<p>I am a senior applying this year.
Colleges I will (most likely) apply to:
1. Claremont Mckenna
2. Rice University
3. Stanford? - My top choice, but they rarely admit homeschoolers.
4. California Polytechnic University
5. Middlebury
6. USC
7. Princeton?
8. Brown?
BTW I'm still open to suggestions.
-Unweighted GPA 4.0</p>
<p>-Weighted GPA 4.2</p>
<p>AP/Honor courses: None until this fall, but I am concurrently enrolled at a local community college where I have taken German 1-4, English 201A, and Precalculus.</p>
<p>Class Rank: I do independent studies with a small private school. I think I'm 1/10.</p>
<p>SAT 2: Aiming for over 700 in Math II and Lit. this fall (took German in the spring and got 640 - is that worth reporting?)</p>
<p>EC's: Principal 2nd and Concertmaster of the local youth symphony in the past. This year I think I will be co-concertmaster. I also volunteer with the youth symphony by coaching younger kids in the symphony.<br>
Publicity Director at a Scholastic Honor Society that does volunteer work at my community college</p>
<p>Honors/awards: Cal Poly All-State Festival Symphony Concertmaster
National Merit Commended
Applied for and received private art showing</p>
<p>Additional Info:
Major: Undecided. Interested in Engineering, but also interested in other stuff (e.g. Music, Art, English)</p>
<p>Race: White</p>
<p>Family's Situation: Not from hard background</p>
<p>Is it worth it for me to spend the time and $ applying to high-end universities? Would I have a legitimate chance if I applied ED/EA?</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, selective schools like homeschooled applicants because they’re self-directed, independent learners. They know how to find and take advantage of opportunities. If your standardized test scores show achievement, you might have an excellent chance. If a high-end school has particular opportunities you’d want, definitely apply.</p>
<p>Getting homeschooled s fine, nothing wrong with that, although I will say that your chances look kind of slim just by the fact that you only really have violin as an extracurricular. To be fair though, most decent extracurriculars require one to be in school to get the opportunity. Id say try to buff up you stats a bit more and go for it.</p>
<p>Do you think I should do EA/ED to one of the better schools? Also, should I report the 640 in German?
BTW thanks for the honesty. I think I should have done more EC’s and volunteer work as I look back.</p>
<p>You should definitely frontload some ED/EA schools. UCB, maybe some schools on the east coast. Don’t report the 640 in German. Your numbers are really solid, I almost think that they alone will get you into the schools you previously listed (UCI and UCLA are the only ones I really researched from that list, but neither of those will be that difficult for you I think). UCB is a reach, but might as well. Volunteer work isn’t that important, and you really didn’t have the opportunity to do other ECs.</p>
<p>Can you guys tell me which schools are matches, reaches, etc? Obviously any Ivy and Stanford are reaches, but how about the other ones? I don’t want to be really unbalanced.</p>