Reapplicant for 11th grade.

Prep School Admissions Prep School Chances
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LONG COPY-POST INCOMING

I’m applying to be a junior, I am currently a junior.

Hi All!

I live in Texas and I am an Indian Male.

I am a current junior, looking at my chances of getting into the above prep schools (mostly Exeter). Long Post incoming:

Rank:
1/666

GPA:
on a 100 point scale i have a 104.4 to 104.8 (5 points for every Pre-AP/Honors, and 8 points for AP)
Is this 4.0?

Classes—(My school restricts classes to what you can take, we got new counslers my junior year, so I was able to bypass that)

Freshman:
Bio Pre-AP
GT Leadership Pre-AP
English 1 Pre-AP
World Geo Pre-AP
Orchestra 1
Alg II Pre-AP
Latin 1
Compsci AP (5)

Sophomore: (I got 4s, I got f’ed.)
AP Enviromental Science (5)
AP Phyiscs 1 (4)
AP Biology (4)
AP Wold History (4)
Chem Pre-AP
English 2 Pre-AP
PreCal Pre-AP
Latin II Pre-AP

Junior:
AP Stats
AP Calc BC
AP Phyiscs C
AP Chem
AP English 3
AP US History
Advanced Data Structures (CS2)

Extra Circ:
Science Bowl Captain (since Freshman Year)
-Went to Nationals my freshman year
-(also went 8th, but idk if that matters)
Quiz Bowl Captain (since Freshman Year)
-started team, got to national ranking my sophomore year
-Went to nationals my Sophomore year
-Ranked top 6 Sophomores in the country (out of around 300-400 at nationals) Rising Star Award (This is supposed to
be a big part of my resume)
History Bowl Captain (Since Freshman year)
-State Champions JV division
-Best JV player in State (History Bee)

Eagle Scout
-working to get 3 palms

Member of local community teen leadership council (meets every week)
-tutoring service embedded

UIL STEM subjects (since freshman year)
-multiple top chem, bio, and physics titles

What I’m doing this year to catch up:
Applying to be a Texas HAS aerospace scholar

Running for Mu Alpha Theta President

Running for NHS president

Joined the School Robotics Team
They have made worlds the last 4 out of 5 years for FRC
They may or May not make it this year, its possible

Doing research on Gravitational Waves with local head of physics department at university
Phyiscs and Algoritihim based project- will enter into local fair to qualify for ISEF
-local fair takes 8/500 (with about 200 of them being dumb projects), so 8/300.
Its iffy, but I think my project is very solid, as long as I finish it, I’m very far behind, but it may or may not fall through- idk
yet.

Creating an Ocean Bowl team (captain) , going to the regional competition to qualify for nationals.
-if we win regs, we go directly to nationals. its possible, but i have to find time to study for it.

Going to History Bowl Nationals

  • This is quite easy to qualify for, so its almost positive ill qualify.

Joining History Fair, they made it to nationals freshman year (without me), and state last year. Most likely state this year, nationals is TBD.

Trying to get National Merit
I was 201 Sophmore year- I know its low, Working really really hard to get it up

Trying to hit >2300 SAT
I haven’t taken it yet, going to take it 6 times I think between now and application time. Thoughts? Extra practice?

ACT 35 to 36?
Also haven’t taken it yet. Thoughts? I’m doing my best to get on that.

Self Studying for Physics, Biology, and Chemistry Olympiad.
Trying to get top 20 camp in at least one. Its ALOT of work, but I think that if I don’t waste any time at all, I can do it.

Haven’t taken any SAT subject tests, should I take all 10 except languages? If I have the time, I can do it I think?
Thoughts? How many would you recommend?

Founding a Non-Profit with 2 other friends. I am leading the effort. We are still planning what we are doing, but we plan to hit state wide, and hopefully semi-national/ in other countries by this time next year. We have a calender, and we are trying to stick to it.

Attempting to qualify for UIL state science.

Summary for New things:

Ocean Bowl- iffy if going to nationals

History Bowl- I am going to nationals

Science Bowl- Good chance of going, flukes could happen

Quiz Bowl- For sure going to nationals

History Fair-For sure state, not sure about nationals

Robotics-For Sure SuperRegionals, not sure about Nationals

ISEF- This could happen, but I have to be good

HAS Aerospace scholar- no idea on chances

MuAlphaTheta President- This could happen

NHS president - This could happen

National Merit- Jesus I hope so

SAT- 2300 to 2400 ? Lets hope

ACT- 35 to 36 Maybe?

NonProfit- This will happen with brute force, I’m really pushing it

Chem/Physic/Bio Oly- This is unrealistic, but maybe?

UIL state science- I can do this.

  • all the other things from the other years

I know Java, and am teaching myself C++ for Robotics, should I learn something else as well?

Sleep is not considered

Now you know this, What are my chances assuming I hit most of the things on my list? (ISEF, and OLY are low at best) Can I get into those schools ( specifically exeter)? I know its a list, but I think I want to shoot it from the angle of a “thirst for knowledge”? I actually do like competing, and I have a passion in competing in “bowls” they area alot of fun, and I like the rush. Plus academic competitions have always been my strong point.

I know it looks I’m trying too hard, do I have to change things? I love math science, but I also really like history and stuff. I really just like knowledge, but I feel like my resume will look like I am boosting my resume. I like STEM more however though.

I also cannot pay for the tuition. I’m looking into getting financial aid, we make about 86k per year. only on my dad’s income + debt.

This post was copied for my chance me to HYPSM post, it seems that the Exeter applications are due in January. This doesn’t give me alot of time to add to my resume, what do you guys think?

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Pranj

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LOL! You are hilarious!

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You seem like a very intelligent person. The only thing that worries me is that you have too many things going on. Schools want to see kids extremely passionate about a few things, and see you excelling at those few things. A common misconception is that you need to be apart of everything in order to be accepted. So before applications are due, I would say choose a few clubs that you are most dedicated to, and forget about all the other stuff you are trying to create. When you have so many things you are part of, it is hard to see which ones you are most passionate about. I hope this made sense…

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what does this mean panpacific?

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Thank you ajsmiles! I really do love to compete in alot of them, could I only write a few to which I actually excell at in my resume?

Thanks Pranj

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I wrote in your HYPSM thread already. You seem to be confused. Do you want boarding school or college? While you certainly have the numbers you will come across as a try-hard.

Boarding schools admissions are a different ballgame. Given that you need FA the chances are slim. The number of spots for repeat 11th graders are few.

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@sgopal2 I ultimately want to go to college. But I thought going to boarding school would offer me a chance to kind of diversify and find time to think and do other things.

I agree, I am confused. I’m not sure if I even want to repeat 11th grade and lose a year. But I feel that if I apply to prestigious university from a better school, having done more concentrated things that I like, i’d have a better chance and could take time to “find my passion”.

Thanks and sorry if I come off as a jerk, just confused and looking for guidance.

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Going to BS will probably not help you get into a better college. It will help you prepare for the rigors of college. I personally would not do BS as an unhooked student like you.

Do some soul searching. Figure out what makes you tick and then focus your efforts. Getting into a brand name college is not the be-all-end-all.

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Yes you should only write about a few things that you do. And also adding on to sgopal, you really need to think about why it is you want to go to BS. If its to get into a good college its certainly not the right reason to go.

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I’m very surprised you haven’t thought about writing a novel.

Starting a non-profit. Check
Trying to win Intel ISEF. Check
Physics, Biology, Chemisrty Olympiads. Check
Attend top BS. Check
Yada, yada, yada. Check
Write novel. ???