Good schools to apply for?

Transfer Students
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<p>HS GPA: 2.6
(Dropped out after 10th grade, got GED)
College GPA: 4.0
College Credits at time of transfer: 65, 4-12 may be considered remedial (paying for my lack of high school education) depending on the institution views it
PTK, working part-time, decent-to-good ECs that are nothing special, have rather… non-standard life story for my essay and mediocre high school work. Strong LoR from community college prof in my major and head of place I volunteer at.</p>

<p>Safeties:
Local LACs and state school</p>

<p>Match:
University of Michigan (IS)</p>

<p>Low Reach:
University of California Berkeley (OOS acceptance rate is the same, apparently)
University of Southern California</p>

<p>Reach:
Oberlin College
Northwestern</p>

<p>High Reach:
Penn
Brown
Columbia GS</p>

<p>Do these sound good? Any others would be good too.</p>

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<p>I would say you match for UC Berkeley, + USC. But honestly in my opinion no school should be a reach with a 4.0, but that’s just me. I think you have a respectable shot at every school, but UMich, USC, Berkeley should all match in my opinion.</p>

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<p>Haha, thank you.</p>

<p>My ECs are so-so though, so I’m sure the other schools are reaches.</p>

<p>Any extra tips would be appreciated… just want to make sure I’m applying for the right schools. :p</p>

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<p>Northwestern and the Ivies are still reaches given his high school GPA, “decent-to-good” extracurriculars–vague, but still clearly not spectacular, and the transfer admissions rates of the top 10-15 schools.</p>

<p>I think that you’re fine for each of the schools on your list except those which I just mentioned, unless you’re trying to get into a highly competitive major at UC Berkeley (Haas, EECS, etc).</p>

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<p>Bio at Berkeley isn’t competitive, but it requires lots of chem and calc to transfer into the major, but I’m a bit behind on Calc (just one semester by transfer) and very much so for Chem (behind by three semesters by transfer).</p>

<p>I figured I could justify missing one semester in a sequence because of my… unusual reasons for screwing up high school, but missing three of chem is rather extreme. Dunno if it’s worth applying to Cal at this point. Thoughts?</p>

<p>And are you trying to say not to apply to NW or the Ivies? I’d rather not waste my time on the applications if I don’t have to. :p</p>

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<p>bumping …</p>