<p>Gender: M
Location: Philadelphia
College Class Year: 2013
High School: Public</p>
<p>GPA 102.30
Class Rank: 4/250</p>
<p>All Honors/AP classes taken
Language: Chinese 3 </p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars:
DECA (10th,11th, 12th)
NHS (10th, 11th, 12th)
Key Club (10th, 11th, 12th)
Stock Market Club (11th, 12th)
History Club (11th, 12th)
Science Club (9th, 10th)</p>
<p>Leadership positions:
DECA PA STATE VICE PRESIDENT (2008-2009)
DECA Vice President (11th)
DECA President (12th)
Key Club President (12th)
Stock-Market Club - President
Captain - Golf Team
Volunteer Coordinator - Hook A Kid on Golf</p>
<p>Athletic Status - list sport and your level:
Golf JV&Varsity (9th, 10th, 11th) - Captain (both JV and Varsity)
Lacrosse Varsity (9th, 10th)
Tennis Varsity (11th, 12th)</p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work:
Volunteer minimum of 50 hours a year (key club)
Hook A Kid on Golf - (50 hours 2007, 25 Hours 2008)</p>
<p>Honors and Awards:
Golden Falcon (school's highest award) - 9th, 10th, 11th</p>
<p>College Summer programs:
Leadership Camp, George Washington University (DECA)</p>
<p>Actually, I’m not asking whether you think I would get accepted. Quite frankly everyone is going to be qualified and it will be very small nuances that allow certain students the acceptances. I’m just asking whether or not my EC’s look on par with a typical accepted student.</p>
<p>About being all over the place, I just tried to get as much leadership experience as possible. However, my passion is DECA (i.e. being my state’s VP, which is a substantial leadership role) This and being my school’s president is my passion. It is a business/marketing organization. I want to do economics if I were to apply to Princeton and get in.</p>
<p>I got a 29 on the ACT and a 1300/1600 on the SAT
Both of my math scores on both of the tests were significantly higher (710 SAT, 33 ACT) and I’m hoping that wanting to be a econ/math major will help my low reading scores.</p>
<p>I have not taken the SATIIs yet but will probably take the Math I and II and I haven’t decided on a third.</p>
<p>k, the 1300/1600 wont look terribly good, you can always try to boost it though</p>
<p>and i dont think Maths1 AND maths2 is very useful (especially if u only got 710 in SAT1 math) - why not do chinese, thatll look impressive maybe..</p>
<p>as for your EC’s - well theyre impressive, but they sorta have a lot of breadth - and not too much depth..</p>
<p>Yeah, I definitely expected my scores to bring my chances down a whole lot. But I mean with a 9% acceptance rate, why not just go for it; I could get lucky? I plan on writing great essays with a lot of readers in line to check it and correct it. Everything else, like rec’s and all of that will most likely be amazing. I have great relationships with a lot of my teachers.</p>
<p>I know my EC’s cover a broad area of interests, but I do dedicate a lot of time to every single one and have a lot of leadership in most of them. DECA, the business club is by far the one I’m most involved in. </p>
<p>As far as scores: I think I am going to take the ACT’s one more time and the SAT2’s…so hopefully they don’t hurt me any more.</p>
<p>Thanks for everyone’s advice, I appreciate the honesty</p>
<p>Your EC’s look pretty solid, your GPA is okay. Essays, interview, letters of rec, SAT scores, and SAT subject scores are all huge factors though.</p>
<p>1) I don’t think the process is as random as your making it out to be. It’s not like everyone has a 9% chance of acceptance and those who get in were just lucky enough to “win the lottery” for a spot. In fact if there weren’t so many people with the “oh well, I might get lucky” mentality, then the admissions rate wouldn’t be as low in the first place.</p>
<p>2) “I plan on writing great essays.” hahaha, ok.</p>
<p>3) If you got your SAT up to about 2200 then you would have a great chance. But at this point, I don’t know how possible that’s going to be.</p>