<p>I'm a junior in an extremely competative high school in NJ - at least 20 students of the class of '05 got into ivy league schools and another 30 into places like BC, Tufts, NYU, etc. I'm currently 28/261 my GPA is a weighted 4.4 and I got a 1320 my only time taking the SATs, I'm going to take the new ones and am realistically shooting for a 2100 (which is a 1400 on the old). A run down of my courses:
9th -
Bio H
Algebra
Geometry
English H
World Civilizations H
Spanish 2H
Art
Business</p>
<p>10th -
Chem
Alegebra 2
US History H
English H
Spanish 3 H
Marketing/Advertising</p>
<p>11th -
Physics
Trig/ Advanced Math
US History 2 AP
European Civ AP
English H
Spanish 4H</p>
<p>what I'm planning for next year -
Art History AP
Calculus A/B AP
Government AP
English AP
Spanish 5AP</p>
<p>I'm a 3 sport varsity athlete, captain, all league, county, and state for one of my sports (though I have no chance of playing at ND). Club sport during the offseason, community service with sports, Spanish club, most likely will have a job this summer, and can use affirmative action (hispanic). Love to know what anyone thinks and if you have any suggestions - thanks.</p>
<p>Um... I don't know... Maybe like a 30% chance... Low SAT's, should have spent more time studying than sports, try applying to Villanova or Holy Cross.</p>
<p>I was rejected by UND, and I don't know why?
1550 SAT's
700 Math IIC, 780 Biology, 800 World History, 780 Chemistry, 760 Physics
5- European History
5- Environmental
4- Math BC
5- Chemistry
4- Physics </p>
<p>Cap. of Basketball Team
Class President
Intel Semifinalist
Who's Who
2nd National, Science O
Nationally recognized "Mathlete"
Marching Band
1st Trumpet
Yale Legacy </p>
<p>You might try to get into the top 10% since 83% of Notre Dame students come from top 10% (you're so close now). I do think that would help, but then I noticed you are able to use AA, which changes things esp for ND.</p>
<p>I'm just making an assumption, but if you go to a competitive NJ hs, you probably are solidly middle class or higher. So the hispanic designation might not be a great help at some top schools, but I think it might be more helpful at ND simply because they are less diverse.</p>
<p>well i think it's acceptable to be outside of the top 10%. if nearly the entire top 10% is going to ivy's, ND will know that. and i have no idea what academic EC's are (i'm assuming academic decathalon, science team), but those aren't necessary if you are doing other things (sports in your case). I recommend starting some club for community service and get some community service hours. Just an example of something that looks good: Last summer I called a local Indian casino and asked them if they would help put on a fundraiser, and they were more than willing to help with poker chips, tables, ect. So i used the parish hall at our church and had had a poker tournament, and we raised around 10K plus the winner of the tournament donated all of his winnings. I had to get the city to give us a temporary gambling license, but it wasn't too difficult to do. We ended it up donating all the money to a local hospital.</p>
<p>I wouldn't assume that ND "knows" that the top 10% goes to the Ivies, I learned that the hard way. I believe the average class rank of ND students is top 6%. I would really work on getting the rank up, it will be important. If not, transfer :), that is what I did.</p>