<p>Please chance me for ED II at Middlebury. Here is a brief look at my stats. </p>
<p>GPA: 3.61(Weighted) :/
Top 20%
My GPA suffers due to having the heaviest course load in my grade.</p>
<p>SAT:
CR: 700
M: 730
WR: 690</p>
<p>SAT II: Chemistry: 770
Mat II: 760</p>
<p>ACT: 31</p>
<p>1/2 of my High School Courses
were Honors/AP. (Probably most
in my grade)</p>
<p>Volunteer at Church Camp in the Summer</p>
<p>Hold job at Hampden Country Club during Summer and Fall</p>
<p>Class Council Fresh./Junior Year
E-Board of Student Council 3 - Years
Freshman/Sophomore - CO-President
Soph/Junior - Webmaster</p>
<p>Twice went to MASC Spring Conference
Twice went to MASC Officer's Workshop
Twice went to MASC Fall Conference
Winner of Rotary Youth Leadership Award</p>
<p>Website Manager for the School Newspaper</p>
<p>Played Battle of the Bands Junior Year
(Play Guitar)</p>
<p>Treasurer of Computer Club Junior Year
2nd Place WNEC Comp. Programming Comp
Xerox Award, Information Technology</p>
<p>Varsity Golf - Senior Year
Freshman Baseball</p>
<p>RaisingStudentVoiceandParticipation(RSVP)
-Program I introduced to the school,
and is now a school wide program
focused on improving community school
and world.</p>
<p>SENIOR SCHEDULE</p>
<p>Honors Physics (A- currently)
AP CALC BC PT 1
Hon Senior Seminar in American Issues
AP Compsci (currently a B)
AP Physics
English Literature
AP Calc BC pt2</p>
<p>If you took an English or History SAT2, you could submit your SAT2s instead of your regular SATs, because they are better. Middlebury gives you that choice.</p>
<p>you’ve definitely got good ecs and decent scores, but your gpa might be a serious issue. if you really love middlebury, make sure that comes across in your application (cliche, but really does make a difference) Good Luck!</p>
<p>My daughter applied EDI and was deferred to RD. 3.95 GPA out of 4.0 unweighted. Taking 4 AP’s senior year, ACT 33 with a 36 in English and a 36 in Math. SAT: 670CR, 700M, 780W. SATII: Math2:730. Lots of community service (a month in remote villages of Cambodia and Laos) and extra curriculars, team captain of Crew team, accomplished jazz drummer, etc… At the info session this summer on campus they said they put the most weight on the GPA, so if that is not so good, good standardized test scores won’t help you. Middlebury admission is tough. It is still her first choice and we are hopeful, but she has backup schools just in case things don’t pan out her way.</p>
<p>I think GPA is a relative thing. I say that because S’s school has only had six 4.0 students in the last 30 years. There is no weighting. When he applied RD to Midd in 2009 (class of '13), he probably had a GPA somewhere around 3.7 at the end of that first semester, which was considered really quite excellent considering the rigor of his classes, along with the other things he had on his plate. So while I do think GPA is very important, I don’t think it is the be all and end all as a simple number. Let’s just say that a 3.7 at our local public would barely put you in the top half of the class! </p>
<p>Personally, I think his recommendations counted for a lot, even though I never read them. But he was/is a great student. And Midd is a great fit for him that way. Plus, when you look at the Common Data set of applicants, I also think it worked in his favor that he was a boy (which was completely the opposite when older D was applying to schools in that it actually helped that she was a girl!). In a school like Midd where they can and do balance the class at 50% M/F and you have quite a few more girls applying than boys… well, a lot more girls are going to be rejected, Deferred and WL’d than boys. And if your high school is one of those where there’s a high percentage of perfect GPA’s, how much is an A really worth? These are intangibles, even though they look like similar/comparable numbers. </p>
<p>The thing about S’s HS too is that the girls tended to have better GPA’s but it was the boys who scored higher on standardized tests and there were more male NMFs than girls. This has been true for as far back as I’ve been able to track it. Girls tend to go a little bit nuttier about the grades at S’s HS than the boys apparently, but in no way did that translate to their actually being “smarter.” Go figure.</p>
<p>Certain things are within your control, but a lot is not. You could have two statistically equal students but one might be interested in science and one might be interested in language. Which one rounds out the current applications of the potential class better? We cannot know these things because we are not looking at the whole of all of those who have applied.</p>
<p>As for demonstrating interest… I think that might have been easier done when Midd had the additional supplemental essay question. Now that it’s only the common application, I do think it’s a little harder for students to express their love for one particular school.</p>