Am I in bad shape?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am graduating a year early. I skipped junior year.</p>

<p>GPA UW: 3.7
ACT: 35
AP Euro History: 5</p>

<p>This is my senior year and I am taking AP Macroeconomics, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP English 12. I have already taken AP Euro History. Everything else has been honors excepting a few circumstances such as geometry and electives and classes I took early as well as us government because of scheduling conflicts.</p>

<p>No extra-circulars and no job history.</p>

<p>What caliber of schools should I be applying to. I may take the ACT over again to get a 36. First time was a 30 because of a terrible math score I easily brought up.</p>

<p>And I suppose I could include on my applications that I will be travelling to Syria for a while. I know Arabic, German, and French.</p>

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<p>I don’t think it’s worth re-taking your ACT because the colleges that will accept you won’t care if it’s 35 or 36.</p>

<p>If you live in NY, I recommend the SUNY schools.</p>

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<p>Agreed, you’re very weak EC-wise and that prevents you from getting into the ivies.</p>

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<p>Some more info:</p>

<p>My school was ranked in the top 1000 public high schools in Newsweek.</p>

<p>I am in the top 10%. My weighted GPA is 4.03.</p>

<p>I have taken or am taking 10 honors courses and 5 ap classes in 3 years.</p>

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<p>What part of the top 10% (colleges will know) and do you have ECS?</p>

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<p>You’re ACT score is very impressive, but your lack of EC’s is going to hurt a lot with Ivies and such. You could still shoot for them but you could definitely get into a school in the top 50s rankwise as a general area.</p>

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<p>You have no chance at the Ivies. (This is the first time I’ve said this in a long time)</p>

<p>There is absolutely nothing that makes you unique in any way.</p>

<p>Post more info.</p>

<p>Oh, and yes, you’re in terrible shape.</p>

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<p>Well that is disheartening.</p>

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<p>what do you do? what are you passionate about? why cant you join an EC this year?</p>

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<p>“My school was ranked in the top 1000 public high schools in Newsweek.”</p>

<p>No offense, but who cares?</p>

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<p>Maybe if it was “top 10 high schools.”</p>

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<p>Because I see people constantly saying their school was competitive. Throwing that tidbit in kind of proves my school is somewhat up there.</p>

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<p>I wouldnt say no chance at all. It all depends on what you mean by I know Arabic, German and French. </p>

<p>If like most people it means i can say hello, bye and thank you then u dont stand a chance and you are in a bad shape.
But if you are really fluent in all these 3 languages and can prove it then I d say u stand a chance. Being truly fluent in a foreign langue is as good as any highly regarded ECs if u can prove it. Best being some internationally recognized proficiency test, for French stuff like DELF or TCF that most people don t have.</p>

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<p>Some of the responses you have gotten are way off base-- Your stats are outstanding, you just need to provide more information to the schools you are applying to than you have here. Why did you skip a year? What do you do during your non-school hours? How did you come to be fluent in three languages? What does language mean to you? </p>

<p>With well written application, you will have your choice of many very fine schools, certainly several in the top 20.</p>

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<p>lmao no ECs fail</p>