<p>What harvard summer thing? I'm talking about Summer Science Program. (<a href="http://www.summerscience.org%5B/url%5D">www.summerscience.org</a>)</p>
<p>Could you give me a link to the Harvard thing you're talking about?</p>
<p>o i thoguht u were referring to:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ssp.harvard.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.ssp.harvard.edu/</a></p>
<p>Is that a good one?</p>
<p>bump, again</p>
<p>bump anyone?</p>
<p>Maybe I should restate the question. What do you think my chances are for programs like SSP and RSI, and any other good summer programs you can think of?</p>
<p>Here is my original post so you don't have to go back to the first page again.</p>
<p>Me- Junior at Phillips, Andover, parents from Middle East, live in MA</p>
<p>Academic-</p>
<p>9th grade at public HS, had a 4.518 GPA</p>
<p>Sophmore Year-
Grading System on a 0-6 scale, 5 and 6 are honors grades, GPA average is 4.5 unweighted (school doesn't weigh)</p>
<p>Sophmore English Fall-6, Winter-5, Spring-5, Final-5
Second Year French- 5,6,6,6
BC Calc-6.5.6.6 (5/5 on AP)
AP Chem- 5,5,6,5 (5 on AP)
Sophmore History (Fall,one term) 4
Religion/Philosophy (Diplomia Requirement, one term, Winter) 4
PE (one term, spring)-Pass
Java Computer Programming (one term, Spring) 6</p>
<p>In the Spring term, I had a 6.0 GPA (according to my advisor, our school rounds to the nearest .5). Only about .7% of students have a 6.0.</p>
<p>Junior Year-</p>
<p>Junior English projected grade of 4/5
Third Year French 5
Organic Chemistry 5
AP Physics 5/6
Multivariable Calc 6</p>
<p>EC's (Major ones)</p>
<p>Cross Country
Track
Math Club
Science Club (placed 1st in school science bowl)
Mock Trial (co-founder and co-president, this will be our first year)
Summer job at a small company, helping them make a website, isn't much though</p>
<p>My scores on my last practice SAT were something around 670V/780M/690W(based on MC) . My SAT II (IIC and Chem) are both 800's.</p>
<p>I can definetly get great rec's and good essays.</p>
<p>I'm just looking around at different colleges right now. I'm thinking of majoring in somthing like biochem. How do I stand as a candidate to schools like Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Darmouth, and any other goods ones you may know.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>wow. My threads must really not be that interesting.</p>
<p>I give up.</p>
<p>I really think the guidance counselors at what is arguably the best prep school in the world can give you better advice than a bunch of random hosers on a web forum.</p>
<p>We don't get college counselors until later this year.</p>
<p>Could anyone give me an in/out at these schools:</p>
<p>Harvard
Caltech
MIT
Dartmouth
Princeton</p>
<p>Sorry to bother you guys, but I'd like to know where I stand. As I've said before, we do have college counselors, but we don't get them until mid-winter this year.</p>
<p>apply to more schools dude</p>
<p>ejemplo</p>
<p>Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Columbia</p>
<p>give urself a chance to get into some places</p>
<p>I'm a junior, and the schools I listed are my top choices. So what are my chances at both you schools I originally posted and the ones you recommended?</p>
<p>bump (chars)</p>
<p>bump, no one?</p>
<p>The way your gpa stands right now, there are probably 25 students with better grades than you, who have more of a chance to get into Harvard and Princeton etc.
But you do have a good chance to get into a top 10 school. Just work on your grades, they are the single most important factor in admissions.</p>
<p>You mean 25 students at my school? I think its somewhat less than that. And also, I'm taking a pretty hard courseload. </p>
<p>I don't doubt some people might have a better chance than I do. But what are MY chances?</p>
<p>It's hard to know your chances for next year. One thing is sure, when you're a senior you cannot do anything more about your grades. </p>
<p>The fact that you are at Phillips will definitely help get into a top school.
But if there are students with better grades at Phillips, or legacies or famous parents etc. Those will get in first.</p>
<p>Nope, I'm not a legacy.
What do you mean by top school? How "top"?</p>
<p>Best Nat universities - us news 2006
Harvard, Priceton, Yale, Uof Penn, Duke, Stanford, CIT, MIT, Columbia, Darthmouth, Wash U., Northwestern, Cornell, John Hopkins, Brown, University of Chicago.
I guess more like top 15.
With selectivity ranging from 10% to 40% you never know. But You have a very good chance at a few of those.</p>