<p>I'm not providing too much specific info for privacy reasons, but I'd appreciate some candid replies.</p>
<p>Decision: TBD</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300+
[</em>] ACT: not submitting
[<em>] SAT II: 2300+ (three scores combined)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 1%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 5 5 5 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): didn't take
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Spanish Literature, AP Chemistry, AP Physics C E&M, AP English Literature, Honors Greek Literature, Honors Music Theory
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nothing really national but a bunch of regional/school recognitions and some state stuff[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Cross Country - state-ranked and made it to state champs, recognition in one of the toughest leagues in CA, lots of regional team distinctions; Varsity Track (Capt.) - league champs several years running, freshman/sophomore team is undefeated since I've been in HS; Academic Honors Society (President) - host a number of social events on campus as well as fund raising and service projects; Math Team (President) - few competitions here and there, will host AMC for first time in school history. Sports are my big EC's as they take up 20 hrs/week during the season.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none really
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: amazing, Self-founded organization has raised funds in the millions for charitable purposes.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Boys' State, XC conditioning, athletics competition for youth around the world, an academic summer program or two (not RSI level)
[</em>] Essays: unique, well-written
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: both should be highly complimentary
[</em>] Counselor Rec: same as above
[<em>] Additional Rec: got one from my coach, should also be great
[</em>] Interview: TBA[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Multiracial (not URM)
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: Upper-middle class
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): hopefully my community service. It's far from the run of the mill volunteer work done for the sake of app padding.[/ul][ul]
[</em>] Strengths: GPA, scores, course load
[li] Weaknesses: demographics, no definite "hook"[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Great accomplishments! I’m jealous your school offers a course on Greek Lit!!!</p>
<p>As for your list, you’re going to be competitive at all of them. In at USC, Cal and UCLA, in my opinion, but past that, its really up in the air (but you do have a much stronger chance than the average applicant). Wish I could be of more help!</p>
<p>i think you have a really good chance at most of these. you have fantastic stats. unfortunately, so do thousands of other applicants. but i’d say you stand like a 50-50 chance at almost everyone one
best of luck!
except that you’re in at USC fo sho</p>
<p>Your academics are amazing and extra-curricular activities are as well. And if your charity really raised millions then I think that you stand a very good shot at all of these colleges. In for sure at UCLA, Cal and USC.</p>
<p>Well, I think you are off the charts for sure with those 5’s on your AP’s your SAT score, and your ec’s. I think you are a def. match for all of these. But like always, ivy’s reject even those with the 4.0 and 2400 SAT’s so I can’t really say you are safe in those. But good luck to you and chance me back please </p>
<p>Definitely competitive, but I’d say you’re lacking a bit in terms of ECs to give you an edge over the abundance of other equally qualified applicants. Making it to state championships is no real feat in itself in terms of Track/XC, I wouldn’t think it’s worth mentioning unless you placed. In regards to your freshman/sophomore team being undefeated, do you basically mean the JV team? </p>
<p>Then again, if you’ve actually founded a Non-Profit that has raised millions of dollars, that would certainly augment your ECs significantly. </p>
<p>HYPSMC - All reaches, but reasonable and I wouldn’t be surprised with if you received an acceptance or two.</p>
<p>Considering that CA is the most competitive state in the country for HS running and the fact that we did indeed place, I think it warrants mentioning. I’m obviously not good enough to be recruited, but I was able to letter on a very competitive team.</p>
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<p>No, there are 3 divisions in my league: varsity, junior varsity, and freshman-sophomore. JV is pretty much the juniors/seniors not good enough to be on varsity, frosh-soph is the same for freshmen/sophomores.</p>
<p>thanks for the chance! you have amazing stats and impressive volunteer experience that could definitely make you a unique candidate to all the schools.
* Princeton-reach
* Harvard-reach
* MIT-reach
* Yale-reach
* Stanford-reach
* Caltech-reach
* Columbia-low reach
* UCLA-low match
* USC-in
* Cal-??</p>
<p>sorry i put so many reaches, you can never tell with the ivies~</p>
<p>These things are crapshoots but I wouldn’t be too surprised if you got in everywhere.</p>
<p>Princeton-Low Reach (mostly due to their service focus)
Harvard-Reach
MIT-Reach
Yale-Reach
Stanford-Reach
Caltech-Reach
Columbia-Low Reach
UCLA-Safety
USC-Safety
Cal-Low Match</p>
<p>Princeton - lower reach, pretty amazing chance (service oriented, they’ll love the community service)
Harvard - reach
MIT - reach
Yale - reach
Stanford - lower reach
Caltech - lower reach
Columbia - high match
UCLA - you’re in
USC - you’re in
Cal - you’re in</p>
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