<p>Courseload: more/most demanding (not sure what GC will put). Increase in rigor, started lackluster, but junior/senior years are definitely most demanding category.</p>
<p>Senior schedule:
AP Calc BC
AP Physics B
AP Literature
AP Psych
AP Microeconomics
Latin II H</p>
<p>SAT: 1410/2110
SATII: MathII - 710, Literature - 680</p>
<p>AP scores: 5's on Calc AB, Lang/Comp, Macroeconomics</p>
<p>EC's:
DECA (founder, president) (9-12)
FBLA (secretary, president) (9-12)
Cultural Diversity Club (10-12)
Model UN (9-12)
Private guitar lessons (4 years)
Hospital volunteer (3 hours/week, 4 years)
Internship at Intel China over summer.
few other misc clubs that I joined for fun</p>
<p>Potential problems: only took up to German III, started HS in mostly normal-level classes, and obviously, cumulative GPA.</p>
<p>Schools:</p>
<p>NYU (CAS, planning to ED)
Boston College (CAS)
UMich (3.7 UM GPA)
Bucknell
Lehigh
Villanova
USC
UCLA
UCSD
University of Illinois - UC
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Boston University</p>
<p>You have good shot at most those schools. In fact, I would recommend you apply to a few other more competitive schools. Have you considered in NYU Stern and Cornell?</p>
<p>I must say that your lower GPA does hurt you, but you might be able to get into some more competitive schools by applying ED.</p>
<p>You have a shot at the above listed reaches. The upward trend will help and your test scores are on par for elite schools. No guarantees obviously, but it’s worth a shot. I do have to say that while you are thinking ED, an important thing to consider is colleges will see only 6 semesters of your HS career. If you are having an upward trend, you might want to have them see 7 (although ultimately, your ED college will see the 7th semester after the initial decision is made, but if you get deferred you could get a good 7th semester and be accepted). Just something to consider…</p>
<p>NYU (CAS, planning to ED)-- 7
Boston College (CAS)–9
UMich (3.7 UM GPA)—7
Bucknell–8
Lehigh—8
Villanova–9
USC–7
UCLA–7
UCSD–8
University of Illinois - UC–9
University of Wisconsin - Madison–8
Boston University --9</p>
<p>Although you seem to display a good upward trend I’m afraid your GPA might hurt you significantly. It might be advantageous to consider colleges that don’t consider freshman year? So although the rest of you app gives a decent shot at the est of your schools your GPA may be a handicap so to say.</p>
<p>I’m interested in schools that don’t consider freshman year, but the only ones that don’t are within range are umich, and the UC’s i think. Unless there are other schools that I’m missing.</p>
<p>You should definitely apply to more competitive schools. I know for sure Princeton does not look at freshman year grades, and nearly all schools don’t weight them nearly as much as junior year.</p>