<p>Background:
Asian (Indian) male from a well-known public high school in New Jersey.
Majoring in business.</p>
<p>Stats:
3.49 UW GPA, 3.98 W GPA (downward trend with C junior year)
1490/2220 SAT (800 math, 690 critical reading, 730 writing)
800 Math Level 2, 660 Physics
Rigorous Courseload with 5 APs and 10 Honors
No Class Rank or Percentile</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
1. Games Club (9-12)-Secretary
2. Economics Club (10-12)-Co-founder, Secretary
3. FBLA (10-12)
4. Debate Club (10-12)
5. Teaching English to orphans in India (summer 2009)
6. Business Internship (summer 2009)
7. Volunteering-library (summers 2006-2009), hospital (10-11)
8. Party-time employment as lifeguard (10-12)
9. Music-Trumpet for school band (9-12), Piano (9-12)</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
National Merit Commended (217 PSAT)
Piano Certificate</p>
<p>Essays/Recs:
Essays: Good
Teacher Recs: Great
Guidance Counselor Rec: Decent</p>
<p>Colleges:
NYU Stern ED
Boston College
University of Southern California
Emory
Villanova
Lehigh
Illinois
Penn State
Maryland
Rutgers</p>
<p>I think your GPA will hurt you a bit but everything else looks great. It’s tough to say but here’s what I think:</p>
<p>NYU - High match
BC - Match / High match
USC - High match
Emory - Low reach
Villanova - High match
Illinois - Match / High match
PSU - Match
Maryland - Low match / Safety</p>
<p>I don’t know about Lehigh and Rutgers. Just my two cents but good luck!!</p>
<p>NYU- high match
BC- match
USC- match
Emory- high match/low reach
Villanova- match
Illinois- in
PSU- in
Maryland- in
Lehigh- low match
Rutgers- match</p>
<p>NYU - Low Reach
BC - High Match
USC - High match
Emory - Don’t really know
Villanova - Match
Illinois - Match
PSU - Match
PennState - Low Reach / High Match
Maryland - Safety
Rutgers - Safety</p>
<p>Don’t really know how your grades are relative to the other people in your class, but your gpa seems to be suffering a bit. dunno what you mean by piano certificate - i hope you’ll be more specific in your college app though. Have you taken any AP Tests? I saw you took the courses but didn’t see any tests.</p>
<p>Ubbajabba, PSU and PennState are the same thing. Maybe you meant Lehigh for one of them?
By “piano certificate,” I mean some award that I got but I will not go further into that for anonymity. If you want to know more about that, feel free to PM me. I took AP tests, but not sending them. I did not do so well, and my counselor said that they are not used for admissions purposes anyways.</p>
<p>NYU-slight reach
BC- high reach
USC- match
Emory- high match/low reach
Villanova- match
Illinois- in
PSU- in
Maryland- in
Lehigh- low match
Rutgers- in</p>
<p>NYU Stern ED- very high match, good luck!
Boston College- low reach
University of Southern California- high match
Emory- high match
Villanova- low match
Lehigh- match?
Penn State- low reach/ high match
the other ones i have absolutely no ideas about the schools, sorry!</p>