Resident Honors Program Chances!

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<p>Hi, I'm a high school junior who's going to apply to the Resident Honors Program (early entrance program) at USC. Any input on my chances would be much appreciated :)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.99 my school does not weight GPA's, so I have no idea what that is
SAT II lit: 710
SAT II math IIC: 800
SAT: Taking it Oct. 4 (yikes!) hopefully 2250+</p>

<p>AP tests:
Calc BC: 5
American History: 5
English Literature: 5
Physics C Mechanics: 5</p>

<p>All my core classes are AP/honors. This year my AP classes are:
AP European History
AP Statistics
AP Chemistry
AP Biology
AP US Gov.</p>

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<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>School stuff:
DECA: 3 years, VP (11th grade)
MESA 5 yrs, Officer (10-11th grade)
Debate: 2 yrs, PF captain (11th grade)
Science Club (HOSA, Science Olympiad, etc.): 4 yrs, President (11th)
Key Club: 2 years, Publicity Officer and Scholarship Coordinator (11th)
Swimming: School: 3 yrs. (Varsity all 3 years) Club: 7 yrs
Operation Smile: 2 years
Math Team: 5 yrs
Tennis team: JV 1 year
Mock Trials 2 yrs.</p>

<p>Outside of school:
American Regional Math League: 3 years
Hospital volunteer: 50 hrs
Research Lab aide: 200+ hrs
Math tutor: 20 hrs</p>

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<p>Awards:
Swimming MVP in 9th grade, top five in state for 3 years
National Merit Semi-finalist (hopefully will change to finalist)
ARML team top 10 nationally
Craptons of debate and swimming
Science Olympiad: top 2 in state in 3 events in 9th grade
State Math award 2 years</p>

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<p>Summer stuff:
Girls Engineering program ('07)
Summer Math Program ('08)
Nike Swim Camp ('06)</p>

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<p>I'd be surprised if you didn't make it in. I know a lot of people who didn't have nearly as great of stats as you did and still got in. And I might add, they're loving USC right now.</p>

<p>Geez, you already have Calc BC under your belt. Are you in CA, and if so what high school do you go to?</p>

<p>Sam
(RHP class of '09)</p>

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<p>Your qualifications sound great!</p>

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<p>so I'm assuming you're a junior as you're applying to the resident honor's program... so how can you possibly be a national merit semi-finalist already?</p>

<p>correct me if I'm wrong but I thought you couldn't qualify for any awards your sophomore year during the PSAT, and the PSAT hasn't even been offered for your junior year so how could you possibly already be a national merit semi-finalist? </p>

<p>just wondering. excellent qualifications btw. :)</p>

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<p>you look pretty good. aside from GPA and test score, the RHP admissions ppl really want interesting students with unique EC's.</p>

<p>-socks, RHP class of 2011</p>

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<p>socks, does that mean that an interesting student with unique EC's but "bad" test scores [lower test scores] could get admission over someone with great test scores and unoriginal EC's ? </p>

<p>i'm taking the SATs in December, and i'm reallllly worried about my scores.</p>

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<p>Yes, I was also wondering about the NMSF thing.
Finally found another RHP applicant!
Join our thread at <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/581419-rhs-resident-honors-program-2009-a.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/581419-rhs-resident-honors-program-2009-a.html&lt;/a> ?</p>