Race: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: six figure incomes
SAT I: 1540 (800M, 740R)
SAT II (subject, score): 790 Math II, studying for SAT Bio-M
PSAT: 1480 sophomore year, did not take junior year
Unweighted GPA: Unsure
Weighted GPA: 4.73
Rank: 5th out of around 300
APs already taken: 4 APCS
Junior Year Course Load: APBio, APUSH, AP Calc BC, AP micro self study, rest honors classes
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Physics, AP Chem, AP French, AP Stat
Projected number of AP tests taken by the time I graduate: 10
ECs:
-Varsity team member of school’s cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track team - will be varsity team captain for cross country senior year
-Academic Decathlon competitor and board member, main job was to facilitate communication among team members and teachers
-Tutor for inner city kids, have 100+ of hours of volunteering accumulated since 8th grade
-Writer for school paper
-Member of various other orgs: French Honors Society, SIA, Model UN
Schools I am considering, in rough order of priority (I have visited every school listed except UMich and Harvard):
-Rutgers (I live in New Jersey, a must apply, top priority)
-UNC (my dream school though my parents are telling me to aim higher, very probable EA)
-Cornell (my reach, very probable ED)
-Duke (might considering ED here instead of Cornell)
-UPenn (high reach)
-Williams
-JHU
-Dartmouth
-NYU
-UMich
-Columbia, Harvard, etc. (not really considering going to the school, might apply just to see how far I can get with it)
Main Concerns:
-I have a really tough English teacher this year, and English is my weakest subject. My final grades for 9th and 10th Grade English were both A-, and I’m likely going to get a final grade of a B+ for 11th grade English.
-Weak ECs
-Very competitive class, #1-#4 in our class is probably not going to budge, knowing them, and not doing so hot in 11th Grade English is probably going to boot me out of the top 5.
Do I have anything to worry about, specifically that likely B+ in 11th Grade English? Thank you!