<p>User Name: gregb
Gender: M
Location: Florida
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.92
GPA - Weighted: 4.51
Class Rank: 1
Class Size: 535</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 740
SAT I Critical Reading: 700
SAT I Writing: 610
ACT: 33
SAT II World History: 700</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars: NHS, Mu Alpha Theta, Tutoring, Math Honor Society,
Leadership positions: class VP freshman sophomore years
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: Basketball- freshman and JV
cross country and track -JV
Volunteer/Service Work: Volunteer as a referee, coach, and instructor for basketball
Honors and Awards: Orlando's High School Chemistry Student of the Year,
2nd Place internationally for technical writing.</p>
<p>Desired College Characteristics:</p>
<p>Location type:
Size: Small (Under 2,500), Medium Small (2,500 - 5,000)</p>
<p>Looking good. Your GPA is very good and your rank is your best bet. However, You need to take 2 more SATIIs and try to bump your SAT writing score up to a 700+. Send in both the ACT and the SAT scores.</p>
<p>holy I have 11 by SENIOR year. But yeah, raise your W score, and I’d actually suggest you take 3 more subject tests - 700 for World History can be seen as a little low.</p>
<p>haha, my school is very liberal in APs
freshman year:
bio and human geo
sophomore year:
chem, world history, and art history
junior:
eng lang, stats, ush, psych, and physics b</p>
<p>next year
micro/macro gov/comparative, calc bc, physics c (both courses) computer science a and eng lit</p>
<p>i’ll have taken a bunch</p>
<p>oh and i think i’ll def take more sat subject tests. i took the world history one at the end of the school year without prep. so i’ll prepare for the next ones</p>
<p>You’re looking pretty good. You shoud try to focus on some of those ECs, and go as far with one as you can. Your ACT dominates your SAT, so I wouldn’t even bother sending it in. Work hard on those SATIIs!</p>
<p>Harvard: Who knows… probably not, but might as well go for it.
Columbia: A better shot than Harvard, you are pretty competitive.
UChicago: You have a very good shot here. They love essays, so write a good one.
Emory: Great shot
Davidson: Great shot you should get in to at least one of Emory/Davidson imo</p>
<p>Maybe i’ll see you in school in a couple years go florida students!</p>
<p>Harvard is a highly selective school. Often valedictorians can be turned down for some reason. Many things can be played into effect for the “cream of the crop” schools across the nation. I’ve heard of individuals who have gotten into MIT for engineering but not Harvard for engineering. What it might come down to is the amount of EC, and leadership qualities you have. At the same time luck can, and HAS played a role into ivy league admissions. But you have an impeccable resume and strong SAT scores. Try to bump up your writing score. On the other hand most schools dont look at that part (But in Harvards case it doesn’t hurt to be on the safe side lol). For the rest of those schools you have a good shot in getting in. But Harvard is a good match for you. Even if you don’t make Harvard, you will still go to a fine school with a world class education (Columbia, UChicago).</p>
<p>Best of luck</p>
<p>The air is human which doesn’t make you any less of a student then Harvard graduates.</p>
<p>Your GPA and rank are above the norm for most of the schools you listed. It couldn’t hurt however, to retake the SAT and try for a 2200+ to complement the rest of your app. As cliche as it may sound, make sure your essays to the Ivy-type schools are extraordinary, so as to separate yourself from the rest of the valedictorians.</p>
<p>See which you can get to the highest point. IMO, the SAT writing is very responsive to intensely studying what they are looking for. With the right number of paragraphs, good quotes, etc, no reason you shouldn’t be able to get that into the mid 700s. a 740 math is a couple of wrong answers, so they can easily go up too. CR is the hardest, but if you master the other parts and bring that to 730, you’re in the running.</p>
<p>That said, maybe it’s easier to get a 35 ACT.</p>
<p>I would try the SATs again, and if they do not improve, then yes, send the ACTs not the SATs. Also, you’ve taken all of those AP courses, but would you mind sharing how you did on the exams? If you got 4s and 5s that looks fantastic, but if you got 1s, 2s, and 3s that looks like the courses weren’t very good, and some elitist schools won’t even consider them AP classes. Assuming you did well on the exams, which I’m sure you did, the biggest things are standardized tests, ECs, recs, and the essays. Essentially, even though you are your schools valedtictorian (congrast btw!), you have to recognize how many other valedictorians there are nationwide. What sets you apart? What makes you a better applicant? With schools like Harvard, the solid applicants are all applying with a top 5% class rank, an extremely high GPA, and exceptional standardized test scores. The way you get into a school like Havard (essentially beating out the other 50,000 valedictorians that want to go there), is to be exceptional yourself. Oftentimes being an athlete can help, or finding a cause that is dear to you. To be perfectly honest, with your GPA, rank, and ACT, you are right in that pool of 50,000 strong applicants for Harvard, but what puts you into that 9% that gets accepted?</p>
<p>Send both (assuming you do better on the writing). Its always better to show schools like Havrard that you can take a wide array of tests and still do well. Try to remain Valedictorian!!! It is imperative that you are at the top of your class. Just dont inundate yourself with APs, 11 is way too much. I would suggest not more than 5 or 6 by the end of junior year. Enjoy your life.</p>
<p>well in that case, dont slack. do your best. Give the applications everything you’ve got (test scores, GPA,essays, recs), just throw in anything that can give you the edge over other applicants.</p>
go florida students!</p>