<p>Leadership/EC: state vice president, deca
chapter president, deca
national entreprenuship award, bronze, deca
national community service award + presidents service award
scholastic national award journalism
regional medals in journalism
editor, school newspaper
staff, school litmag
NHS
SHS
lot of community service 250 hours + for environmental stuff and tutoring students</p>
<p>2 small business i created with total revenue of 5000 dollars</p>
<p>job at kumon tutoring kids
intern, mcgraw hill for publishing educational materials</p>
<p>You look pretty good to me, I got in with stats very similar to yours- 3.85 GPA, 1450 SAT. Your EC’s look great, so if you can maintain those grades I’d say you stand a decent shot.</p>
<p>My only advice would be for you to vary your EC’s a little more, so I’d join a club or two, try out a new sport maybe. Make sure that you actually enjoy it, though.</p>
<p>As for activities, you’re right where you should be. Don’t clusterbomb; there is nothing more obnoxious than a kid who is shallowly interested in a bunch of activities just to BS a college application. I know this, our peers know this and more dangerously, admissions counselors know this.</p>
<p>my only defense of my non-rigorous schedule is the fact that my HS is very well known for being one of the best and so that sort of explains why so few APs are still considered a challenging courseload</p>
<p>personally i think i do great ECS im jsut worried about my grades
i forgot i also do choir and varsity lacrosse !! theres the sport and music</p>
<p>ok so if everything else looks solid, and my weak point is the fact that my schedule isnt rigiorous but i still get A-s and As
is that going to inhibit me from getting accepted
BTW im going to be applying EA</p>
<p>well, EA is admission of those that the committee feels would have gotten in RD anyway so your chances are theoretically worse because of higher standards.</p>
<p>I’m not saying you won’t get accepted because of your relaxed schedule but I am saying that it could hurt you. If you posted in forums to have everyone pat your ego, then I’m sorry. I’m just trying to be constructive.</p>
<p>Easy fix: load up on joke AP’s. Ap environmental is a joke, ap psych is a joke, computer science A isn’t hard, stat is a pure cram and spill class, etc. Truth of above statements may vary from school to school but those classes are regarded as easy in my school.</p>
<p>How’s your schedule in context of others at your school? Do others have many more APs than you do? Personally, I will only graduate with 5, but my school only offers 2 in-person. So, I found classes to take online, and I think that admissions looks favorably upon that. You must take every challenge and go above and beyond if possible. Translation: find the hardest schedule possible, take it, and absolutely put your all into it.</p>
<p>Yeah, it really depends on how many APs your school offers. The three best public high schools in my area all offer tons and tons of APs (with some of them having full IB programs on top of that). Kids in t10% graduate with min. 10 AP classes and a lot of them are set on going to the flagship public in the first place.
Also, you fail to mention your rank. I think your rank would give insight into how many APs are available as APs are weighted differently. If you’re 30th regardless of your good GPA, it shows 29 people are making the same grades in tougher classes.</p>
<p>necrophiliac, that’s a very naive way to look at things. Load up on joke APs? Schools know which APs are hard and which APs are jokes - the top schools profile high schools. Besides, if you’re an applicant that comes from a top school, I’m sure plenty of kids have been accepted to Georgetown. Try to find out their stats - how many APs did they take?</p>
<p>And 6 APs is hardly an “easy load.” OP, find out if your GC will say your load is “most rigorous.” Schools won’t care for your application too much if your course load is NOT most rigorous. Necro, at your school, perhaps it is common for kids to take APs as a soph. But I know at schools in Central Jersey (which are extremely competitive) it’s not allowed for kids to take APs as a soph or frosh.</p>
<p>But on another point - yes, EA is self-selective. So be careful It may not help your application much besides showing “interest”… but it’s Gtown. Interest does not count for much.</p>
<p>I agree that you shouldn’t do the laundry list approach with EC’s, but I was just saying that most of your EC’s could be boiled down to DECA and Journalism, and it’s good that you have specialized interests, in fact it’s what they look for, but it was just a suggestion.</p>
<p>Context really is the biggest factor in your courseload. I took 2 AP’s Junior year, and 3 this year, but at my school this was considered to be “most rigorous”. My school doesn’t offer Honors courses to Freshman or APs to Sophomores, so it’s really all about whether you took every opportunity you could to increase difficulty. I’ve heard from a ton of qualified sources that the best thing you can do is approach your weakest subjects with the same vigor you would your better ones. If you suck at English, give AP Lit. a try anyway, it will look very impressive. Of course, if you’re reaaalllyyy awful, and do not enjoy the subject in the slightest, then disregard.</p>
<p>We had people throw crapshot applications at GTown. I personally know 1 kid who applied who I would say is a stretch for a good state school, let alone top private school. Having said all that, 5/20 got in EA. Of those, we’re all pretty much full AP schedule aside from a couple taking Multi-variable calc (beyond AP). So yeah, from what I can tell, you need to make sure your transcript reads “AP” down the row…</p>
<p>edit: yeah you want to take a subject even if you don’t like it as long as it’s challenging. 660 SAT II lit ==> AP lit. HATED and still HATE physics ==> Ap physics C…
Eventually it stops hurting so much and you start to enjoy the torture =)</p>
<p>I bet your 660 didn’t burn as bad as my 660. I thought I was blessed when I realized that one of my passages was on a topic I knew well --Pygmalion (mythology). What went wrong? ;_; (all A’s in lang and all A’s in lit fyi)</p>
<p>Anyway, it seems to be consensus that if you want to have a serious shot at top schools, you need to take a really hard schedule. College will only get worse so its better if you start getting ready for it early.</p>
It may not help your application much besides showing “interest”… but it’s Gtown. Interest does not count for much.</p>