<p>Junior Year AP: Lit, Calc AB, Lang, Gov
Senior Year AP: Calc BC, Micro, Macro, Spanish
Accelerated/Honors Classes: More than 7</p>
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Orchestra Letter Winner 4 years
Chamber Orchestra Letter Winner 4 years
Won numerous solo/ensemble contests (More than 7)
State Spanish Champion 4 times
National Spanish Exam Gold Medalist
Member of Young Life and School's Praise and Worship</p>
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Tutor
NHS (Presidential candidate)
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<p>Please tell me if it's a target, low reach, high reach, etc. If you have any info about the business school please let me know. Also, let me know if there is anything I can do to improve my chances. Thanks!</p>
<p>I think you look okay but Wash U might be somewhere between a targe and a moderate reach at this point. I would try raising your ACT one or two more points, if you can, to make up for some other things. I’d say your activities are probably the weakest because it doesn’t seem that you are necessarily the leader of any group or done anything really unique. Also, you’re applying to the B-School at Wash U but I don’t think you’ve done anything business related. But, you’re only a junior, so I think you have time to work on those things… your numbers look okay, again not outstanding, but I think you are the weakest on the “everything else” part. I’m sure by the time you apply next year you’ll be really strong! Good luck!</p>
<p>Another thing I want to say is do not completely limit your choice within business school. You can come to WashU as a A&S student and use one semester or two to figure out what you really like. If you still prefer Business, you can transfer into business school. The good thing about WashU is the transfer between schools is so easy. Fill in a form, meet with a dean or advisor, and the next day you are in. I met with someone who actually transfered between A&S and Bschool several times because he was uncertain about his interest. </p>
<p>Also, though without prove, I believe the chance of getting into A&S is higher than getting into Bschool.</p>
<p>I only say this because the school is so dang hard to get into. Agree with previous post. Try the ACT again to possibly gain a point or two. Also, show interest. That is, schedule a campus visit, see if you can talk to a professor, that kind of thing. Also, continue to work at your job and look for opportunities to learn about the business world. Good choice to take AP Econs next year (though I do not know if they will count toward a degree).</p>
<p>In fact one of my friends who is A&S student turned out to be in love with accounting after the first semester. Since even Olin students cannot take accounting class till the second semester, he just transfered into Olin school at the very beginning of the second semester and started his accounting class as every other Bschool did.</p>
<p>You can transfer schools ridiculously easily.*</p>
<p>If you look at the acceptance threads, you’ll see that there are plenty of students already switching between schools. Lots of students will switch long before orientation, many after 1 day of classes, etc.</p>
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<li>However, past the first year or so, if you can’t make a 3.0 in the school’s classes, a school might not let you. I know several people on a ‘probationary’ transfer- they’re taking classes in the new school, but won’t officially switch until the end of this semester. It’s a case-by-case situation (they don’t want you to transfer just to fail out).</li>
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<p>I don’t think so, since most of the other schools I applied to, I had to apply to something specific where as WashU just kind of says “oh just tell us what you think you are interested in.”</p>
<p>Assuming that the op does about the same on the SAT as he did on the PSAT, it’s clear that he’s much much better at the ACT and should focus on that.</p>
<p>I was always under the impression that the PSAT score is supposed to indicate the likely SAT score, and you just add a zero on the end to get the SAT. So unless you blew off the PSAT (which would be a shame because the PSAT determines national merit), I’d stick with the 32. At least take the ACT again, I went from 33 to 35 without anymore studying in between.</p>
<p>Right, I forgot to take into account that people will study for the real thing, so it does make sense to see an increase. Good point ceresma. I would still say stick with the ACT at least one more time. If you increase that by 2 points, then even if you have a 2300+, its not going to look that much better and you can save yourself the time and money.</p>