Rising Junior pre-chances...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a white male, rising junior. I just completed a tour of colleges so I am a little curious as to where I can go...</p>

<p>SAT I: 2070 (M: 720 R: 700 W: 650 (11 essay)) I just finished a PR review course, and I know the writing section will be a lot higher now... reading can probably boost a little too. Might as well be a boost in math also.</p>

<p>Current GPA W: 4.43 UW: 3.72
Projected Graduation GPA: W: 4.6ish UW 3.8ish
Full IB Diploma, Math, Music, English, and History HL. Bio and Spanish SL</p>

<p>Current rank is 35/731. I'm not sure how that will change. Very competitive class. I hope to be in the top ten, or at least twenty.</p>

<p>APs (so far):
World History: 4
Music Theory: 4</p>

<p>ECs:
Marching Band 9-12
Pit Section Leader 10th, 11th, Most likely 12th
Jazz Band: 11th, 12th
Church Band: 9-12th</p>

<p>(Keyboard instruments in marching band, Bass guitar in jazz and church)</p>

<p>Lacrosse
JV 10th, Varsity 11th, 12th
Chief award in 10th (basically best hustle, effort, all that jazz)
(I'm not on a D1 level, but think I could definately be a prospective D3 player)</p>

<p>Soccer
JV 10th, 11th Varsity 12th
(not very passionate about this, I just do it to stay conditioned for lacrosse)</p>

<p>Sophomore, Junior, Senior Class Council</p>

<p>Sophomore year I taught spanish to gifted children at a local elementary school</p>

<p>Junior year I will be tutoring advanced 8th graders in biology, and also be a teacher's assistant for a few hours a week... I will probably do this senior year also.</p>

<p>Colleges I'm looking at: Amherst, Brown, Holy Cross, Boston College, Boston University, Dartmouth, Colgate, HYPS for craps. I want to do philosophy in undergrad, and hopefully also complete some sort of pre-law track. Amherst and Brown are at the top of my list because of their curriculum... plus absolutely love their campuses.</p>

<p>I have one commonapp essay done, and I've been told it's wonderful by some PR people. It made my mom cry... haha.</p>

<p>I just really want to get out of state, so please be honest with me.</p>

<p>Thank you for your time.</p>

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<p>EC's are strong, grades may be a little on the weak side (at your school, how is the gpa computed- what classes are weighted, and is any weight given to +/- grades?), test scores are okay but could be better. Try taking the ACT as well; I had a very similar SAT score but I got 99th percentile on the ACT</p>

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<p>All IB classes are weighted 5.0 out of 4.0 pre-IB and honors are 4.5... electives are 4. +/- grades don't show up at all. Basically I'm averaging 5 A's and 2 B's each year...</p>

<p>I'll look into the SAT. I remember that when I took it a few years back, I did much better on it than the SAT that I took within the same general time span...</p>

<p>Thanks for the input.</p>

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<p>Bump...</p>

<p>Man, I just found out our lacrosse coach moved... I hope we find someone... that's probably my favorite EC :(.</p>