<p>General info:
-Applying for Financial Aid?: Yes (0 EFC)
-Intended Major: Accounting (Possibly dual degree /w Business Management)
-Gender: M
-Ethnicity: Asian
-GPA: 97.32 (weighted)
-Rank: 48 out of 941</p>
<p>**Senior year courses: **Most Rigorous
-AP Chemistry
-AP Psychology
-AP English
-Academy of Finance
-AP Calculus BC
-AP Political Science (Variation of AP US Government)</p>
<p>ECs:
-Chinese Culture Club (9, 10, 11, 12)
-National Honor Society (11, 12)
-Fencing Team (10, 11, 12)
-Special Olympics Volunteer (11)
-Math Tutor (12)</p>
<p>Jobs:
-Worked during summer of 2008</p>
<p>Other information:
-My school's AP selection is very limited for those who aren't in the special institute program
-My school has about 4000 students and rarely sends students to top schools.
-First generation to attend college</p>
<p>I heard they recalculate your gpa by taking out all your electives and just calculating ur gpa based on ur core classes (math, english, science, social studies, foreign language)</p>
<p>you have a great chance based on those stats tho your high school profile could hurt you if it sends few kids to top schools (bad rep maybe?)</p>
<p>Eh, not so much a bad rep, the school just isn’t that great. It sends like maybe one to three people to top 10 schools every year (Use to be more, idk what happened).
Anyway, they only report a weighted average to colleges.</p>
<p>Most highschools don’t send in UW GPAs, but you can recalculate your UW GPA very easily. It takes about five minutes. Without the UW you’re very hard to chance.</p>
<p>you have a good chance, especially if you have a hook at the ivy and many top schools, hook is important. I don’t know if that is true at NYU, but hook is what seems to get many people in. your act 31 is fine - probably better than like the 95% of people taking the test. I know someone who just got into Dartmouth with a 29 act and no hook, but she was like # 5 out of several hundred with good ecs, so you never know. (She did not take the SAT I, but had right around 700 on her SAT IIs. Top schools, even HYPS, do accept applicants with high 20s on the ACT if there are other parts of the application that are outstanding. UPENN Wharton last year accepted the second ranked kid in the senior class at another high school near me last year with an ACT 29. So you never can tell what a school will do.
Your stats are good. But there is no lock at the ivies or other top schools, even with a 2400 / 36 4.0. Top schools have plenty of top applicants. Having some kind of hook, strong legacy, superstar athletics, is real important at HYPS etc. Better to be a 3.0 with an SAT 2000 with super strong/generous legacy instead of a 4.0 / 2400/36. Yeah, you need some decent grades/scores to get into top schools. But at those programs, the hook is very important. They reject many 2400 / 4.0 applicants every year and accept many with much lower scores/grades. Just my opinion. Good luck.</p>