<p>I take mostly normal classes, but I have the ability to take higher level ones. However, I never realized that they were important for college, so I stuck with normal classes.</p>
<p>This year, my junior year:
Spanish III
Geometry
Chemistry
Psychology
AP Language and Composition
Honors U.S. History</p>
<p>Clubs I'm in:
The Key Club
Students Against Desctructive Decisions</p>
<p>I haven't taken the SAT or ACT yet, because we're having monetary troubles. However, I am hoping to sign up for that very very soon. I took the ASVAB and got something like a 96 or 97 for military entrance score.</p>
<p>I'd like to get into Cambridge. Would that be possible for me? Next year, I plan on taking more honors and/or AP if AP are offered. Would I have any chances to get into well-known U.S. schools?</p>
<p>With the stats you have now you look exactly like every other college hopeful. Buff up your ECs, win some awards, and see how you do on standardized tests (those wonderful indicators of intelligence). Re: Cambridge (I applied this year)...it's highly recommended that you wait for graduate school if you want to go there. I applied, but there are quite a few schools I would take over it. It has so many amazing qualities and I really would love it there, I think, but there is one big knock on it, and that is that it is part of the UK system. First and foremost, it makes you specialize to a level that you will rarely find at a U.S. school. For example, if I go to Cambridge, my first year I will be taking Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Geology. Second year, Physics, Math, and Advanced Physics :) Third year (and optional fourth year), just astrophysics, all day (although that's a somewhat enticing prospect, hehe). It's too much! That's the kind of specialization you do in grad school, not undergrad. You want to take classes in other things, no? Cambridge just doesn't do that. You have a very strict course curriculum. That's based in the UK system, which is also the reason you'll probably, to be realistic, be rejected, as a US student. By age 16 or so, if you're in the UK you're taking just courses in your chosen field, and as a result, the students applying there will have a much, much higher background in the topic than you probably will. You may not be the average American student, you may be taking AP Calculus and AP Physics as a junior or sophomore, but otherwise it probably isn't happening because you'll be too far behind!!</p>
<p>That being said, it's only 30 pounds so why not apply? ;)</p>