<p>I have just finished my junior year, so I've gotten through most of the important stuff that colleges look at. I tried to organize things in different categories to make my profile more understandable.</p>
<p>Personal
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
State: NJ</p>
<p>Standardized Tests</p>
<p>SAT: 2160
Math: 740
Verbal: 690
Writing: 730
Just Math and Verbal: 1430</p>
<p>ACT:33
Math:35
Reading:34
English:33
Science: 28
I took the ACT with writing, but I didn't get my score for that yet. I expect it to be a good score because I got a 12 on my essay for the SAT.</p>
<p>**AP<a href="didn't%20get%20actual%20scores%20back%20yet,%20these%20are%20predictions">/B</a>
English Language and Composition: 4-5
Psychology: 4-5
Chemistry: 2-3</p>
<p>SAT II
Math I: 700
Literature: 650 (this one sucks)</p>
<p>That's it for standardized tests. Now on to:</p>
<p>Secondary School Record</p>
<p>Just some quick background information on my high school, it's a Jewish Parochial school with about 60 people per class. There is a dual curriculum, and therefore the school day is very long. We get in at 8:00 and leave at 5:10. There are five levels of class rigor. From worst to best, they are as follows: Academic, College prep, Accelerated, Honors, AP. The Judaic classes do not offer the accelerated option. My school does not give A+</p>
<p>Freshman Year I was still sort of maturing at this stage, so my classes weren't the hardest possible. I've been told that colleges take into account that men mature later than women. I took one less class this year than my other 3 years.</p>
<p>Western Civilization (Not tracked)
Honors Biology
Accelerated Algebra 2
Accelerated English
College Prep Hebrew Language
College Prep Talmud (Judaic class)
College Prep Tanach (Judaic class)</p>
<p>I don't remember my grades in each class, but overall I had a 3.7 non weighted</p>
<p>Sophomore Year
Honors American History: B+
Honors English Language: B+ or A-
Honors Chemistry: A-
Accelerated Geometry: A-
College Prep Hebrew Language: A
College Prep Talmud: A
College Prep Tanach: A</p>
<p>Junior Year (This is when I really stepped it up)
AP English Language: A-
AP Chemistry: A- or A
AP Psychology: A
Honors American History: A
Accelerated Pre-Calc: B or B+
College Prep Hebrew Language: A
College Prep Talmud: B+ OR A-
College Prep Tanach: A</p>
<p>Schedule for Senior Year
AP Statistics
AP Biology
AP English Literature
Jewish History (Not tracked)
Calculus (Not tracked)
College Prep Hebrew Language
College Prep Talmud
College Prep Tanach</p>
<p>My school does not rank, but I'm near the top. My guidance counselor said he will put me in as top 10-20%, depending on what each individual college looks for.</p>
<p>That's that. Now on to my favorite:</p>
<p>Extracurricular</p>
<p>Varsity Wrestling: This is the most important one to me, so I'll go into some detail. I started wrestling in 8th grade, knowing absolutely nothing. By the time I was a junior, I was beating district and regional place winners who have been wrestling since early childhood. My school didn't let me actually wrestle in districts or regionals because they took place on Saturday, which is the Sabbath. I was team captain for 2 years. I kept the team from falling apart, and I had to work heavily on recruiting. Went to multitude of camps and clubs. I am honestly one of the highest caliber athletes in my school.</p>
<p>Varsity Soccer: Walked onto varsity team with no experience junior year, and became a regular player halfway through the season.</p>
<p>West Point Summer Leadership Seminar: A program at West Point which is more competitive than the college itself. Simulates cadet life for one week, including combat and weaponry training, leadership reaction courses, classes, and physical assessment.</p>
<p>Work Experience: Golf Caddy, Construction, Painting</p>
<p>Columbia University Law Course, received A, instructor offers to write letter of recommendation. Going back this summer for Business Course.</p>
<p>Might do an EMS training course over the summer.</p>
<p>I did other random crap that I don't see as very important.</p>
<p>And finally, one last category:</p>
<p>Quality of Character</p>
<p>There are a lot of people in my school with academic records similar to mine, but my guidance counselor takes a special interest in me because of my character. In his words, there are plenty of generic, students with straight A's, but it's very hard to write most of them letters of recommendation because they are so boring. I have done things in terms of leadership that nobody else has done. He said that it will be very easy to write me a letter of recommendation because my accomplishments are already on the tip of his tongue. My teachers are crazy about me as well.</p>
<p>That's pretty much it. Please chance me at these schools:</p>
<p>Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania
Brandeis University (my mom was on the law review there)
Tufts
University of Miami Honors Program
Lafayette
University of Chicago
Washington University
NYU Stern
Full ride at Rutgers Honors Program
Northwestern
Stanford
Sizable scholarship at George Washington University</p>
<p>...and just for the hell of it, Harvard.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your time.</p>
I personally think there are a lot of kids out there who have good academics and still have a life…
I assume that you’re fluent in Hebrew? That’ll be a huge help. You’re obviously in at Brandeis (kidding)…but seriously, you have a good shot there. Cornell and Stanford might be reaches because your SATs aren’t astronomically high, but hey, they’re reaches for everyone. I bid you luck. Mazel tov!</p>
You went hardcore junior year, which colleges need to see in everyone. I’m impressed you seem to have gone straight from geometry to precalc. </p>