<p>Background:
Second child to go to college
Live in GA
White Male
Go to GA public school - "School of Excellence" Honor
Top 8% of 560 students</p>
<p>GPA:
4.18 Weighted
3.8 Unweighted</p>
<p>Course load:
1 AP Freshmen Year (Human Geo - 4)
1 AP Sophomore year (World History - 3)
4/5 AP's Junior Year (AP Calc AB-4 BC-3, AP Psych - 3, AP US - 4, AP Lang - 3)
7 AP's Senior Year (AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Micro, AP Macro, AP Computer Science, AP Physics, AP Spanish)</p>
<p>ECs:
Senior Class Vice President
NHS Treasurer (NHS 3 Years)
Spanish Club President 2 years
Math Team Captain (2 Years Participation)
Beta Club (3 Years)
FCA (4 Years)
SGA (4 Years)
Spanish Honor Society (1 Year)
Friends Club
FBLA
Science Olympiad Team
Academic Booster Club
100+ service hours over my time in High School
Aiming for 60+ senior year
Worked at local frozen yogurt shop (employee of the month)
Youth Soccer Referee
Outside of school baseball 3years
Outside of school basketball 2 years</p>
<p>SAT:
590 CR
660 Math
690 Writing
1940 Composite
(Taking again in October, studying hard for a big increase, 2100ish)</p>
<p>I want to go out of state for college, and am aware and prepared for the costs. I am still looking for suggestions of schools if anyone has any!</p>
<p>Interested in: UVA, UNC, Vandy, WASH in STL, UC's, BU, JHU, Pepperdine
Am I in over my head? Please chance me!</p>
<p>I believe you are not over your head, you have a good chance on getting accepted to those universities you mentioned due tot he fact that SAT scores are not everything an university looks at, in fact when I applied to college I had a really low SAT score but I was accepted due to the recommendations, extracurriculars, essays and all the other little things that help a lot, so yes you have a chance, and never give up, never no matter what people say.</p>
<p>BU: high match
UCLA: low reach
UVA: low reach
UNC: low reach
Pepperdine: low reach
WashU: high reach
Vandy: high reach
JHU: high reach
UCB: high reach</p>
<p>I don’t mean for this to be a dumb remark, but with test-optional admissions, how exactly do they judge applicants? Is it simply the same application without taking scores, or is there more to it than the regular app to compensate? @Catria</p>
<p>Just so you know most people base their chances on SAT only because it is easy to do that on here. So since you are such a devoted student your chances may be better than on here</p>
<p>I’ve noticed that this sight seems to be SAT heavy. That being said, I do understand the importance of the scores. Thanks for the insight @soontobegrad</p>