<p>My reach schools are:
Stanford
Brown
Hopkins (ED)
UNC Chapel Hill
UC Berkeley
UC San Diego</p>
<p>SAT: 2250 superscore, 2180 one sitting
ACT: 33
GPA: 3.7 unweighted, 4.3 weighted
<strong>However, I had health issues, hospitalizations etc on and off 11th grade so there was a dip in the most important year... got C's in calc BC and AP chem. All is well now and I've got a rigorous senior schedule - if I explain myself and do well this year, might they let it go?</strong>
So far, 5's on APUSH, AP Bio, AP Lang, AP Gov, and AP Calc AB.</p>
<p>Community Service:
-animal shelter
-library
-food bank
-random projects through school clubs</p>
<p>Activities:
-club lacrosse
-MUN
-key club
-NHS
-Spanish honor society
-youth orchestra</p>
<p>Awards:
-AP Scholar with Distinction
-National merit semifinalist (PSAT 231)</p>
<p>My recommendations /should/ be pretty sound. My counselor also knows me so I hopefully will get a more personalized letter. My essays are also generally strong and I will get my former AP lit teacher to rip them apart when school starts.</p>
<p>The fact that my grades fell from all A's to a couple of C's and B's concerns me most. Is mine a case where I should not apply early action so the schools will see the 1st semester grades from senior year?</p>