<p>-3.6/4.2 UW/W GPA
-10 AP Classes (all 4s/5s)
- 2140 SAT 1 (690 Math, 690 CR, 760 W)
- 800 Math 2 Sat 2
-800 Biology Sat 2
-800 Chem Sat 2</p>
<p>-E.C
-4 years guitar
-4 years indoor varsity track
-4 years outdoor varsity track
-National English Honor Society
-National Science Honor Society
-Officer of National Honor Society
-Science Bowl Team
-Biology Tutor
-Co-founded an online forum where honor's kids from my school could tutor each other and prepare for tests collectively online</p>
<p>Community Service / Internships
-20+ Hours volunteered at local soup kitchen
-120+ Hours volunteering at local retirement home where i helped with physical therapy
-Yale science internship over the summer
-Helped collect and identify ticks/mice (not affiliated with previous internship) for a Yale lab's experiments</p>
<p>Recs/Essays
Strong recs from professor at internship, coach, teachers
Strong essays (in my opinion)</p>
<p>can anyone tell me my chances at the above schools?
I live in New England so for the UC's i'm obviously OOS.
Thanks :) and will chance back!</p>
<p>I think your scores and GPA make you a good applicant for NYU and Tufts.
For the UC’s, OOS makes it difficult, but I don’t really know.
For JHU, it’s a reach I’d say, but get your SAT I up by 60 points and your GPA up by like .1 or .2 during senior year and you should be good.
Also, I’m going to assume you want to apply to JHU as a bio/science major and go on the pre-med track. Your ECs are very good especially the lab experience but it’s not really the prestige of the institution where you interned that’s so important, it’s instead what you did with that work. Submit to Intel/Siemens etc and see what happens. That will help you a lot. (If the internship was earned through some kind of selection process, like an applied for position, then rescind everything I just said, because in that case the prestige of the institution probably makes a difference)
Either way, keep up the work, and good luck!</p>
<p>Tufts: High match
Johns Hopkins: Low Reach
UCLA: Low reach
UC Berkeley: Low reach
NYU: High match</p>
<p>Improve your SAT scores and you chances will go up quite a bit at all of these schools. I don’t know if it too late to improve grades but do your best to do so in the first quarters of Senior year. Try to get that 4.0.</p>
<p>Probably in at Tufts and NYU. JHU will be a bit of a reach, but I actually don’t think the UC’s will be too far out of reach. I have several OOS friends with stats similar to yours that got into Berkeley. Bring up the SAT to about 2200, improve GPA, and you should be very happy come April (assuming your essays are as good as you say :D)</p>
<p>Hey. Thanks for the tips, i’ll be sure to chance you back in a bit. What kind of Sat scores did your friends have that got accepted to berkeley? I’m curious because I really do not want to take the sat’s again lol.</p>
<p>Most of them had about 700s on each section, so 2100 total. I doubt you will be excluded from any of the schools you listed based on scores, so no worries there. Good essays should make your app even stronger.</p>
<p>About 20 people at my school (large SoCal public) got into UC Berkeley. I would say the lowest was around 2100 - 2200. I’m not sure about out-of-state students, but pretty much anyone who gets 2300+ and around 4.0 UW gets in.</p>
<p>45% GPA 35% test scores 10% essay 10% activities</p>
<p>Your SAT II are, you know. I’d say you’re in for Tufts and NYU, I think that your GPA needs to improve by AT LEAST .1, but go for >.15. Nice location, they take like a third of the students from that region (most of those colleges I mean).</p>
<p>Lol yeah i heard. There’s really no way around bettering my GPA now. I doubt i could raise it by .1 by the first half of senior year, despite taking 6 AP’s. Also a new question…when colleges get your transcript, do they re-weight your grades with their own system? I read a topic the other day where someone got lots of B-, and even 1 C+ and one D+ from freshmen to junior year. He claimed that he had a 3.54 UW and i was wondering how that could be possible, even though he was taking ~ the same number of classes as me.</p>
<p>Show yourself as an interesting character in your essay. That’s all the advice I have for you for Tufts, and that’s all the advice that can really matter at this stage.</p>
<p>it seems like your ECs and other stats are pretty good.
you should be able to make it in for tufts, ucla, berkeley, and nyu
know quite a few people from my school who made it into berkeley and nyu with stats lower than yours. just dont screw up your recs and essays</p>
<p>john hopkins is a mid-high reach, but i think you should retake your SAT and if you get a good score, you have a good chance of getting in</p>
<p>Average ECs, nothing that shows extraordinary participation or leadership in the music and athletics department. Good research positions, though.</p>
<p>SAT and GPA are a bit low. Good SAT IIs, obviously. But, I think you’re reaching too high with some of these schools.</p>
<p>Even if you were a CA resident, your stats would still be too low for the top tier UCs. UCs are ALL about numbers. They don’t care if you were the Editor in Chief of the paper, student body president and varsity captain if your numbers aren’t up to par. </p>
<p>Being OOS puts you at a disadvantage for UCLA and Cal, primarily because of the low UW GPA. (UCs do not consider weighted GPAs.) Even if you brought up your SAT, the GPA would place you in the rejection pile. OOS admits to CAL and UCLA generally have 3.9+ GPAs and 2300+ SATs.</p>
<p>Why not consider the following schools and nix the UCs?:
U Mich - match
UVA - reasonable reach
USC - high reach
Lehigh - match
Georgia Tech - match</p>
<p>Your academics and test scores look excellent, and while you do not seem to have anything amazing that makes you stand out in your activities / extracurriculars, you definitely show commitment and personal achievement!
I think you can get into Tufts and JHU, or they may be a <em>slight</em> reach (not bad at all!)
NYU you should definitely be able to get into!
I am not as familiar with the California schools, but im sure you would make a great candidate and be accepted!
Good luck!</p>
<p>People who don’t know about the UC system shouldn’t make assumptions about what kind of OOS students those schools accept. It’s very difficult to be OOS without the highest stats and get into the top two UCs. (Saying this as a lifelong California resident!)</p>
<p>The UCs are going through an extreme financial crisis right now and while OOS students are desired because of the higher fees they pay, the UCs guaranteed admittance program to CA HS and CC students means that CA residents get those spots first and only the top 5-10% of OOS applicants for each school are admitted.</p>