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Colleges & Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>HI!
Just looking for some input on my top 3 (Princeton, UPenn, Columbia)</p>

<p>Race: White Male</p>

<p>GPA: 4.369(weighted) about 3.75 unweighted</p>

<p>Rank: 43/457
(This is what is going to kill me, but i attend a small, extremely competitive program that is included within a larger (semi-competitive) high school)</p>

<p>SAT: 800 math 800 reading 720 writing
1600/1600 2320/2400</p>

<p>SAT II:<br>
770 Math 2<br>
760 chem<br>
620 US History (Another weak point, i need to do somting about this)</p>

<p>Senior Classes
Honors English 4
AP US History II
Gym
Fine Art I/ Applied Art I (School Requirement, and this is the only elective i have)
SE(Honors) Multivariable Calc
SE(Honors) Engineering Research Project (i'm building a maze-solving robot)
SE AP Physics C: E&M</p>

<p>Activities/Honors/Jobs</p>

<p>AB honor Roll (4years)
AP Scholar & AP Scholar With distinction
NHS</p>

<p>Varsity Chess Team(4 years)
(Captain for junior and senior year)
Led the team to a 3rd place finish at the state championships</p>

<p>Numerous individual and team chess awards
prominant ones include:</p>

<p>1st place in the 8th grade state champs (individual)
2nd place at the High School State Champs (Soph year)
9th place at the High School State Champs (Frosh year)
3rd Place US Amatuer East U1400 section (individual) (Soph year)
1st Place Knight of Columbus high School Chess tourney (As captain w/ team, junior year)
several individual state championship finishes in around 3rd-6th place depending on the tourney</p>

<p>A couple local art contest awards</p>

<p>tutoring: (AP bio) about 1 hour per week</p>

<p>I work at an ice cream place about 4-5 hours per week</p>

<p>I work at a local elementry school as the chess coach/teacher 2 hours per week
(I was personally asked to be the coach (not somthing i applied for))</p>

<p>Teacher recs and essays should be good</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>forgot to put up AP scores</p>

<p>Freshman: Bio=4</p>

<p>Sophomore: Chem=5 Stat =5</p>

<p>Junior: Physics C: Mechanics=5 CompSci AP = 4 Calc BC=3 (AB subscore = 4)</p>

<p>Senior: Us history II=? Physics C:E&M=?</p>

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<p>sorry, this is really random, but do you live in illinois? I saw you're taking gym and I can't imagine anyone willingly taking that class unless they live in the only state that requires it by law...</p>

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<p>There is a chances thread, this is not it, so I'd say your chances are very low, can't follow directions. Hopefully the webmasters will clean these up from all the forums, it is very annoying. People should not reply and tell them to move to the correct forum as it is out of hand.</p>