Chance Me!

<p>I'm looking to apply early action, but that doesn't really seem to affect my chance as far as I could tell. </p>

<p>White/Male
Middle Class
Catholic School/DC area - a handful of kids are accepted to Villanova each year
Top 15-20% of class (my school technically doesn't rank; I don't think they even put it on college forms)
Top Half of Class is Pretty Competitive
No one has ever gone to Trinity College from my school in at least the past ten years.</p>

<p>Freshmen Year - 4.15 GPA
Honors English - A
CP Spanish I - A
Honors World History - A
Honors Integrated Science - B+ (although it would be an A- now; my school switched its grade scale during my sophomore year)
Religion - A
Honors Introduction to Programming - A
Honors Algebra II/Trigonometry - B+
PE/Health - A</p>

<p>Sophomore Year - 4.02 GPA
AP Computer Science A - B+
AP European History/English - B+ (a combined two period class that involved both subjects, although we only took the Euro AP test)
Honors Geometry - A-
Spanish II - B+
Religion - A
HN Biology - B+
PE/Driver's Ed - A</p>

<p>Junior Year - 3.87
Religion - A
HN Pre-Cal - B-
HN Chemistry - B
AP US History - A-
AP English Language and Comp - B
AP Human Geography - A
HN Introduction to Philosophy - A-
CP Spanish III - B</p>

<p>Senior Year Load
AP Statistics
CP Film Studies
AP English Literature and Composition
AP US Government
HN Physics
HN Law
Religion</p>

<p>AP Scores:
European History - 3
APUSH- expecting a 3 or 4
APHUG - no idea..
APLAC - probably got a 4</p>

<p>SAT Score:
1860
620 Reading
620 Math
620 Writing
I didn't do anything to prepare. Basically took the test on the whim without knowing what was going to be on the test. Plan to study over the summer though and hopefully get 2000+.</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activities and Awards: (the years are what I should have next year)
-Boy Scouts - I'm an Eagle Scout and I was designated as helping the new Scouts transition from Cub Scouts; (all 4 years);
-For my Eagle Project, I made 450 rosaries for a Catholic School in Haiti (I finished planning my project a week before the earthquake hit)
-JV and Varsity Cross Country (4 years)
-JV Baseball (1 year)
-Varsity Track & Field/Captain for next year(3 years)
-Winter Track Club (3 years)
-Economics Club (3 years)
-Mathletes (1 year)
-Participant in Virginia Stock Market Game (3 years)
-2nd place in the Stock Market Game for Northern Virginia
-Model UN (1 year)
-BETA club member
-National Honor Society Member
-Represented school at Virginia HOBY leadership seminar
-Selected and Attended a high school economics workshop at Chapman University
-Volunteer at Food Pantry
-Volunteer at Senior Citizen Home
-Working at a Kids Sports Summer Camp this summer</p>

<p>1860 sat score is pretty weak for villanova, and your ECs dont stand out enough to get you by…You should get your score up to at least 2050, and maybe even take some sat IIs to complement your AP scores…right now you are a reach/low match</p>