<p>Applying to; WashU, Williams, UChicago, Northwestern, Harvard, Yale, UPenn, Columbia, Dartmouth</p>
<p>Grades: 3.65 Unweighted, 5.75 Weighted (I'm in the IB Diploma Program with no class rankings).
Skipped a grade, therefore the courses that I took as a 12-year-old brought down GPA...
Sophomore, Junior, and most likely first semester Senior year GPA is around a 3.85 and I've heard that improvement is crucial anyway</p>
<p>SAT: CR-750, M-720, W-800 (Took it once in January, good enough :P)
SAT II: Just got them today, 720 Lit and 720 Bio-E (which I understand are two of the least-inflated and/or hardest tests, Lit killed me)</p>
<p>AP's: 5 Eng. Lit, 5 AP Euro, 4 Psych, 4 APUSH </p>
<p>Extracurrics:</p>
<p>Concertmaster of School Orchestra, violin
All-State Orchestra, 1st violins
1st violins in City's youth orchestra
Competitions everywhere... probably upwards of 1500 hours in high school. Love music.</p>
<p>Fencing, competed nationally, not that good but eh in the top third nationally, I do put effort in, won a few regional competitions.</p>
<p>Service:
Designed a project that raised over $3000 for children in my area to purchase backpacks filled with school supplies, upwards of 420 backpacks</p>
<p>Lived in Cambodia over the summer, helped at an orphanage, repaired temples, other cool stuff.</p>
<p>Essays: Top-quality (trying to avoid bias, but perhaps the strongest part of my apps is the writing).</p>
<p>Recommendations: Top 5% for both teachers, I'm pretty sure, probably top 1% half of the categories. I have a great impression with them.</p>
<p>Legacy at Harvard and Columbia</p>
<p>So, what are my chances? Did you apply with a similar-sounding resume, and if so, did you get in? I really want to go to WashU, Dartmouth, Yale, or Williams, and am applying for 3 merit scholarships at WashU and have shown a ton of interest by visiting all schools except yale and harvard.</p>