<p>Just finishing my junior year. </p>
<p>Student:
User Name: bassbox_7
Gender: M
Location: NC
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>
<p>Academics:
GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.75
Class Rank: top 5 students
Class Size: 150</p>
<p>Scores:
SAT I Math: 720
SAT I Critical Reading: 660
SAT I Writing: 570
SAT II Math Level 1 (IC): 730
SAT II Biology - M: 730
SAT II Chemistry: 710</p>
<p>Taking it again in June to try to get up the reading and writing.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Significant Extracurriculars: Model UN
Science Olympiad
Latin Club
National Honors Society
Leadership positions: Founder/President Young Democrats of America
Vice President Latin Club
President National Honors Society
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: Tennis (Freshman, Junior)
Cross Country (Junior)
Track (Junior)</p>
<p>Plan to continue cross country, track, and tennis next year.</p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work:
countless hours doing lights for plays at local theater
random other service stuff</p>
<p>College Summer programs: NC Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics</p>
<p>Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention that I am also valedictorian, and volunteered extensively with the Obama campaign.</p>
<p>You’re from North Carolina and volunteered for the Obama campaign? You should get in just for being brave enough to do that. (I kid, of course.)</p>
<p>Your academic stats are fine, but your SAT is a little…off. Your true SAT score is okay, but the writing? It’s a weird outlier. I don’t think it will preclude you from being admitted, but I also think you really need to make sure to bring it up.</p>
<p>Western North Carolina none the less. For the record we did go blue this year (though no thanks to my area…).</p>
<p>I realize my SAT is a little bit off. A bit lopsided even. Apparently NYU doesn’t weight writing as much… but I’ll still try to bring it up.</p>
<p>Also, as it seems relevant, I was interested in CAS. This is probably what you assumed but it should still be mentioned.</p>
<p>I come from a conservative area of NJ, and whenever someone says NJ “always go blue,” I always bring up that my town always go red…so I will continue thinking NC is a red state, haha. I’ll admit, my visit to Chapel Hill is probably creating a bias on my part.</p>
<p>And yeah, the writing portion isn’t quite as important as the College Board may have wanted it to be (hence why I always refer to a “true SAT score”), but it’s still low enough to give them pause.</p>
<p>And yeah, I did assume you were interested in CAS. Like I said, I think that your academic stats–the grades, the classes, the fact that you’re valedictorian–will add lots of points, but, like you already know, it would help you a lot to bring up your CR and writing scores, particularly since there isn’t an extreme dichotomy between your math and CR scores.</p>
<p>u are in if u’re applying for cas</p>
<p>thanks for the opinion, any others?</p>