<p>So, this is a repost, but I was looking for some more input.
PLEASE chance me? Or general advice would be nice too
I just finished my junior year and I was wondering about my chances to get into schools such as Emory, UMD(Honors), William and Mary, UVA, Berkeley, Brandeis</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2200 (Math - 750, Reading-650, Writing-800)
Weighted GPA: 4.3
Unweighted GPA: 3.5
While my GPA may seem low, it is mainly because I did not put as much effort in as I should have freshman and sophomore year. In those years, my GPA was 3.14 and 3.22. Junior year I got a 4.0 and I hear that's the year the colleges look at the most. Plus, I think I may write an essay about how getting bad grades previously has helped me improve myself as a person, which may help colleges overlook my previous bad grades. I have also taken a very rigorous course load; I took nearly all honors and APs. My schedule is:
Freshman year:
1. Honors English 9
2. Honors Chem
3. Honors Bio
4. Honors Algebra 2(took geometry and algebra 1 in middle school)
5. Honors US history
6. Honors Spanish 3 (Spanish 1 and 2 in middle school)
7. PE</p>
<p>Sophomore year:
1. AP Government
2. AP Physics B
3. Ap Environmental
4. Honors English 10
5. Honors Spanish 4
6. Honors pre-calc
7. Technology education</p>
<p>Junior year:
1. AP Lang
2. AP World
3. AP Psych
4. AP Calc AB
5. Honors Programming
6. Honors Experimental Design Class
7. Latin 1 (Earned a silver medal on the Latin National Exam)</p>
<p>Senior year:
1, 2. Double period UMD class
3. AP Programming
4. AP Art History
5. AP Lit
6. Honors Forensics
7. Statistics and mathematical modeling</p>
<p>County doesn't rank so I don't know what my rank is. But, I think my school ranks pretty high in the country. I think that ill be an AP Scholar with Distinction once I get my AP results back.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Former boy scout, member of school varsity tennis team, played basketball on rec team for 8 years, played rec soccer for 2 on advanced team, often play chess, used to compete in chess competitions, took Russian at Russian school for 3 years, did tae kwon do for 4 years, member of school chess club, environmental club, tutored minorities scholars in spanish at my middle school, did concession stands for a non-profit organization as a volunteer, helped add components to local communities in boy scout eagle scout projects, started own snow shoveling business over the winter.
Ethnicity: White</p>
<p>Essays will be good(hopefully); I consider myself to be a pretty good writer and will do them over the summer as to have plenty of time. I think my recs will also be pretty good...</p>
<p>If you could just chance me at the schools I listed at the top or just provide general feedback on what I could do to better my app that would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance!</p>