Didn't do as well as I wanted to during my senior year?

Applying to College
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<p>So I'm applying to some big name schools, like Stanford, Brown, WUSTL, Rice, Wesleyan, and Bowdoin (those are my reach schools...I'm applying to a lot of match schools).</p>

<p>These are my grades:</p>

<p>Prayer & Meditation: A-
AP Statistics: B+
Intensive Classical Greek Honors: A
English 4 Honors: A
AP English Lit: A
Mandarin 3: A-</p>

<p>I am also taking Calculus outside of school, and I got an A- in that, too.</p>

<p>My weighted GPA this semester is a 3.995. What does this mean for getting in to Rice (my dream school) or WUSTL? And I KNOW these are good grades, but I don't know if they are good ENOUGH for these top schools. I had an upward trend until now because last semester I got a 4.0.</p>

<p>Also, I'm retaking the SAT and shooting for 2200+.</p>

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<p>Get a 2200 and you should be okay for Rice.
Also how can you retake the SAT in January?
Rice requires that all SAT/ACT scores are sent in by December 31st.</p>

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<p>Rice says that, but I’ve heard from certain sources that if you send the scores in anyway, it doesn’t make a difference.</p>

<p>Most colleges don’t start looking at applications until March, from what I’ve read.</p>

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<p>Nice job in Mandarin. Although I’m in Japanese I don’t think I can handle Mandarin. How do you receive an A- in Prayer and Meditation? I don’t think your grades for Senior year are bad at all. A lot of seniors have worser grades than yours so as long as you do well on the essay and on the SAT, you should be fine.</p>

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<p>I think the majority of my class got no higher than an A- in Prayer & Meditation because we only had one test and it was practically impossible, but I don’t think college admissions will know that.</p>

<p>AP Stat I have no excuse for, and Mandarin I’m actually prety good at (I won the honors award in Mandarin my sophomore year) but I slacked off to deal with my harder classes because I assumed I would get an A regardless. I ended up with a 92.4 in Prayer & Med and a 92 in Mandarin, which hurts. :(</p>

<p>I used to be in Japanese too when I was in middle school. :slight_smile: I am actually only taking Mandarin because it is the closest thing to Japanese. My HS doesn’t offer Japanese.</p>

<p>I guess I just wanted to know how schools like Rice and WUSTL view these grades.</p>

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<p>go to rice</p>

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<p>I want to, which is why I created this thread.</p>