<p>Stats:</p>
<p>GPA:3.96 GPA UW, Full IB Diploma
SATs: 2040 SAT I (680R, 670M, 690W), 710BM, 680MII, 540SP(!) SAT IIs
ECs: State Champ debate, Captain, founder of Anti-Death Penalty Club, Founder of an AIDS non-profit</p>
<p>Essays: Ehh
LOR: Good-Very Good
Race/Loc: White, suburban, middle class, Portland OR</p>
<p>Colleges:</p>
<p>Lewis & Clark
Willamette
Grinnell
Macalester
Oberlin
Lawrence</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins
Columbia
Princeton</p>
<p>WORD and THANKS</p>
<p>interesting choices. the first 'group' seems pretty good. you didnt say what your score was without the writing. that is important because most schools dont care for the writing section.</p>
<p>your gpa is really good, especially for ib. with the sat, i doubt the bottom group, but all of the top seem possible.</p>
<p>just curious - you are from oregon, but you are interested in all these really small schools in the mid west. why? used to live there?</p>
<p>figured they would dig on the geographic diversity. i think i'm seriously the only kid in my school applying to any midwestern colleges.</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>Your first grouping of schools looks to be well-chosen. It is possible that you might do well at one of your reach schools with the IB diploma and GPA, and state debate ranking: might as well give it a shot. Best of luck for many options come april.</p>
<p>I say check out Whitman and the Claremonts. Whitman is an incredible school that is well recognized as being very underrated due to its strange location. I have a friend who got into Johns Hopkins with slightly better SAT's. Id say go for all of them.</p>
<p>3.9 UW GPA in IB and a 2040 on the SAT? Highly unlikely, check your UW GPA again. That means you're getting 96 and above in every IB class (which means you're a genius or your school grades easily).</p>
<p>Maybe his school grades 90 = 4.0
89 = 3.0</p>
<p>Thats what my school does</p>
<p>UW stands for un-weighted. my school gives me 4 points for my 89.95</p>
<p>bump bump thanks</p>