Chance a pretty average student?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White - Male - NJ - 1st Gen
GPA weighted - 3.93(98.1)
Top 10% - ~550 in class (doesnt give specific ranks)</p>

<p>Mostly All honors courses through High school</p>

<p>Senior Sched:</p>

<p>Spanish 4 Honors
Calculus Honors
English 4 Honors
AP Macro-Economics
Anatomy Honors</p>

<p>I just got my SAT results this morning(first try):
M-720
CR-610
W-600</p>

<p>I think i can imprvoe my writing, i started using the Rocket Review and was getting around 650s on a few practices tests...and on CR i am studying the Direct Hits Volumes</p>

<p>Working experience-</p>

<p>Pizza Shop - 9th to 11th - 12 hours per week
Babysitter- when needed</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>-Vice President of my class for 2 years
-Member of student council (all four years)
-Interact club - officer next year - club that does community service
-Italian-American Club
-Basketball league in which i've been playing since 2nd grade
-Another league in which i started playing since 6th grade
-National Honors Society</p>

<p>Volunteer:</p>

<p>Mentor to an autistic child
- Each week I spend one or two hours with an autistic child of a Families Fighting Autism family I know. Started in 11th grade to present.</p>

<p>Highschool’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt
- Event when children come to Eastern and have a variety of acitivites to and food to eat. At the end, there is a egg hunt for all of the age groups.</p>

<p>Walk-a-Thon</p>

<p>Breakfast with Santa
- Annual event that children attend with many events going on and every child receives presents donated by the volunteers.</p>

<p>Senior Citizen Luncheon
- Annual event where the volunteers serve, talk, and entertain the the senior citizens who attend</p>

<p>Elementary Fair
- Volunteer at a elementary school (that i attended) annually when they have their fair</p>

<p>So what do you think my chances are at the following schools:</p>

<p>Penn State - UP
U. Maryland - College Park
UVA
Bucknell
Northeastern
Boston College
Boston U
Rutgers
Notre Dame(reach)
College of New Jersey
Villanova</p>

<p>THanks and leave a link, ill respond!</p>

<p>What do i need to do to get in the rest?</p>

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<p>A 3.93 is not average. I'd say you are in at every school except maybe UVA and Notre Dame. You many only get into one of them, but a good chance getting in both. Why so many honors and not AP classes? Does your school not offer that many? (Your chances will be lower if both AP and honors were offered and you decided to go with honors.) What others APs does your school offer, and which have you taken?</p>

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<p>school offers decent amount..im still between AP calc and honors calc..offer AP chem and AP physics but they are offered the year after every kid is supposed to take it...kind of confusing but what i mean is: This year, as a Junior, Im taking Honors Physics and the only way I could take AP is if i took AP physics the next year(Senior) year..thatss how it is with all the sciences...then there are AP electives like Psychology,Sociology,Macro and Micro Economics, Statistics..so yeah basically this was very confusing i think hahah sorry</p>

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<p>I sure wish that people like you would STOP CALLING YOURSELF AVERAGE. It's really frustrating to those of us who actually are close to being "average." A 98.1 is higher than my class valedictorian!</p>

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<p>haha in my school, not even near the top 10. Sorry, i guess I just think it seems average compared to most of these other posts I read.</p>

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<p>Guys, his WEIGHTED is a 3.93. Not on a 4.0 unweighted scale. still pretty good but it is average. Heck, my weighted is a 4.5 or so and I'm just barely in the top 10% too.</p>

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<p>That's still not average, even if it is weighted. It's still far above average. It only feels low because CC and a lot of the upper rungs of some schools are convoluted.</p>

<p>Anyway, good chances everywhere. You don't have a guaranteed in at BC or Notre Dame, but they're worth a shot.</p>

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<p>everything on your list seems like a match. good luck.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I agree with sars284. I think you should be in all of these schools. The only two I think could be close are UVA and Notre Dame, but I believe you could get into both. Anyway, best of luck. It's a great list of schools.</p>

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<p>thanks..anyone else?</p>

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<p>I agree with them Basketballmj. You're in into all but ND and UVA. Those ae beween matches and low reaches. But you'll prob get into both as well.</p>