<p>Upcoming Seniors: Please post where you will be applying and stats and or a hook. Also, post any comments/thoughts.</p>
<p>you go first.</p>
<p>well, ok, I'll post my college list at least:
Yale, Stanford, Wellesley, Duke, Penn, UChi, UNC</p>
<p>There is one safety in there, 2 matches, 2 match-reaches, and 2 reaches.</p>
<p>I'm so scared to start applying to colleges</p>
<p>Yeah stupid common app is up, I'm terrified =( ... I'll start in August.</p>
<p>Here:
32 ACT
710, 720 SAT IIs, ush and math: IC</p>
<p>Top Choice: UChi
Middlebury, Brown, Penn, Wash-U, Wesleyan
Safetys: UMich-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>SAT1: 2070 (760m,700w,610cr) - im retaking in oct.
SAT2: math2c-790, chem/physics in nov.
GPA: 3.7uw/4.1w
AP: 7 completed by end of senior year, so far AP Stat(?) and USHistory(?)
EC's:
-Northeast Scholastic Division A Percussion Champions 05/06 (Undefeated)- Captain
-Marching Band 4 years (15hrs/wk-3mths)-Captain/Letter
-Mathleates 4 years - 06 ARML finalist
-NHS-11/12
-Key Club - 10th/11th/12th(VP)
-Volleyball Team 11th(JV captain)/12th
-Stay-Focused Peer Tutoring Tutor-11th/12th
-Hospital Volunteering-10th/11th/12th
-Rock-a-thon - 24 hour chairty event 10th/11th/12th
-Science Club-9th/10th/11th/12th
-AMC-10 high scorer in school - 10th
-NSLC Engineering Program - summer 06
-Total Volunteer Hours - ~200hrs</p>
<p>This is all i can remember at the moment..Im looking at engineering schools, specifically:
UMich, Cooper Union, Columbia, Rutgers, Stanford, UMaryland, UIUC, BU, UC-Berkeley, and Princeton(maybe)..</p>
<p>what are my chances at these schools and wat are some other schools i should look at if any? Also do i need to do anything more to improve my chances at any of these places? Thanks..</p>
<p>SAT: 2120; 800-M, 650-CR, 670-W. Retaking in October.
SATII's: 760-MathIIC, 750-Chemistry, 710-Biology</p>
<p>GPA:4.0 UW/4.467 W
AP's: 4 - Chemistry, French Lang, US History, Psychology, Calc AB; 5 - Biology</p>
<p>MIT, CalTech - EA
UC - Berkeley, LA, Davis, San Diego
Cornell, Swarthmore</p>
<p>Academic
4.5 GPA (4.0 UW)
Rank 1 or 2/250
SAT Critical Reading 700
Math 770
Writing 790
SAT Subject Tests Math IIc 800
Chemistry 800
US History 800
ACT Composite 34
National Merit Commended (at least)
Perfect Score National Latin Exam (only 227 out of 34,233 awarded)
3 Consecutive Gold Medals/ Summa Cum Laude on National Latin Exam (Highest level)</p>
<p>Top score in school on the Patterson Chemistry Test
Nominated for National Conference of Teachers of English Achievement competition (results pending)
Scholar Athlete Volleyball (Varsity letter with high GPA) 2 years
Perfect Attendance 1 year</p>
<p>AP classes: U.S. History 5
Chemistry 5
Calculus AB 5</p>
<p>Senior APs
Calculus BC
English Lit and Comp
Government and Politics
Biology
Physics (optional)
Latin (optional)</p>
<p>ECs
2 years golf team
3 years volleyball, including three years varsity
National Honor Society President (member for 2 years)
3 years Mock Trial
Two-time Mock Trial District Champion
Best Attorney at District Competition
3 years Quiz Bowl
Will be captain senior year
4th in regionals
2 year member of the Liturgical Choir
48 Superior rating at State Science Fair
Present science paper to the Ohio Academy of Science annual meeting
Nominated to present science paper to the American Junior Academy of Science in February 2007
Honorary member of the Ohio Academy of Science for research paper
JETS member 3 years (Junior Engineering Technological Society)
Service
Over 130 hours
20 hours, non-included above, at Right to Life org.
3 years Community Service Homeroom Representative
Employment
Setters volleyball club referee for 2 summers
Caddie at Dayton Country Club for 2 summers
Looking at HYP, MIT, Penn, Brown, Cornell, WUSTL, Northwestern, ND
Will my 700 verbal kill me at the competitive schools, or will the ACT be fine? Should I retake? Realistic at most of these schools? Any others I should consider? I am starting apps and essays and it is sort of wiggin me out. Thanx in advance for any input.</p>
<p>Um. SATS 2120, seven 5's on AP test, etc. etc.
Won national writing competitions, been published
Colleges: Brown, UChicago, Upenn, Duke, Madison, UCLA, Dartmouth, Wellesley, Stanford, Northwestern (basically I have one safety and rest are reaches)</p>
<p>SAT: 2240
ACT: 34</p>
<p>Rolling Admissions: Michigan, and possibly Illinois
Early Action: Notre Dame
Regular Decision: Dartmouth, UPenn, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Copied from What are my chances</p>
<p>Need more safeties/matches
My dream school is umich, but due to the fact that they put so much emphasis on grades, I need more matches and safeties and some more realistic reaches.</p>
<p>Grades went from 3.1 freshman year to a 3.67 junior year for a 3.4ish UW cumulative. Michigan GPA is around a 3.3 UW. Took all AC and AP classes. Graduating with 9-10 AP's.</p>
<p>35 ACT
2310 SAT</p>
<p>I won't list all my EC's but lets just say that my ECs are the strongest part of my application. A couple international level EC's, several national level EC's and numerous state/regional level EC's. 4 president/VP positions. EC's show passion in business.</p>
<p>Excellent recs
connections with professors at michigan
instate at michigan
Low income (EFC = O)</p>
<p>Assume good SAT II scores and a 4.0 senior year (taking all AP classes, but most of them are blowoff AP classes for our school. (teachers))</p>
<p>Applying early as hell for michigan.</p>
<p>Indiana
Carnegie Mellon
Michigan
Michigan - Ross
NYU
Emory
Boston C
UChicago
Michigan State</p>
<p>i will be applying to Maryland, Michigan, UVA oos, UNC oos, Cornell and some other schools</p>
<p>Hook: URM i guess.... (African American)</p>
<p>No Rank</p>
<p>30 ACT</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7uw 4.2w</p>
<p>Not going to list all my EC's either</p>
<p>Applying ED to Boston University.
Safe matches just in case are Indiana and Temple.
Not going to bother with stats because theyre rediculously embarrassing, and i'm too lazy to anyway.
No hook.</p>
<p>SAT's: 1500/2200 (800 Math, 700 CR, 700 Writing)
SAT II's: 800 IIC, 770 World History, 760 US History, 740 Chemistry, 730 Physics, 710 IC
GPA: 3.75 UW, 4.0 W, Top 5% of class</p>
<p>College List... (Definitely am NOT applying to all of these schools)</p>
<p>Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Duke, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, Georgetown, Cornell, JHU, Notre Dame, U of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, U of Michigan, U of Rochester, UVA, SUNY Stonybrook</p>
<p>Where I want to apply early changes often... but most likely Harvard, Duke, or Princeton.</p>
<p>SAT: 1400/2060 (710 M, 690 CR, 660 W) Retaking in October
SAT II: 750 Latin, 740 Math IIC
GPA: 3.98 UW, School doesn't rank</p>
<p>ED Candidates - Brown, UPenn, UChicago
Also Johns Hopkins, Northwestern (maybe), Holy Cross, Bucknell, Connecticut College, Penn State</p>
<p>1570/2260 SAT1
Math2c:800 USH:790 Bio E: 790
3.96 UW Top 5 out of 400 Class Rank</p>
<p>Above Average EC's by CC Standards+Work Exp.+African american</p>
<p>Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech (Reaches), Georgia Tech (safety), Brown (slight reach).</p>
<p>2390 SAT1
US Hist: 800, Lit: 800, Foreign Lang w/ List: 790
3.82 UW, hardest courseload at school (5s on 6 APs by end of junior year, 6 APs taken senior year)</p>
<p>President of 3 clubs, organized a bunch of stuff, one major arts extracurricular w/ performance experience, one fun arts extracurricular, prestigious summer internship</p>
<p>Stanford, Yale EA, Wellesley, Penn, Duke, State School, UChicago, Maybe Harvard</p>
<p>i'm also one cocky mofo :)</p>
<p>how many colleges for RD is IDEAL? 10?</p>
<p>i dunno...im applying to 7, one of which im only doing bc my parents want me to. and they want me to do 3 more...just because they feel that "10 schools is a good number to apply to."</p>
<p>I'm excited yet horribly afraid to apply at the same time. Anyway, here is where I THINK I'll be applying as of this moment:</p>
<p>Brown, Lehigh, Bucknell, Colgate, Swarthmore, and some others....</p>
<p>Unsure about Cornell and some others.</p>
<p>We'll see......I'm too afraid to start my CommonApp already, I think I'll hold it off to August...</p>