3.4 unweighted gpa
4.05 weighted gpa
34 ACT score (retaking for a 35)
800 sat 2 physics 800 sat 2 math
Captain of Debate Team
Captain of Physics Team
Captain of Science Bowl Team
Foreign immigrant ( immigrated from Pakustan in my freshman year)
Father died freshman year
Father did his mba from Uchicago
Dream school : Uchicago
Looking at Cornell, Brown, Swartmore, Penn, Urbana Chanpagne, Berkley as top choices
Your unweighted GPA is very low for all of these schools. You can go ahead and apply, but just know that these are all going to be high reaches.
I think you will get into your dream school and the other colleges you are looking into(Cornell, Brown etc) do not seem to be a reach and you should also apply to those schools
While your GPA is below average for these schools, you have many leadership positions in school and you are an immigrant. Your father’s death (my condolences) also helps you. I think you can definitely get accepted into Uchicago as a legacy student.
Urbana Champaign!