<p>Hey Guys,</p>
<p>So I made an almost identical chance thread to this one a little more than a month ago, but I have recently received my official unweighted gpa and rank and I made a decision about my Early Decision (Which will be JHU).</p>
<p>These are the other schools that I MAY be applying to either EA or RD</p>
<p>Caltech
Northwestern
MIT
Uchicago
Rice
UVA
William and Mary
Duke
Vanderbilt
Georgia Tch
Notre Dame
Georgetown
Wake Forest
Carnegie Mellon
Brown
Columbia
Dartmouth
Princeton</p>
<p>I know that Im applying early action to Uchicago, MIT, UVA, JMU, and Rice. Chance me for the other ones too though XD</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian
Sex/state: female
Major: Hopefully double major in polysci and physics (astrophysics, nasa stuff)
School: Last year we were ranked 180 something I believe according to newsweek, pretty average public high school in my opinion but whatever. We rarely send kids to competitive schools, I think a few got into yale, princeton, mit, but not more than a handful.</p>
<p>SAT: 2400
SAT2: 800s in chem, bioE and biom, math2, and physics (going to take chem this Oct)
APs: 11
GPA: 3.72(uw), 4.14 (w) <that scares me
RANK: 77/472...</p>
<p>The reason why my GPA is low is because during junior year, one of my friends passed away . My first semester grades suffered, basically my transcript looks like this:</p>
<pre><code> 1S 2S
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<p>BC CALC C B+ B-
AP PHYSICS C B A- B+
AP CHEM B- B+ B
AP PSYCH B+ A A-
APUSH A A- A-</p>
<p>And apparently, I have three Bs from middle school that are lowering my gpa too, but those are the least of my worries. Without those I have a 4.3x weighted and am comfortably in the top 10%.</p>
<p>My Recs will be great, both teachers have known me for over 3 years and love me <3 One will be given to my math teacher, the other to my history teacher/debate coach. Counsilor will write about it in the LOR.</p>
<p>EXTRACURRICULARS:</p>
<p>Karate (12 years)
-black belt 3rd degree
- now work as an instructor (I teach little kids)
- "Captain" of the demo team (kicks and flips and stuff)</p>
<p>ORCHESTRA VIOLIN/VIOLA (8yrs)
- First chair of school orchestra (3yrs)
- First chair of county orchestra (2yrs)
- First violin regional orchestra (1yr)
- First violin state orchestra (1yr)
- Started my own orchestra at school that plays contemporary music ( I conduct it)
- Violinist in a quartet, we play for money (at malls and stuff)
- Teach as a job
- Wrote duet music for guitar+violin/Viola
- Write music and performs for church orchestra</p>
<p>VOLUNTEERING (1200+ hours) :
- Presidents Volunteer award gold, 4 years
- President of Key Club for a year, VP for 2
- raised over $15000 for causes and charities</p>
<p>-Volunteer for special needs kids since 8th grade (over 1000 hours)
- Coached sports (tennis and basketball) for these kids
- Created a club at my school dedicated to raising money for special needs programs
- Interned for a psychology practice dedicated to helping children that could not be taken care of by the public school system (2 yrs)
-Tutor math to mentally handicapped children at my school (alg+ geometry)</p>
<p>POLITICS:
- President of MUN at my school
- Created school newspaper dedicated to international and national politics
- President of JSA/Young dem/rep (they're all rolled up into one "politics" club at my school)
- Given public speeches to my school about political issues
-placed regionally and locally for MUN and JSA (not that big of a deal)
- student gov treasurer for 3 years (not politically motivated, but I couldnt find anywhere else to put it)</p>
<p>DEBATE (4 years):
- State Champion (2 years)
- Regional Champion (2 years)
- District Champion (2 years)
- Captain
- Qualifed for the TOC
- Qualified for CFL(s) twice (barely didn't break this past year...)
- placed semis, quarters, octos and won a ton of national level debate tournaments
- Made a camp for upcoming high school debaters (20 students, $250 per)
-Coach for local middle school policy debate and pofo (what a joke haha)</p>
<p>SCIENCY STUFF:
- 2nd place at astrophysics olympiad (went to Europe last year)
- Competing this year at an astrophysics olympiad, only 5 are chosen from the nation to compete
- Was chosen for a highly selective aerospace program that interns you with NASA
- Interned at NASA multiple times
- Did fusion research on sustainable energy, I'm really interested in He-3 research but the stuff is hard to get hold of >.>
- Done a ton of research on satellite communications and fusion, Was invited for a tour of the CIA for my work on satellite communication technology, presenting my fusion research this year
- Was invited to a state-sponsored program for physics, very competitive (50 people in the state I think?)
- Was invited to a summer program at NASA that had us do modules and simulations of Space (100 people were invited)
- Captain of quiz bowl team(s) (we have multiple), won 4-7 in the region multiple times throughout my years in high school, we actually won 2nd last year.
- Did a research project on Rwanda my freshman year, won the regional county history fair (is that even worth putting on a resume though?)</p>
<p>Im pretty sure that my SATs are up to par and my ECs are competitive, will they look past the GPA though? I was thinking of maybe retaking physics or chem online. Is it worth it?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>