<p>Hey all, I was hoping for some feedback on my chances in getting into these schools (their business colleges or if they lack one, doing Econ in the arts&sciences college)...</p>
<p>Princeton
GWU
<a href="mailto:WashU@St">WashU@St</a>. Louis
Georgetown
NYU
MIT
Columbia
Harvard (Why not!)
Dartmouth
Univ. of Chicago
Northwestern
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Stats:
800 V/780 M/710 W</p>
<p>6 on IB SL Math, 5's on AP American/Euro/Politics, 4 on AP Chem, A- Unweighted Average in Project Advance English through Syracuse Univ.</p>
<p>Top 10% of class, 40th out of 440. Competitive High School on Long Island.</p>
<p>Coursework:
Currently taking BC Calc/IB5 Spanish/AP Physics B/AP English</p>
<p>Enrolled in school's Academy of Finance program (Mix of mostly college credited into classes into various aspects of Business). 99.8 Average, unweighted across my Business courses.</p>
<p>Went to a "gifted" middle school. Ranked highest for achievement in Social Studies/Spanish/English.</p>
<p>Have taken the full 3 year sequence of Sculpture offered by my school, which also has the best program for Sculpture in NY state.</p>
<p>Letters of recommendation from my Sculpture teacher, Business teacher, and my Social studies teacher.</p>
<p>E.C.:
-Varsity Winter and Spring track all 4 years, have couple County championships under my belt, and some State qualifying runs. Not good enough to get recruited or anything though.
-Cross country all 4 years (just to get into shape).
-Travel soccer, Div. 2 team from 2nd grade to 10th grade.</p>
<p>-Volunteered one summer at local Audobon Society.
-Volunteered one summer full-time at another disease fund raising group.
-Organized mural for above said location.
-Volunteer on and off since 9th grade during school year at said group's offices.</p>
<p>-Interned this past summer with a major multi-billion dollar company with its President. Got hand written letter of recommendation from said President and Vice-President (Who was more responsible for me on a day to day basis).
-Attended NSLC International diplomacy course one summer.
-AP Scholar.</p>
<p>Random stuff:
-My parents were immigrants from the Middle East.
-In my essays, I've demonstrated an understanding of various advanced economic/political mechanics.
-I run, co-designed, and own a community website for my high school.
-I program/create a lot of techno music in my minimal off-time.
-I manage my own Roth IRA of several thousands of dollars.</p>
<p>My only real weaknesses that I can see when comparing myself to other candidates is that I'm no Valedictorian by any means (I'm a year accelerated above typical advanced classes for my grade, 10Honors English in 9th grade, etc etc AND I DONT GET ENOUGH WEIGHTING FOR THAT FACT!).</p>
<p>Also that unlike many other kids who may have interests in science or math, there's no "research" programs I found I could really participate in. Some of my peers have comfy 2-3 research partnerships with Brookhaven Lab and what not, which makes for tantalizing Intel and Westinghouse prizes. Alas Economics will not cure cancer.</p>
<p>Finally, my math/science grades/scores aren't as high as my humanities/business classes, which I understand. And fully specify in my essays that I like their management or more public policy oriented classes or Econ+Poli Sci sort of option, opposed to actuaries/statistics/straight econ/finance "concentration" or whatever they term it.</p>
<p>Please give your opinions <3. I'm a bit of a nervous mess right now.</p>