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Ok now that I'm really serious about my college apps, I'd realy appreciate If everyone would give their opinion/advice on my chances to the following schools.

U of Illinois-engineering
U of Wisconsin-undecided
Notre Dame-undecided
Purdue- engineering ( I got accepted horray!)

White female, large public school
GPA. 3.5
Class Rank 75/560 UW, 60/560 W
ACT 30
AP Physics and Calc AB
Honors classes every year in core classes

Softball 4 yrs Varsity Captain, J.V MVP
Student Government President
C.E.C Club 10,11,12
V.P CEC Basketball 11,12 ( a club that specializes in promoting awareness of kids with special needs as well as planning peer-socialzation with these kids and the rest of the school)
NHS 11,12
Basketball and Volleyball 9,10
Band and Percussion Ensemble 9,10,11,12

Americaqn Legion School Award
D.A.R Excellence in American History
C.S.L Scholar Athlete
Homecoming Court
The Instrumentalist Magazine Merit Award

I've been playing drums and percussion for 9 yrs and have also played softball for 10 years, the last three with highly competitve travel teams.

What are my chances, am I aiming too high?

By Ck61188 (Ck61188) on Monday, October 04, 2004 - 11:59 pm: Edit

illinois- match... you have the test scores for it, ec's are good, gpa is alright, but class rank may hurt a little since you don't make top 10%, and they're very numbers oriented with admissions i hear. but i guess it depends on your high school profile, so you might be alright. and if you're out of state, then it'll cost you dearly. uiuc is very stingy with scholarships, so you might want to look heavily into private scholarships.

wisconsin- i think you'll get in there. i don't know much about it, but people have suggested to me purdue and wisconsin as safeties for me, so if you got into purdue, you'll get into wisconsin.

notre dame- i never considered it for my list, so i don't know about that one.

purdue- congratulations! i also got accepted there. quite exciting to get accepted so early in senior year. just wondering, are you strongly considering going there, or just having it as a safety?

By Spunknic347 (Spunknic347) on Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 05:04 pm: Edit

Ck, Thaks for the info. About purdue, I just visited there on Monday and I really liked the campus. They had this women in engineering preview day, which is why I went down. They have a pretty strong engineering program (top ten i think) and the whole day was a fun experience. It is a matchy-saftey. There engineering program is easy to get into but hard to stay in (or so ';ve heard.) While I liked purdue, it's really expensive for out of state, and since I live in Illinois, UofI offers similar experiences, so I'll prob end up there.