<p>White male. Tennessee private catholic school. top 10% of class. UWGPA 3.85 WGPA 4.15. ACT: Composite 31, math 30, English 32, reading 31, science 31. Almost completely straight A's with only 3 B's or so. AP's include AP Chemistry (5 on exam), AP Biology(not taken yet), and AP US History(4 on exam). Dual Enrollment English, and pre calc. All other classes are honors.</p>
<p>Varsity Crew rower.(3 years)
Symphony member, (Have been a cellist for 9 years).
Eagle Scout - I heard colleges look very favorably at this?
In the national honor society, as well as Mu Alpha Theta- the math honor society.
100+ hours of community service.
Member of student government (Committee Chairman)
Member of student enhancement committee- a fund raising committee.
Was just elected "senior captain". We operate on a 4 house system, with students from each grade broken into them. I am in charge of mine. So essentially 1 of 4 co-presidents of the entire school.
received American citizenship award- for students with exceptional leadership and academics.</p>
<p>Can get great letters of recommendation from science teachers.</p>
<p>I also spent 5 weeks at the Tennessee Governor's School for Humanities- was very competitive for admissions. Spent 5 weeks at a university of tennessee campus taking college courses, completely paid for by the state. I got A's in both my classes. The chancellor of the university is going to use my 2 professor's ratings of me to write me a really good letter of recommendation.</p>
<p>I also attended the American Legion's Boys State school for a free 1 week camp this summer. It focused on leadership, citizenship, and the government. It's the number one boys state program in the nation.</p>
<p>work experience as a Host at famous Daves Barbecue for a year. </p>
<p>Interested in Chemical Engineering.
I am also considering army ROTC. Would this influence my admissions chances anywhere?</p>
<p>Chance me please? </p>
<p>University of Alabama (chances for honors college?)
Virginia Tech (chances for honors college?)
Carnegie Mellon for CIT
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
Northwestern</p>
<p>I also won the only awards for Honors Physics, Spanish, and Honors English at my school.</p>
<p>Alabama and VT you are IN.
I’m not familiar with their honors programs, but especially at Alabama you probably have a chance(VT is more competitive than Alabama)
The rest are all reaches I’m afraid. For those level schools your EC’s are average/maybe high end of average, you test score is on the low end of average, your gpa is average/low end of average, and you have significantly less APs than most applicants will have(while they won’t hold it against you if you weren’t offered any more, I’m in a similar situation, they will expect your GPA to be higher than someone with many APs, like a 3.95+. Your recs sound like they will be above average at any school.</p>
<p>It seems like you need a broader list. You have a bunch of reaches and then two safeties, but I don’t see any match schools on your list. Like schools that you aren’t guranteed admission, but it’s pretty likely. Schools where you would be more towards the average and normal kid in terms of extra cirricular experiences and academics. It sounds like if you got into any of your reach schools you’d be below the average for the incoming class and at Alabama and VT you’d be way above. Maybe Tulane, some of the better big ten schools(better academically than ACC or SEC public schools), U of miami, or some of the boston area private schools, BU or BC.
Im not trying to say that you shouldnt apply to VT, Alabama and all your reaches, YOU SHOULD. I just feel maybe you should add only 1 or 2 more match schools to your list.</p>
<p>yeah iv noticed that break, but theres not many good engineering schools in between. and Virginia tech is above average for engineering so even if i didnt get into any of those reaches, im in to a great program there. If I could find a good engineering school in between i would, but vtech engineering wise is basically a step below those reaches</p>
<p>also im technically only in 1 ap next year, but im in 2 dual enrollment which are basically APs. how big of reaches are my reaches? low reach, mid reach, high reach?</p>
<p>The reaches are low to mid reaches.</p>
<p>University of Alabama w/honors - improve ACT to 32 or higher and you’ll almost certainly get in. UAlabama w/o honors - in, UAlabama w/honors - high match
Virginia Tech - in, w/ honors - high match (improve ACT).
Carnegie Mellon - quite competitive, so mid reach
Vanderbilt - low reach w/ higher act.
Notre Dame - mid reach with higher ACT.
Northwestern - apply ED and it’s a low reach.</p>
<p>Chance me back?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1168046-thread-has-interesting-title-ill-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1168046-thread-has-interesting-title-ill-chance-back.html</a></p>
<p>so would yall say in order of difficulty to get in:
Alabama
VTech
Carnegie mellon
Vandy
ND
Northwestern
?</p>
<p>I do not plan on taking the ACT again, so i would kinda like opinions based solely off my 31, not what would happen if i got a better score. </p>
<p>Is it important that i apply early decision anywhere? will it significantly help my chances anywhere?</p>