<p>School: very competitive public, top 50 in nation
Location: Bethesda, MD
Ethnicity: white, Jewish</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA - unweighted: 3.31 weighted 3.85 (around 3.1 uw freshman and sophomore year, 3.8 uw junior year so very large trend up)
SAT- 2170/1480 (800 Reading, 680 Math, 690 Writing, plan on retaking for 2250+)</p>
<p>SAT II - 730 Lit, 720 World
AP's - World: 4, English Lang: 5, Psychology:4, taking AP Environmental Science and AP English Lit next year, as well as college course in International Relations at University of Maryland</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
- semester abroad in Israel at Alexander Muss Institute
- Israel correspondent for JVibe Magazine
- volunteer with First Tee Organization
- JYPI (Jewish Youth Philanthropy Institute 20+ hours)
- volunteer at Ronald McDonald House
- Model UN (3 years)
- hopefully Varsity Golf senior year
- coached kids basketball team
- worked as caddy, taught kids golf, and worked in golf store
- University of Maryland Young Scholars program as Senior
- hopefully National Merit Scholarship Finalist (got a 227)
- volunteer at Camp Shriver, Special Olympics camp (35+ hours)
- probably more, cant remember off the top of my head</p>
<p>Hopeful schools:</p>
<p>Cornell
Northwestern
Emory
Michigan
NYU
Maryland (in state)
Tulane
Wisconsin
Pittsburgh
Penn State
Syracuse</p>
<p>I know my GPA is killing me, but I have a large trend up and have taken mostly honors and AP's throughout high school. </p>
<p>You're goal for the SAT seems good...it'll put you in a better position at all of the schools you're considering. Your awards and ecs seem good! You have a good amount of community service which is always a good thing. Do you have any idea what you might major in?</p>
<p>You're screwed. Maybe if you did some work freshman and sophomore year, you'd have a shot...Cornell my ass! And colleges read through that semester abroad where you did absolutely nothing...good job screwing up your life!</p>
<p>Make a 4.0 senior first semester and you should see your chances improve, but I have to say anything <3.5 UW definitely hurts an application alot (at the schools you're applying to)</p>
<p>thanks other than jkterrapin, hes just bitter cuz i got a higher sat score. not sure what i want to major in yet, but thinking about law school after undergrad</p>
<p>High Reach
Cornell
Northwestern
Emory
Michigan
NYU
Penn State University Park</p>
<p>Low Reach
Wisconsin
Pittsburgh</p>
<p>Match
Syracuse
Tulane</p>
<p>Safety
Maryland (in state)</p>
<p>I don't think you completely f*ucked up, but your grades really will hurt you. I would have put Penn State University Park as a low reach, but your gpa is low and their admission decision is 2/3 based on gpa. Anyway, best of luck.</p>
<p>I think jec's evaluation is probably about right, perhaps a little too pessimistic, if your scores improve and your senior grades continue to show a positive trend. (Perhaps "jkterrapin" was offended that you are using Maryland as your safety school.)</p>
<p>well jkterrapin is a friend of mine, hes just being annoying. i know that those schools are all reaches, im hoping they will see my trend up and realize that my gpa would have been higher had i tried - i also have more ec's that i forgot about like hebrew school confirmation and various youth groups</p>
<p>I think you have a really good chance at all of your schools except for the first three (Cornell definitely =/)
but i think that Emory would be a realistic reach school for ya.</p>
<p>PS, although this might just be a rumor, but I heard that a lot of the upper-level schools sometimes choose against Jewish people because there is such a large population of them in those schools
that's just in case you were planning to write an essay about it
but that might be totally untrue - just what i heard.</p>