<p>You should also consider University of Oregon. Next year the GPA they will require for guaranteed admission is 3.4, so you’d definitely get in. It’s a great school, a reasonable size, a spirited and fun environment, and the business school is excellent. You would also most likely receive a merit scholarship of at least $5K per year for 4 years.</p>
<p>Oregon is definitely on my radar.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input.</p>
<p>i’d put anything at NYU and USC out of the picture. everything else looks fine.</p>
<p>First of all, you aren’t an average kid and for the most part, those are not average colleges. I’d say that you’re most likely in at all of them, and I think that the only true reaches you have on there are USC and NYU.</p>
<p>And I don’t know much about UW, but that would probably be a slight reach.</p>
<p>I am average…compared to all the kids on here with 2300 SAT’s and are set to go to HYPS. LOL</p>
<p>Bumping if anyone is interested.</p>
<p>Apply to Stanford. They LOVE urm and would simulataneously love the fact that you’ve been able to make a pretty good application for such a crappy school. I have a feeling that you just might get in…
:)</p>
<p>I’d like to add that I just won the “Most Inspirational” award for my varsity basketball team this year. I guess I will be putting that on my resume.</p>
<p>I’m bored.</p>
<p>Looking for some more answers.</p>
<p>In what way is this student “above average”?</p>
<p>He might not be above average by CC standards, but damn, the average student on an absolute scale got Cs in high school and goes to community college.</p>
<p>In what way is this student “above average”? </p>
<p>I would definitely say I am an above average student compared to non CC’ers. (Notice the first post on page 3) But like the title, and my first sentence, I am definitely average compared to the 2200+ SAT and HYPS hopefuls.</p>
<p>Bumper.</p>
<p>Last one! I promise!</p>
<p>Lol</p>
<p>I just want to chime in that you are <em>definitely</em> above average. The poster who questioned that has obviously been immersed in the College Confidential world far too long. How can you be in the top 10% of your class and not be above average? People need to keep a rational perspective (which I know is hard to do when you want your kid to go to a great college)!</p>
<p>If you can keep that GPA and push the SATs up to 2000 with a 680+ on math, You’ll be able to get into NYU-Stern (for finance). Keep in mind, you still have SAT subject tests and I suggest you take MathI, US History and Spanish. trying getting these scores respectively: 700+, 700+, 750+. If you do all of the things ive mentioned, you will be able to get into some pretty good schools (NYU, USC, Uchicago, Northwestern, Duke and maybe even an Ivy). Good luck.</p>
<p>Trying the SAT again tomorrow.</p>
<p>I’ll bump this up for anymore chances.</p>
<p>First of all, I hope the SAT went great! I just dropped my son off for SAT Subject Tests an hour ago.</p>
<p>I respectfully disagree with Lobzz. In my previous post I said you are clearly above average, and I stand by that statement. However, the info in your original post does not look to me like Ivy League material, even if you add some good SAT Subject Test scores.</p>
<p>It is still worth applying to a few top schools, however, because there could very well be other things in your background that they appreciate, and since you’re from Hawai’i, you would almost certainly help them achieve their “geographic diversity” goals. (I doubt if there are many Hawai’ians on the East Coast.)</p>
<p>That being said, I think you should focus more on second-tier schools where you would be among the better applicants. Not only would you be better-prepared academically, but you would stand a better chance of getting merit aid.</p>
<p>I don’t mean this to be discouraging in any way, and I hope it doesn’t come across that way. I just think that Lobzz is too optimistic about your chances, and it would be a shame if you applied only to top schools and didn’t get in, leaving you without a backup.</p>
<p>I think you’re above average! You could try studying for SAT and retaking if its not too late. And colleges do consider your high school when looking at apps. Like you only took 2 AP classes (which isn’t normally too good) but considering your school only offered 2 that means you took all the AP classes available which is good. Study for the AP tests!</p>
<p>San Diego & SF should be easy to get into! Can’t say for the other two but that’s because I know nothing about those colleges lol. UCI and UCSB, I’d say you can get into as well</p>
<p>Consider Boston University. You are a perfect match with those sort of statistics.</p>