<p>I'm looking at Berkeley, Dartmouth, Emory, Wake, and possibly Georgetown. I want to major in either Poli Sci or Chemistry.</p>
<p>Stats:
White Male, Vermont
GPA: 3.6 (UW)
Almost all honors and AP classes, except for gym and other required stuff
Most rigorous classes possible
SAT: 2250
SATIIs pending
AP stuff:
US History - 4
US Government/Politics - 5 (projected)
Literature and Comp - 4 (projected)
Calculus - 4 (projected)
Latin: Vergil - 4 (projected)</p>
<p>Academic awards and stuff:
National Merit Semifinalist
National Latin Exam - Magna Cum Laude (3 years)
American Mathematics Contest 12 - top 5%, qualified for American Invitational Mathematics Examination</p>
<p>ECs:
Policy debate: grades 10-12, 20+ hours a week, nationally competitive; qualified for National Forensics League National Championships all three years, qualified for Tournament of Champions. Includes Summer workshops of 4-7 weeks in length at Gonzaga and Michigan.
Eco-club
Pride Alliance (GLBTQ)
NHS member</p>
<p>Berkeley-slight reach
Dartmouth-reach
Emory-match
Wake-safe match
Georgetown-match</p>
<p>Most of the Ivies will be reaches for everyone. You should be good for Wake, Emory, and Georgetown. Berkeley will be a reach because it is OOS especially if you are not top 10% of your class. I'd definately consider Wake as you would likely get some nice scholarships and they are quite strong in Political Science (which is what I want to pursue there) and Chemistry. Good luck :)</p>
<p>I agree with the above poster in general, although I think Berkeley is a reach and Dartmouth will be very difficult (~5% chance) with your GPA .</p>
<p>GPA is so subjective...The schools will recalculate the GPA, perhaps the poster has an upward trend or an extremely tough school. UCB won't be forgiving and if he isn't in the top 10% it will be a huge reach. Dartmouth not as much.</p>