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What are my chances at these colleges?

go to a highly competitive school, actually the best in the state. I have a 4.1 gpa, 3.8 unweighted. SATs Math: 700 Critical Reading: 710 Writing: 790 SAT II Spanish: 800 Chemistry: 750 APs Chemistry:5 English: 5 Latin: 4 AB Calculus: 3 I'm one of the best saxophone players in the region and the best in the district. Have recieved Musician of the Year Award all three years I've been in Band in high school. I have +200 hours of volunteer service at a hospital. I'm fluent in another language, and I'm an underrepresented minority. I'm from Honduras and moved to the United States the summer before 4th grade. National Honor Society. Secretary of Latin Club Multiple Awards for the National Latin Exam (at the national and regional level). I'm also part of my schools crew team (rowing) and have medaled at every regatta. What are my chances for University of Chicago or Columbia University Harvey Mudd and Pomona?

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1. You'll get in to any of those schools, NO problem.
2. Call 'em up and quiz the admissions staff. Here's what I garnered when I called Johns Hopkins U for my daughter: When I called Johns Hopkins U to ask, they said they "look" at the 9th grade scores, but they don't calculate those scores when they figure out your GPA. They look at your grades in only CORE ACADEMIC CLASSES (sciences, English, social studies, math, maybe foreign language, I'm not sure) for grades 10 and 11 and half of 12th grade when they decide who to admit. They add up all the grades for the core classes, take the average and that is your GPA that they work with. 90-100 is an A, 80-90 is a B, etc. Want to know what else they said? Only 21% of the applicants are accepted. They look to see if you took the hardest courses offered at your school. Did you have leadership roles in all of your after school activities? 75% of the kids admitted to JHU have a GPA between 3.7 and 3.8 They like to see volunteer work and good letters of recommendation from your teachers, but the high school transcript is the most important thing. If that doesn't look good, nothing else matters. They don't want to hear about potential, they want to see what you have done. Typical ACT score of those students who are admitted: 30-34 composite (top score is 36) Typical SAT score of admitted students: 1350-1500 in the old SAT (top score was 1600 then)(800 in math and 800 in English is top score on old SAT) The lady in Admissions said that they don't really care much if you made National Merit semi-finalist. They care about how hard your classes are and what grades you got in them.
3. Chances are really good at all of those institutions. All of those are great schools too, by the way. I like to see people who are interested in the top four-year places like Harvey Mudd. You should look at Grinnell, Hope, Oberlin, and if you're female, Smith.
4. I'd say yes to Columbia most likely...I don't know much about the other schools, but I think yes. It might depend on if you are applying for liberal arts, engineering, pre-emed...getting harder in that order
5. I don't think you will have much of a problem. You seem like a well rounded person. Good luck!