hi, i am a junior with a 4.1 weighted GPA, 1440 SAT on the new one, 2040 on the old one, and i have a long list of volunteering, internships including one at johns hopkins hospital, and a long list of helping community members at homeless shelters and churches and other ethnic grou. I have also been Vice president of my grade for a while and am involved in clubs that range from very competitive clubs like FBLA (future business leaders of America) and am a National Honors Society inductee, all the way down to organizing the spirit at football games. Also in student government, received the presidents award for academic excellence, and played 3 years of lacrosse so far. also am in state in maryland, middle eastern, and have taken/ am taking 6 AP classes in high school. Wanted to know what my chances are at these schools: Maryland college park, NYU, Georgetown, Virginia, Penn state, UCLA, USC, and Villanova. Thanks, Ayad
Hey ayad.r, this is just my two cents, take it with a grain of salt. A 4.1 weighted GPA certainly is impressive, but is your GPA unweighted? Also what is your class rank? These are all things colleges will take into consideration, especially considering most schools use really skewed weighting systems to weight GPAs. It’s far more likely most admissions committees will simply evaluate your transcript based of letter grades and unweighted GPAs. If you can provide that information, the users of this site will no doubt be able to provide a far better chance for you at these schools. With regards to APs, take more in your senior year! 10 AP classes is genuinely a safe number that colleges will be satirized with, but that also depends on how many your schools offers. Another thing to let future posters know so they can better evaluate you.
Moving on to test scores, anything 1400+ (new SAT) and 2000+ (old SAT) is greatly competitive! That places you above the 95th percentile for the new SAT. While a 1440 certainly is great, for schools like Georgetown and the Ivies as you’ve mentioned in your post title, a 1440 really isn’t anything special. Not to demean your score in anyway, but getting that score up should be a priority for you, especially since you’re only a junior. If you want my advice for the greatest way to strengthen your application, it would to be to study your butt of for the SAT and knock it out of the park (1500+) so you can say with confidence you are prime consideration material for these top schools!
With regards to your extracurriculars, they sound fantastic! However, always remember quality above quantity! Colleges will be far more likely to to impressed with a consistent dedication to one activity than mediocre dedication to ten! Make sure above all, your extracurriculars reflect your passion, and your application should make this passion shine through as throughly as you can. Don’t get carried away with the number of activities, that’s the best advice I can give you there. You sound like you have a solid amount as it is, don’t get carried away, and focus on developing the ones you already have.
Again, I can’t really provide all that accurate of a chance considering I don’t know how your schools weights GPAs and how AP works at your school, but for top schools, I say get that test score up and you’ll be golden! Good luck champ.
thank you! i will look into all of that