Interesting Situation: Chances At Selective Schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a current junior at a New England boarding school. The school is good but not quite first tier. I have a 3.5uw gpa and a 2320 on the SAT. I was nstional merit commended scholar. I have an upward trend in grades and I have done better in more challenging classes. This year I'm taking four APs (AB calc, stats, spanish, us history). My classes next year will be multivariable calc, ap econ, ap loterature, ap english language, ap european history, and an independant study course in spanish. I have already been named an AP scholar. I am heavily involved on music. I have played percussion in the jazz and concert bands since I was a freshman. I am also a member of a percussion group that plays african and lorean percussion and have performed with this ensemble at Dartmouth College and UMASS. I am a member of the disciplinary comittee, academic honor board, and I have been selected to be an RA my senior year. I am also a peer tutor. I jave done some volunteer work over the summer but nothing major. I occasionally tutor elementary schoolers. I have run cross country for four years (2 varsity) and have played varsity volleyball for 3 years. I'm probably not good enough to get recruited for either sport. My essay are good and my teacher recs are strong. My prospective major is math and economics.</p>

<p>I am wondering what my chances are at the following schools considering my low gpa</p>

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<li>Washington and Lee (I've been communicating with them since my sophmore year. I know they strongly value demonstrated interest</li>
<li>Claremont Mckenna</li>
<li>Bucknell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Wesleyan (strong school connection)</li>
<li>Lafayette</li>
<li>University of Rochester</li>
<li>University of Richmond</li>
<li>Macalester</li>
</ul>

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<p>If you’re a current junior at a New England boarding school, you likely have access to Naviance, which you can check yourself, and you certainly have access to great guidance counselors. Why don’t you ask THEM???</p>

<p>Yes, I’m sure they’ve been pretty busy the past few months, but I’m guessing they’d have time to speak with you now, if you asked.</p>

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<p>ITA with dodgersmom. It makes very little sense to ask people on the Internet, who don’t know you or your school, and whose only qualification to answer may be a high-speed internet connection, when you have access to professional, experienced college-placement advisors.</p>

<p>Also, I don’t see how your schedule of classes adds up. How will you take multivariable calculus in the twelfth grade if you haven’t learned integral calculus (which is in the BC curriculum, but not in AB).</p>

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<p>How are you an AP scholar if you’ve never taken AP exams before?</p>

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<p>You look pretty good to me if your school is one that tends to have a good profile, with kids tending to do well on the AP exams. But as others have mentioned, your school should have good info on this that will show exactly where you stand. In fact, most such schools keep a notebook with even more info all how kids from the school have fared in the past 4, 5 years. That is more telling than any prediction we can make.<br>
I also thought that you had to have taken AP exams to be an AP scholar. OP must be mistaken or left out info.</p>