<p>I am a Caucasian female applying to Pratt ED (does this help me at all being female?)
Intended Major: Civil Engineering
ACT: 35English: 35, Science: 35, Math: 34, Reading: 34
(not submitting SAT or SAT II scores)
Rank: 3/270
Weighted GPA: 4.58</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
Honors Environmental Science: A-/A
Honors English: A-/A-
Honors Geometry: A/A-
Honors Spanish II: A/A
Honors World History I: A-/A
Latin I: A+/A+</p>
<p>Sophomore Year:
Honors Algebra II: A-/A-
Honors Biology: A-/A
Honors Latin II: A+/A+
Honors English: A/A
Honors Spanish III: A/A
Honors World History II: A+
Honors Civics: A+</p>
<p>Junior Year:
AP English: B+/A- (4 on exam)
AP Statistics: B+/A+ (5 on exam)
AP US History: A-/A (5 on exam)
Honors Chemistry: A/A-
Honors Pre-Calculus: A/A
Honors Latin III: A+/A+
Spanish IV: A+/A+</p>
<p>Senior Year Courses:
AP Physics
AP Calculus BC
AP Computer Science
AP English
Honors Latin IV</p>
<p>ECs:
Dance ballet, pointe, jazz, and lyrical grades 9-12
JV Golf Team grades 9-10
Student Gov grades 9-12Secretary grade 12
Club that helps the school aesthetics grades 10-12
Student Rep on a board working towards school reaccreditation grades 11-12
Club that helps raise money for kids w/ cancer grades 11-12
President of Mentoring Program grade 10
National Honor Society grade 11-12</p>
<p>Awards:
Recipient of Princeton Book Award grade 11
National Merit Letter of Commendation grade 11
National Latin Exam Award grades 10 and 11
AP Scholar grade 11</p>
<p>Duke is by far my top choice (applying ED). How do my chances look?</p>
<p>I would say your chances are pretty good. Being a female helps a bit, but won’t make a huge difference in the application. If you are interested in science and engineering then Pratt would be a good fit regardless of the courses and extracurricular activities you have participated in. You don’t need to have participated in Science Olympiad to be a qualified applicant to Pratt. One thing I noticed is that you are taking thing I noticed is that you are taking advanced placement physics without having taken normal physics. That seems a bit unusual. Overall, I would say your chances are still good. Good luck!</p>
<p>Hi, I noticed that you went from Honors Pre-Calc Junior year to AP B/C Calc Senior year. Does your school not have A/B Calc? It seems like a big jump from pre-calc to B/C.</p>
<p>My son is also applying to Pratt and ironically, has similar classes to yours for senior year (AP English, AP Physics (its the C level one and will lead to 2 AP tests), AP Comp Sci, and Latin IV (we don’t have Honors… Grrrr…). He took B/C calc as Junior and as senior is adding AP Art History and AP Enviro (kind of a joke class - sort of wishes he’d taken Econ…) Hopefully you will meet each other at Duke! </p>
<p>I can’t chance you, as I have no real life experience, but I guess I agree with Bluedog. My son was concerned that his primary EC, Mock Trial, is not related to engineering, but an admissions officer assured him that it is a GOOD thing and to talk about it on his app. He chose that EC for his short writing piece (which was 1000 characters EXACTLY by the way!). </p>
<p>I also find chancing hard because I personally am not familiar with the actual high schools. My niece was 1/80. She is very smart and an extremely hard worker, and prob. could’ve been at the top at many schools, but when admissions officers see her actual high school, they will see that, well… it’s just not a top high school. Her GPA was something like 5.something. I can’t really relate to that. I don’t understand GPA’s over 4 either. Our school bases GPA on a scale of 100, which is easier for me to relate to, but not to compare with other students at other schools. We also don’t use class rank, which I find is a bummer, but again, apparently the admissions officers know the schools and know how the GPA’s in that school compare. Naviance helps with that also, and helps with doing your own “chancing” when comparing students from your own high school.</p>