<p>Hey I am An upper-middle Class White Male Sophomore(class '08). I attend one of the best Private Schools in Miami, Florida. I am withing top 10-15%(actual # unknown, my school doesnt do that)</p>
<p>My Grades are as follows:
9th Grade:
Ancient History - B
Honors Biology - B
Ceramic Art I - A
English(Lit Genres) - B
Honors Geometry - A
Language Arts Seminar - A
PE/Health - A
Spanish Level III - B
Unweighted GPA - 3.5
Weighted GPA - 3.625
P.PSAT - 1150</p>
<p>10th Grade:
World Lit - B
AlgII/Trig/H - B
Honors Chemistry - B
Mod World Hist - B
Spanish Level IV - B+
Intro To Philosophy - B+
Ceramic Art II - A+
World Religions - B+
Web Design - B+
Unweighted GPA - 3.33
Weighted GPA - 3.44
PSAT - 1300 (Not includin writing)</p>
<p>11th Grade Core Schedule:
AP Biology
Honors Physics
Honors Pre-Calculus
Honors History
Honors English
Spanish Level V
+AP Stats+(maybe if i have the time)</p>
<p>SAT II's and anticipated Score(11th Grade Year):
SAT II Biology - <700
AP Psychology- 4 or 5
AP Biology- 5</p>
<p>EC(My weakest qualities):
Shadow Influential Cardiac Surgeon Over Summer(would watch procedures,etc)
Shadow Influential Plastic Surgeon Over Summer
Camp Counselor at Aquatics Camp - 2 summers
Camp Counselor at General Camp - 1 winter
Lacrosse JV (9th and 10th)
Lacrosse V (11th and 12th)
Swimming V(11th and 12th)
Debate Team (11th and 12th)
Volunteer at Hospital 4 Months(8hrs a week)
Anchor Club (11th and 12th)
Key Club (11th and 12th)
National Honor Society (11th and 12th)
7th grade Duke T.I.P SAT Student for Math - Scored 1050</p>
<p>Anticipated SAT - <1450 or <2100 w/ writing (UM as well as others dont look at writing i believe)</p>
<p>I will have excellent essays and rec's and possible alumni/donator connections to the schools i apply to.</p>
<p>I would like to know the best school I have a chance at.
I am most likely going to end up at University of Miami but would like my other options. Thanks a lot to everyone that help.</p>
<p>I am hoping to get into the accelerated Med. Program as i aspire to be a Plastic Surgeon. If not i am unsure of what i will put as my major, but something that has to do with pre-med. If i can i would double major in business and my medical major.</p>
<p>Yes I agree with Lamdun your GPA is pretty low. You might have a chance if you do amazingly well in your eleventh grade and back it up with an amazing midyear report but even then you'd have a small chance...</p>
<p>If Stanford is your dream school and you have the $70 or so to spend, you might as well try, but expect that it might not work out. Otherwise you'll probably always wonder "what if..."</p>
<p>Hell, why not waste your seventy dollars on Stanford. it would only drive up their apps numbers and selectivity. I'm sure Shaw would be happy to have you apply</p>
<p>If you have the time and money, apply to Stanford. A school like Stanford is a reach for just about everyone, and you never know what could happen between now and decision time that might increase your chances. Also, none of us can really evaluate your GPA, since we don't know how your school grades. If A's are truly rare, and Stanford is aware of that, your B's will look a lot better to them. </p>
<p>Another school I'd apply to, given your strong interest in medicine, is Rice, for the combined pre-med/med program with Baylor. But hard to beat having UMiami as your most likely destination ;) .</p>
<p>If your post was entirely serious, Trixee, here's a response:</p>
<p>The realist in me has to laugh at Trixee's post.</p>
<p>The first thing Stanford, as well as all top tier schools, look at is GPA and a student's transcript. They re-emphasize that point on virtually every tour. If you search the Undergrad Admissions page or ask an admssions counselor, they'll give you the same answer as well.</p>
<p>If that's true then why don't all perfect applicant's get accepted? There are far more applicant's with perfect grades and SAT scores that get rejected, and sometimes rejected while the applicant with a mediocre GPA, but an outstanding character gets accepted. They emphasize the focus on grades because they need to seem more selective than in actuality when advertising the school, if they said it wasn't all about grades then I'm sure EVERYONE would apply. The Harvard admissions director told me this.</p>
<p>The "overall great person" needs great (or at least good) grades to back them up. We forget so often that college is an ACADEMIC experience above all else. As nice and morally upstanding a person may be, without a stellar academic and/or athletic/ec background, they'll get eaten alive in the college admissions process.</p>
<p>true, but don't most applications ask if there are any sudden drops in grade and to explain why if so? I know Cornell's application asks. So say someone gets a C because of family issues, are they going to get crushed because of their unfortunate situation?</p>