<p>I'm incoming junior, will graduate 2014
Male, Asian, In a public school
ACT 31, no AP yet, but plan to have total 5 AP
GPA: freshman: 3.75
Sophormore: 3.65
Some sports:
1 year Wrestling
1 year football
Some track
Now playing tennise
(No talent on sports)</p>
<p>Activities:
School acdemic club: state level
Envirometal club: state level</p>
<p>Volunteer in a local hospital this summer and will do until graduate</p>
<p>Interested in the following college:
Duke University
case western reserve university
UC Berkeley
Vanderbilt University</p>
<p>Please give me some advice on my chance, and what am I going to do to be a strong candidate?</p>
<p>What’s your class rank or percentile? Duke looks unrealistic, VAnderbilt and UCB are going to be high reaches unless you improve your ACT score</p>
<p>Rank 23 out of 280. Do I have to improve my EC?</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely try to get involved in something more junior year…colleges like to see that you are passionate outside of something academically.
Take the ACT again, your scores are a bit low for the schools you have in mind. Also try the SAT, it can’t hurt! (:
Your GPA is pretty good…have you been taking honors classes or regular? Schedule rigor is very important…5 AP’s is pretty good but not as many as a lot of top school candidates take, though of course this depends on how many your school offers.
Good luck! :D</p>
<p>Definitely retake ACT, may try SAT. I’ve taken all the honors classes since I’m in high school. My unweighted GPA4.37. Our school only offer 5 APs. I also took 3 college classes locally here, such as world history, psychology, Music of Art. Is that help me? Someone give me idea?</p>
<p>any help? Case Western has a high acceptance rate, anyone know it?</p>