<p>Hey, I am going to be a senior want some honest opinions on the colleges I am looking at. I am a math and science guy so I am hoping to go into some subset of engineering however I have no type in mind yet.</p>
<p>9th Grade 5 A's 7B's ... 3 Honors Classes
10th Grade 6 A's 6B's ... 3 Honors 1 Ap Classes
11th Grade 11 A's 1 B ... 2 honors 3 Ap Classes
12th Grade ... 2 Ap Classes + Engineering Physics + Engineering and Design</p>
<p>5 math courses, 5 science, 4 english, 3 social science and up to an including spanish 3.</p>
<p>Top 10% of the class </p>
<p>Unweighted GPA of 3.602 and Weighted of 4.394. Upward trending</p>
<p>ACT --- Single Sitting
- 36 Math
- 34 English
- 31 Reading
- 31 Science
--- 33 Composite</p>
<p>ACT --- Superscored
- 36 Math
- 34 English
- 34 Reading
- 34 Science
--- 35 Composite</p>
<p>Besides All of this my most impressive EC is volleyball. Captain Freshman and Sophomore Years. Last year my club team Placed 2nd in the Nation at Junior Olympics. This year my high school team was nationally ranked by espnrise </p>
<p>Alright thanks for reading through that if you did... Now to the list</p>
<p>Brown (Superscores?)
Cornell
Georgia Tech (Superscores)
MIT (Superscores-ish and Hoping to play volleyball here, Hook?)
Northwestern (In-state)
Purdue (Superscores?)
UIUC (Sister went there, instate)
University of Iowa (safety?)
University of Michigan</p>
<p>Also could you suggest some match school because I'm predicting most of these schools to be reaches</p>
<p>Ok so here goes:
Your ACT is really good, however your grades are low and if volleyball is your only EC that will hurt you too(at the ivies and MIT)
MIT=impossible, im sorry to say this, but its true.
Brown and Cornell, very unlikely, extremely far reach.
Purdue, Illinois, and Iowa you are IN</p>
<p>just fyi, Northwestern is private, so instate doesnt matter, in fact it probably hurts you because they get so many illinois kids.</p>
<p>Northwestern is a reach.
Georgia Tech is a match
Michigan is probably a high reach/low match just because you are out of state</p>
<p>If they superscore, none of those schools are impossible. Try to do something this summer that makes you stand out, write amazing essays, and get great recs, and I’m sorry, but stewta is wrong and exaggerating with words like “impossible” and “extremely far reach”.</p>
<p>definitely apply to all of them</p>
<p>Thanks both of you. I know MIT is next to impossible; it is for everyone… yet people make it, my question is what would my chances be as a recruited athlete with a 35 superscore (because they do super-score). </p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>At MIT, it wouldn’t matter. I don’t think that schools like MIT recruit for any sports and if they do it’s not recruiting in the traditional state school sense. If you are super amazing at volleyball that could help, but I still doubt a school like MIT(that doesnt really care about its sports program) would recruit you for volleyball and give you money. Your test score is fantastic. But if volleyball is your only EC, even though its really involved, that doesnt look that good that you only had one sport, especially since volleyball is a team sport; your input isn’t the only input that made the team good. I don’t think it will really hurt you, at many schools it can help you, but if you look at the ECs of common MIT applicants, just being a fantastic volleyball team won’t cut it. Also for MIT your GPA is low, unless of course you are from a crazy school where noone in your class has higher than a 3.9. Volleyball could make michigan more of a safety and northwestern more of a match if you are good enough for D1.</p>
<p>Alright thanks for the response. Neither of those schools have mens volleyball teams unfortunately, however I’m sure they have womens teams to which you were reffering 
. MIT Mens volleyball is DIII so that means there would be no scholarship money, however coaches can sponsor applications of players that they want. I’m sure it wont be a huge boost… but a boost is a boost. Also I have had a low ranked DI school ask if I would be interested in playing for them. </p>
<p>My highschool is about 30th in Illinois, not great, but not bad in the same sense.</p>
<p>Yes my GPA is bad by these schools standards, however I already asked my councilor and she said that my school does not allow CC courses to be calculated into GPA so I can’t take any courses or anything over the summer to try to help :/</p>