chance me?

Chance Me / Match Me
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Hi! I’m currently a junior and was wondering what my chances would be for getting into colleges…I want to go into a business school, hopefully as an accounting major. I want to eventually become a forensic accountant. Some colleges I’ve been looking at include Creighton University, Pittsburg State University, Cornell, Marquette University, NC State, Purdue, UConn, Swarthmore, Baylor, Hofstra, and Gonzaga University.

GPA (unweighted on a 4.00 scale): 4.00
ACT composite: 32
SAT: N/A
Class Rank: top 1% (school does not offer a single valedictorian position)
Course Load: honors/AP, will graduate with distinguished honors

APs:
10th: AP US History (5)
11th: AP World, APLAC, AP Psychology, AP Calculus AB
Planned 12th: AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, APLIT, AP Calculus BC, AP Biology

Current Extra-Curriculars:
violin (5 years) & viola (2 years)
chamber violist for my high school, all-region violist, auditioned for all-state
J.V. soccer & recreational soccer
National History Day competitor (1st in region, special prize)
Spanish National Honors Society Member, silver medalist (sp II national exam), honorable mentions for sp I & III
volunteer work at public library & community animal shelter
Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor Society
tutoring in pre-calculus and calculus

Thank you so much for your responses!

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note: out of state applications for all of those colleges (although I guess that doesn’t necessarily matter for the private schools); I currently live in the midwest region.

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Hello - I think you have an excellent shot at all of the above schools except one (Cornell). Cornell will be a reach unless you get your ACT score up a bit. Plus your ECs need to show some more national level achievements.

Good luck!

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I’d say you have a very good shot at most except maybe Cornell because that’s hard for everyone. I cant speak as much to the others but my mom teaches at Creighton and she thinks you would be a great applicant, but she also doesn’t teach business. Also if you really want to get into Cornell you can start with boosting your ACT, not that a 32 is bad, but it can be better.

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I agree with the above posts; a 34 ACT and high (750+) SAT Subject Test scores could improve your lot significantly for Cornell and Swarthmore, which are both reach schools for you, but the others seem easily attainable.

Cornell/Swarthmore (waitlist or reject unless improved scores and SAT IIs)
Everything else: accept, probably some scholarships