<p>Hello All,</p>
<p>Last year, as a rising sophomore, I created a chance thread to get some opinions on my prospects for college, and some, to my dismay, argued that I was too young at that point. SO , here I am, about a year later, posting again with another chance thread. I've definitely grown since my previous thread, so I'm hoping to get some new opinions!</p>
<p>Here goes:</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2210 currently (Breakdown: Writing 800, Critical Reading 750; Math 660 ugh) (doing alot of SAT prep this summer; should get past 2250 at least, hopefully more)
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 800 World History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Weighted GPA (out of 5.0): 4.79
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn't rank, but somewhere in the top 1% (400 or so kids in my class; only reason I'm not probably not first is that I didn't take a honors elective freshman year --)
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History 5; Psychology (self-studied) 5
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): next year!
[<em>] Junior Year Course Load: Latin HL1, Ancient Greek 2H, Philosophy HL1, English HL1/AP Lang, Physics HL1, Math SL, APUSH
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Latin HL2, Greek SL, Philosophy HL2, English HL2/AP Lit, Physics HL2/AP Physics B, AP Calc BC, TOK
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): recipient of a Carson Scholarship? CSF? NHS (most likely)? At school I've received the award for top student in AP World and Latin 1H this far... not much else at this point...[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN (Chef du Cabinet of our school's conference, designing new website and program, in charge of 17 freshman committees which is about 900 kids; also committee chair for the conference; traveling to the UK for a conference this fall; have traveled to conferences at Berkeley and UCSB; have over 20 awards at this point including 3 gavels {including 1 at UCSB} and 1 best delegate); JSA (chapter president; planned a mock presidential debate and school-wide mock election last fall; planning a lot for this upcoming school year, hopefully we will host our own minicon); Boy Scouts (nearly an Eagle scout; have served as Troop Librarian, Historian, Webmaster, Patrol Leader, Assistant Patrol Leader); Piano (CM, hopefully will have level 7 or 8 done by senior year, I stopped playing for a couple years so I'm a bit behind --; Won Gold medal at local contemporary competition in the spring); ASB (commissioner of media for the next school year); school anti-bullying organization (class representative); co-founder of classics club at our school; independently studying spanish; track and field
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: see internships under summer activities
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: My eagle scout project (was organizing the mock presidential debate and election; spent over 50 hours on this); Co-founding a Key Club at my school with my friend this summer (should get a lot more service with this next year; I will be the secretary next year and vp probably senior year); Tutor English for the underprivileged (around 2 hours a week); I write for a local literature blog, providing book reviews for the community; technician for church services (2 hours a week); other Boy scout stuff (scouting for food, volunteering for eagle projects, delivering food to seniors, singing christmas carols to seniors, etc.); crew leader at VBS at my church last summer; participating in community service piano recitals
[</em>] Summer Activities:Internship at ethics center at local university this summer (will be working on a few different research projects); Internship at linguistics laboratory at local university this summer (working on a project in cross-linguistic word segmentation and error analysis as well as a project involving acquisition of grammatical categories in ASL; hopefully will be able to continue working with the lab throughout the school year); taking intro to linguistics class at local university (UC); planning for MUN conference; preparing for UK MUN trip; working on starting key club; finishing up Eagle Scout stuff; SAT prep; piano[/ul] </p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Parochial
[</em>] Ethnicity: mixed (filipino and caucasian, i have a hispanic last name... might help? probably not...)
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: well off
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):none really[/ul] </p>[/li]
<p>Schools I'm considering...[ul]
[<em>]University of Pennsylvania
[</em>]Harvard University
[<em>]Yale University
[</em>]Swarthmore College
[<em>]University of Chicago
[</em>]Pomona College
[<em>]UC Berkeley
[</em>]Georgetown University
[<em>]Northwestern University
[</em>]UCLA
[li]UVA[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Some safeties:[ul]
[<em>]UC Santa Cruz
[</em>]UC Davis
[<em>]Ohio State
[</em>]University of Washington[/ul]</p>
<p>The biggest thing for me is if I will be able to get into at least ONE of my top 3 schools (Harvard, Penn, Yale). I'd love to get people's thoughts on this. I know they're all crapshoots, but do any of them seem attainable?</p>
<p>Also, any recommendations on extracurriculars and service are greatly appreciated. I really appreciate all that you guys have to say!</p>