<p>User Name: pmalone224
Gender: M
Location: MA, USA
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Weighted: 4.10
Class Rank: top 10 students
Class Size: 370
Courseload: The hardest classes offered at my school, double language fresh+soph, double science jun+sen. All honors and AP when offered.</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 780
SAT I Critical Reading: 790
SAT I Writing: 760
SAT II U.S. History: 740
SAT II Chemistry: 790</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Peer Counseling, A Capella group, theater, Boy Scouts (life)
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: Swimming Varsity 9-12
Volunteer/Service Work: *Group work with Aspergers teens, once weekly (11, 12)
Honors and Awards:
*National German Exam 99th% 9th-11th
*Science Olympiad State champ 11
*German Award 9,11 Chem Award 11 [top in class]</p>
<p>Other Schools I'm Applying to:</p>
<p>Dartmouth College, Athlete: Yes
University of Pennsylvania, Athlete: No
Tufts University, Athlete: Yes
MIT, Athlete: Yes
Johns Hopkins University, Athlete: No
Penn State - University Park, Athlete: No
Villanova University, Athlete: Yes
Boston College, Athlete: Yes
Rutgers, Athlete: No</p>
<p>I've spoken with the coach, and he says I could be on the team, but I doubt he will support my app.</p>
<p>If the school fits me and it would be possible for me to be competitive on the team I would love to. Swimming is secondary to academics/over all "fit" though.</p>
<p>Your EC's don't look that weak to me. Your scores are great and they seem like EC's that you care about. Your ability to balance those EC's and maintain high grades and receive excellent standardized test scores are exactly what admissions officers look for in an applicant.</p>
<p>I agree with KCLeader. Your ECs are fine. Even if they weren't, its too late to do anything about them now. What is most important is that you have confidence in them and write about them with passion and insight. It isn't so much what you have done, but rather why you have done what you have done and what you've learned from the experience.</p>
<p>Good shot for sure, you clearly have spent time on a few great activities. You'll get in somewhere great. My only suggestion is to loose a safety (do you need PSU, Villanova, AND Rutgers) and add a couple reaches. Dartmouth, MIT, and Penn might not work out. I would personally add a couple of similarly selective schools (perhaps Brown and Duke) and a couple slightly lesser reaches (Northwestern, Rice, WashU).</p>
<p>Thank you for all the advice. I was thinking of trying to add some more reach schools, and Rutgers is gradually falilng off the radar... I did fall in love with Dartmouth as soon as I stepped on campus though, so does anybody have suggestions for reach schools similar to Dartmouth?</p>
<p>A lot of people who apply to Dartmouth also apply to Amherst and Williams. Somewhat smaller but also very focused on undergraduates, also in New England.</p>
<p>Also, Williams might be interested in you for swimming.</p>
<p>Thank you all very much. As for slipper, I've dropped Rutgers from the list... I didn't want to go there anyways and they're not on commonapp... not worth the time.</p>