chance me please please please

ok my dream schools are:
uc Berkeley
duke
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth

Again, I’m not saying that I have a chance…they are just my dream schools

ok well as in class rank I’m 39 out of almost 500
my weighted GPA is 4.5
(sidenote: I’m confused because on my semester report cards it says 4.5 but on my transcript it says 9-12 WT (all subs) and it says 4.318 and 10-12 WT/NPE 4.177) can someone explain what all this means??

oh and it also says calgrant : 3.83

I have three b’s total two of which were in APeuro and Honors chem(both first semester) my sophomore year which I showed improvement second semester.
Then, a B in APcalc BC last semester…

I’m taking the most rigorous courses at my school

extracurriculars
-fencing for about 5 yrs. couple awards
-nhs for 10-12
-volunteering 200+ hours at a local library
-band for 4 years
(possible internship at a local university this summer)

LITERALLY YALL MY LIFE IS RUINED CAN I EVEN GET INTO ANY COLLEGES WITH THESE THNGS IM LOOKING INTO ACCELERATED DENTAL PROGRAMS AND WOW IM FREAKING OUT BECAUSE I HAVE LIKE NO EXTRACURRICULARS I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO PLEASE TELL ME SOME MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN

WHAT SHOULD I DO IM A JUNIOR AND I LITERALLY CANT START ANYTHING

If anyone has good suggestions of accerelerated dental program schools please let me know?! thank you!!!

  1. UCB does not have an accelerated Dental program so why your dream school? UC's calculate GPA differently

https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/

  1. You have some solid EC's especially the fencing
  2. Test scores? Home state California? How much can you and your parents afford? (Get a $ amount).
  3. Do not use CAPs on CC since this is basically shouting Relax. Google is your friend and do some research. Look at USC and University of the Pacific http://collegelists.pbworks.com/w/page/16119356/Accelerated%20Dental%20Programs

Duke is a narrowing crapshoot. I was rejected ED, they mostly admitted 3.9 uw gpa and above. Vandy may be in reach, and maybe Dartmouth… You just need a 32+ on the ACT. I can’t chance for Berkeley becauese I don’t know enough…
Good luck though, and I hope everything goes in your favour!

Start by turning off caps lock.

Your “dream” schools are all reaches. The privates are a roll of the dice even for applicants with near-perfect grades, test scores, essays, and several unique extracurriculars. The first thing you should do when applying to college is find a safety you’d love to attend.

You’re halfway through your junior year, so starting a club just to have “Founder of club fighting discrimination against left-handed midgets” or some equally contrived activity on your resumé won’t do you any favors (not that it would do most freshmen/sophomores any favors either).

Good test scores are a necessity if you want a fighting chance at top colleges. Keep getting strong grades. Write good essays, and ask teachers who know you well for recommendations. These factors matter a lot more than you’d think. Beyond that, you have some extracurriculars, so spare us the hyperbole. There was a kid posting here a while back whose parents don’t allow him to do anything but study. He goes home, studies, watches TV, and that’s it. You’ve invested some time in fencing - it could be an interesting angle to play up in your essays. Volunteering at your local library is a perfectly respectable extracurricular.

The above will make up 90% of any admissions decision. The other 10% - hooks, in-state or out-of-state, billionaire donor parents - stems from factors beyond your control. The odds are against your getting into any of the schools you’ve listed,* so reconcile yourself to that fact right now. That’s why elite-college admissions don’t reflect your personal worth, any more than a coin flip would, because that’s what the process is even for the “perfect” applicants.

*unless you’re in-state for UCB

Apply ED to Duke and hope for the best.

@Gumbymom first of all thank you so much for replying! and

1.yes I know that Berkeley does not have an accelerated program but I’m also looking for predental and normal programs as well!

  1. My test scores are not so great; my SAT score was 2120 :( I'm hoping I will do better on the ACTs. and yes home state is CA. and the income is on the lowest level so yeah.
  2. shoot, I didn't know that! hahah I was just freaking out I had like an existencial crisis I'm sorry I wasnt yelling. If I were, I'd be yelling at myself so... :)))

again thank you for replying :slight_smile:

@2020BetterBeLit @NotVerySmart @NerdyChica thank you all so much for the input!