIUC(reach?), UW-Madison(reach?), Purdue(?), UMR(safety), NCSU(?), and SLU(?).</p>

<p>-I am an average student with a low GPA (3.5) but I take mostly all AP's and Honors.</p>

<p>-The classes that I have previously are:</p>

<p>Honors Chem I, II, III; honors Physics I; Honors Bio I, II, III;All History honors , math honors and English honors.</p>

<p>Junior I took 3 AP's
AP Chem - 4
AP Gov - 4
AP Comp. Pol. - 4</p>

<p>Senior Year:
AP Calc
AP Bio
AP US History
AP English lit
AP Stat
Honors French V
Honors Physics II and III</p>

<p>-I have a 30 on the ACT(M-32, E-28, R-29, S-30) and a 1980 on the SAT(V-620, M-700, W-660)
12's on both writing</p>

<p>-I have few EC's: Volunteering (100+ hrs), Chess Club 3+ years, Project Help (2+ yrs), Internship at UMSL. I am for some reason in the National Society of High School scholars if that matters.</p>

<p>-I am pretty good with essays and I am sure i will get good recommendations.</p>

<p>-I live in St. Louis, MO if it matters.</p>

<p>-I am planning to study chemical engineering (I know, a little premature). If anyone has any more recommendations I will be happy to hear them. Also is it wiser to do undergrad in state and them go somewhere good for grad school?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Personally, I think you are understating your chances, for the most part, at all these schools (except UMR):</p>

<p>UIUC--match
UW-Madison--slight reach (although your test score is at the high end)
Purdue--match
Univ of Missouri at Rolla--safety
North Carolina State--match (out-of-state)
SLU (I presume you mean Saint Louis University)--match
If you mean St. Lawrence University--safe match</p>

<p>Well, obviously it is best to go to the best school at both levels (undergrad and graduate)--but if this is not possible, then yes, it is usually better to go undergrad in state, and then go to the better (nationally-ranked school) for the graduate degree. This is if you are sure you will be going on to graduate school--and if you are sure your local school will get you the education you need during your undergraduate years. </p>

<p>Based upon this, other schools you should consider are University of Missouri at Columbia (match), Truman State (which is probably a slight reach based upon the GPA), and for an excellent chemical engineering school--either Georgia Tech (slight reach) or UC--Santa Barbara (match--OOS) (though both are out-of-state and therefore more expensive).</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Thanks Calcruzer.</p>

<p>does anyone know how colleges recalculate GPA?</p>