<p>Dual Enrolled at local community college to strengthen courseload</p>
<p>GPA: 97% (What does this calculate to?)</p>
<p>Senior Year EC's (Just listed those with leadership roles, most important:</p>
<p>Captain of Varsity Football Team
President of NHS Chapter
President of Concert Band
Treasurer of Student Senate
Buffalo Bills Student Leaders Program
4 Years Varsity Golf</p>
<p>Consistant community service throughout high school, increasing time every year, most at local Catholic church and school. </p>
<p>Solid teacher rec (Football coach and teacher)
Solid essays</p>
<p>What are my chances at top publics? UNC, UMich, UVA?
What about privates: Duke, Wake Forest, USC?
Any chance at lower Ivies?<br>
Any schools you can recommend? I can't wait to get out of this area. </p>
<p>Out of those three public schools, I think you have a legit shot at UNC/UMich, but not UVa. I'm not saying you'll definitely get rejected for UVa, but your chances are slimmer in my opinion. Uva is still worth applying to though. I think you'll definitely get into USC, and WF is a match for you. As for ivies, I would apply to Cornell and Brown..but it's hard to say what your chances are, ivies are really tricky.</p>
<p>Other schools that I would apply to (or at least strongly consider) if I had your GPA/SAT/EC's...</p>
<p>Cal-Berkeley
Cal- San Diego
University of Florida
University of Texas
University of Illinois
University of Georgia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
Georgetown
GWU
Reach for Stanford</p>
<p>Hope this helps. Also, the only thing that I see getting you rejected from any of the schools above (with the excepted of UW, UGa, UT,UF) would be the fact that you only took 1 AP class...even though it's not your fault. Also, what did you get on your SAT II's? That matters bigtime.</p>
<p>Ouch, that really hurts. That means throw the ivies out the window, UVa, the cal schools, and stanford as well. I think all of those require SAT II's, and GWU/Georgetown might as well, although I'm not sure. I would also recommend UCLA, but I think they also require SAT II's. Have you though about Miami (FL)?</p>
<p>Duke's a reach but fantastic school with those good stats might want to look at Holy Cross which is a very good school and offers good financial aid.</p>
<p>i think the others have been a bit harsh. your SAT isn't great, but it's not bad, either. V+M is good enough for top, top schools and the three together are also pretty good. you're GPA is very impressive, but it's hard to tell without knowing how your school is with grade inflation. on a 4.0 scale, it's a little above a 4.0. however, i'm sure ad coms will be VERY wary of a student with an A+ average who isn't valedictorian. they do, of course, realize that grade inflation is not something you can help.
I'm not familiar with most of the schools you mentioned, but I agree you should have a decent chance at Cornell and Brown (but they are reaches). I think you also have a shot at UVA. I don't know the out of state stats, but you're above average in both GPA and SAT for their overall population. I think you have a better shot there than at Georgetown and definitely a much better chance there than at Stanford. Stanford is, however, still a possibility.</p>
<p>That being said, TAKE SATIIs!!!!!!!!!!!! What is wrong with your guidance counselor?!? (And you, why didn't you look up what was required?) Most competitive schools, including several that you listed, require at least 2 SATIIs. THEY WILL NOT CONSIDER YOU IF YOU DON'T TAKE THEM. I only mean to scare you as much as necessary, and I have good news. Take the SAT II Lit. With no preparation at all, you should do quite well. I had a V760 and got a 740 on Lit (no studying). I got W800, but I don't think that has anything to do with it- it's more like critical reading. The AP history exam focuses slightly different stuff than the SAT II US History does, but I still reccommend that you take the SAT II. Study a little bit, and you should do okay. I haven't taken any of the SAT II math exams, but I've heard that some people do better on them (even the math IIC) than on the SAT I. The foreign language exams are others that don't require much studying if you know your stuff. The science SAT IIs have awful curves and unless you're a science genius, require some sort of studying. My advice: get one of those big books that has every SAT II exam, take a few practice tests, and TAKE THE SAT IIs ASAP!!!!</p>
<p>Good luck! You have very good stats and should get in somewhere quite good. :)</p>
<p>thanks for the feedback.. do you know if you can take SAT II's as a standby? If so I could get a few in December.. How would I go about doing that? Just show up and hope they have the tests? </p>