<p>SAT: CR - 750, Math - 690, Writing - 620; total 2060</p>
<p>GPA: weighted - 4.1 unweighted - 4.0
- school only offers 4 AP classes </p>
<p>AP Exams:
APUSH (10th) - 5
AP English Language (11th)
AP Calculus (12th)</p>
<p>EC's:
Founder/President of Future Health Professionals Club
Varsity Basketball
Regional Science Bowl - 4th out of 24 schools
National Honor Society
Summer Aid volunteer - 240 hours
Hospital volunteer - projected 200 hours by next year
Piano lessons for 8 years
Cancer Research Internship - 200 hours
Interning for our Athletic Trainer - 100 hours</p>
<p>Chances for TCU, UCLA, Northeastern, Creighton, University of Washington</p>
<p>Also, how could I improve my profile for schools such as UPENN and Duke?</p>
<p>Penn - Reach
Duke - Reach
UCLA - Low Reach (Berkeley and LA are known to be difficult for OOS. Maybe you can try UCSD/UCSB/UCI because they use the same application?)
Northeastern - Match
UDub - Match
TCU - Match/Safety (Sorry don’t know a lot about this one)
As for Creighton, I guess they are probably a safety school just by looking at their average scores and acceptance rates (Sorry again, all I know about them is Doug McDermott).</p>
<p>I think your rigor and extracurriculars match up well with the opportunities that you have been given. For Penn and Duke (and even to some extent UCLA), your SAT score is a bit on the lower side. You should aim for a 2200+ SAT I or 33+ ACT and maybe try a few SAT subject tests.</p>
<p>Get the blue book and work on that math and writing. Luckily, it’s CR which is the hardest to study for, and your score is already solid. TCU, UDubs, and Creighton should be acceptances. Get the score up, and Northeastern should be a match. Duke and Penn are reaches for everybody, but being from Hawaii might be an advantage. I live in HI too, and I know a total of 0 people who applied to Duke this year (then again, I don’t know many Punahou/Iolani kids), so I presume their pool isn’t nearly as competitive as it would be if you were from MA or something.</p>
<p>Do you go to a public school? If you do, you might be interested in taking an extra AP class or two from HVLN to make your courseload seem harder and to show that you’re going above and beyond. I took four my junior year (don’t take four) and I got to learn subjects that my HS doesn’t offer.</p>
<p>Looking at your other thread, I see that you’re in a similar position as I am (but a year younger): parent contribution won’t cover the expected family contribution my schools (CURSE THE HIGH COST OF LIVING HERE). Because a lot of Hawaii kids apply to UW, I don’t think you’ll get the best financial support from them. Northeastern and UCLA are just bad at financial aid. (IDK about Creighton and TCU, but I know Creighton is popular here for whatever reason.) Try to find less popular but still good schools across the US that offer merit aid. Get a safety that’ll give you enough $. (Alabama gives full tuition for your stats, guaranteed.) Find some other schools that’ll likely give you $.</p>
<p>If you want scholarship money, CA state schools generally do NOT give ANY out of state students money, nor does WA. You could try the Western Undergraduate Exchange Program (WUE) so you can pay 150% tuition at participating schools if you are accepted under the WUE program. If you are a NMerit Finalist, you have more options for merit awards. Creighton does tend to give merit awards and there is a significant number of HI HS grads attending.</p>
<p>Nonresident costs for UCs are VERY high and likely to continue to increase. Be sure to have schools you and your family can afford. Use the NPC (net price calculator) to estimate likely aid you might receive to be sure you have schools that are affordable as well as schools likely to accept you with your stats.</p>
<p>UAz and AzSU are schools that are quite affordable, even for nonresidents. What fields are you thinking of majoring in</p>
<p>One of my relatives went to Creighton, at least partly because they will accept their graduates if they meet criteria and apply to Creighton med school, so that is at least one acceptance. My D’s friend also went to Creighton because they offered generous merit aid and didn’t require her to commit to pharmacy as a freshman.</p>
<p>Again, consider broadening your search beyond out-of-state Us if merit or FAid may be a factor. You are very unlikely to get much of either from most OOS Us, as they are required to give most of their funding to their residents. If you are a NMF or similar, University of Alabama offers generous merit awards and is worth considering, as are UAz and AzSU.</p>
<p>Really look into the WUE schools, which are the best deals for Hawaii students wanting to study OOS. Our former babysitter is currently a junior at Colorado State paying less to attend than her UH-Manoa freshman sibling. And, she is slated to graduate with a civil engineering degree in four years (vs. her sibling who will take 4.5-5 years to graduate).</p>
<p>Actually, some of them do – but any good scholarships for out-of-state students (e.g. the Stamps ones at UCLA, Regents’) should be considered reach-level.</p>