<p>School: Extremely competitive, top 50 private school</p>
<p>GPA: 3.6 (no weighting)</p>
<p>No class rank</p>
<p>SAT composite: 2060 (will go up, just took the test again)</p>
<p>ACT composite: 35
Science and English-36
Reading and Math-34</p>
<p>SAT II:
English Lit: 730
Math I: 700 (may retake)</p>
<p>AP's (all junior year):
Euro-4
Lang-4
Latin Vergil/Caesar-4 (first year course was offered anywhere)
Lit-5</p>
<p>EC's:
Ice Hockey- 4 years varsity, starter goalie last 2 years, won state last year, All State hon. Mention
Soccer- JV, 9th; Varsity, 10th
Orchestra-Concert Master all 4 years, regular soloist
Wrote for school paper and lit magazine
Sunday School teacher (10-12)
Church youth group leader (9-11)
Community Judiciary Board member (11-12)
Investment Club (11-12), Treasurer
Community service at old folk's home</p>
<p>Essays:
I have been told I'm a beautiful writer, and I have a nice hook/story to tell.</p>
<p>Honors:
Dean's list (10)
National Merit Scholar Semi-Finalist (probably finalist)</p>
<p>Colleges:
1. Cornell ILR (early decision/top choice)
2. UVa
3. Boston College
4. Vanderbilt
5. Swarthmore
6. Northwestern
7. Skidmore
8. Villanova
9. University of Minnesota
10. University of North Dakota</p>
<p>My only problem is that I got bad grades freshman year for a personal reason that I talk about in my essay. I got better grades sophomore year (3.75 GPA) with only 1 B+ and the rest A/A-. Junior year I did worse, as I was taking all honors/ap courses and some of the stuff I was dealing with freshman year came back to bite me in the ass (again, talk about this in my essay). People on this forum always talk about how Cornell is a low reach, and sort of Ivy safety, but it's really my dream school and I fell in love with it when I visited it this fall.</p>