<p>As a Junior who as just recently began looking seriously at colleges, I really need a little bit of help figuring out where I stand in the scheme of college admissions. I'll begin by just giving info about myself (test scores, grades, personal characteristics) and then throw out some schools that I have been looking at. I would be grateful for some feed back on what you think my chances would be at Carleton and other schools that I mention.</p>
<p>Homestate: Oklahoma (don't know if that matters)
GPA: 4.0 unweighted; about 4.5ish weighted
top 5% of class; about 10 out of 550ish
ACT: 33 sophomore year (I've always wondered if they care when you got your score)
SAT: 710M, 710CR, 730W (Taking again in June and October to raise it)
SAT II: I've taken Math II and Physics but have not gotten my scores back yet. I took a practice test for each and got 800s, but who knows how reliable they were. I'd predict atleast 700s. I'll take Lang in Oct. as well which i feel confident about at the moment.
AP: Took Lang, Calc AB, and Physics C Mech. and felt great about all of them. Just for the sake of Chancing me, I'll predict 5 on physics, and 4 or 5 on Calc and Lang.
APs for next year: Calc BC, Euro, Lit, Physics C E&M, Chem
I will be attending a course on Cosmology at Colorado College this summer with a full tuition scholarship
I'm also going to be a National Merit Scholar, but I've heard that almost everyone that even applies to Carleton or the like is National Merit so I'm not sure if that even matters.</p>
<p>If there's anything else test wise, just let me know and I'll add it on</p>
<p>ExtraCurriculars:
President and Founder of Philosophy Club, Head Programmer and Captain of Award winning and World Championship Finalist FIRST Robotics Team, President of Mu Alpha Theta, paid TA in summer courses for Pre-Engineering Academy that I go to half the day, Homeland cashier (represent), Math tutor, Acting outside of school for 7 years. I have some athletics as well but I'm not sure if they'll really matter, soccer for 12 years, Cross Country Letterman Freshman and sophomore year. There's a little bit more but it's mostly lame stuff so I'll leave it out.</p>
<p>I feel like my essays will be pretty strong but an interview will be my strongest non-academic portion of an application. I've done acting and speech competitions for years so I probably have more people skills than the average Physics major, but, being an LAC, i'm not sure if that would be true.</p>
<p>That's about all I can really say about myself so I'll leave the rest up to you. I'd just like to know what you think my chances at Top notch LACs would be and Carleton to be specific. I'll be majoring in physics but I dont think that matters in admissions at all. A few others I've been looking at are Hendrix and Grinnell, but if you know of any that sound as though they would fit me just let me know and I'll look into them. </p>
<p>Thanks for all of your time, it means a lot!</p>