<p>Asian Male from one of the more competitive high schools in Central New Jersey
GPA(weighted): around 3.86 Freshmen year, around 3.3 Sophomore year, 3.90 junior year
I missed a whole entire sophomore year due to personal illnesses and family obligations, and had to repeat. In fact I had to go back to China that year to resolve some of those family obligations. My counselor explained my circumstances very well in the rec. My soph year GPA dropped significantly due to a year of absence and I was just not mentally ready. rigor of courses is good.(mostly aps and honors)
Senior Year Courses:
Physics Honors（B+）
German 4 Honors(A+)
AP Calc AB(took a p/f since my health is not in the best shape, my counselor recommended this to reduce my pressure. not sure if that was the best decision)
AP European History(B)
AP Statistics(A)
AP English II (B- or B)
SATs: 2180 first time, 2240 second time, super score 2300 780 math, 750 verbal, 770 writing. essay 12
SATIIs: 790 Chinese(moved here in 2001), 650 bio, 690 chem, 690 US hisotry. i dont know why i do poorly on satiis
Ecs
biology lab aid
170+hours of community service
run my own language camp in china over the summer
research in science(waksman)
freshmen soccer, had to quit because of health conditions
Asian club(lol)
here are the schools i applied to:
Boston College(deferred early action)
University of Chicago(reject EA)
Michigan(arts and sciences and ross)
NYU Stern
Carnegie Mellon(tepper)
Columbia University
Emory
Northwestern
Rutgers Pharmacy(accepted)
Vanderbilt
Washington U in St Louis(Olin)
First generation college student, if you have other college choices that you want to recommend please let me know. thank you for the help</p>
<p>your profile looks fantastic other then your GPA... which is undoubtedly holding you back from your top choice schools... and schools are getting a little more cautious with the "person sob story" thing... I am sure you have a darned good reason for it... but a bad GPA (especially sophmore year, and some junior year), can hurt you...</p>
<p>well i dont know exactly what deferred means, but i would think youd get into BC also, NYU, carnegie mellon, Emory, and Vandy are all pretty good matches, the others are a reach because of your gpa, but if you explained about that in your essays then you have a decent chance at northwestern, and maybe Wash U, michigan youre in and i dont think you could get into columbia, not many kids can</p>
<p>chance me back at
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/635725-chance-me-i-will-chance-back.html#post1061639482%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/635725-chance-me-i-will-chance-back.html#post1061639482</a></p>