<p>Hello everybody. Please chance my son for some top schools.
He attends a prestigious private boarding school in Mass. There he has a GPA of about 3.45, and an upward trend. The school sends many graduates to top 10 schools + ivys (about 40 percent). It has no class rank and offers very few APs outside of Latin and Greek.
SATS:
1480/2200 - 750 (cr), 730(m), 720(w).
Sat IIs:
680 Math I(he will probably retake)
730 US History.</p>
<p>AP
5 - US History
5 - English Language.</p>
<p>Extras: (I don't want to write to many of them down, but here they are)
- Editor of the yearbook.
- Summer internship at local newspaper.
- 2 Sport Varsity Athlete
- Head of a few clubs + lots of community service.
- Understands Chinese - I don't know if this should be on it.</p>
<p>Additionally, he has half Asian and half white, and we live in New Jersey, but he goes to school in Mass.
He is interested in Writing. </p>
<p>It is very difficult to give you any guidance without knowing where he stands in relation to the rest of his class at the prestigious boarding school. I would think that the guidance office at his school would be in a much better position to accurately gauge reaches, matches, and safeties.</p>
<p>I know that you’ve only give a barebones outline, but unless there is some meat on the bones in his community service or unless he would be a recruited athlete, nothing is really jumping off the page that would make him stand out in Swarthmore’s applicant pool. I think he would obviously be a solid applicant, but would need to bring something interesting to life in his application to avoid the waitlist. Swarthmore is looking for specific “good fit” applicants and it’s hard to tell from the info you have provided whether he would be a Swarthmore type student.</p>