Acceptance Or Rejection: That Is The Question

<p>My Final List:
Columbia (Early Decision- Most important)
Yale, Harvard, UPenn, Cornell, Northwestern, NYU, UF(im not worried about uf)</p>

<p>Hi, What do you think my chances are?
White Male, Public school in Boca Raton, Florida</p>

<p>Rank: 16/555 (top 3 percent)
SAT I ( took twice, highest math-710, highest verbal-800)-1510 cumulative (1410 and 1420 separately)
GPA(weighted, unweighted)- 4.42, 3.97</p>

<p>Courses( middles school ones are high school credit)
-7th:
Algebra I Honors (A/B)
-8th:
Integrated Science(A/A)
20th Century World History (A/A)
Spanish I (A/A)
Geometry Honors (B/B)
-9th:
Algebra II H (A/A)
Journalism (A/A)
Speech/World Geography (A/A)
Spanish 2 H (A/A)
Mass Media/Weight Training (A/A)
Earth Space Science H (A/A)
English (gifted) (A/A)
-10th
English (gifted) A/A
Precalculus (B/A)- only b in actual high school
World History H (A/A)
Newspaper(A/A)
Life Mgmt/P.E (A/A)
Biology H (A/A)
Spanish 3 H (A/A)
-11th
AP English (A/A/5)
AP US History (A/A/4)
AP Calculus AB (A/A/4)
Psychology 1/2 (A/A)
Chemistry H (A/A)
Newspaper Honors (A/A)
Spanish 4 H (A/A)
12th
AP ENglish 12
Economics H/ AP American Govt
Physics Hon
Newspaper honors
AP Statistics
AP Psychology</p>

<p>ECs
-Write in teen section of biggest South Florida Newspaper, School newspaper, Treasurer of Model U.N, Book Club(Charter Member), Math Academic Games (probably #2 team in county), NHS, Spanish NHS, Mu Alpha Theta (Math NHS)</p>

<p>Good recommendations from my two teachers ("one of the top few students i have met in my 22-year teaching career" lol), haven't gotten one yet from my guidance counselor.</p>

<p>Good, not great essays</p>

<p>ECs aren't super diverse, but are great for what they are, pretty good GPA, good course load.</p>

<p>Harvard and Yale might be tough, but ED to COlumbia w/ good recommendations and good essays + your devotion shown in EC will get ya in.</p>

<p>opinions please</p>

<p>bump......EDIT: BAD/mediocre SAT 2 scores: us history 690, literature-700, writing 620!</p>

<p>BUMP!!!!! yea</p>