<p>Male
CT
From Afghanistan
Small Public School
Class Size - 400-500
Sends 1-3 kids to ivys every year</p>
<p>Junior Year Classes -
H Chem
AP USH
AP Bio
Alg 2
AP Psychology
Arabic 2
AP Environmental Science
Rest are normal electives / classes</p>
<p>Senior Year
AP Stat
AP Human Geo
Arabic 3
AP Chem
AP Physcis
AP English
umm other aps and what not</p>
<p>EC:
Track - Sophmore, Junior, and Senior Year Possible Sprinting Capitan
Manager @ Restaurant
Yale CRISP Engineering Program
Tutor
Debate Club
Captain of Olympiad Team (Science)
Arabic Club
Sci-Fi Club</p>
<p>Possible internship with Sikorski</p>
<p>Applying to Cornell internship, harvard spp (2008), nasa internship, and what not. I am going to apply to a lot others to.</p>
<p>My predicted ACT - 32-33
SAT = 2150</p>
<p>Hooks:
First Generation College Student
From Afghanistan</p>
<p>Interesting Stuff:
ummm father used to be a secretary of embassy (if that counts?)
harvard rep suggested me to apply (meet with 2 of them) and said that my application would be really interesting.</p>
<p>Colleges I am looking at:
Harvard (First Choice)
Yale
Princeton
Cornell
George Washington U
NYU
Connecticut College
BU
Darthmouth
UCONN
MIT</p>
<p>any other colleges you guys would suggest? and anything else I should improve on?</p>
<p>oh and I am going to try to be a recruited runner</p>
<p>Harvard (First Choice)-reach. you'll be competitive. your scores are good enough. you don't say anything about your grades though - just what classes you took. gotta give us that. better chances than the average applicant though. hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Yale-reach (it is for everybody)
Princeton-bigger reach than the previous two. in the case for my school, princeton likes kids with higher test scores whereas harvard is looking for the most interesting person
Cornell-small reach/high match
George Washington U-you'll get in
NYU-in
Connecticut College-never heard of it but i'll say in
BU-in
Dartmouth-small reach (more than cornell)
UCONN-in
MIT-reach (biggest)</p>
<p>Without AP calculus BC, I don't think MIT is an option. Without any AP calculus or any calculus at all, it's tough to be considered a strong math/science candidate (AP Stats is not considered a high level math course) at the good eng/science schools. I'm a litle concerned about that - Cornell etc will also be not easy without it.</p>
<p>So my recommendation is to take online or other calculus classes, and show to Calculus BC level in math IF you want to apply math/science, which your college list makes me think is your plan.</p>
<p>If you plan to present yourself as more of a humanities candidate, it's not a problem</p>
<p>IF you get recruited, it will help a lot. You need to contact coaches, and hope you make the top of their list. The list starts off very long, and gets very short by app time, so don't get confident about any one place, because coach lists change all the time, and many athletes thought they were at the top only to fall off the short list the next week.
But being recruited is a roll of the dice at any college, so make sure youhave a strong app, and make that the icing if you can.</p>
<p>OP, are you a junior or a senior? If you're a senior and want to run in college, you need to send your times to colleges coaches immediately. It's easy to find the Heptagonal meet results on line and see if your times are in the ball park. You might want to do this before you email coaches, to know how you might fit each program: if you're faster than a school's graduating current number one in a certain distance, that would be VERY interesting to a coach. PM me ( or probably Ailey :)) for specifics on this topic.</p>
<p>I am currently a junior. So should I start contacting coaches now? And I am very good at sprinting and I hear Harvard needs sprinters. I will be going to states hopefully this year!! :)</p>
<p>I'm so glad you're a junior, smartafg. You have lots of time to figure this out. Do you have an SAT or ACT score yet? Email coaches your academic and athletic prs soon, and see who shows interest. If you can visit some schools and meet with coaches this spring (before your season starts), perfect. Then the dance begins, in July.</p>
<p>It's never too early to get on their mailing lists, but generally they start to put together serious lists spring and summer of your jr year. So your stats from your junior season are the best ones to be able to send them.</p>
<p>Create a 1-pager at that time, with both key academic info (they will want to know if you are academically qualifed at their school, not just min NCAA requirements) including grades, jr and sr course list, SATs (or if you don't have them PSATs, but SATs are best), and of course your event(s), stats, and athletic awards. Email that to the coaches, and follow up (they can't contact you before set dates under NCAA rules, but you can call them - but they often can't return your calls - read the arcane NCAA rules).</p>
<p>My daughter found that for her sport, filling out the online forms turned out to be a waste of time,but I gather that's not always true, so you could do both - email and fill out the form.</p>
<p>my school doesn't do class ranking. Ok so I am going to get right on starting to make resume of my running that I can send to the coaches. I am working extra hard so I can greatly improve my times more so I am well qualified. I am going to look forward to my senior year :)</p>
<p>you'll be competitive, but it's really hard to tell without your grades.
i'm sure you realize how ridiculously hard it is to get into TASP, but if you do get in and you're recruited as a sprinter, you're one of very very few people that can call themselves "locks" at harvard, being a first gen college student from afghanistan. also if you're looking at TASP but not RSI, i'm wondering why MIT is appealing?</p>
<p>here's my advice, i think the most important: pick two(ish) ECs and be really really dedicated.</p>
<p>think about stanford, for sure!!!!! if you visit you'll fall in love.</p>
<p>good luck. get your grades up! take calc bc. what's the nasa internship??</p>
<p>you're in at all the non-ivies and cornell. from only the information in your original post, you're a reach at HYP and a target at dartmouth.</p>
<p>I am applying for RSI. NASA has an internship were 30 high school students are selected to work with scientists, and engineers I think. Its payed to.</p>
<p>They also have a lot of internships depending on your state. Check our there website and click for k-12, and then internships or programs.</p>
<p>hmm decideding on only 2 ec's is going to be hard. Darthmouth is DI right?</p>
<p>bazooka, I'm gonna guess you're not an athlete:</p>
<p>OP, here's a link to DIII schools with track. You might have heard of some of them: Johns Hopkins, Williams, Middlebury, Pomona Pitzer, Amherst, Bates, ....</p>