<p>White Male from Maryland
Permanent Resident (4 years in the US)</p>
<p>SAT I: 770V, 690M (latest retake)</p>
<p>SAT II:
US History - 800
World History - 800
Writing - 790</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7UW, 3.9W (straight Bs in 10th grade...not good)
56 out of 452 (relatively affluent, academically-accomplished suburban school)</p>
<p>AP Classes and Grades:
US History - 5 A/A
US Government and Politics - 5 B/A
Comparative Government and Politics - 5 (no class offered, just a textbook)
Chemistry - 4 A/B
English Language and Composition - 4 A/A
Statistics - 4 A/A
Calculus BC
English Literature and Composition
Environmental Science
Modern European History
Psychology
Macroeconomics
World History</p>
<p>9/10 Grade classes were mostly pre-IB (9th grade) or Honors (10th grade). I attended a school in Virginia during my freshman year.</p>
<p>Fluency: Russian (native speaker), English</p>
<p>-nominated for the 2004 NCTE high school writing competition (did not win)</p>
<p>Possible majors: political economy, European history</p>
<p>Essays: strong (I can guarantee that)</p>
<p>EC: this is a fun part, because it's empty</p>
<p>College list (I am applying to all 10):
Columbia University - Columbia College (applied ED)
Princeton University (had an app. gathering dust, heh)
Duke University
University of Virginia
Georgetown University
George Washington University
Johns Hopkins University
University of Maryland
American University
George Mason University</p>
<p>Princeton and Columbia are slight reach, always unpredictablem, all the other universities you have listed i think you have a solid chance to be accepted =) gl!</p>
<p>Are you kidding me! You might have the grades and test scores but you definitely don't have a good chance of acceptance. Mainly because you have no ECs. Are you a senior? Even so you should get busy RIGHT AWAY!! Join Model UN. Check out a hospital......spend all your free time there. Or look into tutoring some of your friends (hint hint). You could put that you haven't done much because you were trying to lose weight. (i hear that works) I'm not saying this will solve the problem completely, but it will help to provide colleges with some reason as to why it seems like you've been doing nothing but studying for 4 yrs.</p>
<p>as you already know, everything looks tremendous except for your ecs, I would most definitely get involved now, maybe Habitat for Humanity, Meals on Wheels, etc. These are well-known and respected organizations that would probably only require a few hours on the weekend but would give you something that universities would recognize. As for your college list, I would consider applying to a school that may be ranked high in your area of interest, but not necessarily hard to get in to. In other words, I think you might need a safety. You probably have a chance at the schools you mentioned, but your lack of ec's really hurts, and, although your stats are definitely above average, many of the other students applying to these schools have amazing stats as well to go along with outstanding ec's. Good luck!!!</p>
<p>Two of these - American and GMU - can be safely considered safeties...particularly the latter. I realize, of course, that my lack of ECs is a bit suspicious, although I hope I somewhat make up for the fact with my fluency in Russian and English (I've lived in the US for only four years). I don't think that feverishly stocking up on ECs <em>now</em> is going to do any good - that would probably seem like a classic case of resume padding, plus I realistically do not have time to do so (whereas in my first three years I simply didn't give a damn).</p>