chance and offer advice

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a rising sophomore. Could you chance me and offer advice on how to improve so that I get into great schools?</p>

<p>GPA Freshman Year: 4.0
Classes:
English 9 (Honors options completed)
World History 1
German 2
2 Semesters of Theology (Not important, just a requirement)
Band
Chemistry (Top in class-received award)
Precalc 1st semester, Calc 1 second semester</p>

<p>These were the hardest classes I was allowed to take. They are college prep classes, so basically count them as honors. (I know not to say that to colleges.)</p>

<p>Classes I will take
German 3,4,5(AP)
Engineering Physics (AP) AP Biology, AP Chemistry, Engineering Physics 2, College Calculus based physics
American Lit, Brit. Lit, AP English
World His. 2, AP Euro, AP Amer
3 more semesters of theology,
2 semesters of band
Calc 2, Lin. Algebra, Multivariable Calc., Differential Eq, Algebraic System 1 and 2,</p>

<p>Hopefully, not including the college courses (all maths are college), I will graduate with like a 3.95-3.98.</p>

<p>My test scores are all in the 99th percentile, and I took the SAT as a 7th grader and got 700 math, 600 CR, 590 Writing. I plan to prep, and will probably get 2300 SAT and 34 ACT. SAT IIs will be math 2, chem, physics, bio and German (I might cut bio)
APs= Chem, Bio, Physics, Euro History, American History, English, German (Calculus is at a college, so I don't have to take APs, right?)</p>

<p>For service, I'll plan to have 100 hrs. Tutoring, and 200 hrs at the Humane Society, plus hopefully raising over $1000 for Heifer project.</p>

<p>ECs
Varsity Baseball all 4 years
Varsity Knowledge Bowl all 4 year (Hopefully winning state 2 or 3 of those years, 11th in state this year)
Chess (A few tournaments)
Play drums
NHS (Hopefully hold a high position)
German-7th in state on german 2 national exam (Keep up something similar to this) german camp, german club
Published in the school's annual literary magazine 4 times, editor for 1 year, head editor 1 year, evaluator 4 years.</p>

<p>Math and Science stuff (This is the meat of my extracurricular profile)
Competitions Mathcounts 13th in state 7th grade, 3rd in state and 62 in country 8th grade (I do live in america)
Science Bowl 7th in nation 8th grade, top team question answerer
USAMTS Bronze 9th grade, Silver 10th grade, Gold or silver 11th, Gold 12th
AMC 10 117 (I screwed up) 9th grade, 130ish 10th grade with a 3 on the AIME
AMC 12 110 11th, 125 12th w/ 5 and 8 on AIME respectively and school winner all four years
MN high school math league top 20 in state junior, senior
MN state arml team junior, senior
Online classes from artofproblemsolving.com- Intermediate Trig/Complex #s, Intermediate counting and probability, intermediate number theory seminar, amc 12 prep,....
Editor in chief of our school's math and science journal for 3 years
Math research papers-3 original research (I know this has some variability based on quality, but they should be good)
President (4 years) and co-founder of Math/Physics Club
Member of Computer Science Club for all 4 years
Physics Olympiad-qualify for 2nd round (this is usually about the top 4 or 5 in Minnesota) for 3 years</p>

<p>I think thats it. I am considering spending the first semester of my junior year, or the whole year in Austria (they speak german there). Is that a good idea even if it screws up my extracurriculars significantly?</p>

<p>The colleges I'm looking at are MIT, Caltech, Stanford, u of Chicago, Northwestern University (Both my parents completed residency there, and my uncle completed undergrad there), Rose-Hulman, U of Rochester, John Hopkins, Duke (I am a member of DukeTIP), U of Minnesota,
Chance me please and give me advice, names of programs, your opinion on foreign exchange, etc.</p>

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<p>i think your profile is too incomplete to give a full assessment. you can’t possibly assume most of the awards and stuff, and that you’ll keep your grades up.</p>

<p>you’re only a year through, and you have no idea what may happen in the next few years.
it’s almost summer. relax and have fun</p>

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<p>I’d say your ECs seem like you’re on track.
Again, like the last post, you cannot say “I think I’ll do all of this.” If you do what your course load suggests, and you actually get a 2300+ or 34+, and you perform well on SAT IIs… then sure you’ll be fine. But, seeing as you haven’t done any of that stuff… I’d suggest waiting and re-posting with what those scores are when you know them.</p>

<p>There is no way to know without any test scores at all or any Junior/Senior year realities.</p>

<p>With the question about Austria, that looks great on a college app. It stands out. But so do your “ECs” that you may or may not get. Pick whichever one you’d prefer… don’t waste a year of your life unhappily if you think it’ll slightly help you improve your odds. Pick the one that you’re going to be happiest doing… and that’ll be reflected in stronger essays about it as well. Just my opinion. Pick the one you’d prefer to do.</p>

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<p>mostly i’m wondering if these goals put me on track for the schools i want to go to. this is just a hypothetical situation i may be in.</p>

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<p>I’d say that if all of these came true… the only question I’d have is in which state do you live? First place in NY/CA/TX is significantly more important than first place in VT/ND/AK.</p>

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<p>This is a great hypothetical situation, and if you end up in it you will be incredibly competitive at all of your schools. But at this point, you’re simply setting yourself up for failure. Come back in 2 years with actual information and we will be able to give you an actual assessment.</p>

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<p>don’t include the stuff from middle school in college apps.
however if you get the ACT and SAT scores you’re working towards, you’ll have a great chance at the ivies. also, you’re pretty much in at Northwestern.
& if i were you i wouldn’t do the year abroad in Austria because you don’t want to mess up your extracarriculars. Junior year is the most important year of high school so you want to make sure you’re keeping up the good work. you’ll have plenty of time for studying abroad in college//over the summer in high school. </p>

<p>wow, way to start thinking about college so early! i wish i had done that my freshman year.</p>

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<p>the middle school stuff is in Nebraska, and the hs stuff is in mn. I am just trying to see how i should partition my time in order to be most successful. Obviously I like math and i’m good at it, but if it would be better for me to do science bowl than math competitions, then i could try my hand at that. Anyone have names of any programs that I should attempt?</p>

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<p>Seimen’s is fairly prestigious, and it’s always great to get into the national science fair…I would also see what International competitions you can get into, it always looks good to win (or do well in) a big competition.</p>