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<p>I'm a Junior and thinking about applying to University of Rochester (#1 choice), RIT, Northeastern U, BU, WPI, and some state schools. My grades are good, but by no means great, but I have a lot of extracurricular activities. Could you please read/skim my "resume" and tell me the chances of getting in to these schools.</p>

<p>High School: public, Blue-Ribbon district, very forward thinking about tech and “21st century” skills; alumni have gone to Harvard and other Ivy-league schools</p>

<p>Classes this year: Honors French, Pre-Calc, and Physics; AP Computer Science
Next year: AP French, Bio, Calc AB </p>

<p>GPA: 3.75 ish (will go up next year)
Class Rank: top 20%
Test Scores:
SAT 2 Bio: 730 (taken as a freshman)
SAT?ACT: haven’t taken yet
I’m low income, and live in government housing in a middle-class suburb.
EC:
Drama Club: (youngest stage manager at my school, started sophomore year). The club at my school is about 200 people; won Rookie of the Year as a frosh (my class in drama is about 50). Every show requires about 250-300 hours of work . I lead a cast peaking at about 85 and have a direct crew of 30 for the large shows.
Science Team: My local middle school's Science Olympiad team. It is a national well respected competition. The team has won states every year but one since it was founded. I coach an event every year, which gets top 2 or 3 in the state every year. I teach college science to middle school students.
HS Library: designed and wrote an automatic paperless attendance system the the PE teachers want. The Tech department head wants me to present this at a conference. She is doing the write up and I won't hear for a few weeks.
National Honor Society (accepted; induction ceremony in May)
AP Computer Science: I'm working with the department head to help design the AP Computer Science course being offered next year. I'll be the TA for this next year, another first for my school.
Summer@Brown: I was accepted twice, this year I'll be attending Robert Rover Derby, designing building and programming a robot (in a team of three)
Summer Shakespeare: I'm doing tech (stage manager) for my friends Gold Award (girl scout's eagle scout equivalent) project, putting on a performance of 12th Night over the summer
Google Code-In: Participated, only completed one task, nothing too special</p>

<p>Community Service: I do about 115+ hours of community service each year</p>

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<p>You look competitive for these schools. Do you have a financial safety? These are not good aid schools.</p>

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<p>Waverly: Based on personal experience, I can say that neither RIT nor U of R are terrible when it comes to aid, but it does help coming from in-state. I received about 49k from UR, although there was a couple thousand in loans included, but that isn’t bad especially considering how expensive it is. Most of my aid came from a Rochester Grant (26k), and I also got the Bausch and Lomb Scholarship (11k). For RIT, I was left with about 13k to pay, although I expect a decent amount from school scholarships. WPI left me with about twice as much as RIT, so they weren’t a big help.</p>

<p>bohalloran95: RIT isn’t very selective at all (not that WPI and UR are completely selective), but I wouldn’t think you’d have a hard time with any of those based on your extracurriculars, community service, etc. although the grades may be a small worry. I hope you’re planning on taking the SAT and ACT soon, as to give yourself time to take them again if need be. What are you going for anyway, some type of engineering I assume? Some engineering areas require a math SAT subject test, as well.</p>

<p>Also, I do hope you’re taking a few more “legit” classes next year… they won’t like you taking it too easy your last year. Depending on what you plan to major in, try for some more top-tier schools, also. Cornell is great, of course, but the engineering school is arguably the most difficult to get into there (again, from experience…). I also assume you reside somewhere in the northeast, so also consider RPI. They’re not necessarily top-tier, but they still have some solid programs.</p>

<p>Hope this helps.</p>

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<p>I’m planning on majoring in Computer Science, which is in U of R’s engineering school, but it varies based in the college. I’m taking the SATs in May.
In addition to the 3 AP classes that I’m taking next year, I’m in regular non-honors English, and an Independent study based off of MIT OpenCourse Ware/Android app development. </p>

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