My lazy friends lol

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Hey, a few of my friends, who apparently are too lazy to register at CC, have asked me to post their stats and chance evals. So, if you don’t mind the long post, I’ll do it for 3 of my friends. What all three are concerned about is their lack of committment to extracurriculars and no real hooks. They do, as I’ll admit, have amazingly high stats.

James:Colleges: Williams (top choice), the ivies, Swarthmore
GPA 4.5
New SAT: CR. 780, Math 800, Wr 700
SAT II: Bio 800, US history 800, Math IIC 800
APs: World History 5
Awards:
National Merit Commended
RPI Computing Medal

EC’s:
Science Olympiads: Junior Year (1 year, just joined)
Varsity Volleyball Junior year (1 year, just joined).
Spent summer of freshmen year doing camp counseling

Taylor: Colleges: RPI, Cal Tech, MIT, Cornell
GPA: 4.2
New SAT: CR 700, M 760, Wr 690
SAT II: IIC 800, US 800, Physics 780
APs: World History 5
Awards:
not that I know of

ECs:
Science Olympiads: 10th grade went to states bronze, 11th grade went to states silver, vice president.
Spent 2 weeks at RPI summer of sophomore year taking a class

Kyle: Colleges: All the ivies, MIT, Cal Tech
GPA: 4.5
New SAT: 800M, 750Cr, 700 Wr
SATII: World History 760, IIC 800, Chemistry 79
Awards:
Dartmouth Book Award
National Merit Semifinalist

Ecs:
Chem Demos club member
Boy Scouts troop leader (no idea really)
Spending this summer taking a computer class at RPI

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<p>THey all have good chances. No one here is going to have any more accurate guesses than that. It seems like they have below average ECs. So you must go to a prep school, right? Find some average people to hang out with. Geesh, if one kid in my school of 1250 had any of those stats, everyone would worship him.</p>

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<p>mmmm... no, we all go to a public school. I wouldn't say anybody would worship them - I tested within their SAT ranges (higher SAT I score, lower SAT II's) and have, imho, much stronger EC committment to international relations and politics.</p>

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<p>O and I hope Kyle has some safeties.</p>

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<p>What's up with Kyle - stats like that and only an NM Semi?? That almost never happens, since something like less than 10% of semis do not make finalist...usually because SATs don't support PSAT score, or poor recs from hs admin (discipline issues, etc.), or.....was he too lazy to fill out the additional paperwork, too?</p>

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<p>It happened to one of my friends- he was a semifinalist, great kid, 1550 SAT....but not a finalist. No idea what happened.</p>

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<p>he wouldn't know yet, it's still June of Junior Year...</p>