On Track for Ivies/Stanford/MIT/Claremonts? Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey to all, long time follower, first time poster.</p>

<p>I am a Junior, and would just like to here from some other perspectives about whether I am on the right track to put myself in the best possible position with my application (I’ll leave the rest up to admissions officers).</p>

<p>GPA:</p>

<p>Weighted/Unweighted</p>

<li>4.00/4.00</li>
<li>4.47/4.00</li>
<li>4.83/4.00</li>
</ol>

<p>SAT:</p>

<p>2100 (740 CR, 690 Math, 670 WR)
(Waiting on May Grades)</p>

<p>Subjects
WHist: 690
Bio E: 550
(Will take Math II, Literature in June and Chemistry next december)</p>

<p>ACT: 32
(31 Wr, 33 Math, 33 Read, 30 Sci)</p>

<p>Will take again in June</p>

<p>E/Cs:</p>

<p>2-Time Lyons Club Speech Contestant
TrigStar Contestant
Classwide Science Award</p>

<p>3 Sport Athlete
Baseball: 3 Year Starter Varsity
Basketball: 1 Year JV Captain 1 Year Varsity
Football: 2 Year JV (1 Year Captain) 1 Year Varsity Captain</p>

<p>Robotics Club (Last Year Statewide Winner, This year’s Comp is May 16)
Interact Club (Participated in Multiple community service groups, including and African Orphanage Aid and “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” for abused women)
Mission Hospitality (Name of My school, aiding in the welcoming of new students by writing letters, and running open houses)</p>

<p>Indepth community service:
Founded a Book Recycling Drive that saved money by reusing books throughout the school, and this year will expand to 2 more schools where we will not only recycle reusable books through the school but also send books through the Peace Corps to help teach children English in foreign countries. </p>

<p>Also written for the county wide newspaper for 2 years and helped supervise a nationally recognized HS Basketball Tournament (The Mission Prep Christmas Classic) by maintaining the website and blog.</p>

<p>Thanks for any input/suggestions.</p>

<p>I would like to major in Engineering so schools I am looking at include (but are most certainly not limited to), Stanford, Princeton, Yale, MIT, CalTech, and Harvey Mudd.</p>

<p>I also have a small chance to play college baseball at a small academic college or possibly an Ivy. I’ll be at some showcases over summer, and we’ll see where that takes me.</p>

<p>Thank You, Respectfully.</p>

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<p>Quick couple of adds, </p>

<p>I won a William Hearst Scholarship, was a Poetry OutLoud class-wide finalist, and qualified for the California Scholastic Federation all 5 semesters (so far).</p>

<p>I also completed a Kingdom Project in which we raised over $2500 to rebuild local baseball fields and parks (this was completed the summer before entering high school, so I am unsure as to whether it “counts”?)</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>And one more thing.</p>

<p>AP WHist: 4
Taking AP Span/AP Eng Lang this year.</p>

<p>Next year’s courseload:</p>

<p>AP Calc
AP Lit
AP Phys
Hon Chem II
Cuesta (Local Community College) PoliSci/Econ
Student Services and Development
Senior Religion </p>

<p>Unfortunately for the College process, my school requires Religion to be taken all 4 years which can be very limiting.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>You need to get higher SAT Subject Test scores to be competitive.</p>

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<p>Thanks.
My plan is to have:
SAT 2250+
ACT 34+
Math II 750+
Chem 750+
Lit 730+</p>

<p>I expect my SAT to be there now (waiting on May Scores), and my subjects to be that way in June.</p>

<p>Thank you, Respectfully.</p>

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<p>Well good/confusing news here.</p>

<p>My May SAT scores came back.</p>

<p>CR 690
Math 730
Wr 800</p>

<p>Making my combined a 2270 (740 CR, 730 M, 800 W).</p>

<p>Obviously I am excited about the score but since I am planning on going into engineering I have decided to take it again early next year, shooting for a Math score of 770+. It is just confusing to me that Math is my lowest. </p>

<p>Also my Robotics squad qualified at the Monterey Bay regional this year and we are headed off to the International Championships in Massachusetts in June. </p>

<p>And I am attending 3 showcases over summer, all with academic school emphasis so we’ll see how that works out. </p>

<p>Thanks always for any thoughts/ideas.</p>

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<p>For a real shot at SP and Y, raise the CR too.</p>

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<p>Sounds good, I am shooting for all 750+ in my subjects and subject tests in the end.</p>

<p>Thanks,</p>

<p>Respectfully.</p>