chances at rice, ivies, etc.

<p>i would appreciate any help. my school sent one person to yale last year, other than that, it's mainly ou, osu, and lower echelon private schools. I'm just a junior, but i figure it doesn't hurt to plan ahead. some ecs will be projected to extend to my senior year.</p>

<p>location: enid, ok
School: public
Gender: male
Ethnicity: white
I plan on majoring in poli-sci or something similar</p>

<p>GPA: cumulative should be a little over 4.0, weighted, dragged down by ninth grade
SAT Scores
Critical Reading: 740
Math:690
Writing:690
1st attempt</p>

<p>ACT scores
English:35
Reading:34
Math:28 (have gotten 33 in the past, should be easily raised)
Science:28
Composite:31 (should easily get up into 33 range as long as i don't flub the math again)
2nd try</p>

<p>SAT IIs
About to take Literature and math 2. I sort of missed the boat on these because everything in ok is so act oriented and we have so few high achievers around here that i didn't really realize i needed to be taking these.</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Euro history-3 (highest score of anyone at my school last year, and only 2 others got it. we have a terrible teacher and hardly anyone ever passes)
Calc BC-taking this year, should easily be a five
Lit and comp- should be a four or five
physics- should be around a four, maybe five </p>

<p>Freshman Year
Enriched Biology-B (teacher did not like me, but i recieved higest grade on end of instruction, but can colleges see that?)
Contest speech-A
ok history/am govt (would have taken enriched, but did not fit in schedule)-A
yearbook staff-A
Enriched algebra 2-B
Enriched world literature-A</p>

<p>Sophmore Year
Enriched american literature-A
AP european history-A
Spanish-A
Enriched chemistry-A
precalculus-B
Astronomy 1 and 2-A</p>

<p>Junior Year
AP calc bc-A
AP physics-B (highest grade in class)
Spanish-A
AP lit and comp-A
Botany-A
Zoology-A</p>

<p>I have gone out of my way to take the hardest schedule offered, and have other high school level classes i took in 7th and 8th grade to boost my gpa later. I am in the top ten percent of my class.</p>

<p>I played football last year and would have this year but time did not permit. I ran cross country in ninth grade and have run track since ninth grade. I have not lettered yet but probably will this year in track. I am active in my church and help out during the service every week. I have gone on mission trips with my church to alabama, florida, and mexico. I have been in all the honor societies for as long as possible. I will probably be at least a merit semifinalist. I was on student council in 9th grade. I have a job at a local radio station and could get a glowing rec from my boss. I have done various other things during summers that can augment my application in a pinch. I plan on trying to be a page in dc over this summer. I have a whole year ahead to add to my ecs and academic resume, so if there are any suggestions for good things to do both extra curricular and schedule wise i would appreciate them.</p>

<p>School choices:
Rice
Northwestern
Emory
Wash U
U Chicago
Pretty much any us news top 25 i can get in to i would be at least casually interested in. Thanks.</p>

<p>You have somewhat slim chances to the schools you listed (rejected at Wash U, Chicago and NU, OK chances at Rice and Emory).</p>

<p>Add Vanderbilt, U Michigan to your list, you will have decent chances there.</p>

<p>what can i do to change that? i have a year still.</p>

<p>Get your ACT into 32-33 range, don't get 3s on AP any more.</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Most of the US News top 25 are either reaches or big reaches for you given your current stats. It would be unlikely that you would be accepted at most of them. </p></li>
<li><p>However, there are lots of very good colleges at which you'd have at least a decent shot and many where you'd have a very good shot. Here's a list of schools you might want to consider. The schools at the top are reachy, but not out of the question. The ones in the middle are matches and the ones towards the bottom are low matches or safeties.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Wesleyan (in CT.)
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
Carleton
Vassar
Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
University of Virginia
William and Mary
U of C Berkley
Washington and Lee
Emory
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
Georgetown
Bowdoin
Haverford
Macalester
Davidson
Colby
Univer. Of Southern CA
University of Michigan
Colgate
Brandeis
U of NC, Chapel Hill
Oberlin
Bates
Tulane
Hamilton
Grinnell
Bard
Wake Forest
Kenyon
Connecticut College
Boston College
University of Richmond
Univ. of Rochester
NYU
Lehigh
Trinity
Bucknell
UCLA
Dickinson College
Gettysburg College
Lafeyette
Franklin and Marshall
College of NJ
Sarah Lawrence
Union
Skidmore
U of C San Diego
Syracuse
Penn State</p>

<p>By the way, push your SAT score to 2200 or above and/or your ACT to 32 or above, and a few of those Top 25 become more realistic. For example, Wash U, Chicago, and NU all become slight reaches/high matches.</p>

<p>b u m p.....</p>