Do I have a shot at all?

<p>I want to apply to Purdue, UCLA, and my reach school is MIT.</p>

<p>My class rank is 3 out of 300 (or so).</p>

<p>my gpa (unweighted) is somewhere in between 3.85 and 3.9
my weighted gpa is somewhere well above 4</p>

<p>my SAT scores, (retaking for sure)</p>

<p>took them the same week as my aps so they suck</p>

<p>m - 670
cr - 680</p>

<p>My extracirculars are jazz band, pep band, science club, science olympiad, i volunteer a few hours a week at an old people’s home, chess club, french club, and yearbook, i’ve been playing tenor sax for eight years and have gone to some festivals, i placed in the top five percent in a chem competition and am going back soon for (what ever the next level is), looking to get my novel published</p>

<p>I am in national honor society and am always on honor roll</p>

<p>took APUSH, APCHEM, AP Mirco, and will take ap english and ap calc next year.</p>

<p>I take the hardest classes at my school</p>

<p>I think Purdue is a match.
Do you live in Cali? Cause if you do then UCLA is a match but if you dont its a reach
MIT is a huge reach</p>

<p>Prudue is a match and the others are reaches</p>

<p>For MIT, is that because of my test scores, or just overrall no chance?
What would be a good safety school if I am going into engineering (either chemical or aeronautics)?</p>

<p>There’s always a chance… except at MIT. Nobody has a chance there.</p>

<p>But really, the chem competition looks good. Will you have done the second comp. by the time you apply? I’m sure your participation in that will give you some points.
Good luck.</p>

<p>Edit: have you looked into Harvey Mudd or Vanderbilt?</p>

<p>yes, I go to do the second competition on Wednesday</p>

<p>No I haven’t looked into either of those schools, thanks.</p>