<p>GPA- 4.0 UW; Weighted= 6.96; district is weird
Class Rank- 24/10000+ (county wide); 1/300+ (at school)
Courses: IB Diploma Candidate, 7 APs (5 5s and 1 4 on euro)</p>
<p>Senior Year Coursework: AP Calc BC, AP Eng Literature, AP Physics B, and all IB Courses
SAT: 1470/1600; 2160/2400
SAT II: 800 USH, 790 Math II</p>
<p>Extra Curricular:
Chess Club (Founder/President) (9 years)
Tampa Chess Club (Coach) (4 years)
Mu Alpha Theta (President) (4 years)
Economics/Philosophy Club (Founder) (3 years)
Future Business Leaders of America (Vice-President) (3 years)
Town and Country Youth Council (Board Member) (4 years)
Student Advisory Board for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2 years)</p>
<p>Volunteer Work:
Woodbridge Nursing Home (4 years)
Kathys Place: A Place 4 Hope (3 years)
Clothes for Haiti (4 years)
Salvation Army (2 years)</p>
<p>Awards/Honors:
American Legions Boys State Delegate
AP Scholar with Distinction
National Honor Society
Various Chess Tournament Wins
Tampa Chess Club Scholastic Champion
2nd Place Personal Finance County
5th Place Personal Finance State
1st Place History Fair County
6th Place Calculus Math Bowl
Outstanding Math Student of the Year</p>
<p>Work Experience:
Internship at a Civic Engagement Organization</p>
<p>Recs: Okay (Everybody has unique essays and recs)
Essays: Okay </p>
<p>Schools I want to go to:
UChicago, UPenn, Brown, Dartmouth, and WUSTL</p>
<p>u guys think i've a shot of getting into one or 2 of em at leasT?</p>
<p>Your grades and scores are there, nothing amazing about your ECs though. Just seems like a laundry list. Although I don’t believe you can be an AP scholar and an IB diploma student…as the two classes do not overlap.</p>
<p>But if this is all true, you have as much a shot as any other qualified applicant at those schools. Although I would put more preference on you, because you are IB diploma (as am I), and the EE can be a GREAT conversation at an interview I’ve been told.</p>
<p>well, yea you actually can…my school combines AP and IB classes, so for example ib hl math is also AP Calc AB and thanks for the chance, i did what i was passionate about in hs; hopefully it does not seem like a “laundry list” to the colleges.</p>
<p>That is really weird. I could see math/sciences overlapping, I know HL math basically runs through one of the AP calc classes in a couple weeks. But IB and AP English cover way different books, and in America I’m pretty sure you have to take History of the Americas in lieu of Europe.</p>
<p>well at our school
we’ve a four year ib program
the 1st 2 years = pre-ib (we can take AP courses then, ap euro and ap human geo)
2nd two years- ib courses but also ap courses (ib hl = ap calc, ib eng = ap english, ib psych = ap psych, ib history = ap ush, and ib french = ap french)</p>
<p>something similar in the last year, but yea ap serves as our back up, hope that helps</p>
<p>Oh ok, seems odd though. Our district has Grades 7-9 and 10-12 at different schools. So no pre IB in our freshman year, and pre IB as sophomores. Then the actual program as juniors and seniors.</p>
<p>But irregardles AP and IB have different curriculum. I don’t see how an AP and IB english class could be equivocal, they read completely different books and do way different things. Could you tell me how that works?</p>
<p>Don’t know about psych, and my teacher does say that AP and IB US history can coincide. Math makes sense. And I guess language could too. But English DEFINETLY seems iffy.</p>
<p>Not much amazing ECs. It does look like a grocery list, and it looks like you’ve been doing those stuff just to put on your resume on the first glance. </p>
<p>UChicago wants students with HIGH standardized test scores. Yours is somewhat decent but not in the elite high status. Raise your SAT I to 2300 ish and your chance to get into UChicago could rise exponentially.</p>
<p>Not sure about WUSTL. Maybe.</p>
<p>The rest of them, I doubt it. Maybe you could get in depending on essay and rec letters, but your resume doesn’t have anything standing out like crazy so it’s rather similar to those thousands of applications Ivy league admission officers see every year.</p>
<p>you look pretty solid. as long as you showed them its not just a list and that you are actually passionate about it, then you should be fine. your scores and gpa are very good and as long as you had good interviews and came off as well rounded id say you could get into at least 2</p>
<p>Your SAT seems a little low. Do you have an EC you’re passionate about? Maybe it’s chess? Afaik colleges like to see passion and depth for 1 EC rather than ten not-very-strong ECs.</p>
<p>Something about your ECs strikes me as if you are trying to “collect” them for the purpose of getting into college. Are you particularly passionate about anything you do? Could you show it such that your words jump out on paper?
SAT scores are lowish.
Meh - I think you have a shot at these schools. If you play your cards right (essay, etc.) you should probably get into one. It is evident you are naturally talented, however if I were you I would focus more intensely on one thing and excel at it. As for me, although I have a laundry list of other random stuff I did, all my achievements could be grouped into either Theatre, Journalism, or Medicine.</p>
<p>I’d have backups though, if I were you. Your chances at all these are around 40%.</p>
<p>you’re really impressive! I agree, in your application you should definitely stress your passion about your extra-curriculars, otherwise it could just look like you collected them just for college. i say you have a great shot at Uchicago and WUSTL, and Dartmouth/Penn/Brown are reaches, but are definitely possible.</p>