Harvard/MIT/Stanford/Georgetown and others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White male
New Jersey</p>

<p>Freshman year
Geometry Honors
World History Honors
English Honors
Honors science
French 2 Honors
Band</p>

<p>All C's
GPA: 2.0 (except band which doesnt count)</p>

<p>Sophmore year
Algebra 2 Honors
Us History 1AP
Chemistry Honors
Biology Honors
French 3 Honors
English Honors
Band
3 As
3Bs
GPA: 3.5</p>

<p>Junios Year
AP Chemistry
AP USHistory 2
Physics Honors
French 4 AP
Enlgish Honors
PreCalculus Honors</p>

<p>All As</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0</p>

<p>Senior year
AP Physics
AP Biology
French 5AP
AP Enlgish Lit
Stat AP
Calc AP BC</p>

<p>all As
GPA: 4.0</p>

<p>10 APs in all
All Honors classes</p>

<p>AP tests-
Junior year-
Chem (5)
US History(5)
World History(self Study- but i pretty much knew it from freshman year) (4)
US Government(ss)(4)</p>

<p>Senior year(planned)
Calc BC
Physics
Biology
Statistics
French
English Lit</p>

<p>Probably self study
Macro + Micro economics(I dont know how this works)
Euro History
Geograph
Comparative Government- maybe</p>

<p>Overall GPA: 3.43</p>

<p>Rank (based on weighted, which I dont know) - 44/408</p>

<p>SATs
Math- 800
CR- 780
W- 800
Taken once, October 2005</p>

<p>SAT IIs
French- 730
World History- 680
Math Level 1- 760
Math IIc- 800
Chemistry- 800
Biology- 740</p>

<p>All these were over the course of last May/June (3 each time)</p>

<p>EC
Soccer 4 years ( all conference(5 teams) defender senior year JV captain juior year)
Tennis 4 years, varsity 2 years
Wrestling(JV 4 years, no honors)
BoyScouts- Eagle scout (Senior patrol leader 3 years)</p>

<p>thats it, I have 4 ECs, but i have a HUGE commitment to them all</p>

<p>Recs- AMAZING rec from my french teacher(who ive had 4 years) tells colleges how I transformed from a slacker to a hard worker, etc etc</p>

<p>Average Rec from Biology Honors teacher</p>

<p>Essays- I think they are good (original witty), but lets say average</p>

<p>Schools:
Harvard
Georgetown
UVA
Stanford
MIT
Penn
Northwestern
Princeton
Yale</p>

<p>Safety- Delaware Honors</p>

<p>Need any other info?</p>

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<p>BTW I dont need financial aid, but Im not rich</p>

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<p>Maybe consider Pton. They totally ignore frosh year so your ignominious 2.0 wouldn't matter.</p>

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<p>BUMP</p>

<p>BTW i found out that I got a B in Geometry as a frosh and a C in Algebra 2 H as a sophmore</p>

<p>GPA is still the same though</p>

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<p>You reviewed for me, so I'll review for you.</p>

<p>Your improvement is amazing...I completely commend you...but your GPA is low for some of these schools. The average recommendation seems to be extraneous and may hurt your chances. THe lack of variation in your ECs (mostly sports) may be slightly off-putting but the commitment to sports will definitely help. Good job on AP Chemistry! Of course Northwestern is your best bet of the stretch schools, but get a good interview at Harvard and that will definitely help. </p>

<p>Out-of-state UVA: 10% and probably, even less. Only 1/3 of their applicants being out of state, your GPA will kill you. It is possible--but certainly not probable.
Princeton: 10% and even less. They will look at the cumulative GPA. But I'm not giving ANY student except legacies a better chance of getting into Princeton, including myself, unless they've cured cancer.
MIT: Difficult to say...you have great math scores, but because they normally take kids who also have math extracurriculars or science fair projects, I'll say 10% and even less here as well. One of my friends applied here ED and will not be getting in. Sadly, it's the reality of college. Barring a miracle, I'd say no--for anyone in your (or my, for that matter) shoes.
Harvard: Have a good interview and your chances are much better. The AI (have you checked it out?) puts you at 6/7, because of your rank, so I'd say a 40% chance. Perhaps--perhaps--a little better. Same for Yale, Stanford, Penn, Georgetown. Dartmouth receives fewer applications; have you thought about it?</p>

<p>You'll get into maybe 3-4 of the reach schools, I bet.</p>

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<p>I think your being a little harsh.</p>

<p>This person got a 1580, and has a perfect GAP for a year and a half</p>

<p>I dont think he should have to suffer going to an inferior school because he was immature and didnt work freshman year.</p>

<p>Sports ECs take up more time and effort than any other EC, and he has 3</p>

<p>good chances everywhere</p>

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<p>with your sat score...youll be fine
you might not get in EVERYWHERE but youll be fine...but definatly add atleast one more safety</p>

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<p>Less than 10% UVA, 10% at Princeton but 40% at Harvard? I love princeton but that makes no sense. Princeton IGNORES frosh GPA so he has around a 3.8 at the minimum in their eyes. I say good chances at all.</p>

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<p>sit back and relax because your apps will look good. you COULD get into all of those schools, it just depends who else is in the applicant pool this year. There is nothing else for you to do</p>

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<p>Your GPA is a little low, but you have made huge inprovements, so I think you have a chance.</p>

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<p>He does have good chances everywhere, but I don't think I'm being harsh about anything but Princeton. (They don't even put in the freshman year grades towards GPA calculation? Cool, that makes it better.) I live in VA, so I know how tough it is for out-of-state people to get in (even in-state people have it pretty tough.) When you imagine how many people will be applying from out of state and how many will get in...and they don't take off frosh GPA.</p>

<p>But I love Princeton too--in fact it's really my #1 choice--so I seem to be transposing my "Oh-God-I'll-never-get-in" onto everyone else on this board. On the other hand, I also have the tendency to believe that everyone and anyone has a better chance than me! ^_^</p>