<p>Harvard, University of Chicago, Cornell</p>
<p>I attend a quasi prestigious private high school
Overall unweighted gpa is a 3.7; low, however it was considerably lower, freshman year i had a 2.0 overall gpa after that i have recovered with nothing but 4.05s and this last semester i had a 4.51 GPA - 97 or above in all classes which was hard considering my aunt with whom i was close with died, and that took up a lot of time as well as giving grief.
Grading
90-92= B+ = 3.3
93-94= A-= 3.7
95-97= A= 4.0
98-100=A+= 4.3
Honors receive a .5 increase in above AP= +1.0 in above
This year i took 1 AP, and 3 honors - my school only offers 5 AP classes 4 of which i am enrolled in for next year. I also plan on taking a fourth year of spanish which will be one of my AP's next year.
ACT -34
EC's
Lots of volunteer work
Golf JV
Co-Founder and Vice President of a 34 member Chess Team which got first place locally
Academic Team
Officer of a volunteer orginization at school
NHS tutoring
Job as a cashier at sports complex
Study math outside of school at least 6 hours a week, this includes discrete mathematics i.e number theory, more advanced topics in geometry and probability, and AMC 12 and AIME type questions
Half Hispanic, and a 16th native american the other 7/16s is a mix of scottish and some other unknown.
Awards/Honors
Principals list for 4 semesters
Dux Esto (highest grade) in English, APHistory, and Precal honors junior year</p>
<p>I look forward to pursuing a degree in Applied Mathematics</p>
<p>In addition to the above i have a recommendation from an alumnus from Harvard, the father of a close friend.
Moreover, i plan on procuring a mentor from a local university this summer to help me go beyond the high school realm of mathematics
I have more, but it would take too long as well as pointless seeing as they are frivolous clubs.</p>
<p>I'd say in at U of C and Cornell, possibly Harvard. Colleges love to see upward trends. If you want, apply to stanford too (they don't look at freshman grades).</p>
<p>thanks, currently my friend and i are trying to get a model UN started at our school. Any other comments, critisicism?</p>
<p>Ok, well i just set up the Model UN at the school and was appointed president of that program,
can anyone critique my semi-resume for chances at ivies please?
In light of a new post that i have read asking for future chances to provide personal info, i have a strong passion in mathematics, i find it one of the hardest yet most enjoyable subjects to learn. i also read quite a bit, anything from the classics like shakespeare- out of school on my own- to modern fiction i.e dean koontz, as well as non fiction books on astrophysics like Fabric of the Cosmos, Elegant Universe. Basically i love to learn and i am absolutely determined to understand everything i study, i don't give up on problems easily-in fact not at all. However i wasn't always like this, i read a lot as a child in grade school however when middle school came around i basically shut down- didn't do anything, didn't do homework, and didn't pay attention in class which is the reason my freshman gpa was low.
Sorry for the poor grammar, i'm writing this rather fast.</p>
<p>Chicago & Cornell look like strong possibilities for you. Harvard may give your application a long look as you are a double URM. Did you apply to MIT?</p>
<p>UChi, Cornell, and Harvard are all extremely selective schools. You're going to have a hard time even with a good record.</p>
<p>You're at a prestigious private school that offers 5 APs? That sounds very strange. Do you have IB offered? Does your school rank? As of now your academic rigor is kind of up in the air?</p>
<p>Your ACT is very good, but you're going to need some SAT subject tests to stand out at schools that competitive (not as much as just with SAT I, but it'd no doubt help).</p>
<p>You're going to need to show some passion for EC's as well, as of now you just have a group of disparate activities that colleges see all the time.</p>
<p>Being half hispanic will help enormously, however.</p>
<p>Thanks, i do plan on taking SAT subject tests: Physics, Math 2C, Spanish, and possibly Math1c
and though i'm hispanic, i am not fluent in spanish nor have i had experience in spanish before high school so i'm not going for an easy grade.
And yes sad to say, our school is considered very hard and we are college accredited however, our principal doesn't believe we have the resources or support for more AP programs and he doesn't support them either which is odd seeing as he is a Stanford alumnus. Although, from what transfer students from public high schools have said, our honors classes are 2x harder than the AP courses and our regular classes could pass as honors.
We do have very good teachers some of which teach at a nearby university, one a certified genius at physics, and we have sent 2-3 kids out of 120 each year to ivy league schools.</p>
<p>Edit, not only president of model un but co president along with another student who co founded the organization at our school. By the way the ACT's are projections based upon practice tests that i've taken where i got a 36 math, 34 writing, 33 reading, 34 science, i take it in June along with SAT2 Physics, Math 2c, and Spanish or literature, haven't decided.</p>