<p>So I am going into my senior year and quite nervous as I have been told my expectations for any of theses schools are unreasonable. Let me know what you think. Stats below:</p>
<p>Schools</p>
<p>Boston University
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Emory University
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
Rice University
Texas A&M University
Tulane University
UCLA
USC
UT Austin
Washington University in St. Louis </p>
<p>White male
Texas
Large competitive high school
anticipated major: psych</p>
<p>Academics</p>
<p>GPA: 4.01 (W)
Rank: 140/955 (top15%)
ACT: 33 - Writing(31) Math(35) Reading(32) Science(34)
SAT II's: taking in october
Sr sched: BC Calc, AP Bio, AP Eng, AP Govt/Econ</p>
<p>Extra Currics</p>
<p>2 yrs JV Swimming
Started Red Cross Club with friend freshman year, took treasurer position, at this point over 200 members
4 yrs in Internation Jewish organization (BBYO) held position in chapter for 2 yrs and attended leadership programs every summer
4 yrs Member of Nation honor society completing 30 comm serv a year
4 yrs of anti-drug club
2 yrs of jewish student union club
2 yrs of health occupational students club</p>
<p>Awards
Most improved/Swimmer of the year - 2 yrs in a row
3 chapter awards for jewish youth group</p>
<p>Comm serv/work</p>
<p>300+ hours of comm serv through local hospital, red cross, and jewish youth group
held atleast one job since 13 yrs old</p>
<p>Activities</p>
<p>Played guitar for 9 years
4 yrs tennis</p>
<p>Recommendations - 2 solid recs from teachers, and 1 from counseler</p>
<p>Essays- working on right now, they are turning out pretty good.
*Family probs fresh/soph year trying to address in essay to compensate for poor grades:[</p>