<p>Hello all.
I was wondering if someone could give me some insight into my chances at Macalester.</p>
<p>White Male from Kentucky
2nd in class of about 200
4.0 Gpa unweighted
SAT: 800 lit 800 writing 700 math
SAT IIs: 800 world history 790 U.S history 740 math II
AP's 5 U.S. History 5 Calculus AB 4 Chemistry
take hardest courses at school including 5 APs senior year</p>
<p>Honors/Awards
a few ribbons on tests at regional foreign language festival for french
10th in state on national french exam
a few class awards</p>
<p>Extracurriculars
French club all 4 years, President as junior
Chess club as freshman
retreat leader for freshman as a junior
intramural volleyball junior and senior</p>
<p>my EC's are bad. They are really weak, most of them also aren't very heavy commitments. How badly will this affect my chances? I learn japanese at home in my spare time, would that count at all? Any input and comments would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Learning Japanese on your own will definitely count, especially at Mac. Obviously, your grades/test scores are good enough to make you competitive anywhere. In terms of your ECs, although they don't look terrible to me, if they're as bad as you say they are, then there might be a problem, as Mac seems to place a lot of weight on ECs as well as personality. </p>
<p>But yeah, I concur with Calz88. You're probably in.</p>
<p>Mac loves stuff like what you have, and your great GPA and test scores will make you very competitive. I'd say you've got a good chance. I want to go to Macalester as well, and I don't think it will be too hard for me to get in, since I have pretty good grades and a lot of EC's. My main problem is FinAid. I come from an upper middle class white family, so I don't know how much aid I'm going to get. I am going to have a chat with the financial aid counselors there, but for right now, it's pretty much up in the air for me. Mac is my definete first choice though, and I'm hopefully going to apply early decision, so we'll see whart happens. Any thoughts on financial aid there from anybody? I've heard they're pretty generous.</p>
<p>Macalesterwishes, I also worry about financial aid. I don't really know how generous they are, and i don't want to burden my family too much. I hope that everything will work out for you.</p>