Northwestern or UChicago? USC or Cal? etc.

<p>@tk21769: These are not my only schools, I have a couple others, including safeties, that I plan on applying to. And you are totally right, I’m pretty sure I will not get into all six of them. I apologize if I seemed overconfident, I was just posing this as a general question. I completely agree with you about the St. Olaf thing, considering it’s atmosphere seems to fit me a lot. But I’m concerned that my parents wouldn’t be willing to pay a private school price unless it’s like a top 20 Uni/LAC. St. Olaf seems like an awesome place though.</p>

<p>@GoodACTor: Here’s my profile, which may look familiar from my mobile account post in the chances section of the website. </p>

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<p>Basic stuff/possible diversity

  • White Senior Male in Austin, Texas
  • First Generation College Student.
  • English is my second language</p>

<p>GPA and Rank

  • Weighted GPA: 106.84 (weird 100 point scale…)
  • Unweighted GPA: 4.0
  • Class Rank: 1/517 at a pretty competitive Public High School.</p>

<p>AP’s and Honors Coursework/Grades

  • AP World History-A/A - 5 on exam
  • AP Chemistry- A+/A+
  • AP English 3- A/A
  • AP U.S History- A+/A+
  • AP Spanish Language- A+/A+
  • AP Computer Science- A/A
  • all other classes are Honors Classes (bio, trig, physics, etc…) with A+</p>

<p>Next year schedule:
AP English 4
AP Calc BC
AP Environmental Science
AP Gov’t
AP Econ
AP Spanish Lit
AP Psychology</p>

<p>ACT Scores
Composite- 35
English- 35 (33 with 10 essay)
Math- 34
Reading- 36
Science- 36</p>

<p>SAT Scores*
CR- 740
Math- 750
Writing- 740 (10 Essay)
2230 composite</p>

<p>*These are superscored. I have taken it twice. I probably won’t send these.</p>

<p>PSAT- 225, should hopefully be NMSF in Texas.</p>

<p>Subject Tests
World History 770
Chem-800
Math 2-720</p>

<p>EC Activities</p>

<p>Elected Class Office Positions

  • Sophomore Class President
  • Junior Class VP
  • Student Body President Senior Year</p>

<p>Academic Competitions
State-wide Science Competition(UIL)
-3 years participation
-Team Captain for two years
-Qualified for regionals this year.
State-wide Social Studies Competition(UIL)
-2 years Team Captain

  • First Place Team at District level, qualified for regionals</p>

<p>Social Events Comittee

  • Head for one year (10th Grade)
  • Planned a school dance from the bottom up.
  • Planned Homecoming events</p>

<p>Community Service Committee

  • Head Junior Year
  • Sponsored outings to a retirement home
  • Organized a school-wide coat drive
  • Organized other outings to marathons and other community stuff</p>

<p>Principal’s Council

  • Member 3 years. (Elected)
  • We sit with the principal once a month and discuss campus issues.</p>

<p>National Honor Society

  • Member 3 years
  • Officer 1 year
  • Elected as Liason to Student Council/Public Relations Chair
  • Overseeing a TBD committee as a committee co-head.</p>

<p>Will be sitting on school board next year.</p>

<p>Summer Activities</p>

<p>10th grade

  • Employed as a cashier at Chick Fil-A (3 months)
  • Was tutor at a summer program for elementary schools (3 months)</p>

<p>11th grade

  • UT Honors Colloquium</p>

<h2>- Camp counselor at a residential camp for children with special needs (4 weeks)</h2>

<p>Sorry for the length, I just copied and pasted from a past chance thread. This is not a chance thread though. </p>

<p>This thread is, of course, premised on POSSIBLE admission. I promise I’m not assuming that I will get in to any of these schools. They’re all super competitive.</p>