Chance a 3.7 UW African-American Studies Black Florida Girl [FL resident, middle class, <$15k]

Welcome back, @christiania!

Since last time it appears as though some of the changes are that you attended the Kenyon Young Writers workshop on scholarship and received a scholarship for community service, you have a 3.7UW GPA, and you received less than a 3 on Macroecon and Government (as those were listed as APs you were taking this year in addition to APUSH and Resarch). Are there any other changes that I’m missing?

Is the budget still around $15k? Do you have the community service hours you need for Bright Futures? Is your test score high enough for Bright Futures?

These are my guesses as to what your chances might be for admission to the schools on your list:

Extremely Likely (80-99+%)

  • USF (make sure that you meet all the requirements to be guaranteed entry through your high school)

Likely (60-79%)

Toss-Up (40-59%)

Lower Probability (20-39%)

Low Probability (less than 20%)

  • UGA (it’s test required)
  • UNC
  • UMich
  • Princeton
  • Vanderbilt
  • Duke
  • WashU
  • Cornell
  • UPenn
  • Notre Dame
  • Stanford
  • Rice
  • Boston U.
  • Boston College

As you craft your college list I would pay very careful attention to your own personal makeup. How would you feel if you received one acceptance and 19 rejections/waitlists? If getting all of those rejections would fire you up to show how amazing you are at school #20 and what a big loss it was for those other schools, then it’s okay to have a very reach-heavy list (which this list is). Others find that receiving rejection after rejection is really demoralizing and can impact their self-esteem and health. If that’s the case, then I would craft your list accordingly. I find that most people tend to do best if they get more acceptances than rejections/waitlists, but you’re the only one on this forum who knows yourself, but I would think very seriously about this when deciding which schools to apply to.

For ease of reference:

OP’s thread from February:

OP’s thread from March: Match/Chance Me for Liberal Arts! HS Junior, 3.8uw GPA, with a maybe unique spike? [FL resident, need FA]

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