Decent Enough Application for Selective Schools?

Chance Me / Match Me
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Hi College Confidential! I

I am a high school junior and I want to know my chances of getting into some competitive schools. Some of my schools are definitely safety schools but I need advice for the match and possibly reach schools as well.

Hooks: I am half Panamanian and half African and go to a school that is 90% Caucasian.

Classes: By my senior year I would have taken a total of 11 Honors classes and 10 AP classes. My GPA is about 4.15 weighted right now, 3.9 unweighted.

Freshman Year
-Honors Geometry
-Honors Biology
-Honors American History 2
-Honors English 9

  • Principals of Law

Sophomore Year
-Honors Chemistry 1
-AP European History

  • AP Prep English 10
    -Honors Spanish 2/3
  • Honors Algebra 2

Junior Year

  • Honors Pre-Calc
    -Honors Spanish 4
  • AP United States History
  • AP Language and Composition
  • AP Chemistry
  • Honors Physics 1

Senior Year ( Expected)
-AP Statistics

  • AP Government and Politics
    -AP Psychology
  • AP Literature and Composition
    -AP Biology
  • AP Music Theory
  • AP Spanish or AP Microeconomics

Extracurricular Activities:

  • Involved in school, county and district orchestra. I’m rated number two in my entire school district for violin and viola. I am also apart of an opera alliance orchestra and have studied with a pre-college orchestra at a university.
  • FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) Involved with regional and state competitions. During my freshman year, I placed first in the region and 14th in the state.
  • World Affairs Club
  • Model UN
  • National Honors Society
  • Youth Council for my county. I have done numerous volunteer activities such as making blankets for the homeless, playing my violin around hospital hallways and cooking food for the Ronald McDonald house.
  • Student Council for school also.

SAT and other testing: I received a 4 on AP European Exam last year and scored a 1950 on SAT.

Schools:
-Princeton University
-Boston University
-Boston College

  • Amherst College
  • University of Massachusetts
  • Northeastern University
  • Colgate University
  • Wesleyan University
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Pennsylvania

Any advice or opinions are welcome!

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You’ll likely be rejected on the basis of your SAT from Upenn, chicago, amherst, and princeton.

Your extracurriculars and class rigor will likely compensate for it at all other schools, making you a competitive applicant there.