<p>Im a white junior male</p>
<p>gpa:3.35 (aiming for 3.8 after next yr.)</p>
<p>frosh: 3.17, 3.17 (2 H)
soph: 2.83, 3.33 (1 H, 1 AP)
junior: 3.33, 4.5 (1.5 AP's)</p>
<p>AP's: 6.5, H: 3.5
rank: I havent gotten my official grades yet for this semester</p>
<p>SAT: 610 m, 560 cr, 640 w = 1810....retaking next yr for a 2000+</p>
<p>EC's: 2nd degree black belt in tae kwon do (9 years)
Varsity track (11th and soon 12th)
registered lifeguard (summer job)
40 hours of community service at church (how do you prove you did it?)
baseball, and basketball (9 years not at school but all-stars)
work out at the gym 3 times a week</p>
<p>I am planning on doing a senior project that involves my expertise in tae kwon do. I think I can wow the adcoms and therefore karate is my hook.
applying:
Duke
Dartmouth</p>
<p>You have to be more down to earth, try to get 1400+ math and verbal on sat, and raise gpa to at least 3.7-3.9 to be the lower part of the brown/duke avg</p>
<p>what about maybe Vanderbilt or Wake Forest or UNC Chapel Hill?</p>
<p>also do u think my huge jump in gpa would help me alot? I mean since I am capable of doing 4.0 work now I dont see why a college wouldnt even consider my sophmore grades</p>
<p>Did something <em>happen</em> sophmore year that affected your work at school (illness, death in the family, alien abduction...?). If so, make the schools you apply to aware of that. Boosting your GPA will help. </p>
<p>But no matter what you do, you're not going to quite fit in with the rest of the duke/dartmouth applicants . . . so prove to them that you're different in a GOOD way. Try to show that just because you didn't live your life for a college application, you can still do exceptional things. And if you haven't done exceptional things... well find some REALLY AWE-INSPIRING to do. soon. Then write a good essay about it. That's my advice. Best of luck...</p>
<p>no nothing reallly except i was dumb lol....ohhh and i forgot i took SAT II US History and i got 750...hope that helps?</p>
<p>try for whatever you want. You have to realize this board is full of elitists and though these people will get into the top schools, they are also the upepr crust of the application pool. I say don't listen and apply to a good array of safety, target, and reach schools!</p>
<p>If you want an ivy, the closest I can think of is Cornell. And are you applying RD? Thats even weakens your chances further.</p>
<p>if you were a URM, i'd say "you have a great chance"</p>
<p>but, sorry, man... that is a low GPA.</p>
<p>lol well a URM can get in if he didnt even have a gpa! Oh and im taking 4 of those 6 AP's next year so If i get straight A's or close to it my gpa will be boosted higher</p>