<p>I'm a junior at a competitive high school in NE</p>
<p>SATs: haven't taken them, and don't think i will, i did poorly on PSATs, but good on ACT
ACT: 31, 12 on the essay. I am retaking it, probably raise to a 32
APs:
-Chemistry-5
-Biology-4
-Psych-4
-Calc-4
UW GPA: 3.3 <--- hoping to raise this
W GPA: 3.5
Class Rank: Top 20%
Courseload: Pretty tough, 2 APs junior year, 4 APs senior year
Gender: Male
Race: White
State: MA</p>
<p>Essay: Strong</p>
<p>Recommendations: One good, one great</p>
<p>ECs (a little weak i know)</p>
<p>High school science team, leader of rocketry division (2 years)
Volunteer work at soup kitchen, nursing home, etc ~200 hours
TOPS program @ MIT ('08)
Project SMART @ UNH ('09)
Peer tutoring (2 years)
Summer job (1 year)
Varsity track (1 year)
Founded Community Service Program to help underprivileged kids in Boston (raised ~$2,000)
Stencil Club founder
Volunteer job teaching elementary school students Lego robotics</p>
<p>Looking to be a chemistry/biochem/chemE major</p>
<p>Bucknell
Colgate
Lafayette
Elon
Washington and Lee
Wake Forest
Richmond
Geo Washington
Emory <------ any shot at these two?
Claremont Mckenna <------</p>
<p>Bucknell-match
Colgate-reach(your grades, hope you have an upward trend)
Wake Forest-match
Claremont-unlikely
Not enough knowledge of the others, good luck.</p>
<p>You might want to post your classes and grades by year, and then we might be able to do better than a blind guess. For instance OldbatesieDoc thanks your a match for Wake and I find that unlikely with a GPA 3.3 / 3.5 W</p>
<p>What more do you want? People with chance threads are always freaking out… No one can really tell you anything other than what has already said. Just stay focused in school. It looks like you need to be worried about Spanish, not college atm.</p>
<p>My son’s stats are similar to yours. (ACT is a smidge lower, GPA is bit higher). He just got into Wake Forest. Was accepted early to Elon with merit aid. Still waiting on Laf and Richmond. I’ll let you know how he does. </p>
<p>In any case, I think you’ve picked a good batch of schools.</p>
<p>I agree “I think you’ve picked a good batch of schools”. </p>
<p>I think you have a chance at any of your schools. </p>
<p>Work on your GPA. </p>
<p>Does continuity with ceramics look good?? - Yes if your doing something with it, like having your work shown, or intend to explain your passion.</p>
<p>And Totally agree with OldbatesieDoc “better do something worthwhile this summer”.</p>
<p>Oh and one last thing - “Freshman year doesn’t factor into our GPA and isn’t reported” - Wrong, each college decides what they count and don’t count and the recalculates your GPA based on their formula… And most include freshman grades.</p>
