<p>Hello,
I am a junior in high school and wanted to know my chances for getting into colleges. This is an overview of my stats, what colleges do you think I can get into judging from this? And Scholarships like Trustee's at state schools? Also, I know top colleges may be a little out of reach for me, but do you think there are any I might have a chance in? </p>
<p>I just took the ACT and got a 30. I will be retaking in June to try for 31-32.
I have a 3.6 weighted and 3.5 unweighted GPA with rigorous workload in competitive magnet school (junior year GPA is 3.96--extreme upward trend) (includes 7 APs for all of high school and almost all other classes are honors) </p>
<p>Extracurriculars/awards/activities:
AP Scholar
7 years of piano
Am going to start teaching piano as a job now to maybe 3 or 4 students with weekly classes
Key Cub for 10th, 11th, and 12th grade
Leadership position for key club: Senior Board Representative
Women in Science and Engineering Club for 11th and 12 grade
National Arts Honor Society for 9th grade
Participated in a state science fair 11th grade
Have done science fair research projects 9th-11th grade
Over 100 hours of community service including:
Ronald Mcdonald House, Kumon, Freshmen Orientations, tutoring spanish-speaking immigrants in math and science, etc.</p>
<p>What location? How much can you afford? Private, Religious, State schools??? Need more information.</p>
<p>@Gumbymom I was just saying in general all around the USA. But the east/southeast is around where I live. I dont care about religion, tuition, private/state, etc. I just want to have a list of schools to narrow down. </p>
<p>If you are not looking for engineering (but fine for science or math), and are interested in liberal arts schools, here are a few: Dickinson, Lawrence, St. Olaf, Pitzer, Mt. Holyoke (if you are female), Gettysburg, Bates, Bryn Mawr (if you are female), Colby, Colgate, Colorado College, Denison, Lewis & Clark, . If you are interested in engineering, then Bucknell, Case Western, Lafayette, or Lehigh. If you bring your score up a bit, Emory.</p>
<p>@saif235 Biology/pre-med
@intparent cool thanks! Do you think something like berkeley or carnegie mellon would be too impossible? And what about BU and NYU and those kind of schools? </p>
<p>NYU has horrible financial aid. Unless money is completely not an issue, don’t even bother. Are you instate for Berkeley? Same issue there, if you are out of state you pay full tuition and aid will be very low. The midpoint ACT score is 30 at Berkeley, so you might get in (although admission is harder for out of state students). But the question is whether you could pay for it. Carnegie Mellon midpoint ACT is 31, but it depends on what college you apply to (eg, College of Computer Science is very hard to get into). BU would be a match academically.</p>
<p>One thing you need to do very soon is run the Net Price Calculator for each college you are interested in. You can access them through the financial aid web page of each college. You will need to have your parents help you. This will give you some idea of what you might be expected to pay per year to attend (although the calculators will usually underestimate the costs for the types of schools you are looking at if your parents are divorced, own a small business, have trusts, or own rental property). But it is really important that you look at this early and figure out your financial constraints. You don’t want to spend a lot of time looking at colleges you can’t afford.</p>
<p>@intparent With all honestly, I am probably going to end up going to a Kentucky (instate) school with hopefully a full tuition scholarship. I just want to apply to at least 6 other schools to keep my options open, and if i were to get into a school like Berkeley, then my parents would consider finding some way to pay for it.<br>
Right now I’m not looking at financial stuff too much, mainly just the schools themselves 
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<p>@intparent Okay, thanks so much. Looking at my stats/application, what can you conclude from it? Like negative/positive points, and what I can improve in? </p>
<p>It is probably too late to improve your GPA much, so I would focus on your test scores. </p>
<p>Yeah, I might be able to get it to about 3.7 this year. I know I’ll get at least a 31 ACT. What about extra-curriculars?</p>
<p>In order for us to give better suggestions, you need to outline what your budget is and how much financial aid (if any) you plan to receive per the net price calculators.</p>
<p>Ok, I’ll just say up to about 30-40,000 in tuition per year </p>
<p>@warriordaughter </p>
<p>There’s surprisingly little difference between your quoted weighted and unweighted GPAs. Does your school offer a full range of Honors, AP and/or IB courses? The first thing most colleges say they look for is “most demanding available curriculum.” Your statistics, at first glance, are similar to my son’s, but he had a lower unweighted GPA and a higher weighted one (3.3-3.4 UW; close to 4.0 weighted - different colleges use different formulae in weighting). If you were not taking the most rigorous classes available at your school, you probably won’t have a great shot at Carnegie-Mellon or Berkeley unless your test scores go up. A 30 is quite respectable, but it isn’t quite up there. Have you taken the SATs? Some students do better on one test than on the other. You would have a shot at some other UCs, but probably not Berkeley. My son got into UCSD and Davis, but not into Berkeley. If you’re looking for a large school, or an urban environment, add Temple, Pitt, Tulane, Wake Forest, Fordham, and Pace. If your scores go up, or your weighted GPA ends up higher with Honors/AP/IB courses your senior year, you might qualify for scholarships at some of the more expensive schools on that list. </p>
<p>@woogzmama </p>
<p>These are the AP classes I have taken/will take next year:
AP Human Geography
AP World History
AP Psychology
AP Macroeconomics
AP Physics B
AP Calculus BC
AP Environmental Science</p>
<p>My school doesn’t weight honors classes at all, and all of my other classes are honors with the exception of Spanish. I guess that’s why there isn’t a great disparity between UW and W GPA? My W GPA is actually a high 3.6 though, like almost 3.7. My school offers like all the AP courses I think, and honors for everything too. </p>