Am I on track for Admission???

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<p>I'm a sophmore right now.
Large uncompetitive public suburban high school in Utah</p>

<p>GPA: 3.9 UW (school doesn't weight) hardest courseload available
ON my way to a IB diploma</p>

<p>PSAT 150 ( I know its low, hope to get it to 2000)</p>

<p>EC:
Debate 10-
Key Club 10-
Track 9, 10-
Model UN 9,10-</p>

<p>I know theres nothing to show, nothing to makes me stand out.</p>

<p>Is there anyway to improve my chances? Am I on track to be accepted, or do I have to do a lot more, and what should I do?</p>

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<p>I'd say try to improve your writing skills, I don't know how good you are at that, but there's always room to improve.</p>

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<p>there's no way we can tell u that..</p>

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<p>Our debate team has alot of Sophomore's in it so I've been reminded as to what is expected of Sophomore's on the PSAT, that 150 is trouble. Out of all the kids I talked to about their scores the lowest I heard was 161 (and he was a junior)... Not everyone is the "test-taker" type and just have a weakness in standardized tests where they might excel elsewhere... but my reccomendation to you is that you start looking over SAT prep books before your junior PSAT (which determines your National Merit Scholarship eligability) and even consider taking some summer courses. Personally I loathe people who use privelege to take those $1000+ programs that help you, though the results speak for themselves. </p>

<p>Personally I took a nice cheap SAT course that our school offered in the summer between 10th and 11th grades where we got some packets on pointers for all the sections. It certainly didn't hurt my scores.</p>

<p>EDIT: Uncompetitive High School? Everytime I hear this I regret going to one of the most competitive public schools out there. My class rank is JUST outside the top 10% and my biggest weakness when applying to colleges... gah... our school is pretty cutthroat on the competition and we even have kids in the 13-16 percentile who are National Merit semi-finalists. We were also ranked on that silly "top 100" high school rankings. </p>

<p>What bugs me most are those kids who fight their way up into the top 10 or top 20 only to go to a school that accepts anyone in the top 20% automatically or even worse... bah!</p>

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<p>I applied to Rice and I would consider myself a competitive candidate and I had a 214 PSAT as a sophomore, so you may want to work on that.</p>

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<p>GPA: ~3.0 (UW) IB diploma candidate (I have Cs... D: ) top 10% (as of now)
PSAT: 190, 188
EC:
Band- 9, 10, 11, -
Academic Decathlon - 11, -
Art Club - 11, -
Health Editor of E-zine - 11
Track - 9 (and summer before 11th if that count)
Secratary of Mbaise (but the hours are... super minimal)
SWA (writer's assoc.) - 11, -
AWARDS:
1st Division Solo (local) - 9
Published in School Lit. Magazine - 11
1st Division Photo (local) - 10
Academic Decathlon awards but local
COMM. SERVICE:
150+ hours</p>

<p>Meh, can't tell me much hm?</p>

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<p>I got my IB Diploma and 18 credit hours from Rice :/. It sounds good initially, but when you come to Rice, you realize most other freshmen have at least 30 credit hours from AP. I think 18's pretty much the max you can get with IB since Rice only takes higher level subjects, though I got 6s and 7s on all of my IB exams. Just a word to the wise, for you fellow IB victims...</p>