Junior, would like to know chances for my top choice schools.

Chance Me / Match Me
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White, straight, male. Attending HS in Washington DC with focus in STEM. I take classes in graphic design using Maya (3d software), Adobe Creative Suit.

Major: Advertising (first choice), Marketing

Sat: I get results at the end of the month. Conservative guess is a 1250.

GPA: 4.1 weighted

AP Scores: AP World (4), should pass AP Human with 4/5 with year and APUSH with 3/4. Will take AP Lit and AP Calc next year.

Rank: 9/210

EC: Theatre Club (2 years), Lacrosse (1), Tennis (1). Photography Club (1).

Volunteer Hours: 100

Work Experience: 2 internships. 1 with Accenture consulting. 1 with small advertising start-up. Started my own media business doing photo/video for clients. Largest client has been Verizon.

College List:
UT Austin
NYU
Syracuse
UCLA
U Michigan
Loyola Marymount
UNC
Penn State

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What’s your home state? That will make a difference at the state schools on your list.

Off the bat, a 1250 SAT is going to be low for Michigan, NYU, UT Austin, UNC, and UCLA (regardless of residency).

I would revisit this thread when you have an actual SAT score.

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im from DC

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What is your unweighted GPA, core courses only, on a 4 point scale?

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3.8

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  1. relative to your place in your class, your GPA & your AP results your SAT prediction looks low, and for what you want I think it will be reasonably relevant. That’s because…

2)…none of the places that you list offer advertising as a major, and marketing is found inside of the business schools- so, Whitman, Ross, Stern, Keenan-Flagler, etc.- which are typically more competitive than general admission to those universities, and 1250 is low for some (eg Syracuse) and makes others very high reaches (UNC, NYU, UMi, etc).

  1. I am pretty familiar with DC schools (public & private) and afaik every single one has naviance available- that is a good place to start.
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UT and Syracuse both offer Advertising. Other than them I would be a Marketing major. And I am a huge pessimist so yes a 1250 is me being very conservative.

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If financial aid is a concern, NYU is notoriously stingy, and FA for out of state residents is a big problem for out of state kids at schools like UCLA.

You can get a fairly good idea of your chances by taking a look at section C of the Common Data Set for the schools you’re interested in. Google: common data set name of school.

For example, NYU

https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/institutionalResearch/documents/CDS_2017-2018.pdf

Section C9 shows that a 1290 SAT is 25th percentile, and a 1490 is 75th. If your expected SAT puts you below the 25th percentile at a school, you’d have to consider that an extreme reach.

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As I said, 1250 is a conservative guess. I think I could end up in the 25-45%.

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@cskaki wrote: “As I said, 1250 is a conservative guess. I think I could end up in the 25-45%.”

You’re asking people here to guess your chances based on your guess of your scores. A guess based on a guess is worth what?

When you get your scores you’ll be able to go to the CDS for any school you’re interested in and get a slightly more informed idea what your chances are.