Please Chance Me

<p>Schools I'm interested in:
Georgia-Tech (in state)
University of Georgia (in state)
Emory University (in state)
University of Florida
New York University
Georgetown University
University of Virginia
Johns Hopkins University
Duke University
University of Pennsylvania
(Applying to engineering program in most schools)</p>

<p>Stats: Male Indian. Resident of Georgia. The school I go to is fairly average. I'm going to be a senior next year.</p>

<p>SAT: CR (690), M (720), W(760). Total is 2170. (I'm wondering if I should retake it)
SAT II: BioE: 720. Going to take Math II, English, and Chemistry this year. (Hoping for at least a 700 on each)
GPA:Unweighted- 3.92, Weighted- (I'm calculating this by giving each of my honors and AP courses a quality point) 4.47
Class Rank: App. 18/675</p>

<p>For first two years of high school I lived in California and for the last two I lived in Georgia. My classes and EC's might appear a little disjointed because of this.
Freshman Year Classes
9th English Honors: B+/A
Health 1st Sem: A
European History Honors 2nd Sem: A
Geometry Honors: A/A
Biology Honors: A/A
Marching Band/ Drumline: A/A
Orchestra: A/A
French II: A/A</p>

<p>Sophomore Year Classes
10th English Honors: B+/A
World History Honors: A/A
Algebra II Honors: A/A
AP Biology: A/A
Marching Band/ Drumline: A/A
Orchestra: A/A
French III: A/A</p>

<p>Junior Year (Starting this year I'm in Georgia and in block schedule)
1st Semester
AP English Lang.: A
APUSH: A
AP Prep Chemistry: A
Concert Band: A
AP Statistics: A
2nd Semester
AP English Lang: A
APUSH: A
AP Chemistry: B
AP Prep Analysis: A
Concert Band: A</p>

<p>Summer Course: Amer. Lit- A (New School didn't count my sophomore English course in California)</p>

<p>Senior Year Schedule (School has decided to go back to normal year-around schedule):
AP English Lit.
AP Amer. Gov.
AP Macroecon.
AP Physics B (Physics C isn't available)
AP World Geography (New school requires geography credit.)
AP Calculus AB (New schools is making BC two periods long so I can't fit it.)
Wind Ensemble</p>

<p>AP Results: Biology- 5
Microeconomics (self studied)- 4
Awaiting- AP Eng Lang- Hoping 4 or 5
APUSH- Same as above
AP Statistics- Same as above
AP Chemistry- Same as above </p>

<p>EC's: -Orchestra, as a class for Freshman and Sophomore, plus Honor Orchestra outside of school for Freshman and Sophomore (New school doesn't have orchestra)
-Marching Band for Freshman, Sophomore, and Senior years.
-Indoor Drumline for Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior years.
-Superior rating on Solo performance at Georgia Solo and Ensemble Festival.
-3rd place at Georgia Literature Conference (Male timed essay)
-Red Cross for Freshman and Sophomore (New school had a poorly run club)
-Boy Scouts for Freshman and Sophomore (No troop near my new home)
-National Honor Society since Sophomore year.
-HOSA for Junior and Senior year. (Old school didn't have group)
-Volunteen program for Johns Creek Emory Hospital (Had to write college application-type essay and get 2 recommendations, less than 20 percent accepted)
-Mu Alpha Theta, math honor society in Senior year.
-Tutoring at Kumon Center in Senior year.
-Gave a presentation on Social Action and Environmental Science at Chapman University and received a letter of recommendation for the professor. </p>

<p>Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Please give the most honest feedback possible. Also, will colleges take the fact that I switched to a school in a different state when they look at my form?</p>

<p>waitlist: penn + duke
in: the rest</p>

<p>pretty good scores, but not stellar (750+/800's). so you'll have to depend a lot on your essays and teacher recs. amaze the adcoms and your in at Upenn and duke.</p>

<p>Thanks. Do you think it'd be worth it to take the SAT I again?</p>

<p>gotta bump this thread</p>

<p>well it couldn't hurt to retake and bring the CR score up by 20+ points...idk how much that would help, but a higher score can only help</p>

<p>If you wamt to be an engineer Ga Tech is the place for you, Especailly with the very generous Georgia tuition grants. To my knowledge none of the other schools you list are known as engineering schools (Well maybe UVA)</p>

<p>You are in at GA Tech. It's not that hard to get into that school.
But if you get into John Hopkins or Duke..etc.. go there. =D</p>

<p>When I said engineering I meant to say that I want to do it as a pre-med major. For the colleges that don't have engineering, I'd probably just do science.</p>

<p>Buuuuuuump</p>