<p>I’m looking personally at either UPenn Wharton or SEAS, or Fu Foundation @ Columbia (Not sure which one will be ED yet). Those are my reaches. Anyways, here is what my things are so far, please give advice :)</p>
<p>GPA:
Freshman; 3.54 (Note: Close family member fell into a coma at this time, she had raised me generally as a kid since my parents had to work a lot to make money. I felt really really bad around this time so I just thought “**** school”) (All Honors, Math and Science one year accelerated)
BAD SAT II: Biology Molecular 630</p>
<p>Sophmore: 3.8 , 3.9 w/o Art (One of 20 kids to take an AP class out of 450. One of 5 to get a 5 on exam)
SAT II: Chemistry 780</p>
<p>Junior: Hardest Possible Courseload, 2 APs, self studying 5 other APs. Honors Physics, Honors Precalc.
BAD PART: Will TEMPORARILY Drop foreign language (German 4). Taking German Regents self-study along with German Proficency exam offered by the German American Embassy, and will skip to College-level German 5 in 12th.</p>
<p>Senior: Will have a lot of AP’s. </p>
<p>**Extracurriculars<a href=“Years%20end%20at%20projected%20year%20end”>/B</a>
- Math League 9-12 (No leadership)</p>
<li><p>Student Goverment 9-12 (Vice President, ALso will try to become the student member of the Board of Education. Hopefully senior year president.)</p></li>
<li><p>10-12. Founded/president Volunteer group that plays music at old people’s homes. </p></li>
<li><p>Cross Country 9-12, Junior Varsity. </p></li>
<li><p>Young High School Democrats - 11-12. Will be founder/president of a club at my school next year. Running for Regional Director. Personally I believe if I get the regional director (he/she manages about 6 states) it will be a hook.</p></li>
<li><p>Movement for the US Public Service Academy - 11,12 - State Youth Council, will organize big campaigns this year@school.</p></li>
<li><p>Model UN 9-12 (Vice President, hopefully president in senior, nothing useful here. No Awards.)</p></li>
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<p>AP’s in my school I DONT plan on taking: AP Studio Art, AP Music Theory (sorry, hardest courseload my *** those ones shouldnt be AP’s) By end of senior year total will be around 7 AP Classes, with about 13 AP Tests. </p>
<p>Awards I’m Working On:</p>
<ul>
<li>Davidson’s Fellow in Philosophy </li>
<li>JFK Profile in Courage Essay Contest</li>
<li>Some other essay contests for money</li>
<li>Will take AMC in January</li>
<li>Prob will get National AP Scholar at end of Junior Year</li>
<li>Prob will get National Merit Semifinalist or Commended, mabye Finalist</li>
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<p>SATs: Practice tests projected around 2250 medium. Will take SAT II World History, Math IIC, and Physics, expecting 750+.</p>
<p>Biggest Problem: Unweighted Class Rank; Top 15% (Lots of stupid people who take the easiest courseload and get perfect scores…they disgust me BADLY. The whole top 10% is filled by these grade grubbers). This year I plan to go all out on grades to raise my rank, so I’ll prob get into the bottom half of the top 10%. No Top 5% or Val for me : (</p>
<p>I’m pointing out the bad parts of my application because I believe they are serious things that might substantially hurt me at the admission process at elite schools. Any comment on how adcoms would look personally at the negative faults in comparison to the rest would be great.</p>
<p>Any suggestions on what would make me the best possible candidate for Wharton/Fu Foundation? I’m also looking at RPI, Cornell, Duke, MIT, and some others as reach-dream schools (I already have ideas of about 6 safeties, even though its so early still. I’m ultra-ultra pessimistic). Thanks!</p>