<p>Alright, I feel really screwed. I'm a US born Asian (south Asian, not east) attending an extremely competitive suburban public school in Georgia (my school is #1 in GA, #7 in US). I'm a senior. I'm taking hard classes (all AP) but throughout high school my GPA hasn't been anywhere near what it should be due to you know what. Can I at least get into GA Tech? If I don't even get in there I will literally become the laughingstock of the whole place. Maybe I'm just overreacting because this place is super competitive...I mean there's this one Romanian kid, he got a 1600 without studying at all, got a 100 in electromagnetic physics junior year, took 9 AP exams junior year and got all 5's, takes all AP classes...and he is only ranked 10th, and not really because people ahead of him are tied. He is the only non-Asian in the top 10 too....and when we all got called in for National Merit there were 63 of us, quite a lot for a single school, especially considering no one practiced for or cared about the PSAT at all....
Oh, and there are 603 seniors in my school, if that matters. Our school tells us classrank via our online grades system where we can log in and check all our grades daily and teachers update them, but they tell colleges we don't rank because you can have a killer GPA and be in the bottom 50%...
Anyway....my stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.3 Yes I'm an Asian with a 3.3.... :( go on laugh
SAT I: 1540 (760V, 780M) in June, no practice at all...I missed 1 math and 4 verbal...i picked the wrong date lol, horrible "curve"...I could easily get a 1600 if I took practice tests and retook but too late now...
SAT II: again I get screwed cause I didn't prepare at all, heck I did standby...anyway 730 writing...<em>cringe</em> 720 math IIC....I will practice and retake with other subjects, hoping for 800s, cause I can still get placement and some colleges accept SAT II's later...
ACT: Haven't taken, except 7th grade, got a 30 or 31 don't remember but it doesn't matter cause it doesn't count anymore...
AP, taken: World History 4, US History 5
AP, in progress: AP Calculus (should be 5), AP Microeconomics (will study hard, should be 5), AP Spanish Language (yikes...hoping for a 4, heard it's hard), AP US Govt/Politics (5 easily i hope), AP Physics C (can't say yet, but i doubt less than 4)
ECs: Marching Band, Percussion Leader.....This may not seem much compared to many people but trust me this consumes so much time...our marching band is very good (our county is sort of a marching band crazy place, Lassiter a nearby school, their band is the best in the country and is Grand Champion at bands of america nationals every time they go)...anyway being in percussion and being a leader takes huge amounts of time...our practices started in April of junior for this year's season, continued through spring and all through summer (sometimes 25 hours a week), then camp for 2 weeks, and during school days this whole semester i came to school at 8AM and left at 9PM mon-thurs, 8AM to 11PM or 1AM on fridays for football games, practice 9AM to 9PM saturdays...</p>
<p>Anyway so what are my chances at at least GA Tech (3.3, 1540, 7 AP classes, band leader) and where else would be good for me? (computer science or comp engineering...ultimately I want to be a video game designer)</p>
<p>If I hadn't been so lazy I'd have a proper GPA and good SAT1/SAT2 scores and would have applied to Caltech/MIT etc. but now...hah yeah right..</p>