Chance a stressed out sophomore in highschool :P

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I know i shouldn't be so worried about college yet since i'm a sophomore, but i am haha. Majoring probably Business/Finance</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian Male
SAT I: My mom forced me to take the SATs as a sophomore and the results were not good.... in my opinion. I plan to raise this score to 2200+ . I will use this first time as a warning/incentive to study more for the SAT test.</p>

<p>SAT II:
690 Bio I
Plan to take Chem in June ( Hopefully like a 720-750? )
Plan to take Math II next year ( Hopefully 780-800? )</p>

<p>GPA:
Freshman year, i got around a 3.86 UW and a 4.3-ish weighted
This year, I plan to get straight A's so (hopefully) 4.0 UW and a 4.57 weighted
Junior year, i plan to take some more AP courses
Senior year, i also plan to take some more AP courses</p>

<p>Course Load: The hardest my school offers for my grade. </p>

<p>Rank: Hopefully top 10% , class size of around 250 kids</p>

<p>EC:
~40 Hours @ senior center
~40 Hours volunteering for music stuff
~20 Hours answering voice mails for an emergency assistance fund group
aprox. 100 hours volunteering
4 years Varsity golf ( hopefully i'll be captain next year. The coach implied i was basically on the team all 4 years :P )
Freshman basketball ( 1 year )
JV basketball ( maybe 2 years )
Freshman cross country ( 1 year )
JV cross country ( maybe 2 years )
Key Club ( 1 year )
Math Club ( 3 years )
NHS ( 2 years )
Future Business Leaders of America ( 4 years, hopefully president next or senior year )
Eco Club( 4 years, secretary this year, hopefully VP or president next year )
Wrote articles for school newspaper
Completed all 8 grades of piano
Took a 1 week course at Georgetown University on Leadership & Ethics
Took a 2 week course at Brown University on Alternative Energy Engineering
Going to take a 1 week course called Youth of Business ( It's located in Columbia )
Going to take a 1 week golf camp at Cornell University
Going to take pre-college camp at Carnegie Mellon University</p>

<p>Awards:
7th out of ~50 in FBLA regional test for Intro to Business
4th out of ~15 in FBLA regional test for Intro to Technology Concepts
7 year award for piano
( no more awards =[ )</p>

<p>Soooo IF everything goes smoothly ( which it won't ), how do I look? Let's say I somehow accomplished all the "hopefully" things in the parenthesis and i raise my SAT I score to 2200. And during Junior year i get a 3.8 UW and like a 4.1 weighted ? And with golf, i plan to maybe rank regionally and maybe get noted for that =D</p>

<p>Would it make a huge difference if i did varsity basketball and varsity XC senior year also?
And for those who think i'm a troll, I'm not haha. I'm just a really stressed out sophomore that cares too much about college ... </p>

<p>So what are my chances at:</p>

<p>NYU Stern
Carnegie Mellon Tepper
Boston College
Cornell University
Georgetown University</p>

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<p>bump please help</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>At the rate you’re going, you will be “competitive” for your schools. You won’t be super awesome, but you’ll be good. Keep it up. Kick it up a knotch</p>

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<p>okay sweet as long as i’m going in the right direction. Thanks for responding =D</p>

<p>As in kick it up a knotch, do you mean to get a really high gpa or something?</p>

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<p>As of now, Cornell and Georgetown are very, very, VERY high reaches. Unless you get your GPA up to at least a 4.5 I am a little skeptical. You also need a very high SAT score. BC and Mellon seem like matches. NYU Stern seems achievable, but it all depends on your SAT score. Good luck!</p>

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<p>kick it up a notch as in: become president of 50 clubs, gain 1000 volunteer hours, get a 2400 SAT, get a 4.0 UW GPA, get 1st place awards in various competitions, etc.</p>

<p>^Yes, I’m being sarcastic in some ways, but that’s the idea if you want to be “safe” for your schools. Otherwise, you’re just “competitive.”</p>

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<p>thanks for the responses! I’ll work hard on my gpa and SAT scores. I hate how the SATs are so weighted =[ they don’t even test if you’re smart …</p>

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<p>I just found out i got 3 wrong on math and i got a 710. My cousin got 6 wrong and got a 670… does this make sense to anyone ?</p>

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<p>oh and another question,</p>

<p>Do you think that playing basketball and golf will somewhat set me apart from my other chinese stereotypes? ( tennis/swimming )</p>

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<p>Well that depends, what’s your handicap? If you’re a scratch golfer who could get recruited it will help a lot for acceptance, I’m not sure about breaking stereotypes though…</p>

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<p>i’m workin on my handicap. I’m gonna work tough this spring. Without golf i don’t think i’ll stand out enough =/</p>

<p>Another question to CC members: </p>

<p>Do these courses seem rigorous enough?</p>

<p>Freshman:</p>

<p>Financial Markets(elective)
Intro to Web Design(elective)
Gym
Honors English 1
Honors Geometry
World Civilization
Honors Biology
Spanish 2</p>

<p>Sophomore</p>

<p>Intro to Computer Science(full year elective)
Honors English 2
Honors Algebra 2
AP U.S. History I
Gym
Honors Chemistry
Spanish 3</p>

<p>Junior</p>

<p>AP Macroeconomics(elective)
AP Microeconomics(elective)
Honors Pre-Calc
Honors English 3
Honors Spanish 4
Honors Physics
AP U.S. History II
Gym</p>

<p>Senior</p>

<p>AP Environmental Science
AP Psychology
AP English 4
AP Calculus BC
AP Spanish
Ceramics I (elective)
20th Century Music (elective)
Gym</p>

<p>My school is really competitive… so it seems to me that my course load isn’t tough enough. But now as i was typing this out, it seems pretty tough.</p>

<p>Any thoughts? Too tough? Too easy? Just right?</p>

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<p>I’d try and get an AP english for your Junior year… 2 AP is kind of weak for 11th grade. Not to mention that they are both “1/2 year” courses; US hist is normally a one year course.</p>

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<p>What was your SAT score?</p>

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<p>my school doesn’t offer ap english for junior year =/</p>

<p>it was bad haha. I’m gonna work on it over this summer :P</p>

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<p>oh and another question:</p>

<p>Do some colleges NOT count gym as part of your gpa ? Because if that’s true, my weighted gpa is higher =D</p>

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<p>they only count core classes+foreign langauge. Not sure about music history/AP art classes though.</p>

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<p>So you scored a “not good” score on the SAT but it was somewhere close to 2200 and you took it as a sophomore…you really are an Asian lol. Assuming you actually do get that 2200 and 4.57 GPA and get about 4.2, 4.3 cumulatively throughout high school, Cornell is gonna be a target/low reach in my opinion. NYU is a target, i think you’ll most likely get in there, same with BC. Make sure you have some kick ass essays. Good luck, don’t stress out, like you said you’re only a sophomore so try to relax a little. seriously, when i was a sophomore i only had like one school on my college list lol it was so far from my mind. haha take it easy</p>

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<p>okay nice… if i’m doing this right, if i miraculously get straight A’s from now until the end of junior year, i’ll have a 4.68 weighted GPA lol</p>

<p>I got one stupid B in H. geo freshman year… 89.3 and teacher didn’t give it to me</p>

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<p>^ oh didn’t see you post chandler.</p>

<p>Thanks dude. And no, my score is wayyy off of 2200 lol . My target is a 2250.</p>

<p>Thanks for the tips</p>