<p>I'm leaning to SCEA. I know that Yale is a reach, do you think that waiting for senior year grades would increase my chances?</p>
<p>Female
Hispanic</p>
<p>School: NY, private, all-girls, Catholic school, fairly competitive</p>
<p>GPA: 4.7/5.0 – not sure what this converts to, one counselor told me it was a 3.7, the other said that it was a 4.0+ (I think that the second one was right. At my school, a 4.5 is an A and a 5.0 is an A+. A 4.0 is typically an A, right?)</p>
<p>Rank: school does not rank (but somewhere in the top 10%)</p>
<p>SAT I: 800CR/670M/700W – I will take them again in the fall and hope to improve my math score</p>
<p>SAT II:
Biology E: 660 (Freshman Year – required by school)
Spanish: 730
US History: 690
Math I: 690 – not great, I might take Math II in the fall</p>
<p>APs:
European History – 4 (10th grade)
US History – 4 (11th grade)</p>
<p>Courses: most challenging classes offered at my school, they don’t let you take any APs other than Euro and APUSH before senior year.</p>
<p>ECs:
Model UN (10th-12th grades) - Co-President for 11th and 12th grades
Amnesty International (10th-12th grades) – Secretary 12th grade
Forensics (Speech Team) (10th-12th grades)
Newspaper (9th-10th grades)</p>
<p>Also, Peer Minister (11th and 12th grades) – leadership, service, etc.</p>
<p>Community Service: weak, I volunteer at a soup kitchen 2hrs/week for a few weeks a year</p>
<p>Summer Activities:
Summer 2006: Carnegie Mellon Summer Programs for Diversity: SAMS (Summer Academy for Math and Science) (6wks)</p>
<p>Summer 2007: Summer@Brown: 7wk program for credit, taking classes in undergraduate summer session:
Introductory Calculus I (equivalent to AB Calc) S/NC – will definitely pass
Great Modern European Thinkers (philosophy) ABC/NC – will probably get either an A or B (hoping for an A)</p>
<p>Awards:
-National Latin Exam: 9th grade – silver medal; 10th grade – gold medal; 11th grade – silver medal
-National Merit (Something – Commended Scholar?? Don’t remember and don’t have the letter w/ me now)
-National Hispanic Scholar
-University of Rochester’s Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglas Book Award
-School Awards (English 11H Award, etc)</p>
<p>Senior Year Courses:
AP English
AP Latin
AP Spanish
AP Physics C
AP Calculus (?? – was supposed to take AB, but since I am now taking it at Brown over the summer, I’m not sure. I’m working with my counselor to figure it out)
Government H
Economics H</p>
<p>What do you think?
Thank you!</p>