<p>I'm a junior in highschool now and people everywhere are talking colleges to me. But, I don't know anything about them. Can anyone suggest any amount of schools?</p>
<p>Asian (I will probably not put that on applications since it is mainly a disadvantage).
GPA: 3.65 weighted after sophmore year.
freshman: 3.45
sophmore: 3.85
junior 1st semester so far: 4.22
(i moved from another town right before highschool so i was more worried about social issues more than anything, hence the dip in GPA. It is going up though right?)</p>
<p>top 25% in competetitive high school.</p>
<p>SATs (I've only taken them once so far, I will take them again).
Critical Reading: 740
Math: 690
Writing:640 (10 on essay).</p>
<p>ECs: (what ill have by senior year)
Varsity swimming 4 years (definite captain senior year).
Colorguard 3 years (co-captain and captain).
JV Tennis 3 years
Math League 4 years.
National Beta Club 2 years.
Club swimming 2 years.
Worked full time job and part time job during two summers.</p>
<p>Other:
High scorer of the school on the American Math Competition. taking the next level of the test (AIME) in a few weeks.</p>
<p>Attended National Student Leadership Conference.</p>
<p>Take full load of Honors and APs minus English. Junior year, I'm taking two full science courses; honors and AP.</p>
<p>I don't know what colleges to even look at, state universities or ivies. I'm just clueless.</p>
<p>For anyone to help with ideas, we need a little more information....what are you interested in majoring in? If you aren't sure, what do you envision yourself doing in ten years?
Do you like big groups or smaller groups? City or rural? You get the idea...if you go to <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com%5B/url%5D">www.collegeboard.com</a> there is a tool that will ask you a series of questions and at least give you a starting point. It isn't the definitive list maker but it will get you going.</p>
<p>What you're going to want to do is check out schools with your average scores and GPA - you can find that out at collegeboard.com, review.com (princeton review's site). My guess though, is that the schools that accept 10 percent or lower are out, twenty percent are far reaches, thirty percent are slight reaches, and forty to fifty percent is match material. </p>
<p>Also, colleges do their best to *de*weight your GPA, so your weighted GPA won't be what they see.</p>
<p>Retake the SAT--if you got the high score for AIME you can do a LOT better on the math SAT and that would help you out quite a bit (since GPA and SAT score are the 2 most important factors). Keep up your grades. I haven't got college suggestions for you but that is some advice you should try to keep in mind</p>
<p>The issue of deweighting is a bit of a myth. It's not a complete myth, because some schools do deweight all grades. The University of Washington comes to mind.</p>
<p>Having been through this with my own kids for years, I can tell you that the actual practices are all over the place. Some schools deweight all courses except APs. Others will deweight certain APs, but not others. Still others will apply their own weighting scales, depending on what they know about a particular AP/IB or other course. Some schools count only academic core subjects toward their GPA calculation.</p>
<p>Though I think the thing to keep in mind is that colleges are not going to compare your GPA to someone not from your school - b/c of grading differences, different class offerings, how schools weight grades... </p>
<p>Deweighting makes sense b/c then GPAs become a tad bit more comparable. But I think one thing is certain: colleges care less about your overall GPA than the individual classes you took and how well you did in them. GPA is just a nice way to lump that all together.</p>
<p>No one answered monkey's ? Deweighting is to show unweighted GPA. (or give both the unweighted and weighted GPA). We assume that since you give your jr. GPA as 4.22, that is a weighted GPA, based on your honors/AP courses. You can find elsewhere on CC discussions of how various high schools weight GPAs, and you'll find that it varies all over. Also, colleges will take into account that you've improved your grades each year--and they'll see that on your transcript (and you can explain further in essays), but you will have to state your overall high school GPA, too.</p>
<p>University of Georgia has a great vet school. They have decent athletics and are relatively cheap. You may have some trouble getting in... they are very selective, despite not being a great school. Lots of drinking and partying if you don't mind that either. And Athens is a great college town. I'd say look at as many schools as you can, apply to about 9 (3 safety, 3 at level, 3 reach) and see what happens</p>