<p>GPA 98
Rank Top 5%
SAT I 2290 (700CR 790M 800W)
SAT II 740 720 690</p>
<p>ECs
President Math Club / Mathlete Team
Feature Editor School Paper
Youth Football Volunteer Coach ~300 hrs
Studio in Art, took course in 2003 - Will send slides
VicePresident Spanish Club
Student Service volunteer ~100 hrs
Volunteered @ Special Olympics and Bronx Zoo
Math/Spanish tutoring
National Honor Society
Summer@Brown, anthropology
Work @ Northfork bank ~200 hrs</p>
<p>Awards
Honor Roll all marking periods
National Merit (Semi)Finalist
Math Olympiads
County Interscholastic Math League -- Silver
NY State Math League, Merit Certificate
National Science Olympiad (With Distinction)
Poetry published by America Library of Poetry
1st Place school Biology Fair
2nd Place schoolwide Art Contest</p>
<p>Male
Caucasian
Parochial School
New York</p>
<p>I know my grades and scores are rather good, but my ECs are very mediocre.. I'm confident I can secure one amazing teacher rec, and probably one other very good one as well. I also feel that I can write an excellent essay, probably about my passion for anthropology and how it began to surface when I was just a child, and then how it developed into something that I wish to pursue.
Any assessments are appreciated.</p>
<p>Chances at
Columbia; Early Decision
&Georgetown</p>
<p>I think your chances at Georgetown are very safe- you have the good marks and interesting ECs for it and everything. Columbia would be pretty safe as well - you'd have a good shot at both. I think it'd be better if you try to concentrate your ECs more on things that you are really good at. I know we're often told to be "well-rounded" but it's also important to concentrate your strengths in one area. You appear to be really good at math/sciences according to your awards, so build up your ECs with activities related to those! It'll show that you have "passion" for what you do, which I'm sure you do.
Good luck!</p>
<p>and just another thing to keep in mine: RELAX and breathe a little.
there's this chinese proverb that goes like- "if you are a bright star, you will shine anywhere dark in the sky" </p>
<p>if you're brilliant, people will know it, every where you go.
and i'm sure you are. you have to believe it.</p>
<p>and p.s. i'm going to georgetown this summer for some int'l relations program! EXCITEDDDD. </p>
<p>i really should be studying for exams but GUESS WHAT I'M PROCRASTINATING. if procrastinating was a doctoral degree, i think i would have my phD by now.</p>
<p>Ahaha.
I actually was looking into the Georgetown International Relations Program for a while.
Have an awesome time -- Washington DC is the best.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice.
I should be studying for exams as well. Agh!</p>
<p>I haven't been to Washington since I was like, six. For Independence Day. And I know it's going to be a life changing week, I can feel it in my bones!</p>
<p>Too bad you aren't coming... It would have been really weird/cool if you went too and then we meet and realize that we first "conversed" through a forum in the Land of the Internet.</p>
<p>I'm kind of nervous for it though. I feel like everyone else would know a gazillion more stuff than me about North Korea and ...the foreign policy of Kuwait. Will they bully me because I'm 15 and extremely immature?
Yeah, I really think so.</p>
<p>Haha screw studying I'm going to bed.
(How am I supposed to succeed in life? I'm such a loser)</p>
<p>Your AI is 225.5. And with your written SAT score and 98 average you come across as about a 226-227. Since 230 is the top level, and your ECs look really good (although you might need one more leadership type EC--preferably in math or science), you have a real good shot at Columbia ED. About the only problem is that so many students from New York apply to Columbia this could hurt you a tiny bit. If you don't get in ED at Columbia (although I rate your chances at about 60 to 65% or so), you should apply at a lot of the Ivies that interest you and I'll think you'll get in at least one. That 98 is the key to your chances, so don't let it slip in any summer classes or the fall semester.</p>
<p>Georgetown is even easier in my view--almost a safe match in your case--hard as that is to believe (Georgetown is almost a safe match for nobody). If you go and make friends with the admissions people and professors this summer, this should be a lock.</p>