<p>I really want to go to either an ivy or a small lib. arts in the northeast, what im looking at right now are:</p>
<p>Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Williams, Wesleyan, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, and Middlebury</p>
<p>here are my statss:::</p>
<p>PSAT's: 710 verbal, 710 math, 800 writing
hoping to up the verbal and math for the SAT's
SAT II math iic- 770
SAT II physics- 700
SAT II bio- 670 (might retake?)
gpa- 3.9 (unweighted)
currently taking 3 AP's, and will take 5 more next year
approx. rank- within top 15/about 800</p>
<p>ec's:
- jv winter track (2 years)
- lacrosse (3 years)
- interact club (volunteered a bunch of hours they club)
- club leo
- amnesty international
- founder and pres. of chapter of Habitat for humanity
- leader in religious youth group
-member of high school symphony and chamber consort(selective group)
- All-county and all-State orchestra participant</p>
<p>Volunteering:
-tutor elementary school kids once a week
-assistant sunday school teacher for 2nd graders
-library volunteer (one summer)
-hospital volunteer (2 summers)
-local historical society volunteer</p>
<p>dont know where this fits in, but i will be doing an independent study of the calc. course that comes after AP BC Calc next year.</p>
<p>oh ya, and i want to major in mechanical engineering, mathematics, or anthropology</p>
<p>Nice, my stats are pretty much the same, except for a higher GPA, and I'm looking to apply to the same colleges next year. I've heard Carnegie Mellon is a match, and we're pretty much set for admissions there and probably Dartmouth too. I'm not sure about the others though. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>here's the rubric i used for other chances post and the rubric's explanation:</p>
<p>i read from somewhere that harvard uses a 1-5 scale (where 1 is the highest) to rate personal, academic, and extracurricular factors while princeton uses i think the 1-6 scale (or it may be 1-9), where 1 is also the highest. </p>
<p>RUBRIC FOR HARVARD
an academic rating of one (which is rarely awarded) describes an applicant who achieved a 1500 or greater on the SAT, who is ranked #1 or 2 in the class, who has taken the most rigorous courseload, and who achieved scores of 800 on three SAT IIs, and scores of 5 on 5 or more AP exams (and/or, if applicable, the highest scores on at least 3 IB HL level exams). an extracurricular rating of one requires national recognition in something such as siemens, intel and the like. a personal rating of one is based on the student's contributions to the community and on the teacher recommendations (whether it says "best in teaching career" or best in so so years). if you care to average the academic, extracurricular and personal ratings, most admitted students will land a 2...in borderline cases even a 3. note that membership to many different clubs will get an applicant only a 4 but state or local recognition (depending on how prestigious it is), will get him/her a 2 or 3. being school president is a 3, which is the equivalent to being president of three clubs.</p>
<p>DARTMOUTH- most admits receive an overall rating of 7 or 8. </p>
<p>your ratings for dartmouth (1-9 scale where 9 is highest):
academic rating: 7
extracurricular rating: 6
personal rating: no basis for judgment</p>
<p>i'm a fellow junior but i'm not applying to any of those schools.
what ratings would you assign yourself, since you know yourself better than anyone else does?</p>
<p>ugh..its hard to assess your own personality.
does anyone know whether the non-Ivy schools i've listed are just as hard to get into, or less hard? (like Williams and Middlebury and Brandeis)</p>
<p>well williams and middlebury are very hard to get into, but Brandeis is less so. Good LAC's in the northeast that you'd have a good shot at are Bowdoin, Colgate, Bates, Hamilton, and Colby. Amherst would be a little more of a reach.</p>