Chances for a Sophomore

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>High School Sophomore
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Male
Long Island, New York
Current Unweighted GPA: 3.72
Current Weighted GPA: 3.82
PSAT scores: 165 (67 CR, 48 Math, 50 Writing)</p>

<p>Freshman Classes Final Grades:</p>

<p>AP World History 9: B+
English 9 Honors: A
Spanish 2: B+
Earth Science Honors: B+
Math A: B
Concert Band: A
Debating: A
Gym: A
Keyboarding for College and Beyond: A</p>

<p>Projected Sophomore Classes Final Grades:</p>

<p>AP World History 10: A
AP European History: A
AP Biology: B
Spanish 3: A
Math AB: B
English 10 Honors: A
Concert Band: A
Gym: A</p>

<p>Junior Year's AP Courses:</p>

<p>AP US History
AP English Language
AP Environmental Science
AP Human Geography</p>

<p>Projected Unweighted GPA after Sophomore Year: 3.74
Projected Weighted GPA after Sophomore Year: 3.98</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:</p>

<p>Varsity Cross Country (10)
Varsity Winter and Spring Track (9,10)
Political Awareness Club (9,10)
Model United Nations - Secretary (9,10)
Academic Quiz Bowl (9,10)
Concert Band - Trumpet, Section Leader (9,10)
Darfur Awareness Club - Co-Founder (10)
Relay For Life - Team Member (10)
Barack The Youth Vote - High School State Director of New York (10)
NYSSMA Volunteer (10)
Junior Achievement High School Heroes Program (10)</p>

<p>Honors/Awards:</p>

<p>AP History Conference Group Presenter (10)
Honor Roll Student (9,10)</p>

<p>Current chances for these schools:</p>

<p>American University
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
College of William and Mary
Columbia University
Elon University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
New York University
Tufts University
University of Chicago
University of Maryland: College Park
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Virginia</p>

<p>any informative and helpful comments would be great. thank you.</p>

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<p>anyone please?</p>

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<p>Most of your schopols would require a jump from PSATs to SATs that doesn't happen often. Also, we need class rank, it's much more important than GPA. </p>

<p>Being from LI makes things very competitive for you because there are tons of qualified candidate applying from there at selective colleges. Look at scattergtrams for your school if they keep them to see what it takes from your school.</p>

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<p>Class Rank: Top 10% for now.</p>

<p>When my weighted GPA becomes over a 4.0 after junior year, I will be in the Top 1% according to my school.</p>

<p>Ethnicity: White</p>

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<p>suze, Keep in mind that I took the PSATs just this year as a Sophomore and I did not really study for it because I didn't feel it to be necessary at the time but for next year's PSAT's I will put much more of an effort into studying the material and getting my score way up.</p>

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<p>Realize when colleges recompute your GPA, gym, band and debating will not be counted.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>That's one opinion I can easily discard.</p>

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<p>OK, I'll be honest now, you have almost no chance at Columbia, UNC, UVA (last 2 OOS). Chances at Tufts and Georgetown are also low given all the Bs already, but if you're PSAT goes up the SAT equiv of 550 or more maybe a small chance. The others could be matches if your math comes up to the 600s, but I'd doubt much aid.</p>

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<p>Suze is 100% correct. What don't you believe? Non academic classes are not used by schools to recalculate your GPA. The 48 on the math SAT is super low for any grade. Top schools are unlikely.</p>

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<p>It's from the PSAT...not an SAT...and I don't intend for it to be that low when I take the PSAT next October. It's funny that you guys give me almost no chance at certain schools when I'm only a Sophomore...I highly doubt 3 B's will almost kill my chances at Georgetown.</p>

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<p>Be here next week when decisions for the elites come in. You'll understand after reading them.</p>

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<p>dude, i understand that people on this board are often too pessimistic when giving chances, and it can get a little annoying at times, but why even post if you're
a. not going to listen to anyone
b. get ****ed off about what people have to say?</p>

<p>and by the way, i got a 202 psat as a sophomore, and i've never studied for a standardized test in my life, and that's not even all that great. the good thing is, as a sophomore, you have time for your chances to do a complete 180 before you send in apps. and truth be told, it's almost impossible to tell chances for someone this early in the game, especially without scores from a real standardized test. repost in a year.</p>

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<p>I am listening to their opinions and I am responding to them. I just think that they aren't really accurate or that some of them are being a little too obtuse and not looking at all aspects of my current resume. i think some of them are nitpicking things that I will improve over time.</p>

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<p>"That's one opinion I can easily discard." </p>

<p>In response to the poster on this board who probably is the most accurate. Nyyben, Suze worked in the Admissions office at Andover, went there, was accepted at Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth and works now for a college consultant.</p>

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<p>How do you know that she is "most accurate?"</p>

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<p>I followed her outcomes last year.</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>Usually colleges will not really look at your freshman and sophomore grades, they will really look at your junior and senior grades, and you not having either, it's pretty hard to say what your chances are. Schools won't look at your PSAT, they'll normally just look at your SAT scores, so with only PSAT scores we can't really tell say anything: a girl in my class got 170 on her PSAT, and 2000 on the SAT the first time she took it.</p>

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<p>thank you. I also think that my PSAT scores next year should improve 200-300 points and I will have at least practiced a lot more for the material on the exam and be better prepared for it.</p>

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<p>lol how can you be so cocky?</p>