<p>Male
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Catholic High School (not Jesuit though)</p>
<p>GPA: UW around a 3.8, probably a low 3.8ish. W 4.17ish
Grade Trend: Might hurt me a little bit. Frosh yr was pretty good, soph year was pretty good/really good, I showed an upward trend for the most part. 1st semester Jr year was pretty good too, but 2nd semester I kind of burned out and ended up with 3 Bs. I have a total of 4 Bs on my transcript (not horrible I know), and 3/4 were in math or sci classes, and science is definitely not my forte. Not freaking out about Bs, I was pretty chill when I got my report card, but it kinda sucks to end Jr. yr on kind of a crappy note, with half my classes getting Bs in them.
Anyways.
Class Rank: My school is kind of unclear, they say they don’t rank, but they tell in a counselor rec the approximate rank. I should be in at least the top 5-10% so I’m guessing they’ll put down something like that. Or they might not put anything in the letter. I’m not sure.</p>
<p>SAT: 700 M 690 CR 720 W --- 2110 total (single sitting, not superscore)*
*But this might be my downfall because I forget to cancel one of my scores after I thought I did bad on test (I was sick and didn't sleep well, but I paid $50, so I wanted to see how I did haha). And I thought I did improve my CR score (the only reason why I didn't cancel), and it only went up by 10...arghhh. So I had to take it a 4th time (bad I know), but I got the golden 2100+ I was looking for.
However, I've heard some schools like at it like "oh rich white kid hired a tutor and took it 4 times". I did study my butt off for the last one, but I mostly used the BB and tips on CC. </p>
<p>ACT: 29 ( Don't plan on sending)
5/6* APs by graduation. *School is unclear, we might be credit for taking my physics class last year because right now it is an AP class..and its basically the same thing, but I doubt the college board will let them do that. Will haven taken 7-8 test though by graduation, however only 2 were Junior year.
SAT IIs: Should be decent (have not taken yet), expecting 700+ in Math 1/2(not sure which on to take), anything less than 750 on USH will be a huge disappointment for me. For the third one, I'll probably pick some English one or self study World History</p>
<p>Teacher and Counselor Recs: Teacher one should be pretty good, my grade in the teacher's class that I'm asking to write me a rec rarely dipped below a 97% (AP class) and I think he liked me as a person/student. He gave me an award, and he gets mad in class sometimes because I am the only one that knows the answers sometimes. Not sure about counselor one, we get to write a "brag" sheet, so it should be at least ok.</p>
<p>Essays: Not sure what I'm going to RD. Might apply RD just to have more time to work on the essays. </p>
<p>ECs: Pretty solid, though nothing spectacular like some people on CC.</p>
<p>-Eagle Scout, plus one year of being Senior Patrol Leader
-Student Govt Representative (lowest position in student govt, lol)
-Work Experience: 1 secretary job at my Church, another is a yard work type job. I may quit the handyman job/yard work job soon though, but I've had that job since summer before freshman year, so it should still look pretty good.
-Student Ambassador and Freshman Mentor (more intensive than you think haha)
-NHS
-Minor role in school paper
-Mock Trial
-Model UN
-Catholic Schools for Peace and Justice
-AP US History Co-Student of the Year
-Investment Club</p>
<p>probably leaving a couple minor things out</p>
<p>Service:
-Have not tallied up my hours, but it should be about 300+ service hours when I apply (tutor at school and local library, soup kitchens, various things, etc...)
-Eucharistic Minister at my church, at my school and I go to the nursing home and distribute Communion.
-MDA Camp Counselor. This is where a bulk of my service hours came from. Very demanding, but very rewarding and I plan on doing it again next year. I also participate in a program that helps disabled kids play sports during the summer and school year. Might write an essay about this. Something to the gist of the first day and a half or so of camp, I absolutely hated it, but it kind of grew on me and I really want to go back.</p>
<p>Think this is about it, sorry it was kind of long and there might be a few typos, do you need any more info?</p>
<p>Do you think I should apply EA or RD? I plan on applying to the business school. I'm leaning towards RD because I get more I'd get more time to work on my essays and I think another semester of school will help my application. But EA is nice with the slight chance I might find out by Christmas and worse come to worse, I'll only get deffered. </p>
<p>But either way, I think GU is a low reach for me. Not impossible though. Is that a good classification for me?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>