Am I on the right track - MIT, Stanford, Princeton, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>I'm a sophomore, and currently checking to see whether I'm on the right track for places like MIT, Stanford, Princeton.</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.9
School doesn't do weighted</p>

<p>Freshman schedule:</p>

<p>Multivariable Calculus (EPGY)
Ap Statistics
AP World History
Honors Spanish 3
Honors English
Honors Chemistry (typically taken by juniors)
Orchestra
Gym</p>

<p>Sophomore schedule:</p>

<p>Linear Algebra/Differential Equations (EPGY)
AP US History
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
Honors English
Honors Spanish 4
Symphony Orchestra
Gym</p>

<p>AP Scores:
AP Calc BC - 5 (taken in 8th grade)
Ap Statistics - 5
Ap Computer Science A - 5 (taken in 7th grade)
AP World History - 3 (I'm kicking my self for this one, probably will retake)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (this is where I am hoping to do well):</p>

<p>I lead an open source project with a team of about 30 people that's been covered in TED talks</p>

<p>I run a software consulting company</p>

<p>I am a paid blogger for a programming-related blog</p>

<p>I run a software startup (Nimblenotes</a>)</p>

<p>I made ISEF freshman year - will do it again this year (with a lot more effort)</p>

<p>AIME qualifier twice (working on taking this to the next step)</p>

<p>President of Robotics Club</p>

<p>I handle investments in stock, bond and options - planning to start a fund</p>

<p>I do fundraising for a nonprofit working to handle preventable blindness</p>

<p>I run a very popular technical blog, with 1000's of pageviews a day</p>

<p>What do you guys think?</p>

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<p>Are you serious, why are you even worried. You took MVC freshman year, a class that most kids take sophmore year in college!</p>

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<p>AP Calc in 8th grade? My Lord, I didn’t think that to be possible…let alone a 5.</p>

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<p>I would be seriously surprised if you did not get into every school you are applying to.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the remarks. Anyone else have any comments? </p>

<p>Anything I’m missing that I should work on?</p>

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<p>Hey, you have a great profile.</p>