<p>I know, you ask for opinions then when they don't please you, you just disregard them and put them down, they're just trying to help.</p>
<p>"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>
<p>Just take the CONSTRUCTIVE criticism and use it to your advantage. Find your weakness and strengthen it up.</p>
<p>Just outta curiosity... why isn't debate counted as an academic course? I took it this year and it's an honors course at my school.</p>
<p>A few things.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Your GPA only includes academic classes. Gym, band, and keyboarding don't count.</p></li>
<li><p>You seem to be getting Bs in the classes that actually count. Not so good, but at least you don't have many of them.</p></li>
<li><p>Although you have good ECs, you do NOT have enough room on the application to put all of them. Choose the ones that you find are significant and post them.</p></li>
<li><p>It is much too early to give accurate chances; we can only give you general answers, which defeats the point of chance threads (which is for a more concrete answer).</p></li>
<li><p>Your college list is much too long. Repost up to 8 that you've narrowed down.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>With that said, I'd say you're heading in the right direction. Make sure to get straight As, 2100+ on the SAT, get leadership positions, and develop a passion that can be seen throughout your application (ECs, awards, essays, etc.). Can't stress that last one enough.</p>
<p>Oh, and:</p>
<p>"I also think that my PSAT scores next year should improve 200-300 points"</p>
<p>The PSAT is out of 240. If it matters, I wasn't holding your PSAT score against you -- it's only your sophomore year, and you'll probably improve quite a bit the second time you take the PSAT, even more for the real SAT.</p>
<p>Nyyben: why are you asking for your chances at such-and-such college when you haven't even taken the SAT/ACT or SAT II's yet? Your test scores are extremely important to most of the colleges you are interested in (eg. Columbia). Without knowing your scores, people looking at your post cannot judge what your chances are. They cannot base anything solely on your EC's, which, although numerous, appear to be no more than a "laundry list," activities that you pursued without much focus or passion. Moreover, you have not provided other crucial information, such as a class rank or, of lesser significance, your AP scores (or have you not taken the World History exam yet?). </p>
<p>By the way. Are you more interested in knowing your chances at the schools you listed, or in a gaudy display of your resume? If it's the latter, I don't think anyone is really impressed.</p>
<p>Come back next year.</p>
<p>American University
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
College of William and Mary
Elon University
University of Maryland: College Park
--> These are the schools you will be in at if u get in the 2000 range on ur sat as i predict you will and top 3% in ur class. if u get in the 2250+ range, which im not going to throw out bc i got a 167 my sophomore year psat and a 2260 on my sat as did many people at my school, 6 i can think of off the top of my head, u r a partial merit scholarship candidate at the above schools especially with the number of ap's u r loading in. top 1% of ur class and a 2250+ puts u in range for the below schools, with columbia, uchicago, unc chapel hill, uva just being very very selective. u will need to develop a hook and gain awards and continue to get great grades as im sure u know and u have as good a chance as any1 bc they're all basically crapshoots out of state and in general as im sure u know.</p>
<p>Columbia University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
New York University
Tufts University
University of Chicago
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Virginia</p>
<p>oh, and ur class rank matters more than any unweighted gpa bc a 3.62 is top 4% at my school COUNTING gym and band and non- core courses, and she just got into johns hopkins. i just recalculated mine without gym and nonsense courses and its a 3.4 and i still got into unc chapel hill OOS and william and mary instate and umaryland partial scholarship at 9%. oh and im asian. try and get over 2250 on ur sat, it helps. explain me suze im interested to know how u rationalize my acceptances...</p>
<p>lobgent, I'm not here to impress you. If you had looked at my other posts, you would see my Class rank and no, I have not taken any AP exams yet but I will be taking three of them in May along with the SAT subject test for World History. Please look at my posts more carefully before you start making obtuse judgments. Thank You. Also, my resume isn't "gaudy" so don't start spewing that garbage at me.</p>
<p>Well, I'm glad you had enough faith in me to believe that I would dig through all your old posts to find out everything about you, as interesting as you are. But if you're asking for your chances, why not post exactly what you want "chancers" to see? When you're actually applying to schools in two years, surely you won't request that admission officers check with your school to see what your SAT scores were -- because you were too lazy to provide that information on your application? Nyyben, people are only trying to help you on this thread. If you don't allow them to help you, or essentially tell them that their advice sucks (that's nice of you, by the way) neither you nor your "chancers" will glean much from this thread.</p>
<p>bump please. I always take people's opinions in this thread into consideration.</p>