What are my chances? HELP!

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Hi, I am going to be a high school senior next year and I am considering the following schools: UIUC(reach?), UW-Madison(reach?), Purdue(?), UMR(safety), NCSU(?), and SLU(?).</p>

<p>-I am an average student with a low GPA (3.5) but I take mostly all AP’s and Honors.</p>

<p>-The classes that I have previously are:</p>

<p>Honors Chem I, II, III; honors Physics I; Honors Bio I, II, III;All History honors , math honors and English honors.</p>

<p>Junior I took 3 AP’s
AP Chem - 4
AP Gov - 4
AP Comp. Pol. - 4</p>

<p>Senior Year:
AP Calc
AP Bio
AP US History
AP English lit
AP Stat
Honors French V
Honors Physics II and III</p>

<p>-I have a 30 on the ACT(M-32, E-28, R-29, S-30) and a 1980 on the SAT(V-620, M-700, W-660)
12’s on both writing</p>

<p>-I have few EC’s: Volunteering (100+ hrs), Chess Club 3+ years, Project Help (2+ yrs), Internship at UMSL. I am for some reason in the National Society of High School scholars if that matters.</p>

<p>-I am pretty good with essays and I am sure i will get good recommendations.</p>

<p>-I live in St. Louis, MO if it matters.</p>

<p>-I am planning to study chemical engineering (I know, a little premature). If anyone has any more recommendations I will be happy to hear them. Also is it wiser to do undergrad in state and them go somewhere good for grad school?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Personally, I think you are understating your chances, for the most part, at all these schools (except UMR):</p>

<p>UIUC–match
UW-Madison–slight reach (although your test score is at the high end)
Purdue–match
Univ of Missouri at Rolla–safety
North Carolina State–match (out-of-state)
SLU (I presume you mean Saint Louis University)–match
If you mean St. Lawrence University–safe match</p>

<p>Well, obviously it is best to go to the best school at both levels (undergrad and graduate)–but if this is not possible, then yes, it is usually better to go undergrad in state, and then go to the better (nationally-ranked school) for the graduate degree. This is if you are sure you will be going on to graduate school–and if you are sure your local school will get you the education you need during your undergraduate years. </p>

<p>Based upon this, other schools you should consider are University of Missouri at Columbia (match), Truman State (which is probably a slight reach based upon the GPA), and for an excellent chemical engineering school–either Georgia Tech (slight reach) or UC–Santa Barbara (match–OOS) (though both are out-of-state and therefore more expensive).</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Thanks Calcruzer.</p>

<p>does anyone know how colleges recalculate GPA?</p>