<p>made a new chances thread with information that's complete, please help!</p>
<p>Schools Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn (M & T program), Cornell, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, U Mich, NYU, Rutgers, UMD</p>
<p>Questions Do I need to aim a little lower? Which 7 extracurricular activities should I put on the common app? If I send in a complete list of my extracurriculars will college admissions officers look at it?</p>
<p>I want to major in some type of science, maybe biomedical engineering </p>
<p>Sex male
Ethnicity- Indian
Location- New Jersey
School- large public school, about 400 in my class many graduates go to Ivy League schools or equivalent
Grade- going to be a senior </p>
<p>Current GPA unweighted 95.04, weighted 98.2 (Keep in mind that my school is incredibly difficult and VERY competitive)
Class Rank- top 5 students out of over 400</p>
<p>Details :
9th grade unweighted 96.5, weighted 99.2</p>
<p>Algebra II Honors 95
Band 96
English Honors 98
Physics Honors 95
World History 100
Spanish 3 96</p>
<p>10th unweighted 93.5 (taking into account electives/PE etc.), weighted 96.7
*rough year, went through some tough times
I might ask the counselor to mention that.
English Honors 89
Precalculus Honors 90
AP US History 91
AP Chemistry 93
Band 96
Spanish 4 98</p>
<p>11th unweighted 95.11, weighted 98.83</p>
<p>AP English 91
AP Biology 95
AP Calculus AB - 97
AP US History 92
Spanish 5 Honors 95
Band - 97</p>
<p>Senior year schedule</p>
<p>AP Calculus BC
AP English Literature
AP Physics B
AP Spanish 6
AP Economics
Band</p>
<p>Ive taken the hardest possible courses possible at my school</p>
<p>SAT superscored taken twice - M: 800, CR: 800, W: 760 (11)
SAT II - math 2 800; us history 800; biology m 800; chem. - 790
AP Tests
Chem 5
Bio 5
English Lang 5
Calc AB 5
US History 5</p>
<p>EC: Heres where I need some advice if the common app only has room for 7, which ones should I put??? I'm also afraid of the fact that a lot of my activities are only junior-senior year which is just because i didn't know about them before..</p>
<p>Stock Exchange Club (10, 11, 12) Founder, President
is a community organization not an official school club because our school has no money.
National Honor Society (11, 12) Head of Public Relations
Marching Band (9, 10, 11, 12)
Varsity Swimming (9, 10, 11, 12) varsity letters each year</p>
<p>science/ math Ive gotten more and more interested in these as the years have gone by. these really dont have much leadership possible but Im pushing for captains next year on the science Olympiad team and if the coach decides to have them, Ill definitely be one</p>
<p>Science Olympiad (9, 10, 11, 12) - medals at regional and state competitions including a first and second at states this year
NJ Science League - 10 (chem II), 12 (Physics II) missed 11th grade because of conflicts..
Science Bowl (11, 12) maybe captain this year?
Math League (11, 12)
Astronomy Club (11, 12) Founder/President
is a community organization not an official school club because our school has no money.<br>
Columbia Science Honors Program (12)
** brought the USABO and USNCO competitions to my school by going to administration and going through that whole process (didnt compete in USNCO because of a conflict, 1 point away from advancing in USABO )</p>
<p>Volunteer-
I volunteer at the local hospital (I have like 50 hours though so Im sure this doesnt mean anything..)</p>
<p>Summers</p>
<p>9-10 CTY<br>
10-11 CTY Distance Learning: AP Calculus, Biology Honors
***11-12 New Jersey Governors School in the Sciences (will be continuing research started here over winter break)</p>
<p>Essays and recommendations will be great hopefully
Thanks in advance, please be brutal :)</p>