<p>Thank you for taking the time out to read this and hopefully give some feedback...I'll do my best to chance back. I tried to keep it as brief as possible and not write an entire book. </p>
<p>Im a white male from a High School in Virginia; My major concern is an "average" SAT score and not really a stellar GPA by what i see from the CC geniuses who post.</p>
<p>Applying Early Action to : UVA, UMD, JMU (+plus honors program)
Applying Reg Decision to: VA TECH, Wake Forest, UNC Chapel Hill, Villanova</p>
<p>By the numbers...
Weighted GPA: 4.20 Class Rank: 28/330 (Top 10%)
SAT: 560 Reading, 630 Writing, 610 Math----Cumm. 1800
SAT II: 600 Math II, 600 U.S. History (will it really matter???) </p>
<p>SOPHOMORE: AP World History JUNIOR: AP Psychology, AP Calc AB, AP U.S. History SENIOR(CURRENT YEAR): AP Calc BC, AP Chemistry, AP Government, AP French</p>
<p>I feel like my EC's are good not great..but briefly:
National Honors Society, French NHS, Basketball, Baseball, Founded School Math Club
100+ Volunteer Hours</p>
<p>My plan is to major in chemistry or biochemistry if anyone has any feedback i would really appreciate it, including any other colleges i might want to look into..
Thank you!</p>
<p>Do you live in NoVA or elsewhere? If your in NoVA then your chances at those schools got a considerable bit lower for instate.</p>
<p>Otherwise if you live else where I’d say
UVA-low to mid reach
UMD- high target-low reach
JMU- Reg admission-low match, honors-high match to low reach
Virginia Tech-Match (if not engineering or architecture)
Wake Forest- might want to consider applying without submitting scores, could be a high target to low reach if you do your essays right
UNC-High Reach</p>
<p>Thank you…i in fact do live in NoVA however haha,
im kinda puzzled at the jmu honors program if anyone knows anything about it…? i’ve never really seen any stats pertaining to it.</p>
<p>I attend a No Va. HS and also applied to UVA early action, along with you and 11,500 others (luckily, two-thirds are from out of state). Our HS tracks how graduates last year fared at colleges throughout the country. I ran it on your schools and found some solid results for you. </p>
<p>First, you have clear matches at JMU and Va. Tech (ie, no one with around your credentials did not get admitted there last year). Villanova and UVA appear to me to be low reaches. Last year, about 180 applied to UVA from my HS, with about 25 having around your credentials (mostly slightly higher SATs, but not quite as good grades). Of those 25, five were admitted (including three with SATS at 1800 or less) and two wait listed. WF and UNC appear to be reaches. UNC was especially tough on out-of-staters from VA as no one from my HS in the 4.2 GPA/2000 SAT or below range was admitted last year. </p>
<p>the brochure states that they typically accept students with a 1280 CR+M score and mostly As in academic areas, but may consider them if they fall short in one</p>
<p>Virginia Tech - Good (if not engineering or architecture)
Wake Forest- High reach given SAT’s and class rank is stong but not overly so
UNC- Extremely High Reach - UNC admits < 20% from OOS. Tough ticket to punch in-state given the vagaries of admissions process. IOW, White male OOS , SAT’s…very low chance. I’m a NC resident and UNC took 9 2-years ago, and 18 last year from my HS.<br>
Attending VA Tech next year (ED engineering) and feel blessed to have the opportunity. IF you have the opportunity to go to UVA (anything but engineering or architecture) or Virginia Tech (engineering or architecture) take it.</p>
<p>Holy Cross-very good school 1 hour from Boston. HC has great chemistry major and has good combination of academics and athletics. Holy Cross is SAT optional with January 15 application due date.</p>