<p>I will be honest; attempt to help, and give you you're chances at schools you list.</p>
<p>Please-
List:
*Schools you want
*SAT's
*GPA
*Extra Curriculars
*Awards</p>
<p>Thanks =) if that's possible. I'll chance you allll!!.
PM ME!!</p>
<p>hmmm... okay, what have i got to lose? :) </p>
<p><em>Schools</em>
Brown
RISD
Yale
Oberlin
Boston U
Tufts
U of Chicago
Hillsdale
Wittenberg</p>
<p><em>SAT</em>
not taken, took ACT got a 30; taking again--I want a 32</p>
<p><em>GPA</em>
4.1 with the highest for <em>me</em> possible 4.7 with my class load (a mixture of AP and Honors and accel; honors and AP on a 5.0 scale and regulars at 4.0 scale)</p>
<p><em>Extra Curriculars</em>
-NAHS
-Student Council School Secretary
-Cooking Club President
-NHS creative board
-Tarta-in-Toledo (we make Toledo less offensive to the eye by making them pretty)
-studio at For the Love of Art for six years
-set design and construction for all musicals, fall plays, and a play my friend is writing this summer
-advanced options: it's new; i "audit" classes in my high school that my schedule wouldn't allow me to take, like graphics which conflicted with AP Psych, so i am taught and given projects during the summer and after school
-STARS program; taught by a Yale grad, helps kids with ACT scores and homework
- Varsity Tennis for three years; 4th best at singles all-city
- Spiritual Commission
- Spanish Club
- Enviro Club
- I make all the t-shirts for clubs, bids for all dances (<3)
- work at For the Love of Art studio
- take other classes at college my school won't let me take (again, because to get the honors diploma i can't take certain classes)</p>
<p><em>Awards</em>
- State Science Fair: proved the Last Supper was chemically unstable, reproduced chemicals
- Governor's Art Exhibition (two-time) and other art stuff
- tennis stuff
- poems published (through school, the museum where we combined art with poetry, and poetry contests)
- essay contests through school and community</p>
<p>(this is so nice of you to do this...you don't need classes or anything?)</p>
<p>might as well</p>
<p>schools: (still a lot but narrowing it down)
amherst
brown
carnegie mellon
dartmouth
duke
haverford
lehigh
lafayette
middlebury
penn
pomona
usc
stanford
swarthmore
washington & lee
williams</p>
<p>sats:
2310 overall
760 math
760 reading
790 writing
took sat IIs in math II and chem with results in about two weeks
i also took ap chem this year</p>
<p>GPA:
about a 3.75-3.8 out of 4. (weighted)</p>
<p>extracurriculars:
4 years working on the newspaper
(copy editor this year, possibly editor in chief next year)
4 years of lacrosse (not good enough to be recruited though)
4 years of nj math league
1 year iron hills math competition
3 years american mathematics competetion
1 year aime (haha forgot what it stands for, i qualified for it through amc)
2 years in the drama club and working on plays (involved in 4 productions)
people to people student ambassador
after school job through the fall and half the winter</p>
<p>awards:
possible national merit scholar
3 years of magna cum laude</p>
<p>also, i'm colombian</p>
<p>thanks so much for doing this</p>
<p>taken from my post haha:
White girl from a pretty prestigious all girls catholic prep school in NY (my grades may look low, but it's really hard to get A's in my school). There are only 2 APs offered before senior year (APeuro&american) because our cirriculum is super tough as it is. I did terrible freshman year due to apathy, but now I'm doing really well. I'm great at essays and interviews, and I know I'll be getting fabulous rec's from my guidance counsler, my american teacher, chem teacher & art history teacher (my intended major).</p>
<p>Freshman year: around a B+ average
Intro to Art B
Spanish 2 A-
English A-
Alg 1 B
Religion B-
Health A-
Bio A-
Global 1 B-</p>
<p>Sophmore year: B+/A- average 2 honors (I started off with C's and ended with A+s, and my guidance counsler will emphasize that)
Studio Art B+
Spanish 3H A-
English B+
Geometry B+
Religion B
Chemistry H A-
Global 2 A-</p>
<p>Junior Year (As of 1st semester, working on bringing my grades to all As)
Art History A
Spanish 4H A
English A
Religion A
Alg 2/Trig H A
Physics H B+ (Working to bring it up)
Journalism A+
American History H A</p>
<p>Senior Year Intended Schedule:
Mandarin Chinese
AP Government
Religion
AP Bio
AP Spanish
Precalc H
AP English
Independent Study: Art History</p>
<p>EC:
Washington Seminar (went to Washington DC and counted as a class, got an A) 11
Social Action 9, 10, 11, 12
Soup Kitchen 9, 10, 11, 12
Tutor Chemistry 11
Spring track 10, 11
Cross Country 11, 12
Parsons School of Design Pre College 10
Peer Ministry 11, 12
Newspaper 10, 11, 12 (will be editor next year)
National Honor Society 11, 12</p>
<p>I worked 40+ hours a week over the summer at a cell phone distributor, and I will be working again this summer. I work during the year at Weight Watchers (I also lost 60 lbs during sophmore year). I will continue working there as well. This summer I'm attending a Journalism Workshop at Stanford University, as well as traveling to Italy in April & June (I don't know if I can include that anywhere, but I plan on writing my college essay on my reaction to The Birth of Venus).</p>
<p>SAT: 1890 (610M 630V 650W 10essay) - mediocre!
SATII: Chem 630 (Taking Lit & MathI in June)
I'm retaking the SATs in Oct & taking the ACTs (hopefully doing better on those then I did on the SATs)</p>
<p>Overall, I will try to emphasize my determination despite my dismal start. Also, how much my maturity level has increased.</p>
<p>SCHOOLS
Wellesley (Early Decision - showing a ton of interest)
Pomona
Boston U
University of Delaware (My dad is a resident but I'm not sure if that'll help)
Fordham (legacy)
NYU (legacy)
Bryn Mawr
University of San Francisco
SUNY Geneseo (resident)</p>
<p>Hey, </p>
<p>I have a 3.0 G.P.A
1700 on the SAT
I have done highschool in the Dominican Republic and El Salvador however i am a Florida Resident by birth.
I have taken the following:
Spanish: 4 units
Literature (english): 4 units
Math(Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Pre- Claculus, Calculus): 5 Units
Science(Physical science, Biology, Chemistry and physics): 4 units
History: 4 units
Computer science: 2 units
Social Science: Psychology(2 units), Sociology(1 unit), Economics(1 unit)</p>
<p>Ec's: Ok overall ive done a good amount here are some of my better Ec's:
- MUN all 4 years and have attended 3 conferences including one that i hosted in my own school wher ei was senior member of security council.y
-Varisty Soccer and Basketball.
-100 Hours Community Service
-Leadership Conference: ok these were free and selective, not like the GYLC and other phony ones!</p>
<p>Ok I am sorta worried about getting into a nice Florida School and mayby im a lil paranoid but id like some help if possible.
Im thinking of the Following schools:
-University of South Florida
-Rollins College
-University of Miami
-Florida State</p>
<p>Im also considering a few out of state schools:
-Indiana University (bloomington)
-South Carolina (Columbia)</p>
<p>Please help me out with some chances:</p>
<p>Hello everyone:</p>
<p>Colleges:
Yale University
Columbia University
California Institute of Technology</p>
<p>SATs:
2330: 770 Math 780 CR 780 W</p>
<p>GPA: 101.450 weighted/ 99.435 Unweighted</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
PJAS
Science Olympiad
Mock Trial
Science Club
Math Club
Junior Leadership: Nearly 350 hrs/yr
Work: Nearly 25hr/week</p>
<p>Awards:
Pennsylvania Male Delegate to international AAAS Conference and Male Delegate to the AJAS (national competition)
Zappa Award for Excellence in Mathematics (state wide)
Excellence in Mathematics and Chemistry (state and regional level)
Mock Trial: Best Witness (regional/districts/state level)
Science Olympiad Silver Medalist (regional/state level)
AP Scholar
Five Time First Place Winner at PJAS... Three Perfect Scores (regional/state level)
Pennsylvania Science Talent Search Statewide Winner
Multiple Local Science/Math Competitions (First Award only)</p>
<p>Is there anything I can do to improve my chances and perhaps give myself an edge in ECs?</p>
<p>andrewcarta, your GPA is low for Indiana, and very low for Miami. Both are reaches, albeit Indiana being attainable, and Miami being unattainable. Miami's average weighted GPA is a 4.01 and Indiana's average unweighted a 3.3. Work hard this semester, finish strong, and no more C's!</p>
<p>Cumulative GPA: 4.05 unweighted. My school doesn't weight GPA's, but they count an A+ as 4.33, which is how my GPA is over 4.0 unweighted
Class rank: I know that I'm number 1, but my school doesn't release class rank</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
World History I: A+
Spanish I: A/A+
Introduction to Physical Science: A
English I: A-
Geometry Honors: A
Old Testment/New Testament: A</p>
<p>Sophomore Year:
World History II: A+
Algebra II Honors: A+
Bio Honors (class took AP exam, but not officially an AP class): A-/A
English II Honors: A
Spanish III: A
Church History: A+
Morality: A+</p>
<p>Classes This year:
Pre-Calculus Honors: A+
AP Chemistry: A
English 3 Honors: A-
AP US History: A
Spanish 3: A+
World Religions/Mysticism & Meditation: A+</p>
<p>Classes Next year:
AP Calculus
AP Physics
AP English
AP European History
AP American Government
Spanish 4</p>
<p>Those are all final grades, I have 4 B+ quarter grades total so far, a B- for my Bio final last year.</p>
<p>PSAT: 220, 99th percentile
SAT: 2100 (690 CR, 710 M, 700 W). I was having an off day this day, I'm retaking it in the fall for hopefully 2250+.
Bio SAT II: 690, I'm taking Math IIC and USH in June, hoping for at least 750+ on each to compensate for the Bio score
AP Bio: 4, took US last Friday, taking chem this Wednesday</p>
<p>Extras:
-Cross Country (varsity)
-Ultimate Frisbee (varsity)
-Writing tutor
-Math tutor
-Math club and team - I took the AMC 10 and was school winner, and took the AMC 12 this year (received pin for special achievement)
-Chapel Choir - I play rhythm guitar
-Jazz Band - I play lead saxaphone and lead flute
-School Rock Band - Lead guitar
-Applied Music Honors - School credit for taking guitar lessons outside of school
-National Honor Society
-National Merit Semi-Finalist
-Thanksgiving food drive decorating boxes and delivering goods
-Volunteer at various school functions (open house, etc.)
- Relay for life and special olympics volunteer
- I worked for my dad part time over the past 3 summers
-Next year: I will be math club and math center (tutoring) president, a freshmen mentor in a peer leadership program (most likely), will join amnesty international</p>
<p>-Headmistress list (4.0 GPA or above) for the majority of my high school career
-Book prize awarded last year for academic excellence as well as excellence in other fields. My school gives about 10 awards to juniors at the end of the year, so I'm hoping for a couple of those
-4 year, full tuition scholarship to my school (4 are awarded per class)</p>
<p>My essay is about how I developed my passion for music and how it affected my life.</p>
<p>Chances at these schools?
Brown - My first choice, probably ED
Georgetown - My sister went here
Cornell
Boston College
Tufts
Dartmouth
Lehigh
Columbia
Williams
Bowdoin</p>
<p>Hey! this is great! Thank you so much!!</p>
<p><em>Schools</em>
Brown
CMU
Harvey Mudd
Pomona
Princeton
Rice
Stanford
Tufts
U of Rochester
Yale</p>
<p><em>SAT</em>
2180 710M 700V 770W</p>
<p><em>GPA</em>
3.5-3.8 uw 4.1w (highest possible = 4.8)</p>
<p><em>Extra Curriculars</em>
- Fencing 9-12 hrs/week (no awards) 9-12
- Aikido (japanese martial art) 5-7 hrs/week (blue belt, 4th kyu) 9-12, 8yrs + Aikiteens club
- German Club (secretary this year, treasurer last year historical society every year) 9-12
- Latin Club + Certamen Team (secretary this year if I win) 11-12
-NHS + SMILE (volunteering groups) NHS:11-12 SMILE: 10-12
-Computer Programming Team 10-12 + Student Technology Administrative Council 11-12 (the only girl...does that help?)
-part time employee at Austin Digital Inc. (small hardware and software company)</p>
<p><em>Awards</em>
-german state: '04: 3rd - directed dialogue '05: 2nd varsity pass auf, 3rd -extemporaneous speaking, 3rd - reading comprehension '06: 3rd - skit, 2nd scrapbook
-latin state: '06: 4th play, 6th poetry reading comp., 6th greek life
-writing: Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival haiku contest, International Open Poetry Contest 3rd & Editors Choice Award
-LitMag: Published and Staff '04: 3 pieces accepted, '05: 1 piece accepted, alt. pub. Co-editor, '06: 1 piece accepted
-AP commended scholar
-honor roll...</p>
<p>thank you so much for doing this, I know that it is a lot of time and effort.</p>
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PM ME!!
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<p>You all should PM protege.</p>
<p>Michigan Ross
NYU Stern
Indiana Kelley
University of Chicago
Emory University
Boston College
Columbia (haha)</p>
<p>Instate at michigan
Low income</p>
<p>GPA: 3.4-3.5 with extremely strong upward trend
ACT: 35</p>
<p>EC:
Vice president/leadership positions of 5 major clubs
Own several businesses
Internships at financing firm
Several national level awards for Business competitions
Several national level Rifelry awards
Played at carnegie hall with school orchestra
Varsity Sport</p>
<p>Several connections with UofM professors/faculty</p>
<p>Pm Me People Who Didn't> I Cant Read All Of Tis And Reply. Sorry</p>
<p>what does "pm me" mean???</p>
<p>OH ok, never mind...will do...</p>
<p>what ever happened with this?</p>
<p>bump......</p>
<p>thanks! heres the link to my chance me thing: </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/740869-chance-me-michigan-state-pleasee.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/740869-chance-me-michigan-state-pleasee.html</a></p>
<p>LOL. Hey just saying to iwanttogotoMSU, this thread is from…2006 
just might wanna check the date haha</p>
<p>Thanks in advance you are a kind person!
Background information:</p>
<p>-Indian Male</p>
<p>-I currently live in Columbus, OH.
I’ve moved around 3 times during my high school career due to instability.</p>
<p>-My school isn’t an ordinary one, it is a charter school for the arts. It only has 200 students in it. I had no choice but to go there because there were no other good schools in my area or in Columbus in general, the only good ones had a wait list to get in. I don’t believe my school has ever had a kid go to a top 40 university in its history. We also offer only 1 AP class which started this year, which I took. Seniors are allowed to take classes at a community college nearby and I plan on taking quite a few classes there. Until the 2009-2010 class year only Seniors could do this but now Juniors are allowed to do this.</p>
<p>-Parents are both immigrants and my income is below $30,000.</p>
<p>G.P.A.=3.5 Unweighted
We don’t have rank or weighted grades.</p>
<p>Test Scores: ACT 27 hoping to increase it to 30 by September.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-I’ve interned for my teacher for a year.</p>
<p>-I’ve interned at the hotel my dad worked for the same year.</p>
<p>-I’ve helped make podcasts(Helped kids in American Government and Politics class make podcasts for Ohio Art Museum) and a video(Was put in to the history archive of The Columbus History Museum).</p>
<p>-Planning on interning for cancer cell research at OSU next year.</p>
<p>-I helped work back stage and I helped set up an art gallery for my school’s winter art festival.</p>
<p>-I performed a martial arts routine with my class for my school’s spring art festival.</p>
<p>-I’ve learned to play the guitar in high school.</p>
<p>-Planning on participating in an charity sponsored by school where we paint old doors and auction them off for a charity chosen by popular vote by the students.</p>
<p>-I might have over 700 hours of community service throughout my high school career.</p>
<p>-I performed in a few plays as a replacement for a sick person.</p>
<p>Classes:
I took the most challenging course load offered at my school and I’m planning on taking community college classes during Senior year.</p>
<p>The only AP class that my school offered was U.S. History and I took it this year, the first year offered.</p>
<p>Essay:
I believe the best part of my application will be the essays. I’ve had an interesting yet strange life. Here is an outline.</p>
<p>I was born a child to traditional immigrants in Pennsylvania. When I was an infant we moved to Alabama. I didn’t speak any English until I started Kindergarten which I started in Massachusetts. After that I had to go to India due to family issues. I was there for a short period of time but during that short period of time I forgot almost all of my English. I had to learn it again and was finally able to hold conversations by the end of 2nd grade. By the end of 3rd grade I moved to North Carolina. When Elementary school ended, Middle school began and it was the worst time of my life.</p>
<p>I attended 3 schools during 6th grade. First, I moved from North Carolina to Georgia. I lived in an horrible area and my mind was susceptible to peer pressure. From my peers I began to associate myself with the “Gangster” image, soon after I moved to Florida and this phase passed by. I moved to Florida because my parents lost their job and I had to live with my cousins. Due to my lack of social interaction and lack of friends over the years my peers began harassing me over the “War on Terror” and 9-11 , they harassed me for no reason with racial hate terms such as “Afghan Terrorist” “Iraqi scum” and “Turban head” also knowing that my parents had lost their jobs and me living with my cousins didn’t help my self esteem. It didn’t bother me much but at my age I thought too much of it.</p>
<p>Soon later I moved again, due to my parents having jobs again, to South Carolina where I had friends, whom I still cherish to this very day. This was where I finished 8th grade and 9th grade. It was a great time. But soon again my parents fell in to financial problems so I moved to my other cousins place in Virginia, where I finished 10th grade. This was when I started to question my Indian culture and how it is flawed.</p>
<p>Here I am now in Columbus, OH. The schools here were horrible but I managed to find myself here. Finally, living with my parents again and yet my life went from good to horrible in a matter of one night. During the Spring of 2009 my father had a heart attack, he “slept” for about 4-6 months. We were financially dependent on other family members and my brother. He came home in the summer, which was a great thing for me. I’ve noticed that some of my life situations were somewhat like Malcolm X’s. I now have this fascination with higher learning seeing as how it is my only road to save my kids from a child hood such as my own. I’ve given up on traditional Indian culture and stereotypes, I want to have fun in my life not spend my life impressing those who don’t even matter to me.</p>
<p>I commend you and thank you for even coming this far in to this post haha. So I was wondering how these schools would be for me:</p>
<p>George Washington University
Oxford College of Emory University
University of Miami
Ohio State University
Case Western Reserve University
Vanderbilt University(Pipe dream)</p>
<p>Any other suggestions would be really appreciated. I’m planning on doing Biomedical Engineering. Then moving on to law school. Thank you again!</p>