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<p>I am a junior in high school. I will be graduating in the class of '09. knowing Princetons' highly selectiveness, I would like to know how good my chances of admission are.</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Hispanic, I moved from Guatemala when I was 10 years old and have been living in the U.S. for 7 yrs. now (Fluent Spanish-speaker)
School Type: The only high school in my town, with approximately 2,000 students.</p>

<p>Currently: GPA- 4.0 unweighted for semester 1. Have gotten straight A's for the entire school yr. except an 88% in Honors Pre-Calc. during quarter 2 (would that hurt me?)
Class Rank- # 2 in my class (out of about 500 students) and battling for the #1 spot.
Will take SAT's in March (what's the minimum score that will still make me competitive?)</p>

<p>Freshman Yr.
Italian I Honors- A all yr
Algebra II Honors-A all quarters and second semester, but 87% for first semester (again, detrimental for chances?)
English 9 Honors- A all yr
PE -A all yr
Workplace Basic Skills- A all yr
Leadership (Student Council class)- A all yr
Biology (Regulars, got out of Honors because of terrible teacher)- A all yr</p>

<p>Sophomore Yr.
Geometry Honors- A all yr
French I Honors- A all yr
Renaissance (another leadership-type class)- A all yr
Astronomy/Geology- A all yr
English 10 Honors- A all yr
World History Honors- A all yr
Italian II Honors- A all yr</p>

<p>Junior Yr.
American Literature Honors- A all yr<br>
AP U.S. History- A all yr
Chemistry Honors- A all yr<br>
French II- A all yr
Leadership- A all yr
Pre Calculus A all yr (except for the 88% for 2nd quarter)
Yearbook- A all yr</p>

<p>Senior Yr. will take:
A.P. Biology
A.P. U.S. Gov
A.P. Calculus
A.P. English
College English 101
French III (if the offer it)
Health/PE </p>

<p>EC's
Freshman Class President (05-06)
Renaissance Leadership Class member (06-07)
Honor Society President (07-08; 08-09 president elect)
Student Body Vice President (07-08)
Interact Club (06-07 as member; 07-08 as Vice President, 08-09 as President elect)
Student Body President? (08-09 elections Feb. 20th)
Soccer Manager (06-07 played but got hurt so just managed for the rest of the season)
Monte Carlo Club (07-08 one of only 6 members allowed for the French and Italian Students)
Community Service and also translate for church</p>

<p>Please assess my chances! i would appreciate it tremendously and also please give me any advice. Thank you!</p>

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<p>not enough info to tell...sats and sat IIs could be the swinger. class rank and gpa looks good, but ECs are a little weak in that...i can kind of see the leadership theme, but it seems a little scattered (freshmen class pres to student body vp) and on your app, student govt is only one line, so all those offices get combined into 1 activity.</p>

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<p>You probably need a little more variety in your EC. Maybe a sport, or include a hobby or something? noidea123 is right about how student gov will only be 1 line on the app.
To answer your question, do the best that you can on your SAT's. A 1450/2150 should make you competitive since you are a minority.</p>

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<p>i think 2200 will be a safe assumption</p>

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<p>I responded to your thread at the Columbia University forum.</p>

<p>My comments and criticisms apply here as well.</p>

<p>I'd say the cutoffs people are proposing are a bit too high,
but that's just my opinion.</p>

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<p>In regards to your question about individual quarter grades hurting you - I'm not sure how your school does it, but at my school, they send out our high school transcript and our first marking period senior report card with all our college applications. Our transcript shows our FINAL grades in all our classes from 9th-12th (i.e. average of first quarter, second quarter, and exam), not not those individual grades. So if your school does it like that, they won't be able to tell you got that precalc grade as long as your final grade was an A.</p>

<p>Again, maybe your transcript does show the individual grades, so you should probably pop down to your guidance office and ask for a printout of your transcript to get an idea of what it looks like.</p>

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<p>get a 2100+ on the SAT</p>