<p>Please help me estimate my chances for the following schools: Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell, Maryland, Penn, Pitt, UIUC, Georgia Tech, Rose-Hulman</p>
<p>Objective[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2100
[</em>]SAT II: Hoping for two 700+ in Math (I or II) and Chem
[<em>]GPA: Should be right around 3.7 UW (tough freshman year)
[</em>]Rank: N/A
[<em>]AP: Took ~8 AP classes but did not take tests. I will take AP CS in May and I'll probably manage a 5.
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Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): JV Soccer (2 years) and Varsity Soccer (2 years, captain one), Varsity Track (1 year), Varsity Cross Country (1 year), Student Council (secretary), School Newspaper (editor), Environmental Club (Vice-President), National Honor Society.
[<em>]Job/Work Experience: One summer at local grocery store, next summer at local web design company, and will intern this summer at a prominent software company in D.C. that does work for the government.
[</em>]Volunteer/Community service: School has us do 25 hours each year. I will be finishing the 100 before my senior year starts in time for applications. In D.C. this summer, I'll dedicate myself to one place where I can do regular work on weekends.
[<em>]Essays: I'm a decent writer and have a few memorable experiences I can draw from.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: One teacher I have in mind loves me, still deciding on a second
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Should be decent, don't really know him.
[</em>]Additional Rec: Will try to get one from someone at the company I'm interning at in D.C. My dad has mentioned getting something from a from who had a very high government position, but I'm not sure as I don't know him very well personally and it could hurt me.
[<em>]Hook (recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): N/A
[</em>]Personally run a few informational web sites. Together, they have brought me several thousands of dollars in advertising income and that number may very likely rise to a 5 digit number by the time of application.
[<em>]I have done freelance web design and programming in the past. I'm starting to work on a little freelance company to do all that under. Although it will still be a sole-proprietor operation, it will be more official company with a dedicated site and portfolio. It will mainly be a web design and Android app development company. I've heard that schools really like this kind of entrepreneurial thing and I'd love doing it anyway.
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Other[ul]
[</em>]Location: Pennsylvania
[<em>]High School Type: Semi-competitive private prep school
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[li]Gender: Male [/li][/ul]
I know I'm optimistic for most of the colleges I've chosen, but it never hurts to try.</p>
(I’d personally retake the SAT if I were you)</p>