<p>Write your essay about your grades, because that is the only imperfect thing about your entire app.</p>
<p>The OP was homeschooled until beginning high school in 9th grade. That gives him plenty of time to focus on his love of math and the desire to achieve the highest grade possible.</p>
<p>Congratulations on a fine resume, OP, and yes, I would agree with danishpastry123 that you should explain your grades in your essays, without mentioning depression. Or maybe explain how you overcame or coped with the sad events in your life while racking up all these accolades?</p>
<p>So, my second semester grades turned out better than I had hoped, although my GPA remained the same as what I projected it to be. I am happy that I was able to turn my slide around. These are the best grades I have ever gotten in high school. Official grades don’t come out until Wednesday after school, but we have no material left in any of my AP classes, and both of my honors classes only have one more tiny piece of homework each, so these are basically my final grades.</p>
<p>US History Honors: A+ (more extra credit than I had expected 
Honors Differential Equations: A (close to an A+, but who cares)
AP Statistics: A+
Spanish Literature AP: B+ (barely a B+, but I’m happy with it)
AP Physics B: A+ (took a practice AP test for extra credit and mine was the highest score)
AP English Language: A+ (I guess our teacher just likes us, because he randomly gave us a curve)
AP Music Theory: A+</p>
<p>This makes my 11th grade 2nd semester GPA 3.857143 UW /4.857143 W.
My 11th grade total GPA is now 3.5 UW / 4.5 W.
My overall GPA is 3.525 UW / 4.525 UW.</p>
<p>I took the Physics and US History subject tests and received 800s on both. My mother wants me to take Spanish with Listening to compensate for my poor Spanish grades and 4 on the Language AP test, but I think that’s too many subject tests. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Rohan - Spanish with listening won’t be available until November. So you have time to think about it. Good job on the second semester.</p>
<p>I would be interested to know whether or not you get in to the schools you are aiming for, just to judge how important grades + race (the only things against you) are and how much high test scores and amazing EC’s that are short of being a recruited athlete will make up for that.</p>
<p>You have a grand resume OP
Congratulations on your achievements </p>
<p>I would like to remind you that none of us here are adcomms so we can hardly predict what your chances are</p>
<p>Note that even if your GPA might seem low it came at the expense of some great ECs sorry not great but stellar. Not everyone who goes to HYPMS have perfect grades and perfect academics- some are well endowed at other areas. Show your love and passion for the thing that you want to pursue shine in your essays and who knows next year you will be happily posting your stats in the decision threads :)</p>
<p>The only failure is not to apply
Best of luck</p>
<p>first of all your resume is incredibly impressive…with the amount of courses you’ve taken and good grades in AP you still may be fine
@woeishe columbia is harder to get into than brown look at the numbers from this year columbia was 2nd hardest behind harvard…i would put columbia in the HYP category ;)</p>
<p>You should go to CalTech or Stanford. Very impressive</p>
<p>Updates: My father is saying I should apply to Stanford SCEA instead of Harvard SCEA because he thinks there’s a risk that Harvard SCEA might not be beneficial, while Stanford’s SCEA has consistently been about 25% higher acceptance rates. (Might also just be because he went there for grad). What do you think?</p>
<p>I have finished both my art supplement CD for Piano and another one for violin. Both are, if I do say so myself, excellent.</p>
<p>My Honors Differential Equations second semester grade was changed to A+.</p>
<p>This summer, I attended Blue MOSP. I also took Topology and Discrete Math. I received an A+ in Discrete Math and an A in Topology.</p>
<p>I am now president of Science Club and VP of young democrats. I have rejoined Quiz Bowl, as well. My rank in tennis has increased to #472 in the nation (highest it’s ever been).</p>
<p>Current grades:
AP European History - B-
Honors Real Analysis - A
AP Psychology- A+
AP Latin Vergil- A-
AP Physics C: Mechanics- A+
AP English Literature- No assignments graded yet
AP Art History- No assignments graded yet
AP US Government & Politics (I just added this class): A+</p>
<p>Next semester is the same schedule, except Real Analysis H becomes Complex Analysis H, AP US Gov becomes AP Comp Gov, and AP Phys C: Mech becomes AP Phys C: E&M.</p>
<p>Since it’s so early in the year, I have only had a couple assignments in each class (or none at all) so these probably don’t reflect my final grades. Still, this is a really good start for me. I’ve been working really hard and focusing a lot more on school because I know how important it is to finish strong; also, this is the first year I have a full schedule without a free. I have already finished most of my college essays and they seem really strong, according to feedback I’ve gotten. Not posting here for privacy + plagiarism protection reasons.</p>
<p>AP Scores: APUSH: 5. AP Statistics: 5. AP Spanish Literature: 5. AP Physics B: 5. AP Macroeconomics: 5. AP Microeconomics: 5. AP English Language: 5. AP Music Theory: 5.</p>
<p>If your father went to Stanford, you have some legacy points since they accept graduate degree for legacy based on the supplement.</p>
<p>So you stand a better chance at Stanford than Harvard.</p>
<p>My mom went to Harvard for grad though, does that also count for legacy points?</p>
<p>um dude, you are CRAZY. Your app is amazingly awesome. stanford is like a safety for you</p>
<p>Harvard only considers undergrad from what I understand about legacy.</p>
<p>GPA is not really that impressive…Harvard is a liberal arts school, and your worst grades are in LA classes, so that is definitely going to go against you. You took a lot of AP’s but didn’t really have HYPSM type grades in all of them (quality over quantity). However, your EC’s are good…but I’d give your chances a “high reach”.</p>
<p>I think if you applied to all of the Ivy’s + Stanford, CAL, UCLA, you would without a doubt get in to one of them. Like 100% sure, you would get in to at least ONE of them.</p>
<p>fail ■■■■■ is fail</p>
<p>I cried when I saw this. Screw your 2 lower grades. You will get into a good ivy league. just add info in the additional info section if you have legitimate reasons behind those grades. if not…you are still going to get into the 2nd tier ivies (dartmouth, brown, cornell, upenn, etc) and HYPC as well as Caltech, Harvey Mudd for sure, Stanford probably, and definitely Carnegie Mellon
AMAZING TEST SCORES AND ECS. JEEZ</p>
<p>I think you should apply to MIT or Caltech since you seem to be much more math-oriented.
Stanford’s also a good choice.</p>
<p>Unfortunately you’re Indian, which also works against you, as Indians are generally over-represented in top college admissions. But you still have great chances.</p>
<p>Several reasons this app will get rejected:</p>
<p>Low GPA. Extremely low. This isn’t terribly bad but then…</p>
<p>Class rank. 98% at one Ivy I remember is all the top 10%. Now if you are somehow still top 10% with a 3.3 or whatever then that’s weird. But if you aren’t in the top 10% I would say your chances are near zero.</p>
<p>People here keep saying “impressive ECs, nice awards!” But what I see is a somewhat talented musician, a serial joiner, and someone who goes to a school that offers many olympiad contests. “B-b-b-ut, they’re Olympiads!!!” But what do you see? Semi-finalist in just about all of them. Most people will get semi in these contests with some studying, especially those of Harvard type skill.</p>
<p>Finally, as others have said, your liberal arts is very weak. Ivies are not exclusively tech schools. They cover all subject matter. </p>
<p>All of this makes me say you have very low chances for Ivies at least. What do >>I<< reccommend? Focusing in on your science strengths and instead applying to a tech school like Cal or MIT. They will be more forgiving of **** poor liberal arts skills. </p>
<p>Oh and just me, you smack of arrogant math kid. Wiping off the smug smile that leers through the words of your app will be a good idea. No one likes an arrogant prick who knows a bit of math.</p>