<p>Canadian Student from a small BC town.
Male, Caucasian</p>
<p>Admitted to University of Toronto Rotman School of Management (taking a gap year and deciding to apply to some US schools during this time)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9 unweighted (Average: 88% unweighted, 94% weighted) -Top 5% in grad class
Only 1 AP (my school didn't offer more than one): 4/5 English Literature
I want to take a few more AP courses in my gap year/year off
SAT: 2150
SAT II: Math 1 (expecting high 700's), Physics (expecting 700-750)</p>
<p>EC:
-Shad Valley Alumni/RBC Entrepreneurship Cup Representative
-Cross Cultural Solutions Volunteer (4 weeks in Brazil teaching English)
-BDC Enterprize Shad Valley Representative (National Business Conference hosted by UBC)
-Owner of two ecommerce websites and a freelance web designer/programmer with dozens of business contracts
-Competitive soccer player (team has placed high in Provincials/same as state, and the highest league in my city)
-Over 500 hours of volunteer work/tutoring
-Work experience with Club Penguin/Disney as a junior animator and designer, as well as tons of experience in high intensity labor work/plumbing.
-Partner/Owner of a non-profitable organization that aims to protect and help women who are abused and left with little to no money in divorce settlements
-A bunch of in school academic awards and stuff.</p>
<p>I want nothing more than to be a successful business-man, perhaps an investment banker, accountant, or stockbroker and would like to know my chances at the following business schools in the US:</p>
<p>UPenn (Wharton)
MIT (Sloan)
New York University (Stern)
UMichigan (Ross)
UC Berkeley (Haas)
UTexas (McCombs)
UVirgnia (McIntire)
Notre Dame (Mendoza)
Stanford - not undergrad business but my dream school
Cornell (AEM)
Emory (Goizueta)
Boston College (Carroll)</p>
<p><strong><em>NOTE: I have one year to work with here (gap year), so if there is anything you feel I could do to drastically improve my chances, let me know/give some examples</em></strong></p>
<p>If you have a year's worth of time, it might be worth your while to up the load of APs by taking online classes. As for SATs, you'd probably stand a better chance if you studied and retook them for ~100+points because 2150 is mediocre for the big names you listed there, although its probably enough for the public schools.</p>
<p>do the schools expect 5's in AP's...I got a 4 on english literature AP...do you think this is high enough? If I was to take more AP's, I wouldn't have my scores until late in the year after the university makes a decision, so given that, is it best to just sign up to PROVE i am going to take AP, although my scores won't be sent until way after the university makes a decision?</p>
<p>also...as for the subject tests...what is the english literature subject test like in terms of difficulty? how much like english AP is it?</p>
<p>From my experience, you will be including them, although you don't send in the official AP "transcript" until after you've been admitted. Private schools may require them beforehand. While I don't necessarily believe that schools "require" a 5 on an AP, do know that the people that are applying WILL have strings of 5s and ECs/GPAs equal if not higher than yours. If you have the gap year to prepare for potential admission to highly selective colleges, it would probably be best to try hard to get 5s.</p>
<p>But...it's now mid-august, and applications will likely have to start relatively soon for EA, and don't AP courses take like 5 months to complete at LEAST? If I was to take a bunch of AP courses and not necessarily score 5's on them but a decision had already been made, would it even matter?</p>
<p>It's not really my fault that my school only offers 1 AP course...it's a really small school in a town of probably only 10,000 people...</p>