34 ACT, 4.55 GPA

Chance Me / Match Me
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I am a junior in high school. We just finished the semester and I got a 4.55 GPA(all solid A’s and one A+). It is a 4.0 unweighted. I took one extra non weighted class because it was a required elective, which even though I got an A in it, it still brought be GPA down. Since I’m not taking that class this semester, if I get the same grades as I did, I would get a 4.66 for this semester and a 4.6 average for junior year. I am also at a college prep private school well known for it’s academic rigor, so it is very challenging to get those grades compared to how it would be at a public school.

My GPA for sophomore year(our school doesn’t calculate freshman grades into our overall GPA because we can’t take weighted classes then) was a 4.18, however, which is pretty low. It was a 3.8 unweighted. ;(
I took the ACT and got a 34 but I might taken again if my chances to get into schools on my list would be higher. I also got a 1470 on the PSAT, out of 1520, and the NMST score was a 224, which qualifies me as a national merit scholar based on California’s cutoff last year.
I also do many extracurriculars:
-Continued Varsity soccer since freshman year(starting center midfielder)
-Varsity cross country freshman year
-Continued Varsity lacrosse since sophomore year(starting low defender)
-Classical Piano since 4 years old(completed Advanced Musical Theory Test)
-Oil Painting (only sophomore at school to be allowed to take AP Studio art based on skill; I also plan on submitting an art supplement when I apply to colleges)
-Selected to be apart of children’s hospital committee at school which fundraises and brings awareness to local children’s hospital
-Honor Roll every year of high school so far
-Created own concussion awareness and baseline testing program that is spreading throughout San Diego County

Anyway, what do you think my chances are to get into the schools on my college list?
Here is my college list:
Notre Dame
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
Amherst College
Middlebury College
Boston College
Harvard
Stanford
Brown
Yale
Princeton
Vanderbilt
Duke
Northwestern
Virginia
Dartmouth

Thanks :wink:

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Go Bears!

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Also, I have many legacies.

A grandpa went to Yale for medical school
An uncle went to and taught for a year at Harvard
An uncle and aunt work at Middlebury College
An uncle and grandpa went to Middlebury College
Two of cousins go to Middlebury
My dad went to Virginia for medical school
My dad and an uncle went to Amherst college

This is not a legacy, but my dad also worked/assisted at Stanford(Medical School) for a couple years

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I also am being potentially recruited by Harvard and Brown for soccer, so that might help.

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With athletic support, you could get into any college here, provided that you commit to that school. None of the legacies (except for the dad going to VA and Amherst) count. And your combined GPA will be fine, especially given that you had such a strong junior year semester. Good luck :slight_smile:

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You’re golden, if your family writes you alum lor that would help a lot. If you’re being recruited then you aren’t going to be a hard person to get admitted.

Stay on it and don’t get burned out. Don’t get too drunk at official visits, that’s the easiest way to lose your shot at the school

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Seems to me that you are set for many of these schools. I don’t know much about other legacies but I am a legacy for Middlebury I had a much weaker application than yours and still got accepted for RD.