<p>Location: average-size public high school in NJ, always in top 50 high schools nationally</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9 UW, top 10% of class (school doesn't rank)</p>
<p>APs: Euro 5
US history 5
AB Comp sci 5
Chem 4
Taking English, French, Physics, AB Calc this year</p>
<p>**SAT: 1600/2290<a href="one%20sitting">/b</a>
800 Reading
800 Math
690 Writing</p>
<p>SATII:
800 Math IIc
800 Chem
800 World</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Academic Team (President)
Amnesty International school chapter (VP)
School Magazine (Editor, writer)
Religious School (Student 9-10, Teacher 11-12)
Volunteer tutor to immigrants (10th grade only)
More minor stuff, no sports but there's a medical reason so I should be OK there</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
Academic team finished top 5 in the nation in 2007 (Along with a bunch of other top finishes)
Statistical analysis study/paper published in journal, publication pending revision in another scholarly journal (sole author in both cases)
2nd place in national essay contest (pretty minor thing even though it was national)
National Merit Finalist
Presidential Scholar Candidate</p>
<p>I'm looking at Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia (Columbia College), Cornell (Arts and Sciences), NYU (Arts and Sciences), Carnegie Mellon (Comp Sci). Already been rejected from Stanford :-( </p>
<p>In at NYU and Carnegie Mellon...
A good chance for Cornell...
Brown and Columbia are reaches, but I'm not sure if you showed you were passionate about anything in particular other than academics. Harvard and Yale are reaches, as always.
Hopefully you had good essays (I'm assuming you did), and good recommendations and something which reflected you weren't just purely academic--it'd help for Brown and Columbia, though you still have a chance for both, because grades and test scores are excellent...</p>
<p>Looking at the original post it does seem very academic. I should have specified that the papers to which I was referring were about my passion - sports. For a few years I've developed my own sports stats and it's become my greatest interest. There's more to it than the papers and I wrote one of my essays specifically about it.</p>
<p>Ahhh. I also noticed you couldn't play sports for a medical reason? That makes you stand out a lot more, I think. I mean Brown, Columbia, Yale and Harvard are still toss-ups, but hopefully you'll click with them! The best of luck to you!</p>
<p>Are you from McNair? I think you have decent chances if you wrote good essays and have good recs. Do you have any advice about SAT IIs? If you have any good study tips (which it seems you should given your scores), PM me.</p>