Chances Please?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>As the title says, chances for Princeton, intended major is Chemical and Biological Engineering
White Male</p>

<p>GPA: UW: 4.1 (School adds weight for A+'s)
W: 4.31
SAT: 2220 (800 CR 740 M 680 W) First (and only) try
SAT II: Chem 780 Math II 800
ACT: 35 (36R 36S 34M 34E 10 Essay) First (and only) try
Will only send ACT
Class Rank: 26/461</p>

<p>AP's: Calculus AB 5, Chemistry 5, World History 5.
I am taking Calculus BC, English Language, and US Government through CTY, Physics C and US History in school, and self studying econ, psychology, and maybe Biology.</p>

<p>Courses:</p>

<p>Pre high school: Pre Algebra, Algebra I/II, Geometry (All honors), Spanish I</p>

<p>9th:
Spanish II
Spanish III H
English 9 H
World History H
Precalculus H
Calculus H
Statistics H
Biology H</p>

<p>10th:</p>

<p>Spanish IV H
AP Chemistry
AP World History
AP Calculus AB
English 10 H
Physics (no honors option)
HPE 9 (required to graduate)</p>

<p>12th:</p>

<p>AP US History (required to graduate)
AP Physics C
English 11 H (required to graduate)
HPE 10 (required to graduate)
Aerospace Science (fulfills art requirement at my school)
Took less classes in school so I could continue my research internship through the school year.</p>

<p>Through CTY @ Johns Hopkins:
AP US Gov (required to graduate)
AP English Lang (required to graduate)
AP Calc BC
Self study Multivariable with OpenCourseWare.</p>

<p>Currently auditing a graduate neuroscience class</p>

<p>EC's:
Mu Alpha Theta (9,10,12)
Debate Team (10,12) Will compete in varsity level this year
Spanish Honors Society (10, 12)
Science NHS (12)
Varsity Golf (Starter)
Tennis (Intramural, clinics and private lessons)
Conducting research at top university, starting at the end of 10th grade, through this summer, and continuing through the school year as well. Neuroscience based, but very math/programming heavy, and definitely involves engineering and systems design. </p>

<p>Volunteering: Tutoring 40+ hours of math and science</p>

<p>Summer's:
After 9th grade:
Attended CTY Summer Program at JHU, and took Accelerated High School Chemistry
Played in regional golf tournaments, placed in top 3 in a few tournaments.</p>

<p>After 10th grade:
Aforementioned Research
Continued playing in regional tournaments.</p>

<p>Awards:
3rd place Speaker Regional Debate Tournament
6th place Team Regional Debate Tournament
1st Place Skit, Speaking, 3rd Place declaration in Regional Spanish Competition </p>

<p>Recommendations:
Both teachers will be excellent, will also have one from my the head of the lab I do research at.</p>

<p>Other stuff:
I am graduating high school early, hence nothing going on in 11th grade. This is why I have to take US History and Gov, and two English classes this year. The reasons for graduating early are various, and both academic and social. Ex: Was prohibited from taking community college classes because of my age this year.</p>

<p>Also, I switched schools (and states) from 9th to 10th grade. This, and the graduating early, are why I don't have that many leadership positions. I also missed both science fairs at both schools. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Scores are top notch, ECs are average, GPA I can’t tell with your system, and rank sorta sucks. </p>

<p>Really sucks you’re graduating early… not only did that prohibit your chances of taking community classes, but it gives less of a basis for them to judge your rigor on, and it no doubt would have hurt your involvement in additional extracurriculars. And plus, you’ll be a year younger than everybody else in college. </p>

<p>Chances… um… are slightly above average for Princeton. But I’m sure you’ll get in somewhere great.</p>

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<p>I got all A’s in all my classes, so the GPA is basically a 4.0. Class rank is because I switched schools from 9th to 10th grade, so I lost honors weightings in 4 or 5 classes (History, Spanish 3, Pre Cal, Stats, and Calc) . Otherwise I would be in the top 5 :(</p>

<p>As far as graduating early… I am already really bored with school, and I don’t enjoy being there at all. I think I did a really good job explaining this on the common app (there is a question for this), and all my teachers and my counselor are fully supportive of it, and I think they mentioned it in their recommendations. I’m not really worried about being younger, as I get along better with the grad students at my internship than with my classmates at high school.</p>

<p>I considered the EC, community college, etc stuff before deciding to graduate early. I decided I’d rather spend a gap year continuing my internship and taking the community college classes and reapply (if I don’t get in anywhere), as opposed to spending another boring year in public school.</p>

<p>Thanks for your thoughts!</p>

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<p>bump… anybody else?</p>