What are my chances? UT, UNC-Chapel Hill, Notre Dame, Carnegie Mellon

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi, I just finished my junior year and I am interested in top-tier schools for Business/Finance. Am not 100% sure about what I want to do as a career, but interested in investment banking.

I am an Asian female from a competitive public school in Texas. Schools that I am interested in include, UT Austin, UNC-Chapel Hill, Notre Dame, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, NYU and UPenn. I am also interested in TAMU as a safety.

Basic Stats:
Unweighted GPA: 3.89 (4.0 scale)
4.12 (4.0+ scale)

Weighted GPA: 4.73

AP Classes:
16 total; all other classes were honors except PE and Art class
Freshman Yr:1, Sophmore Yr: 3, Junior Yr:7, Senior Yr: 5 (planned)

Rank/Class Size: 57/875 (7th percentile)

ACT: 35 composite (36R,36E,34M,34S)

SAT II: Just took math 2 and US history, waiting for results

-AP scores:

AP Human Geography 5
AP World History 4
AP Psychology 5
AP Calculus AB TBD
AP Stats TBD
AP English Lang TBD
AP US History TBD
AP 2-D Design TBD
AP Spanish Lang. TBD

ECs-
Took art all 4 years of high school
Girl Scout: in process of earning gold award
Taekwondo
Student Council Member
National Honor Society
National Art Honor Society
lots of volunteer experience (500+ hours)

Professional Experience:
I have job shadowed with a couple of major companies such as Deloitte and Frito-lay.

I just want to know what kind of schools I should be applying to and what my chances are at the schools I listed. I would love to go to UT Austin, but I’m just below top 6%.

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I can’t tell you where you are getting in but I am pretty sure you can get into everywhere except Penn, NYU Stern, and CMU will be tough. I am in PA so naturally Wharton is my top choice cause I am also interested in finance, but I think UT Austin would have been such a great school to go to if I was in-state (They don’t give full tuition to national merit finalists but I hope they give something maybe) cause its p expensive out of state. Why not think about UMich or WashU?

3

UMich is on my list too. Forgot to mention it. Haven’t looked into WashU, thank you for the suggestion! Good luck on Wharton!!

4

UC is going to be expensive for OOS. I would stick with Texas since you’re in the top 7.5% for automatic admission.

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Actually, the cut off is top 6% for my class, so I am not auto-admit. And, luckily I’m in a good financial position to attend UC even with the oos fees. Out of curiosity, would the education/opportunity be all that much better at UC when compared to UT?