Final...uh, thing.

<p>Okay- I'm finally set with where i'm applying. Happiness.
Please help me with where i stand in each of them?</p>

<p>GPA- 3.4ish
Rank- bad. 200s out of 600s.(don't know exact...and we also just switched to percentages this year, so ...i'm in like...top thirty percent?ish?)
ACT- 1st time-29, 2nd time- 30... am retaking in September
SAT- Augh. 1800. Not retaking.
SATII- Lit 720</p>

<p>Senior Courseload
Ap Environmental Science
Ap Latin IV
Psych I(Turns into AP Psych next semester)
AP Computer Science
Strength/Conditioning
AP Lit/Comp
Pop Lit.(Switches to either Journalistic Writing or Writing Fic n Poetry next semester)</p>

<p>ECs
Drama- four years. Crew and acting. Won 'Sophmore of the Year' and 'Best Cameo'
Newspaper- four years. Fine Arts and Reviews editor- 2 years
Speech- two years. placed in some competitions, nothing notable.
Radio- two years. Had own show, and read school announcements.
4-H- eight years. Treasurer for three.
Riding- Ten years(not sure if i'll put this down)
National Thespian Society- three years
Choir- two years.
Piano lessons- six years
Voice lessons- four years</p>

<p>Community Service
Taught Sunday School- three years.
Spent a week in Harlan, Kentucky building homes.
Counselor for two weeks at a 9-15 year old Nature camp.</p>

<p>Extra...stuff.
College-credit course in Intermediate Creative Writing at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Got published in two anthologies.
Taught myself drums.(eh..)
I also didn't take a lunch Jr and Sr years to take extra Englishes...so i'm graduating with two additional 'years' of English. I have four years of the rest of my core classes, four years of latin, two of choir and two of my extra Englishes.</p>

<p>Colleges
Emerson(My cousin graduated from here, and is now a writer and listed with their notable alumni)
UChicago(just to see...i know i don't have a chance here)
UIUC
University of Iowa
DePaul
UIC
St. Olaf
Carleton</p>

<p>... i plan on majoring in creative writing.
So i'd like to think, hopefully, that my essays are semi-okay.
I'm getting letters from my AP US History/AP Psych teacher(had her two years), my AP Latin teacher of four years, and my mythology teacher of one semester(i really loved this teacher)
I've read my myth teacher's- and it's pretty good- and the rest are like...noted school-wide for their letter writing abilities.
Also sending in evaluation from Writing course, and letter of rec from my voice/piano teacher.
And some creative writing samples/articles i've written for our paper.</p>

<p>...so? What are my chances?
I don't really care about the other schools; Emerson is my main one...like, wow. And my GPA is below their average, but my ACT is a lot above it.</p>

<p>Thank you, all. And i know these are annoying, so thanks for bearing with me.</p>

<p>...bump? Bump.</p>

<p>Bump!!!!!!</p>

<p>good chances except at chicago :-(</p>

<p>I know i have no chance at Chicago...but do you really think i have okay chances everywhere else??</p>

<p>sure....just work on ur gpa/rank and u'll be okay! good luck</p>