I completely understand where you’re coming from with that statement, you don’t need to go to a university just because they rank in the top ten. The whole idea is to go to a college where you’ll find success and I can really appreciate that. And yeah I hope to better myself grade-wise throughout the rest of the year to at least obtain a 3.5 GPA by application time. I’m making big reaches here with Uchicago and a ton of other schools such as MIT and UIUC. I know I’m going up against a 4.0/2400 kid who probably did so much more compared to me, but I’m confident in myself to show how I am unique and most of all to share my story. Uchicago next to UIUC are my top picks considering I only live about an hour between both schools and would love to be closer at home with my family and want to do something engineering or computer related (or even medical if for some reasons both engineering/computers don’t work out).