<p>Hello, I am in my junior year and at the moment am taking 4 APs out of my 5 courses. Three of those APs being the hardest courses at my high school. ( One of them is a senior year AP but i managed to take it)
But I feel as though I made a mistake since i got an A-, B+,B,B- in those AP courses. So am not sure whether colleges will look at weighting of those grades or not.</p>
<p>Although getting into Harvard or MIT may be tough at this point what are my chances of getting into the</p>
<p>Top 10, Top 20, Top 50 and Top 100 Undergrad schools.</p>
<p>Also i am apply for advanced college studies for senior year ( i.e. go to college courses from high school) , and am not sure if that will help.</p>
<p>EDIT: i am going to take the ACT , SAT , SAT IIs. At this point in the ACTs at least, im pretty confident about getting above a 30 easily.</p>
<p>There isn't enough information. You don't have your ACT/SAT scores yet. You didn't say anything about your extra-curricular activities or what your recs and essays might be like. There is a wide range of colleges in the top 50 or 100. I'm sure there are several that would be worth an application, depending on your interests. What were your grades like last year? You don't know how you will do on the AP exams. It doesn't seem like it was a particularly good idea to take that many APs as a junior. At my son's school that would not have even been possible.</p>
<p>Sophomore year was great, i was in the top 25 % in all of my classes, and ranked top 3 in one of my APs, while extra curriculars include debate (team being top 10 in the nation). Other extra curriculars are robotics, amensty international, student congress. I am assuming a worst case scenario where i may get a 30 on ACTs. Havent really looked into essays but hopefully they will be good, i am in AP Literature where i did manage too perfect scores on a couple, according to our teacher any essays that get a B or above in that class would be considered as "good" college essays.</p>
<p>Also a last question, if i do manage to improve my grades this time, my schools noted that i still have a chance to get into advanced college studies, i.e. go to college instead of high school in senior year. Would that be a better decision than staying in high school?</p>
<p>There isn't enough information to tell you very much. Two comments:</p>
<p>When you are talking about the top 10-15 colleges on the USNWR list, the competition can only be described as insane. The insanity drops off exponentially as you go from the #1 college down to the #20 college. Because of this, it is difficult to know what people mean just by the term "elite colleges". You certainly won't have any trouble getting into a top college provided you aren't focused just on prestige.</p>
<p>My other comment is about skipping a year of high school. If you hate high school and want to get on with your life, this might be an option, but college admissions is more difficult. It isn't that they don't like people who graduate early. It is just that they expect an applicant who skipped the year of high school to have SAT's and EC's that are as good as anyone else.</p>
<p>I took 4 AP's, 1 Honors, 1 College Course my junior year(I "begged" my counselor. I worked hard to get the classes in the first place)...I have more courseload this year as a senior and doing better.</p>
<p>Yea there isn't enough information! You need to package your EC's.</p>
<p>AP US History, AP English ( For the AP Language and AP Literature), AP Biology, AP Chemistry.</p>
<p>My teacher from sophomore year noted that I should take the AP Computer Science AB test since that would qualify me for the AP National Scholar Award.</p>
<p>The number one thing that adcoms care about is difficulty of curriculum, then gpa/rank and then standardized test scores. EC's are how they pick between applicants who have the sufficient level of academics. Colleges want well-rounded freshman, but not well-rounded freshman. A good EC is not just a club at school. It is an interest that about which have long-term commitment and "passion". You want have one or two such activiites rather than a long list of activities with little involvement in any. (Large public universities are more numbers oriented.)</p>
<p>The admissions process is unpredictable anyway. In order to make a guess about someone getting into a particular college, the following is needed:<br>
Whether or not the person has a hook (legacy, URM, recruited athlete, etc.)
Whether the person took the most challenging curriculum at their hs.
The person's gpa and approximate class rank.
SAT, ACT and SAT II scores
EC's and any summer activities.</p>
<p>Competition for the top 10-15 colleges is absolutely insane simply because everybody in the country has heard of them and there is a funnel effect. Any of the top 15 colleges is a reach except for a handfull of people. For example, VIP's and people who have donated 50 million to the college. After they eliminated applicants on the basis of academics and EC's, they still have 4-5 virtually identical applicants for each slot. However, the difficulty drops off sharply after you get out of that area.</p>
<p>I recommend that you get either the "Fiske Guide to Colleges" or Princeton Review's "The Best nnn Colleges". For info on class rank, I would say to get the PR guide. It will show 50% SAT Ranges, average gpa's and the % who graduated hs in each of the top 10-25-50% of the class. It is also good at showing the personalities of each college.</p>
<p>As a fellow congressperson, just wondering - where do you go to school / compete? Perhaps we've run into each other. I'm in the Philadelphia area, and do most NE national tournaments.</p>