Please tell me where I stand!

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<p>9TH:
(I messed up BIG TIME due to personal reasons.)
English-B(60-80)marks
Math-C(50-60)marks
Science-C
Social Sciences-B
Computer Science-B
French-B</p>

<p>10TH:
English-A(80-100)marks
Math-A
Science-A
Social Science-A
Computers-A
French-A</p>

<p>11TH(Marks)
English-80 (Class avg-65)
Math-73 (Class avg-65)
Accountancy-79 (Class avg-70)
Business Studies-90 (Class avg-82)
Economics-85 (Class avg-77)</p>

<p>12TH(Marks)(Half-Yearlies)
English-80 ( Class avg-65)
Math-82 (Class avg-60)
Business Studies-92 (Class avg-82)
Economics-84 (Class avg-75)
Accountancy-82 (Class avg-70)</p>

<p>SAT - 2130 ( CR- 630, MATH- 700, WRITING- 800) Going to give it again in Oct. to get CR up.(expecting 700 plus in CR this time.)
SUBJECT TESTS:
Math 1-710.
Literature- Giving in November, expecting 700-750.
TOEFL-110.</p>

<p>Won 2 Green Badges for excellence in Academic Performance.</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activities:
-Editor of the School's English Magazine.
-Played guitar for 5 years, won small talent shows and stuff, nothing big. Also participated in a rock school guitar course, currently giving Grade 3. Merit for Grade 1 Exam.
-Played football for 6-7 years, captained my football camp team and played for my school team.
-Played golf for a couple of years, won some minor stuff.
-Written articles that have been published in the school magazine, and hoping to get articles published in a local daily.
-Played the keyboard for 5 years, again, won some minor competitions.</p>

<p>Social Work:
-Worked for a year and a half as head coach at a NGO that aids underprivileged children by teaching them sports.
-Helped organize the annual 'Abylympics' for disabled people.</p>

<p>Work Experience:
-Worked as an intern at 'Helpage' India, a NGO set upon helping the underprivileged elderly.
-Also helped design their new website.</p>

<p>Please let me know where I stand. I am not going to be applying for any Financial Aid. I wish to go to a school with a strong Liberal Arts Curriculum. Any suggestions?</p>

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<p>You need to make a chart with some of the following criteria-List about 15-20 colleges</p>

<p>Public/Private
Urban/Rural
Size
Acceptance rate
Mid 50 percentile SAT score of accepted students, Class of 2016
Tuition fee
Application deadline
Number of essays required
Scale of Importance given to grades, ECs,Essays,Rigor,SAT scores,Class rank</p>

<p>And any other parameter that you would like to consider. All the info is available on the web and once you do this exercise you will be able to judge for yourself. And you can add/delete colleges to the list as you get along and you should be able to come up with a list of colleges that would be your matches. Ideally one should have 20% dream colleges, 60% matches and 20% safeties in your final list that you will be applying to.</p>

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<p>Well, I do have a tentative list of few colleges:</p>

<p>U Penn
USC
NYU
Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
UC Berkeley
Brandeis</p>

<p>What do you think my chances are? What improvements can I make to my application? </p>

<p>Sent from my GT-I9000 using CC</p>

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<p>Hey I am going o be very Frank with you on this. Chance threads do not serve any purpose other than momentary ego pampering. And nobody can tell you for sure. But if you do the exercise and put your own achievements against those, you will have a fairly good idea.</p>

<p>You already are on your way with good SAT scores, decent grades, and ECs.</p>

<p>I would advise you to start thinking of your essays, start writing the first draft. Deciding the topic and proofreading and finalising takes a while.</p>

<p>And try to use the coming summer with a useful internship related to your program in some way. Always strengthens your case.</p>

<p>Also LORs, help your teachers write a meaningful LOR by giving them a single page snapshot of your achievements. And the teachers who will be writing your LORs should preferably the ones related to your program (Subjects).</p>