<p>As a high school junior stressing out INSANELY over college, I feel like all the advice people give me when it comes to college is biased - perhaps because they know me well. To that end, I decided to ask total strangers who have no idea who the heck I am!</p>
<p>ABOUT ME:
-1st generation American citizen, born in India
-Father went to MIT Sloan School for professional degree
-Looking at targets like Johns Hopkins and Northwestern, reaches like.. Ivies. My dream school is either Columbia University or Williams College.</p>
<p>GRADES: (my school doesn't give out A+'s)
-High Honor Roll (e.g. maintaining unweighted GPA of 3.6) all years
--Unweighted GPA of 3.62 and Weighted GPA of 4.01 freshman
--Unweighted GPA of 3.82 and Weighted GPA of 4.42 sophomore
--Unweighted GPA of 3.75 and Weighted GPA of 4.73 junior
-My school doesn't rank but I'm a lock for top 5% in a class of about 400</p>
<p>-FRESHMAN YEAR: Modern World History Honors (A-), French 2 Honors (A-), English 1 Honors (A-), Environmental Science Honors (B+), Geometry CP1 (B+)</p>
<p>-SOPHOMORE YEAR: AP US History I (A-), French 3 Honors (A-), English 2 Honors (A), Biology Honors (A-), Algebra 2 CP1 (A)</p>
<p>-JUNIOR YEAR: AP US History II (A-), French 4 Honors (A-), AP English 3 (A-), Chemistry Honors (A-), Precalculus Honors (B+), AP Environmental Science (A), AP Statistics (A)</p>
<p>-SENIOR YEAR: AP European History, AP French, English 4 Honors, AP Biology, AP Calculus AB, Bionuclear Chemistry, Organic Chemistry (will be taking AP Bio, Calc AB, Euro, and French exams)</p>
<p>SCORES:
-PSAT: 233 (78 math, 80 reading, 75 writing)
-SAT I: 2340 (800 math, 780 reading, 760 writing)
-SAT II Literature: 780
-SAT II Biology: 760
-SAT II Math II: 770
-SAT II US History: 800
-SAT II French: 770</p>
<p>-AP US Exam: 5
-AP Envi Sci: 5
-AP Statistics: 5</p>
<p>HONORS:
-National Honor Society
-National French Honor Society
-National Science Honor Society
-National Merit Finalist</p>
<p>EXTRACURRICULARS:
-Volunteer weekends at Gurudwara (place of worship of Punjabi Sikhs) preparing meals and cleaning the dining hall post-service
-Humor Editor/contributor for school newspaper
-Member of the Environmental Genomics Institute, a nonprofit organization made up of scientists/professors currently researching shrimp metal levels and allergies, headquartered at Boston College
--Spend breaks from school up at BC doing lab work with EGI members
--Spend summers abroad in Ecuador helping the doctors collect shrimp samples
--Coauthored a research paper published by the Institute; of seven authors including myself, five were PhDs</p>
<p>This is the same me colleges are going to see. What do you guys think are my chances of admittance at places like Hopkins? Columbia?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot, any responses--good or bad, I don't care, as long as they're constructive and honest--would be hugely appreciated!</p>