Chance me. PA Resident, HS Senior, Finance or Economics, UChicago, Northwestern, NYU, Georgetown, UCB. [3.75 UW, 4.2 W, 1530 SAT]

So I believe, Kelley takes the GPA off your transcript - so if that’s the case, you’ll be a safety, not a likely.

  • and have you earned a 30 ACT or 1370 SAT or higher?
  • and do you have a cumulative GPA of 3.8 or higher?

If they don’t use the weighted, then it’s a match I suppose.

You might ask your counselors about the others but if I had to guess, I’d say maybe BC, maybe Emory but unlikely. PSU yes - I can’t say about Schreyer.

As to where you should ED/REA - that is where you prefer and that your family - not just can afford but is willing to afford. You said no cost constraints but if you told your mom/dad that IU would be sub $50K (I’m assuming $10K merit) and NYU is $90K or Michigan is $72K - and that’s before inflation - which would they have you choose? So many families can afford but don’t want to - or at least when they here what things could cost. So just ensure you have that conversation before binding yourself. But there are schools - like Penn - that ED is a HUGE boost.

Assuming you want finance (not econ) and I’m not sure if the goal is Wall Street - but an Ohio State, UMD, Va Tech type school with UMD being a low reach - but they might make some nice additions - and for Wall Street - Rutgers is on the feeder lists and others say Fordham (even though they’re not on the feeder lists).

The reason I say assuming you want finance - they are not the same - far different in fact so if it were me, I’d major in what I want ahead of the school - if that makes sense.

If I’m right and IU uses the weighted grade for Kelley, then that’s all you need.

But I do think - just looking at the #s and profile that this is a list with the potential to be shut out - although one can never know and I can see Carroll and Goizueta possibly coming through.

Best of luck.

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