Chance a worried junior

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>Hey guys. I just got my SAT's back and didn't do so well for some of my colleges. I know I have time, but I just want to see where I stand in junior year.</p>

<p>Personal:
Gender: Male
Race: White</p>

<p>(A=Advanced (highest), H=Honors, S=Standard (lowest))</p>

<p>Courses:
FRESHMAN:
Geometry A: 91, 90, 87, 90 = 90 (A-)
English 9 A: 92, 90, 92, 94 = 92 (A-)
Biology A: 94, 85, 87, 91 = 89 (B+)
World History A: 92, 93, 92, 90 = 92 (A-)
Spanish 2 A: 96, 93, 92, 91 = 93 (A)
Latin 1 H: 99, 99, 99, 99 = 99 (A+)</p>

<p>SOPHMORE:
Algebra 2 A: 84, 85, 78, 93 = 85 (B)
English 10 A: 93, 89, 86, 91 = 90 (A-)
Chem A: 86, 92, 83, 90 = 88 (B+)
Modern World/APUSH: 98, 99, 95, 98 = 98 (A+)
Latin 2 H: 99, 99, 97, 99 = 99 (A+)
C++ H: 97, 97, 88, 92 = 95 (A)</p>

<p>JUNIOR:
Pre-Calc A: 89 (so far)
AP Eng Lang: 92 (so far)
AP Chem: 91 (so far)
Physics A: 90 (so far)
APUSH: 96 (so far)
AP Java: 88 (so far)</p>

<p>SENIOR:
AP Calc AB:
AP Eng Lit:
AP Bio:
AP Gov:
Latin 4 A/AP Latin Vergil:
AP Stats:</p>

<p>Test Scores/Objective Parts:
UW GPA: 3.75/4.0
W GPA: 4.53/5.4 (highest anyone's ever gotten in around 5.0, and those people were sent to MIT, Harvard, etc.)
PSAT: 198
SAT I: Total: 2070, CR: 640 (I know, bad, I'm gonna bring it up), M: 730, W: 700
SAT II: Math I: 700, Chem: 770
Class Rank: 14 out of 386</p>

<p>Awards:
Honorable Mention at School Science Fair in 9th grade
Honorable Mention at School Science Fair in 10th grade
Gold Medal for National Latin Exam
Silver Medal for National Latin Exam
Bronze Medal for National Spanish Exam
AMC 10 School Winner</p>

<p>EC's: (I will continue these all into my senior year)
Swim Team (9, 10, 11)</p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Team (9, 10, 11)
- Head Programmer (11, 12)
- Team has won: (Just in the years I've been part of it)
- GM Industrial Design Award (2009)
- Phoenix Regional Semifinalists (2009)
- Boston Regional Semifinalists (2009)
- Florida Regional Finalists (2008)
- Boston Regional Semifinalists (2008)
- Rockwell Automotive Design Award (2008)</p>

<p>MOON (Math Team; 10, 11)
- Treasurer</p>

<p>Academic Decathlon (10, 11)
- A level Starter
- Team has won: (Just in the years I've counted)
- 5th at Mass. Regionals</p>

<p>Model UN (9, 10, 11)
- Secretary (9)</p>

<p>Student Government (9, 10, 11)
- Student Council (9, 10, 11)
- Various events we have run
- Red Cross Blood Drive
- Cradles to Crayons</p>

<p>Science Olympiad (11, 12)
- Founder and Co-President (11, 12)
- Possibly will be helping found a team at the other local high school as well</p>

<p>Volunteering in General
- Around 50 hours so far</p>

<p>Summer Programs:
MIT: HSSP</p>

<p>Potential Hooks: First generation college student</p>

<p>Colleges I am aiming for:
MIT
UPenn
Caltech
Lehigh
Carnegie Mellon
UC Berkeley
Duke
BU
Northeastern
UMass Amherst</p>

<p>Thanks guys, and I'll chance back</p>

2

<p>MIT - you’ll want to raise the math SAT
UPenn - Ivies are always a reach
Caltech - low reach
Lehigh - low reach
Carnegie Mellon - unsure about
UCB - if in state, high match. if out of state, low reach
Duke - low reach
BU - safety
Northeastern - safety
Umass Amherst - safety</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/833648-chance-me-give-any-feedback-you-have-about-these-12-schools-please.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/833648-chance-me-give-any-feedback-you-have-about-these-12-schools-please.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>By the way, never think that a 2070 as a junior is low. You still have 1 or 2 more times to raise it.</p>

3

<p>MIT - reach (this is always going to be a toss up- im a junior mit hopeful too!)
UPenn - reach
Caltech - reach (they use numbers a lot, but you have time to raise your sats)
Lehigh - ?
Carnegie Mellon - low reach
UCB - not sure
Duke - low reach
BU - low match
Northeastern - match
Umass Amherst - match</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/833898-chances-now-sats-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/833898-chances-now-sats-will-chance-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

4

<p>bump (10char)</p>

5

<p>You probably need to improve your math and science grades slightly for consideration into MIT and a few of these other technological schools (like A/A+). No offense, but most applicants are at those levels for math and science. </p>

<p>Also, you need to improve your SAT/SAT II if you want to have a better chance at the top colleges (MIT, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, etc…). SAT should be at least 2200+. SAT II will need improvement for Math I. You should take Math II (since Math I is similar to SAT math) and get 800 to prove that you remediated certain deficiencies in mathematics. Also, take the SAT II Physics to maximize chances at technological schools.</p>

<p>You should be able to get into half of the colleges in your list currently. Just continue your hard work now and surely it’ll pay off sooner or later.</p>

6

<p>bump? (10char)</p>

7

<p>Megaman…shut up with your 1880</p>

8

<p>timmymr, I just noticed your distribution of scores for your 2030 was similar to tmanneopen. The only difference was that tmanneopen got a 640 on CR while you got a 600 there.</p>

9

<p>You should definitely try to work on improving those scores; 700+ for everything; 750+ for math.</p>

<p>Ones I’m familiar with:
MIT—high reach
UPenn—reach
Caltech—high reach
Carnegie Mellon—low reach</p>