My Hopefuls

<p>New to the boards and I am wondering my chances of getting into these schools: Stanford, University of Notre Dame, Yale, Columbia, University of Michigan, Duke, Brown</p>

<p>I go to a superb Catholic High School in a suburb of Detroit, Detroit Catholic Central. Our secondary record is great, with 98% attending college. We have kids attending Harvard, University of Chicago, Princeton, and Notre Dame to name a few. 1 cousin graduated from ND, 1 attends there now.</p>

<p>G.P.A. (with honors points): 4.36</p>

<p>ACT Scores: 33 and 34</p>

<p>Work Experience: Have held the same job at a grocery store since summer before freshman year.</p>

<p>Class Rank: 7 out of 210</p>

<p>Activities: Intramural Basketball (2 years), Intramural Hockey (4 years), Intramural Football (3 years), Varsity wrestler (1 year), and manager (2 years), Varsity Track (2 years)</p>

<p>Leadership: Intramural Basketball Captain (2 years), Intramural Hockey Captain (1 year), Intramural Football Captain (3 years), Homeroom representative (1 year)</p>

<p>Course Selections: Took all honors and AP available
Freshman: Honors Math, English, and Biology
Sophomore: AP Euro. History, Honors Geo./ Algerbra 2, English, and Chemistry
Junior: AP Amer. History, Honors Trig./Pre-Cal, English, and Physics
Senior: AP English, AP Government, AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science, AP Chemistry, Honors Latin 3</p>

<p>Parents: Dad attended U-M (Dearborn) and Wayne State,
Mother attended Wayne State and is a teacher </p>

<p>Recommendation: Great Recommendation from Latin teacher who has won many national awards for teaching Latin, graduated from ND</p>

<p>Volunteer Work: School requires 10 hours a year, I did an average of 16 hours/year</p>

<p>I have visited all the colleges except Duke. Please give your honest opinion, thank you.</p>

<p>I am also a National Merit Scholar.</p>

<p>bump, include Ushering at local church and National Honors Society</p>

<p>please reply, bump</p>

<p>Reach:
Stanford
Yale</p>

<p>Slight Reach:
Duke
Brown
Columbia</p>

<p>Fit:
ND
and I don't know where Michigan fits in</p>

<p>The main problem with you app is your EC's. There seems to be no real devotion to any thing. There is no real focus to you and no apperent amazingness.
You are in the hazy middle and for a number of those schools may be too hazy to be admitted.
I am sorry for being harsh but your grade and scores can honestly get you only to far with most of the Ivies and Stanford.</p>

<p>Thanks for responding. I appreciate the honest opinion.</p>

<p>bump, just say what you think please</p>