<p>By weighted gpa, I think I'm around the top 15% in a class of 550. The competition at the top is VERY stiff. In my AP Bio class I compete with kids who have parents at NIH and are some of the leading research scientists in their field. In my AP Gov class, I compete with kids who have parents who work on Capitol Hill. Overall, I think that has made my high school experience much more enriching. Nevertheless, everyone past the top 25% has very little idea what they're doing with their lives especially since 15% of our school is in a specialized learning center for individuals with learning disablities (not that that is causation for not knowing what to do with their lives, it just seems to correlate rather well). These students are taken from outside our school's district. It is important to note that honors classes, AP classes and the advanced classes offered exclusively to students in my program are all weighted the same. Thus, a student who gets As in honors government and honors english would have the same weighted gpa as a student that got As in AP Government and our advanced program's english courses. In AP classes, my weighted GPA is 4.4 not counting the (much) higher grades I am receiving so far this year. I think(hope) this indicated I can succeed at the collegiate level on any level of difficulty. Additionally,it probobaly indicates that I don't take my easier classes seriously.
I'm beginning to blab so I'd like to thank you all very, very much for your time and honest responses, but more responses definately won't hurt.</p>
<p>Pugachev, as far as your stats are concerned, I still standby what I said in a previous post: I think that you are in the running at all of the schools that you are applying to. Just work on your essay.</p>
<p>BTW, it's good to see a dc area student on CC. I'm from Washington, DC (Capitol Hill).</p>
<p>First of all, thank you for your confidence. Second, I am pretty confident that I will be applying ED to Cornell's CALS with a declared major in natural resources. One of my two major ECs (including community service) relates to this topic and I written an essay on this topic and my interest in natural resources. I think I may be one of two people applying ED to Cornell from my high school (the school is not popular amongst students at my school because of all that crap about the suicide rate). This other student has a lower SAT score and a higher gpa. Will we be in competition with eachother if he applies to the college of arts and sciences?</p>
<p>I think that if a student from your high school is applying to the college of arts and sciences and you're applying to the college of agriculture and life sciences, your applications will be reviewed by two different admissions committees (one for CALS and one for CAS). So, I doubt that you two will be in "competition" with one another.</p>
<p>I hope this will help determine my chances, I got the average information for accepted students from my school last year to the schools I am applying to (SAT+WGPA are middle 50%):
Cornell (possibly ED)- 50% WGPA 4.5-4.6 1380-1450 28 applicants
Tufts (possibly ED)- 31.1% 4.4-4.6 1400-1480 29 applicants
Brandeis- 53.8% 4.0-4.5 1360-1440 13 applicants
UVA- 40% 3.6-4.6 1190-1460 30 applicants
UMD-College Park - 84.3% 4.0-4.2 1280-1320 331 applicants
Carnegie Mellon- 69 4.1-4.3 1400-1410 26 applicants
U of Rochester- 94.7%4.4-4.5 1340-1420 19 applicants
Georgetown- 29% 4.6-4.8 1430-1520 38 applicants
NYU- 52% 4.3-4.4 1330-1410
Emory- 62% 4.1-4.4 1360-1400 39 applicants
U of Michigan- 75% 4.4-4.4 1370-1380 51 applicants
Northwestern- 30% 4.3-4.7 1410-1410 20 applicants</p>
<p>In my mind, this basically says I can't get into Northwestern or Georgetown. Also, I don't think this information is complete, some people who decline enrollment at schools they were accepted to did not get provide their information for this list. BTW, I am applying to a few safeties not listed</p>