Chance me for top schools [FL resident, 3.973 GPA, 1590 SAT]

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Guidelines

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Demographics

  • US domestic
  • State/Location of residency: Florida
  • Type of high school (or current college for transfers): Public
  • Other special factors: (first generation to college, legacy, recruitable athlete, etc.) N/A

Cost Constraints / Budget
(High school students: please get a budget from your parents and use the Net Price Calculators on the web sites of colleges of interest.) None

Intended Major(s)

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 3.973/4.0 (Bs were in AP Human (lol) and AP US History)
  • Weighted HS GPA: 5.44/6.0
  • College GPA: 4.0 (Dual Enrollments)
  • Class Rank: 2/810
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1590

List your HS coursework

(Indicate advanced level, such as AP, IB, AICE, A-level, or college, courses as well as specifics in each subject)

  • English: AP Lit, AP Lang, Eng. 1 Honors, Eng 2. Honors
  • Math: AP Statistics, AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, Multivar. Calc, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra
  • Science: AP Enviro, AP Physics 1, AP Physics C: E&M, AP Physics C: Mechanics
  • History and social studies: AP Human, AP World, AP US History, AP Government
  • Language other than English: Spanish 1-3 Honors
  • Visual or performing arts:
  • Other academic courses: AP Comp. Sci. Principles, AP Micro, AP Macro, AP Research, AP Seminar, AP Psychology, AP Cybersecurity

College Coursework (Transfer Applicants)
(Include college courses taken while in high school if not included above.)

  • General education course work: Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, Computational Linear Algebra
  • Major preparation course work:

Awards

2x AIME Qualifier with Distinction + Received a score of 10 on 2025 AIME (Top 5%)

2x DECA ICDC Qualifier and 3x DECA States Qualifier

Placed 3rd in the Congressional App Challenge for developing SafeDose; app to help reduce overdose response times

Local Hackathon 3rd place: created an app preventing overdose deaths via emergency contact alerts.

FAMAT 6th Place Calculus Team State Convention + 4th Place Calculus Team Statewide Competition

Extracurriculars

  1. Research Intern at Local Uni.; Design myoelectric prosthetic socket. Fabricated 24+ sensor modules, analyzed EMG signals via MATLAB, and improved signal detection by ~30%.

  2. Youth Leader for Cultural Group; Led committee organizing 20+ cultural events for 300+ members. Managed $5K treasury, coordinated performances, and supplier contact.

  3. Founder; Tailored a financial literacy curriculum for Title 1 middle school students. Achieved ~30% average score improvement. Secured $1K in grant funding.

  4. Tutored calculus competition team, improving individual scores by 20% average. Led team to 6th place state, 4th place regionals (20+ schools).

  5. JavaScript/HTML app locating nearest Narcan stations via API; Placed 3rd at Congressional App Challenge. Presented at local OD prevention centers.

  6. Engineered an Arduino-controlled hexapod with custom inverse kinematics; built a wireless light switch system for my grandfather in India.

  7. Took initiative to patch 25 community potholes on my own after noticing road deterioration, catalyzing HOA action on infrastructure repairs.

  8. Brain Brawl; Led team to 2nd out of ~30 schools in district, specializing in physics and math, and improved team scores by 15% through weekly tutoring sessions.

  9. Math Instructor; Improved students’ skills in calculus, statistics, and algebra through personalized instruction, boosting test scores by over 12%.

Essays/LORs/Other
Essays - a 7.5/10 for my main common app

Supps - 8/10 for most schools

LORs - One should be a 8.5/10 (math teacher I’ve known since 8th grade), Second should be a 7.5/10 (junior year psych teacher)

Schools
Penn, Princeton, Dartmouth, Carnegie Mellon, Yale, Stanford, Georgia Tech, Duke, UF (already accepted to 2 other in-state, which were my only safeties)

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All of the schools except UF are reaches for any unhooked applicant. You are a competitive applicant so take your shot and good luck! Much will depend on things that cannot or should not be shared on a public forum such as essays, LORs, etc.

Glad you have some safety acceptances in hand. You may consider adding a couple of excellent but somewhat less competitive schools.

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Thank You!

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Where did you get a 6 scale at a Florida public which use a 5 scale - +.5 Honors and +1 AP. Well I thought all the public hs did.

it’s hard to tell but based on info you provided, you can get in anywhere and will UF. The others are unknown.

What is your budget situation ? These others are $50-95k.

Congrats on your two admissions.

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Honors are weighted as a 5.0, and AP/Dual Enrollments are 6.0s. I think that’s how it works for my entire district.

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Do you have a $95k budget ? Or qualify for need aid ?

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If you want to compare your GPA to what UF lists, recalculate it using the method at Freshman Decision Process - University of Florida . DE/college gets +1 like AP, IB, and AICE. Honors gets +0.5.

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There are Florida publics that use a 7 point scale or even a 10 point one. They can do whatever they want.