<p>Hello everyone!</p>
<p>I am a high school senior and was just deferred from the Early Action pool at Georgetown SFS. I also applied early to University of Virginia, and have submitted RD apps to Emory, Southern Cal, Vanderbilt, and McGill. If I was accepted to Georgetown, I was going to also apply to Columbia, Yale and Brown, but since I was deferred, I also plan on applying to Cornell, Duke, WashU, and Dartmouth. Now however, I am reconsidering because I am skeptical as to whether my grades are good enough to get into any of these schools. I have a 3.78UW and 4.49W GPA from a relatively competitive public school in central Virginia (so far this year students have been accepted to Williams, MIT, Stanford, Vanderbilt, etc.). Within the school, I am enrolled in a selective Engineering program accredited through a local community college. My GPA falls outside the top 10%, but I believe extenuating circumstances apply. My school calculates GPA with semester grades, so total I have 10 "B"s, and the rest As. 2 "B"s were carried over from middle school, five were from first semester of freshman year when I was adjusting from a small private middle school. The other 3 "B"s came in 11th grade when I incurred a serious concussion and missed three months of school. They were in APUSH, AP Chem, and AP Latin, all first semester. Second semester I achieved straight As again. This year, I will probably have a B in Calc BC, and maybe AP Lit, with the rest As. Sorry for the length, but I wanted to give all a good idea of my situation. Should I open up my college search, or do I have a good shot at these schools? The rest of my stats are below.</p>
<p>SAT: 2340 (800CR 740M 800W)
SAT II: 720USH 690MII (retaking math II and also taking literature in January)
GPA: 3.78UW 4.49W
APs: World History (4), US History (5), AP Lang (5), AP Calc AB (5), AP Chem (didn't take test), AP Latin (didn't take test)
Senior Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP US Gov, AP Lit, AP Physics B, 2 Engineering courses
ECs/Community Service/Other info etc.: worked ~1000 hours in internship on President Obama's reelection campaign, 2 years Varsity Wrestling, Won regional science fair with work done with UVa Chem.E Prof, Spent semester abroad in Israel, President of "Confidence Building Club" at my school, contributed about 90 hours to afternoon program for children with special needs in Jerusalem.
Race: White (jewish)
Gender: Male</p>
<p>Please let me know if you have any questions. I really appreciate any feedback!</p>