Chance me! Upcoming Junior, want to know how I'm doing so far?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I just finished sophomore year .

Weighted GPA: 4.56 GPA. I’ve seen my GPA go up from 4.48 from freshman year, which i think is good since it’s an upward trend.

My unweighted GPA is 4.0

As a sophomore and freshman, I took somewhat challenging courses, but only honors and two AP classes. For junior year, I plan on taking five AP classes, specifically AP language composition, AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP Euro, and AP calc AB.

For volunteer service, I did not do too much freshman year, just some here and there. For sophomore year, I’ve gotten 70+ hours volunteering at a summer camp for children with disabilities (which I love to do!). I want to go towards a premed/biology major and volunteering there just sort of clicked with me!

My extracurricular: Varsity tennis (1 year junior varsity, 1 year varsity), Key Club (2 yrs) , National Honors Society (1 yr), Medical Interests Club (1 year, Founder, President), Tutoring Club (1 year, elected president for junior yr), Science Olympiad (Competitor + manager 1 yr), Newspaper Editor (1 yr), Link Crew Leader (for Junior Yr, helps get upcoming freshmen get acquainted with our high school)

I took the SATs in June, planning to find out my score in a couple of days (AH nervous!)

Please Chance me! How do things look so far? Honestly, I love all the extracurriculars and volunteering activities I do, it has a great group of people!

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Oh sorry, I should be more specific. I’m new to this, clearly. I want to know my chances for colleges such as UPenn, Cornell, and Duke.

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No one can tell you your odds without an SAT/ACT scores. Come back when you get those results. Just looking at your ec’s though, they look pretty spread out and not very focused for some of these schools.

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PSAT and AP scores?

While your ECs seem decent, there is nothing that makes you stand out.

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@danfer91 thank you for the advice!! Yes, I agree about my extracurriculars. I think I will leave behind key club and tennis, because I recently got a knee injury and for key club, I did not participate much. How do I stand out for extracurriculars? I mean, I love to do most of these things??

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@RoundGenius Hi, I got 5s on both the AP Gov and AP Human geography exams, but I didn’t care for these scores too much as I am interesting in premed. I got 1350 out of 1520 on the PSAT 10

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While a 1350 is certainly a good PSAT score, it isn’t indicative of you having qualifying SAT or ACT scores for the schools you mentioned. However, its a good starting point and if you study, I guarantee you will have a competitive score. Also, find one or two ECs to focus on. Top schools loving well rounded individuals is a bit of a myth.