<p>ACT:35
SAT II: math ii:800, bio:800, US hist:780, Chem: 770, physics:740(err)
GPA 4.0/4.0 1 of 200 (not shared) IDK Weighted average
APs: I've taken all 5 that my school offers, all honors too-if that counts
2 Community College Courses from this summer</p>
<p>ECs:
TRACK, 4 vars letters, 3 vars captain, will sprint in college, but not expecting to be recruited Div I considering they only get like 5 spots for athletes.
FOOTBALL, 3 years vars, multiple conference/state honors, will play Sprint Football at princeton or penn if accepted. Not regular fball though
POWERLIFTING: Top ranked squat and bench for my weight class for high schoolers in state
SCIENCE O: 3 years, Regional winner in 2 events. Team didn't make states :/
TRADING: 3 years, beat market every single year
SPANISH CLUB: 3 years, founding member
KEY CLUB: 2 years, founding member
NHS: 2 years, typical worthless EC
BAND: I've played the basson for 8 years; won't be playing in college though</p>
<p>Volunteer
Assorted, 150-200 hours</p>
<p>Work
7th,8th-Published FAA Compliance forms for Grandpa and his work buddies
9th-Automotive Factory 40 hrs/week during summer
10th-Bus Boy Manager (kinda, head bus boy?)
10-12-I own an online retail company (EBAY), but it has close to $150,000 in sales for the past two years
12-Just started a small consulting business on how to sell your time share effectively on the internet, only 6 customers so far, but we'll see.</p>
<p>How am I lookin at
Princeton
MIT
Dartmouth
Harvard
Penn
Yale</p>
<p>and, what should I play off on my application, my main essay is about having to go to work at a 14 to help pay for college because of my father and brothers substantial medical bills.</p>
<p>The athlete/mathlete angle is always nice. Being a balanced kid. That and you've got really impressive work experience considering the amount of time that your two varsity sports take up.</p>
<p>You look fine, man. I'd say in at most of the elite universities cuz you're fairly successful athletically and very successful academically, so....</p>
<p>I have ebay down to an art, I pay friends to come over and pre-box products and list, while i simply pack every night and talk to customers, it's really only 30 minutes a night.</p>
<p>none, my dad takes the packages to the post office on his way to work every morning. It is seriously only 30 minutes a night, and if I am super busy I'll just wait a night to ship, no biggie.</p>
<p>I'm home by 6 from athletics, except on game nights (fridays), and track is just a lot of sitting around, we're not one of those die hard 3-4 hour a night practice schools</p>
<p>What kind of High School do you attend 1MX? HYP are very serious in their outreach quest - meaning you have a better than average chance at those three coming from a HS that sends few apps to those schools. What is your area of interest? Penn/Wharton looks like a natural, but what are you looking for at HYP MIT DART? Play up your strengths as they relate to the particular major at each school you're interested in (as well as EC's you'd like to contribute to at each school) and give each app it's own due time. I'm not a believer in a "one size fits all" application.</p>
<p>I come from a parochial school. We send like 96% of students to 4 year, and 10% of our class scores 30+ on the ACT. But we have never had anyone go to an IVY school. Like 8 years ago a kid went to Duke, that's it. Our smartest kids all go to christian schools. We've had 2 36's in the past 3 years, both went to a christian school. In the past 10 years, less than 10 kids have even applied to an ivy league school. It's just not something kids where I come from. Out of 15,000 kids in my county, only one kid went to an Ivy and one to MIT this past year.</p>
<p>I think I want to go into business, but I'm not making such a big decision so early in life. I just want to get into a great school, and look around for a year before deciding what I will be doing for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>I can only give you anecdotal evidence, but you are very much like my son (except he didn't make so much money!) and he was accepted to all those schools on your list (except MIT-didn't apply). My advice is to send them all you've got. Coming from an unknown school, as did my son, they need all the information they can get to validate your accomplishments. Send an official AP report, send newspaper articles, web articles, sports articles, whatever you have that can help them place you in context to your surroundings (within reason of course, not 20 pages). Send an additional rec from someone outside of school who knows you well and can speak about your personal qualities, especially how you work with others. You've got to place yourself in each school on the application, you can't be wishy-washy about what you can contribute to them and what you hope to gain by attending. One last thing, make sure your GC knows you and your accomplishments well because it's not unusual for adcoms to call GC's at unknown schools for verification of personal and academic qualities of applicants.</p>
<p>Don't forget to send an official transcript from your CC courses too.
Also, if you're income is too high for full financial (need based) aid make sure you find some merit scholarship schools you like. Perhaps UNC-CH/Duke scholarships like Moorehead/Robertson or UVA's Jefferson Scholarship. There's a thread here with many good merit scholarship schools. Also look on this site for an outside scholarship called (I think) McKelvey that looks for great business accomplishments. You've got the stats to go for all those.</p>
<p>They certainly are crazy competetive, ses, and not meant to be safety- school fallback scholarships. If OP needs sure-bet scholarships he'll have to look elsewhere and he'll find lots of good ideas here.</p>