<p>Aright i wanted to get my chances at soem great schools. I think i have a good shot but i wanted to hear what all of you think.</p>
<p>White male from CT</p>
<p>GPA- 2.7 uw (but i'm doin good now...sr yr gpa is 3.0)
rank- 112/650 (i kno i kno bad but my sats and ecs make up for it)
SAT- took it 5 times haha so by now my best scores are pretty good:
V600 M630 W590 (you can tell i'm a mathematician!)</p>
<p>SAT 2s-
Math IC- 640
Math IIC- 610
US History- 660 (guess i'm a historian too haha)
Lit- 570 :(</p>
<p>Sr Classes-
Precalc AB (math)
AP psych (social st)
Economics (social st)
Creative writing (eng)
Oceanography (sci)
Latin IV (lang)</p>
<p>APs-
AP Psych (takin this year)
AP Chem- 3 (i'm not a chem person)
AP Eng Lang- 2 (or an eng person)</p>
<p>ECs-
-Book club 11,12 (funny cuz i don't even read the books i just go to the meetings lol)
-Freshman Tennis 9
-JV indoor track 9-10 (can i be recruited? i think i'm pretty good)
-20 comm service hrs (cuz i got into a fight but it was freshamn yr and school didnt put it on my record so its all good)</p>
<p>Work-
I work at my school library 6 hrs a week and get paid (not much tho haha)</p>
<p>Awards-
Honor roll 11,12
Book club award 11</p>
<p>My essays should be pretty good (ones about embracing diversity which i'm sure they'll love) and my recs are not bad either.</p>
<p>I want to aply to:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia
JHU
GWU
Tufts
Bowdoin
BU
BC
MIT
Carnegie Mellon
RIT</p>
<p>haha i know a ton but i'm sure I'll get into soem of em. Thanks!</p>
<p>Okay, I'm going to be perfectly honest and say that your stats are a little low for those schools... then again, admission is really quirky sometimes, and you could woo them with kick-ass essays, maybe.</p>
<p>why did you take the SATs 5 times??? that's insane; I could barely sit through that gigantic test twice completely, and there was one time when I totally lost my concentration and had to cancel ( :( ) FIVE TIMES??? wow</p>
<p>umm, anyway, I think your list is kinda nuts.. do you just want to go to those schools because they're "elite" or because you like the campuses, programs, etc? You're applying to sooo many crazy schools.. why not take a couple of the ivies off (the ones you don't really care about) and add a few safeties instead?</p>
<p>-Of course, these could change depending on how good you are at running (have you been contacted by any of these colleges) and how rich your parents are (George W. Bush did get into Yale for a reason)</p>
<p>I'd definitely consider applying to a safety school (Uconn). The fact that you are white and male will hurt you a lot in the process and your board scores, to be quite honest, are not good enough for most of the schools you have listed above.</p>
<p>GUYS, let's give constructive advice instead of being rude, mmmmkay? No need to be like DUD U HAV NO CHANZ LOLZ... those schools are very, very competitive. Those stats aren't horrible at all, and he could get into plenty of schools if he had a more realistic list. </p>
<p>IvyBound, what do you actually want to do? that's what your list should really depend on. You could get into less difficult schools but with good programs in your field of interest, but that depends on what YOU are interested in.. besides "Ivy ivy ivy ivy OMG IVY IVY". y'know?</p>
<p>You guys are total jerks and should be a little more mature. You know exactly how you'd feel if someone said these sort of things to you so what makes this behavior okay, at all? </p>
<p>You SAT scores aren't bad, but you don't really have a shot at the Ivies. You are, however, above average.</p>
<p>What are you interested in?</p>
<p>Your GPA is, unfortunately, going to hurt you. Hopefully that is the work of a few C's and no D's/F's. Get back to me on that and I can suggest some schools with excellent programs that would be happy to have you.</p>
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<li> person makes up incredible fake stats and asks if he can get into his safety school. These made up people are often urms or from Alaska:2400 800/800/800 4.0 Can I get into my local community college?</li>
<li> Person makes up terrible stats and asks about ivy leagues: 1700 600/500/500 2.5 Am I guaranteed at Harvard?</li>
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<p>Sometimes trolls actually aren't lying about their stats, but already know what people are gonna say and are just posting to inflate their ego or **** people off.</p>
<p>Of course there's no way to know someone is lying, but when people say "(i kno i kno bad but my sats and ecs make up for it)" and then are in one club or ask if they can get recruited in a sport that they stopped playing sophomore year, you can usually be pretty sure you're right.</p>
<p>I think he has a shot at GWU. GW is really weird with admission. And they will only take people who arent amazing or really really good. They do this because they are all about money. They figure that by accepting not so amazing peopel, those people will go to the school. Basically, they dislike people who apply there as a safety, unless they are harvard material. I tihnk BU is also realistic.</p>
<p>I say, drop all the other schools and just apply to HYP! Talk to the track coach, your excellent sporting records and high board scores make you a shoo-in.</p>