<p>Sounds like your parents are ok with spending 250,000 for your undergrad?</p>
<p>What are you in interested in majoring? Your scores are great but your GPA or rather poor performance in 11th reduces your chances at many of the top 20-30 schools.</p>
<p>@lurkerdad: yeah, i’m just gonna have my gc mention it. </p>
<p>@texaspg: basically, yeah.</p>
<p>but how about the schools i listed? and yeah, unfortunately my mental illness just keeps finding ways to ruin things for me. i swear that i’m a lot better now</p>
<p>Don’t know much about many of the schools listed but GWU and NYU seem reasonable for an admission if you are fullpay.</p>
<p>okay :)</p>
<p>anyone else for the other schools or anything to add?</p>
<p>Google for each school’s Common Data Set and check sections C7 to C12; you can estimate your own statistical chances far better than your HS cohort can!</p>
<p>Your SAT score is phenomenal, and your Junior year GPA is weak but you have a decent cumulative GPA. The reason the additional info section of the common app exists is for people like you. If you have a nonvictimizing explanation about your mental illness with about how that adversely affected you in your grades Junior year coupled with your excellent SAT score and some recommendations, than an adcom can clearly see you are an excellent student who had an unfortunate circumstance.</p>
<p>@ganondorf901: what do you mean by a “nonvictimizing explanation” and by whom? me or my gc?</p>
<p>@vonlost: but i wouldn’t be able to tell if the “long term illness” is a good enough excuse, etc. just by looking at stats</p>
<p>Either I guess, but you don’t want to make it a sob story or make your adcom focus on it too much. Remember it’s not a reason you’ll get in, it’s a reason an adcom should overlook something. Paint yourself as the type of person who is able to and overcame diversity, and that you accomplished this much despite the mental illness. You don’t want to fish for pity, you want the adcom to admire your tenacity, if that makes sense.</p>
<p>edit: although Lukerdad makes a good point and if what (s)he says is true than avoid mentioning it.</p>
<p>“but i wouldn’t be able to tell if the “long term illness” is a good enough excuse, etc. just by looking at stats”</p>
<p>Sure you can: If you’re off the charts at the bottom, illness likely won’t bring you up enough.</p>
<p>I agree with lurkerdad. I suggest chalking up your bad performance to whatever.</p>
<p>All kinds of flags get triggered when you want to bring mental illness into discussion.</p>
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<p>do you think that’s the case for my chances with the colleges that i mentioned?</p>
<p>so would it be best just to ask my gc to state a “longterm illness” that i’ve overcome, without specifying the illness?</p>
<p>When you look at the schools’ CDS pages, what does it tell you?</p>
<p>That sounds like a reasonable GC approach.</p>
<p>I think you’ll be fine for the majority of schools on your list – the only ones I can say that aren’t complete matches are NYU and GWU (which emphasize more of a holistic review). Don’t sweat about it though – your stats are great! 
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<p>Also, I would agree with some of the previous posters who say you shouldn’t mention your mental illness. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world it’s more likely to deter the admissions officer from admitting you.</p>
<p>thanks! do you think i have a chance at nyu and gw? how much of a chance?</p>
<p>@vonlost: can’t i just have your opinion? :(</p>
<p>^ I’d have to look at each school’s CDS to form opinions! :)</p>
<p>^ ヽ(｀Д´)ﾉ</p>
<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>What the hell? You’re worried about getting into NYU or George Washington with those SAT scores and GPA? You definitely have a great chance at all of those schools.</p>
<p>thanks but i highly disagree</p>
<p>and i keep getting mixed responses D: it’s all either here or there</p>
<p>Did you apply early anywhere?</p>
<p>i didn’t apply early ANYWHERE in the hopes of raising my gpa a little and i’m retaking the sat in decemeber to get a 2300+ (well, hopefully that’s what i get)</p>