<p>chances for an early grad Wellesley, Smith, Scripps, Pitzer, St. Johns College</p>
<p>Ill be graduating in 2005 as a junior. Please slap me upside the head if yall think I should stay another year and improve or just go for college. All possibilities for staying in high school have been exhausted (So I still have AP physics and Calc III to take but I can take those at college) Thanks everyone :)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9 uw 4.6-ish w
Rank in top 5%
SAT: will know in 6 hours-ish mountain time
SAT II: Chem 760, Math IIC 700 (will retake in January)</p>
<p>Classes (honors/ap only)
Freshman: UniMath 2 (equivalent of Algebra 2), Honors Chemistry
Sophomore: AP Chem, AP US history, Precalc, IB Spanish 4
Junior: AP Calc BC, AP Spanish, IB English 11, AP Biology, AP Euro History and psychology 101 at community college (2nd semester)</p>
<p>5s on AP Chem and US history</p>
<p>ECs</p>
<p>School Newspaper news editor (10 hr/wk) (at school paper 2 yr)
Future Community leaders of America co-president (4) (3 yrs) (100 plus hours of community service over 2 years)
Founder of Literary Club/ Editor of lit magazine (4) (1st year)
Choir (5 hr/week) (2 yr)
Track (8 hr/week) (3 yr)
Science Bowl 2nd team 10th grade (4 hr/week) (2 yr)
Member of Amnesty International (3 hr/week) (1 yr)
Counsel of Clubs (1st year in session) (2 hr/week)
Summer program junior year on biochemistry research (6 weeks)
Volunteer at museums about 100+ hrs</p>
<p>Awards
Lettered in Choir 2 years
Lettered in Academics sophomore year (1st year to have academic letter at school)
Athletic Award 2 yr
5th place regionals for science bowl sophomore year
2nd place in-school Spanish poetry contest (not too big I know)
Spanish Honor Society
National Honor Society</p>
<p>i don't know much about the school's you're applying to, but i'm also graduating this spring as a junior. lacking some classes on your transcript won't hurt too much, just a little, but you will have to make up for your age and supposed inexperience with a good essay or personal statement, plus good recs. that's just the feeling i've gotten out of my experiences so far. just some things to think about that you probably already know, but just trying to help a bit. good luck with everything.</p>
<p>if i stayed 4 years, i would've had calc 3/diff eq, ap gov, ap english lit, ap english language (had to drop to regular because i'm taking english 11 and 12 at the same time), ap bio, i would've been editor in chief of the yearbook, i think that might be it. i'm missing a lot, but i honestly don't really care anymore. i applied to kansas state, purdue, penn state, and considered applying to cornell, uiuc, umich, gatech, berkeley, utexas-austin, and... think that's it. well, i decided not to apply to those places because i'm really happy with purdue, i got accepted, and they'll probably give me a decent scholarship (i've been accepted as a dean's engineering scholar and honors student). so even if i got accepted to those other places, i'd probably go to purdue anyways. i've also been accepted to penn state, and given a full tuition to kansas state, which they only offer to 130 in-state students out of around 16,000, so i'd say they don't care that i'm an early grad. something that a uiuc counselor told me, they'll see that you did well the first three years and will assume you would've done just as well your senior year. so that's how they look at it at uiuc. i've also been in contact with counselors at purdue, gatech, and umich, and they don't seem to be overly concerned with the fact, just that you need to be aware that you'll be considered with the same selectivity as other applicants, which is understandable.</p>
<p>purdue has rolling admissions, they started reviewing september 1, and i sent my application late august, so i was probably in the first batch of applicants. and full tuition to k-state isn't a whole lot, since it's instate, just $5000 a year basically. all the other stuff like books, living expenses, etc. is another $9000, so that doesn't even cover half the expenses. but i'm hoping to use it as some sort of leverage with getting as much scholarship as possible out of purdue. since you're graduating early, i'd suggest applying ED/EA if possible, i think most of the deadlines have passed, but i don't really know.</p>
<p>if i were you i would stay and apply to better schools. You worked so hard for a great GPA, stay another year and apply to some ivies. Thats what i would do anyways.</p>
<p>you know, now that you're halfway through junior year, there isn't really any turning back now. at least that's how it is for me. if i all of a sudden decided to stay for senior year, then i wouldn't have much to do, plus i'd have a few honors classes left to take, but my gpa would drop considerably because of all the regular classes i'd have to take to fill up my schedule. i also would've wasted a couple hundred dollars on this english course i'm taking online so that i can graduate early, plus i've taken so much summer school to graduate early. after all i've done to graduate early, i don't think i have the heart to go back to high school. this is something that people like yattaspoonpower just don't get. people act as if we can make a choice to stay, which we do have that choice, but at a high price. it won't necessarily benefit us, and it puts a lot of our efforts to waste. plus we knew what we were getting ourselves into admissions-wise when we made the decision, and yet we decided to graduate early anyway, which means there's something more important than getting into that one college for us.</p>