<p>State: New York [Public School where we send around 2 kids a year to ivys]
White Female
Class Year: 2009
Major: Chemical Engineering</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 Unweighted [hardest possible classes]
SAT I: Math: 690 Writing&CR: 590/590. 1870
SAT II: Awaiting scores
ACT: 31
Class Rank: Top 10 of 650+</p>
<p>Laundry List:
Foreign Language Honor Society
Spanish Club,
Drama Club
Class Government
Business Alliance
Varsity Bowling</p>
<p>Leadership:
Chamber of Commerce (Student Representative)
Math Team (Treasurer)
Science Olympiad (Secretary --> President),
National Honor Society (Junior Secretary/Chapter Treasurer),
Business Honor Society (Secretary --> President)
DECA: Executive Official/ Vice President</p>
<p>Community Service:
Chambers of Commerce: [50+hours]
- Cleanups
- Easter Egg Roll Events
- Carnivals
- Monthly Meetings
Relay for Life: (Co-Captain) Raised over $250 per year
Special Education Summer School[300 hours]</p>
<p>Summers
Westbury College [Math]
Stonybrook University [Forensics]</p>
<p>Awards
Battle of the Books: 6-8th [Advance division 9th -10th, 11th ]
- Led the Team to 3 County Battle of the Books Championships
- Placed 2nd in 2007 and 3rd in 2008
RYLA- Came back as a facilitator in 2008</p>
<p>Schools (Pretty much in order of preference):
UPENN
Columbia
Cornell
Brown
Carnegie Mellon
Northwestern
University of Michigan: Ann Harbor</p>
<p>Thank you :) I do have safety schools that I am applying to btw.</p>
<p>As posted above, I'm pretty sure "white" isn't an URM :p
My ACT converts to 2040 which seems decent, if not low.
Although I take AP English, I'm more of a math science student, and it tends to show on tests. Such as a 34 in Math ACT but a 29 in English =/</p>
<p>I think you're in at the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon, but probably not the others. Some advice: apply to U of M as early as possible, around September. They have rolling admissions, and I know someone who got into Princeton and waitlisted at Michigan simply because he applied close to the February deadline.</p>
<p>Yes, they have an early-notification deadline, but after that it's rolling. My advice is just to make that deadline or apply soon after. My friend who applied in February didn't hear back until mid-April, and he was waitlisted.</p>
<p>Get that app completed to Michigan by mid September and you should get in by December (assuming essays and recs are in line). Just submit the ACT to Michigan because a 31 is more than enough to get in. If money is not a concern then apply to your top choice among the other colleges ED. ED at Penn will give you a big leg up because the admit rate is twice that of the RD admit rate. If you have any questions about Penn (or even Michigan and Cornell because many of my close friends go there) feel free to PM me.</p>
<p>As they have essay topics up now, I have started to right them. The questions actually suit me well, since I do a lot of community projects that I could use :)
I'll apply as soon as I get my recs in September :)</p>
<p>Money, however, is an issue. Therefore, I can't apply ED anywhere, as much as I would love to ED Penn. I'll be sure to pm you :)</p>
<p>You have a great gpa and class rank as well as ec's so that does help a lot. Are you taking the ACT's or SAT's again? It would definitely help to bring up those scores. Obviously, your satII math was great but physics and us are not real impressive.</p>
<p>Keep working at it all and as others have said, apply as early as you can.</p>